Please use at least 5 sources and this book attached below!! Also, in the table the things you observe are Social values/beliefs, behaviors and activities, management practices. What are cultural differences between the U.S. and a country of your choice? What are different management practices presumably rooted in the cultural differences? With these two questions in mind identify a person from Puerto Rico discuss him/her closely observe/witness his or her off the job behaviors and work-related activities which illustrate culture and management practices different from those of Americans.
(The U.S. compared to Puerto Rico) Term project is an important exercise of this course to use the scientific method of inquiry in learning management and leadership. If you are not clear about elements of a scientific research and its process, please go back to your earlier readings by Samuel Bacharach, Kerlinger, Ghiselli, and even the textbook authors (i.e., Konopaske, Matteson, and Ivancevich): it includes variables/ constructs, their relationship /theory, and explaining /predicting one from another variable. You need to establish a theory built on the previous knowledge/ literature, your prior experiences, or well-constructed logics. Then, empirical testing needs to be done with carefully developed measures, data collection using the measures, and analyses of the collected data.
Because time and training allowed for this short one semester course are not sufficient to make you a rigorous scientist, you are just expected to develop a simple comparative theory between two cases on one of the five topics (use a comparison table); and to show your observations or experiences (i.e., through interviews and/or personal experiences and anecdotes) in comparing the two cases, more like a case study.
Suppose you want to study culture and management, comparing the US and a Latin American country (e.g., Mexico, or Brazil). Your first exercise is to develop a theoretical frame.
Use two column comparison of the US. and Mexico (for instance) along with several key variables (rows) such as social activities, values, management practices, etc. Based on the literature /published knowledge, fill in the two column cells with your theoretical claims. Use this completed theoretical claims (it is practically a theory) as your guide to collect anecdotes /stories/ experiences/ observations through interviews with someone from the country. Then, offer your summary empirical observations in another table (just like your theory table) to approve or disapprove your initial theory.
2. Meaningful Title: Make sure to include key variables or constructs in the title and craft it in 8-12 words. Place the title centered at the top of the first page.
3. Theoretical Framework: Develop a two-column comparison table as your theoretical frame (suggestion) of the study. We have been discussing about this ‘comparison’ of a key variable/construct in class: please refer to the summary presentation pad posted in the blackboard. The contents in the comparison table are expected to be rather abstract and conceptual and to be logically related or contrasted, so that they become theoretical foundation of your study.
4. Empirical Observation. Use the theoretical framework (Item 3) as your guide to conduct interviews and /or observations of two target cases and collect descriiptive narratives and stories. You will construct another summary table of observations which match the theoretical framework.
5. References. Search for the related materials (start with the textbooks) and use them as your guide in developing a theoretical framework. Make sure to list them by the APA (American Psychological Association) publication style. Your syllabus has a two page summary of the APA writing style.
