Posted: July 22nd, 2015

compensation and employee satisfaction. The paper should include the following sections:

compensation and employee satisfaction. The paper should include the following sections:

•    Abstract
•    Introduction
•    Literature Review
•    Hypothesis/Hypotheses
•    Research Design
**Make sure the research paper start with a research question.

Section Descriptions:

Abstract:
This is considered a summary of your paper, as you have seen in the articles we have reviewed and the video we watched. You should write this section last, after you know the contents of the paper. It should reflect accurately what is in the paper. It should include a statement of the study topic, your hypothesis(es), your design, and how you will control the threats to validity, You cannot of course, include your results because you are not actually conducting the study. Although I suggest writing the Abstract last, it still goes up front, like in the article examples.

Introduction:
Introduce the reader to the general topic and explain why the topic is important or significant. This section is both a general and high-level overview.  Remember the examples we reviewed.

Literature Review:
For this paper, you need to choose a research area and formulate a research question. Your literature review should help to clarify why your study is of value, for example, this could be the result of the fact that you found that your question is insufficiently studied, there are important issues that need to be resolved, that the general thinking might be wrong, that the authors failed to consider plausible alternative explanations, or the results are limited by time or space, etc. In your review, you want to capture and report the more substantive points or issues or methods used, and cite authors accordingly, rather than cite/list just a number of authors.  In other words, you have to bring a perspective to the research question. In the end, this section sets up and helps to justify the next section of the paper.

Hypothesis(es):
In this section, given your research question, you should clearly identify your research hypothesis(es) and the specific propositions you want to test via your research design.

Research Design:
Here is where you describe how you would go about your study/research by giving an overview of the new research you would conduct and the form of analysis that you will use to test your hypothesis(es) and propositions. Cleary describe the methodology or research design you would use, the population you would study, and the data collection techniques you would use. Explain why you decided on your approach (how does it differ/not differ from other authors, why this design over others, etc.). Finally, discuss the possible weaknesses of your design (all designs have weaknesses); acknowledge any flaws or limitations to the design. Describe how you will attempt to minimize any threats to validity.