MBA 5652 Unit 1 Research Proposal Topic
Exercise 1 My top ten research topics that I find interesting to pursue are the following: (1) approach for extra ( increase in minimum wage) income and advertising, (2) concussions in football, (3) should transportation security (TSA) regulations be changed ?, (4) should regulations regarding the use of cellular phones while driving be standardized ?, (5) should driving under the influence (DUI) laws be changed ?, (6) concealed guns be permitted in stores, (7) computer forensics, (8) financial crimes, such as embezzlement, (9) cyber terrorism, (10) cyber criminology, internet child pornography. The new approach for extra income appeal to me because as a consequence of the current enhancement in minimum earnings, there is an boost in the optional profits of existing marketing foundation. Concussions in football also appeal to me because I have two children that play football and I do not want them to experience the problems that college and pro players are having. I believe that the transportation security (TSA) regulations should be changed so that it allows the TSA to protect the United States and its populace. In my opinion the regulations regarding the use of cellular phones should be standardized because different states have different laws regarding the use of cell phones. The last topic in my top 5 is should the laws concerning DUIs be changed. I say yes they should, meaning right now some states have the blood alcohol level at .10 while some have it at .08, it should be the same across the country to include lower is my belief.
Exercise 2 (a) Populace with additional money be inclined to expend more. Our existing advertising advance does not acquire this into deliberation. This is a suggestion to adapt the advance in our marketing policy so that we can take improvement of the upcoming alter in our promotion foundation and improve our marketing income by increasing our possible customer base. The underlying principle at the back the suggestion and its completion will be complicated in the following report. When populace have complete basic endurance needs such as provisions, refuge, and comparatively tenable bodily and monetary safety, they look for to reach things that they haven’t yet have, such as rank cipher or a intelligence of feel right to an elite collection. If we be able to give confidence our obtainable announcement customers to use their additional profits, therefore move the insist of our present marketing base to use more expensive goods, then we place to increase an extended and more lucrative set of commercial purchaser. This development is a bazaar revision in likely new goods in which advertisement embattled for the new least earnings patrons sector can be shaped.
(b) The steps that I would take to review specific literature relevant to the topic of approach of extra income and advertising are as follows: Step 1 : Recognize the writing that you will evaluate, Step 2: Examine the writing, Step 3: Review the writing in table or idea map arrangement, Step 4: Combine the writing prior to inscription your assessment, Step 5: Script the appraise, Step 6: Develop and write a logical essay.
(c) The three additional questions that could be derived from this topic is the following: (1) how does minimum wage effect the amount of money that the populace spends?, (2) Does the American people believe that the increase will decrease poverty?, (3) An increase of the minimum wage from $7.50 to $15.00 an hour effect the economy.
Exercise 3
(a) The complete citation for the research topic of concussions in football is the below:
Wu, B. G. (2013). Concussions and Football By The Numbers. Clinical Correlations The NYU Langone Online Journal of Medicine , unknown.
(b) “The purpose of this investigation was to examine risk patterns of concussion in college football. Multivariate models were used to interpret the data. Specifically, log-linear modeling and analysis techniques were incorporated into the investigation. An average of 49 college teams were studied over the 8 year period 1975 to 1982. This represented over 36,000 athlete-seasons and 395 team-seasons. The data selected were limited to 1,005 game-related concussions. The general hypotheses tested were the null hypothesis that the variables of team (offense and defense), player position, situation (rushing and passing), and activity (block and tackle) had no effect on the occurrence of these game- related concussions. It was found that concussions were a persistent and regular but relatively infrequent type of injury in college football. Concussions accounted for 75% of the total number of injuries on or about the head. The injuries were examined relative to player position, situation, and activity using a log-linear modeling technique, with interactions among the variables also established” (Buckley, 1988, pp. 51-56).
Buckley, W. P. (1988). Concussions in college football A multivariate analysis. Am J Sports Med Vol 16 No. 1 , 51-56.
Exercise 4 Burkhauser, R., Sabia, J. (2005). Raising the minimum wage: another empty promise to the working poor. University of Georgia.
Chapman, J. (2004, July 19). Higher minimum wage most helps low-earning households. Economic Policy Institute.
Fox. L. ( 2006, September 7). Increasing Missouri’s minimum wage. Economic policy Institute.
Garfield, R. ( 1996). The case against a higher minimum wage. Joint Economic Committee Report.
Gongol, B. ( 2006, November 11).Problems with raising the minimum wage. Gongol.com.
Henderson, D. R. (2006). The right minimum wage? Zero. Hoover Institution – Hoover Digest.
Kane, T., Anthony. K. (2007, March 8). Higher minimum wage. The Heritage Foundation.
Messerli, J. (2009, February 15). Should the minimum wage be abolished? Pros and Cons, Arguments for and against.
Minimum wage. (2010, March 22). Encyclopedia. Retrieved March 22, 2010, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_wage
Minimum wage increase and teen unemployment. (2010, March 5). The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved March 5, 2004, from http://WSJ.com
Raising the Minimum Wage Will Not Reduce Poverty. (2007, January 8). Heritage Sites. Retrieved January 8, 2007, from http://www.heritage.org/research/labor/bg1994.cfmThe
Exercise 5 My field of study is Human Resources. The five journals that I found are as follows:
(1) Human Resource Management Journal
Edited By: David Collings, Tony Dundon and Adrian Wilkinson
Impact Factor: 1.558
ISI Journal Citation Reports © Ranking: 2012: 4/24 (Industrial Relations & Labor); 63/174 (Management)
Online ISSN: 1748-8583
HR Management Journal is published once a year. Publication started in 1990 with Vol. 1.
(2) The Journal of Human Resources Publishing work in economics that employs the best available empirical methods. Edited by Sandra E. Black, The University of Texas at Austin ISSN: 0022-166X, e-ISSN: 1548-8004 Published four times per year - See more at: http://uwpress.wisc.edu/journals/journals/jhr.html#sthash.Ro3lpZEm.dpuf. JHR is one of the most highly cited journal in the Industrial Relations and Labor fields per ISI Journal Citation Reports. The 2011 ISI Journal Citation Reports© Ranking: Labor & Industrial Relations: 1/2 Economics: 27/321 Impact Factor: 2.371 5-Year Impact Factor: 3.162 - See more at: http://uwpress.wisc.edu/journals/journals/jhr.html#sthash.Ro3lpZEm.dpuf.
(3) Human Resource Management Journal website
Other titles Human resource management journal (Online)
ISSN 1748-8583
OCLC 60625911
Material type Document, Periodical, Internet resource
(4) 15 Years of Publishing Progress & Success in Diversity profiles in diversity journal - EST 1999
Profiles in Diversity Journal, now in its 15th year, is a bi-monthly magazine focusing on diversity/inclusion in business, government, non-profit, higher education and military settings. The focus of the Journal is on senior leadership, best practices, workforce diversity strategies, and recognition of employee contribution. The Journal also includes special features including:
• CEO leadership issue
• Annual women’s leadership issue
• Black history month feature
• Asian Heritage Feature
• Native American Heritage Feature
• National Hispanic heritage feature
• Recruitment/retention feature
• Supplier diversity feature
• Diversity education feature
• Window on the future feature
• Employees with Disabilities Awards Feature
• Chief Diversity Officer Vision of the Future feature
(5) Human Resources Journal
Is part of the Employment Research Institute family of companies. Since 2000, Employment Research Institute has focused on bringing people the information they need to make the most of their careers. As a companion site to HRCrossing.com, the mission of Human Resources Journal is to keep you up to date with trends in the HR industry. Every day we bring you fresh articles that will educate, inform and entertain you. Our staff of writers is dedicated to tracking down stories on what’s happening inside major HR companies and HR departments in Fortune 1,000 companies, trends in HR technology, and other news of interest to anyone involved in human resources.
Exercise 6 The three search engines that I used were google, bing, and yahoo. The subject that interested me is history especially the history of General Ulysses S. Grant. Google and Yahoo produced 10 different links to the history of the battles that General Grant fought in during the Civil War. Bing only produced 8 links to General Grant. I have to say that google and yahoo gave the most useful and interesting information about the battles that General Grant fought in. I would revise my search terms to a specific battle that General Grant and his men fought in. This type of term when revised will increase and narrow down the search parameters which will give you the same degree of usefulness from other search engines.
Exercise 7 Below are the three abstracts from recent research journals. The answers to the questions a-d will be highlighted. “(a) Although consumers report positive attitudes toward ethical goods, their intentions and behaviors often do not follow suit. Just-world theory highlights the conditions under which consumers are most likely to prefer fair-trade products. (b) This theory proposes that people are motivated to construe the world as a just place where people get what they deserve. In the current research, when people are confronted with high levels of injustice (communicated need is high) and avenues for justice restoration seem uncertain or unavailable, assisting others by supporting fair trade decreases. However, highlighting how injustice can be redressed through purchases enhances fair-trade support under conditions of high need. The effects are moderated by justice sensitivity factors, such as just-world beliefs and whether the product type (indulgence vs. necessity) makes the injustice of consumer privilege salient. The results suggest that communicating high need when requesting consumer pro-social actions can sometimes backfire. (d)Marketers employing high need appeals should heighten perceptions of justice restoration potential and activate fairness-related thoughts through product positioning to encourage fair-trade purchases” Katherine White, Rhiannon MacDonnell, John H. Ellard (2012) Belief in a Just World: Consumer Intentions and Behaviors Toward Ethical Products. Journal of Marketing: January 2012, Vol. 76, No. 1, pp. 103-118. (c) this abstract is a correlation abstract. “(a) The market share of brands positioned using ethical attributes typically lags behind brands that promote attributes related to product performance. (b) Across four studies, the authors show that situational factors that heighten consumers' self-accountability (i.e., activation of their desire to live up to their self-standards) lead to increased preferences for products promoted through their ethical attributes. They investigate their predictions regarding self-accountability in multiple ways, including examining the moderating roles of awareness of the discrepancy between a person's internal standards and actual behavior, self-accountability priming, and the presence of others in the decision context. Furthermore, they demonstrate that the subtle activation of self-accountability leads to more positive reactions to ethical appeals than explicit guilt appeals. Finally, they show that preference for a product promoted through ethical appeals is driven by the desire to avoid anticipated guilt, beyond the effects of impression management. (d) Taken together, the results suggest that marketers positioning products through ethical attributes should subtly activate consumer self-accountability rather than using more explicit guilt appeals” John Peloza, Katherine White, Jingzhi Shang (2013) Good and Guilt-Free: The Role of Self-Accountability in Influencing Preferences for Products with Ethical Attributes. Journal of Marketing: January 2013, Vol. 77, No. 1, pp. 104-119. (c) This abstract is an experimental abstract. “Firms often look for ways to improve the return on investment they earn from costly innovation strategies. (a) The authors investigate a previously unexplored benefit of innovation that occurs when a brand's reputation as a provider of valued new offerings allows it to earn innovation credit, a form of customer-based brand equity. Innovation credit provides brands with the license or latitude to use strategies that violate category norms without the penalty (in the form of impaired attitudes) that consumers are shown to levy on less innovative brands. (b) Consistent with the proposed theoretical framework, three studies demonstrate that innovative brands are granted the license to employ non-normative strategies without sanction. In addition to providing evidence regarding the inferential mechanism underlying this licensing effect, Study 3 shows that, under certain conditions, innovative brands not only escape the penalty associated with using atypical strategies but are actually rewarded for utilizing such approaches. (d) The authors provide theoretical and managerial implications of these findings and suggestions for further research in this emerging area of innovation research” Michael J. Barone, Robert D. Jewell (2013) The Innovator's License: A Latitude to Deviate from Category Norms. Journal of Marketing: January 2013, Vol. 77, No. 1, pp. 120-134. (c) This abstract is experimental.
Exercise 8 The five questions that I would come up with for the topic of gender differences in adolescent development are as follows: What is the correlation between the environment and the outcome of gender differences in adolescents?, How is gender differences in adolescents determined?, How does mental health play in the gender differences of adolescent development?, What are the variation amid boys and girls in the expansion of self-esteem? Is there a universal modify in self-esteem in early youth?
Exercise 9
(1) D. Neumark and W.L. Wascher, Minimum Wages and Employment, Foundations and Trends in Microeconomics, vol. 3, no. 1+2, pp 1-182, 2007.
(2) http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/rest.90.2.300 May 2008, Vol. 90, No. 2, Pages 300-323, Posted Online April 18, 2008. (doi:10.1162/rest.90.2.300) Copyright by the President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(3) The Minimum Wage in the Restaurant Industry William T. Alpert. Praeger Publishers, 1986 http://www.questia.com/newspaper/1G1- 169886124/pipelinehttp://www.questia.com/newspaper/1G1-169886124/pipeline
(4) Holzer, H. J., Katz, L. F., & Krueger, A. B. (1988). Job queues and wages: new evidence on the minimum wage and inter-industry wage structure.
(5) Flinn, C. J. (2006). Minimum wage effects on labor market outcomes under search, matching, and endogenous contact rates. Econometrica, 74(4), 1013-1062.
Exercise 10 How does minimum wage effect the cost or spending of advertising? This assignment will decide the current marketing consumers’ earnings. The consequence of this assignment will be used in developing a policy to generate and detain new order. In a roundabout way, it would also add in formative the marketing financial plan for the pending financial year.