BUS 130: Research Report Outline: Employee Engagement and Productivity

This assignment is a research outline for a BUS 130 individual research report focusing on how colleges can encourage employee engagement and productivity. The outline includes a thesis statement arguing that a reward and punishment system is effective. It provides a table with four relevant sources, including articles on employee recognition, rewards, and punishments. The outline further details two body paragraphs, each with a topic sentence and supporting points, referencing the selected sources to support the arguments. The first body paragraph focuses on how reward systems improve productivity and engagement, while the second discusses the positive and negative influences of punishments. The assignment demonstrates the structure of academic research, including source citations and argument development.

BUS 130
OUTLINE FOR INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH REPORT TEMPLATE
(5% of your individual grade)
Name:
Team Project Topic: How can college encourage employee engagement and
productivity?
1. Write a thesis statement for yourIndividual Research Report (2 marks)
“College can encourage employee engagement and productivity by implementing a reward and
punishment system”
 A reward and punishment system will motivate employees by providing monetary and non-monetary
incentives to those individuals observed to be highly engaged and productive.
 A reward and punishment system allows for the elimination of lazy employee for the purpose of bettering
the workforce with more engaged and productive recruits.
2. Complete the table below. Indicate at least four good quality sources you will use to argue your he
thesis statement. (4 marks)
Name of
article/book or
quality web source
related to your
topic
Author(s) Year
Published
Citation (APA) Key Finding (paraphrase
one or two sentences
ONLY)
The Effects of
Employee
Recognition, Pay,
and Benefits on
Job
Satisfaction: Cross
Country Evidence
Mussie T.
Tessema,
Kathryn J.
Ready, and
Abel B. Embaye
2013 Tessema, M. T.,
Ready, K. J., &
Embaye, A. B.
(2013). The Effects
of Employee
Recognition, Pay,
and Benefits on Job
Satisfaction: Cross
Country Evidence.
Journal of Business
and Economics , 1-
12.
The researchers
discovered that the
provision of financial and
non-financial rewards
has a significant impact
on employee job
satisfaction and
productivity.
Relationship
Between Rewards
and Employee
Performance: A
Mediating Role of
Job Satisfaction
Payam Gohari,
Ali Kamkar,
Seyed Jafar
Hosseinipour,
and Mahmood
Zohoori
2013 Gohari, P., Kamkar,
A., Hosseinipour, S.
J., & Zohoori, M.
(2013).
Relationship
Between Rewards
The research
establishes that there is
a connection between
the provision of intrinsic
and extrinsic reward on
the level of employee
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and Employee
Performance: A
Mediating Role of
Job Satisfaction.
Interdisciplinary
Journal of
Contemporary
Research in
Business , 571-597.
job satisfaction and
performance.
Rewards and
Punishments Role
in Teacher-student
Relationship from
The Mentor’s
Perspective
Claudiu Langa 2014 Langa, C. (2014).
Rewards and
Punishments Role
in Teacher-student
Relationship from
The Mentor’s
Perspective. Acta
Didactica
Napocensia , 7-12.
The research concluded
that rewards and
punishments have the
ability of changing the
behavior of an
individual.
The Role of
Reward and
Punishment in
Learning
Ahmadreza
Fatahian
Kelishadroky,
Ali Shamsi,
Mohmadreza
Bagheri
2016 Kelishadroky, A. F.,
Shamsi, A., &
Bagheri, M. (2016).
The Role of Reward
and Punishment in
Learning.
International
Journal of
Advanced
Biotechnology and
Research (IJBR) ,
780-788.
The research
established that the is
need to utilized reward
systems in the learning
sector as opposed to
punishment systems.
The researchers
discourage the usage of
punishment in learning
institutions.
3.Body paragraph one: (4 marks)
1. Write a topic sentence for body paragraph one below:
Reward systems improve the level of employee productivity and engagement
2. Fill out the table below to indicate how you will support the topic sentence:
Supporting
point #
Type supporting point
Indicate which source from
the list of research above
supports this statement
(APA format)
1
There is a significant connection between reward
and employee productivity as well as employee job
Tessema, M. T., Ready, K.
J., & Embaye, A. B. (2013).
The Effects of Employee
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satisfaction. Recognition, Pay, and
Benefits on Job Satisfaction:
Cross Country Evidence.
Journal of Business and
Economics , 1-12.
2
Rewards are a critical part of any motivation
incentive provided to employees or students.
Kelishadroky, A. F., Shamsi,
A., & Bagheri, M. (2016).
The Role of Reward and
Punishment in Learning.
International Journal of
Advanced Biotechnology
and Research (IJBR) , 780-
788.
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The productivity and engagement of employees
can be bettered through the introduction of rewards
and punishment systems.
Langa, C. (2014). Rewards
and Punishments Role in
Teacher-student
Relationship from The
Mentor’s Perspective. Acta
Didactica Napocensia , 7-12.
Body paragraph two: (4 marks)
1. Write a topic sentence for body paragraph two below:
Punishments have both negative and positive influence on employee performance and engagement
2. Fill out the table below to indicate how you will support the topic sentence:
Supporting
point # Type supporting point
Indicate which source from
the list of research above
supports this statement (APA
format)
1
Punishments can greatly diminish the desire by
employees to work effectively in a given
institution.
Kelishadroky, A. F., Shamsi,
A., & Bagheri, M. (2016). The
Role of Reward and
Punishment in Learning.
International Journal of
Advanced Biotechnology and
Research (IJBR) , 780-788.
2
Punishments can be used to prevent under-
performance or participation avoidance by some
employee.
Langa, C. (2014). Rewards
and Punishments Role in
Teacher-student Relationship
from The Mentor’s
Perspective. Acta Didactica
Napocensia , 7-12.
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Punishment should not be given the same level of
emphasis as directed towards rewards.
Gohari, P., Kamkar, A.,
Hosseinipour, S. J., &
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Zohoori, M. (2013).
Relationship Between
Rewards and Employee
Performance: A Mediating
Role of Job Satisfaction.
Interdisciplinary Journal of
Contemporary Research in
Business , 571-597.
References
Gohari, P., Kamkar, A., Hosseinipour, S. J., & Zohoori, M. (2013). Relationship Between
Rewards and Employee Performance: A Mediating Role of Job Satisfaction.
Interdisciplinary Journal of Contemporary Research in Business , 571-597.
Kelishadroky, A. F., Shamsi, A., & Bagheri, M. (2016). The Role of Reward and Punishment in
Learning. International Journal of Advanced Biotechnology and Research (IJBR) , 780-
788.
Langa, C. (2014). Rewards and Punishments Role in Teacher-student Relationship from The
Mentor’s Perspective. Acta Didactica Napocensia , 7-12.
Tessema, M. T., Ready, K. J., & Embaye, A. B. (2013). The Effects of Employee Recognition,
Pay, and Benefits on Job Satisfaction: Cross Country Evidence. Journal of Business
and Economics , 1-12.
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