Your paper will consist of a theoretical analysis of the motivational, or management style conducted by someone in the “public eye”, i.e., a business leader, sports manager, or even social leader.

Your paper will consist of a theoretical analysis of the motivational, or management style conducted by someone in the “public eye”, i.e., a business leader, sports manager, or even social leader. This person must be sufficiently “public” and can be fiction, or non-fiction so long as there is sufficient information on their motivational style through whatever media is available. These biographical source materials will not count as “peer reviewed sources”, but the theory and analysis of the style of their motivation, or management should be resourced from “peer reviewed sources”, which we will discuss in detail in class. After you have picked your subject, you will need to find relevant research. You should conduct a search for articles or resources on your topic in psycINFO, psycARTICLES or similar search engines that find empirical sources. You can get them from the library website. Some ways you can search for articles include: using your topic area as a keyword, the title of the article cited in the text in the title field or using the authors’ names in the authors field. Once you find a relevant article, you can click on links to the articles that the authors cited or to links that cite that article. This method of finding articles should lead you to have a number of closely related articles to work with.  You can have more references than seven, but that is the minimum to get full credit.

This is an “APA style” research paper. You should have a clear thesis, an organized structure to the paper and back up your claims with research evidence. It is often a good idea to lay out the points you will make in the introduction. For example, if you are analyzing the motivational management style of Vince Lombardi, you might mention in the introduction that the paper will cover the physiological, behavioral, cognitive and emotional approaches to his management style. If you make a claim in the paper, be sure to cite your source in APA style. Avoid make sweeping generalizations (such as: since the beginning of time, or the evidence proves that theory Y is correct.