Applying Critical Concepts of Business Research Competency 2: Evaluate the context, setting, and rationale for the business problem.By successfully completing this assignment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:
Explain each study's purpose and alignment with an identified problem.
Competency 1: Develop a research purpose statement based on stated business problems.
Compare the articles' foundational theories and concepts supporting the stated business problems' research purposes.
Competency 2: Develop research questions in support of a business problem and research purpose.
Describe the business problems' context, setting, rationale, and operational definitions.
Competency 3: Analyze different approaches to the creation of literature reviews that support applied business research.
Write in standard American English appropriate for audience using correct grammar and current APA format.
Competency 4: Analyze requirements of ethical research.
Summarize the authors' ethical procedures and processes.
Assignment Preparation
Review the two research articles by Al-Emadi and Marquardt, and Marsh, linked in this unit's Studies and in this assignment. Applying your knowledge of critical concepts and principles of applied business research, you will compare the articles' foundational theories and concepts supporting the stated business problem's research purposes.
Article 1: Relationship between employees' beliefs regarding training benefits and employees' organizational commitment in a petroleum company in the State of Qatar ohammed Asad Shareef Al-Emadi and Michael J. Marquardt
Article 2: Business Executives' Perceptions of Ethical Leadership and Its Development by Catherine Marsh