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1. Each of you will be required to submit a final paper
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Each of you will be required to submit a final paper describing how a
company’s human resources are a source of competitive advantage. You
may choose a company where you have worked in the past, where you
currently work, or a company with which you have a familiarity or
interest.
GUIDELINES
Write an 8- to 10-page formal report (not including appendices) that
addresses the following items. Include a reference list with 8 to 10
professional or scholarly resources.
Briefly describe the organization’s relevant history, what it does, who its
customers are, and any other pertinent information.
Discuss the challenges and/or opportunities the organization faces.
Describe the company’s key HR functions and analyze whether these
practices are effective, including an explanation of why they either are
or are not effective based on theories, models, and concepts of human
capital management.
Describe the major strategies you would recommend to improve the
quality of selected HR management practices within your area of
influence. Be specific and justify your approach.

2. Discuss the value or impact that your improvements will have in driving
competitive advantage.
Evaluate your data management techniques and describe how you would
measure and report the success of your plan.
REPORT SPECIFICATIONS
Your final report should adhere to these guidelines:
Follow accepted research approaches and APA citation format.
Be well-developed and convey your understanding of the readings and
concepts.
Be organized, coherent, and unified.
Be free of spelling, structure, and grammatical errors.
SOURCES
Be sure to use published journal articles as your sources, not less-
reliable Internet web sites. Reference your paper very carefully and
tightly. Appropriate source journals include (among others):
HR Magazine
Academy of Management Perspectives
Personnel Journal
SAM Advanced Management Journal
Journal of Management
HR Focus

3. Human Resource Development Quarterly
Training and Development
Public Personnel Administrator
Strategic Management Journal
Monthly Labor Review
Journal of Applied Psychology
The Journal of Leadership and Organizational Studies
Organizational Dynamics
Academic integrity is of the utmost importance in this term paper. The
instructor may run papers through turnitin.com which will document any
plagiarism, intentional or unintentional. Be sure that if you are using the
ideas or work of someone else, that you credit that person, book, article,
etc. This must be done regardless of whether you use direct quotes or
whether you paraphrase someone else's work. Further, any time you use
more than three words in a row that came from someone else, you must
use quotation marks. (If you copy someone else’s work and then put the
source at the end of the copied material, this is still plagiarism.) Also, do
not overuse quotes in your work. It is the job of the graduate student to
read material, synthesize it, and put it in your own words while
acknowledging the source. Remember that APA references require that
if you quote material, you must add the page or paragraph number of
that quote to your citation (author, year, page). All referencing should be
in APA style unless directed otherwise by the instructor (such as using
the heading Introduction).
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