This activity gives you the chance to assess past and current scholarly research addressing concepts related to a new problem and gap in practice. The business story you draw fr
Overview
This activity gives you the chance to assess past and current scholarly research addressing concepts related to a new problem and gap in practice. The business story you draw from allows you to analyze a problem and gap in a specific business context while analyzing how past and current literature informs your identified problem and gap.
Employer Expectations
The following skills, which apply to this assignment, frequently appear in articles, job posts, and university reports related to employer expectations of a doctoral degree holder:
- Utilize evidence-based literature in guiding the development of solutions.
- Express oneself clearly and professionally in writing.
Preparation
If you have not done so, practice choosing which excerpts from past and current literature support which gaps by completing the Practice Aligning Current and Past Literature activity. Identify at least two articles (one from the current literature, published within the last 3–5 years, and one from the past literature) that inform your selected problem and gap.
Also, review the business stories and choose a business you have not used in previous assignments.
Instructions
Using a business story other than the one you used in previous assignments, choose a problem and its related gap in practice. Choose from the three pairs of problems and gaps in practice linked and labeled for this assignment, which relate to the assignment topics.
Write a 4–5 page analysis in which you:
- State the specific business problem and the gap in practice.
- Discuss how the two articles you found for this assignment apply to current trends in the field of leadership, then add these sources to your Capstone Literature Matrix. Download the Capstone Literature Matrix [XLSX] Download Capstone Literature Matrix [XLSX]if you need a new copy.
- Based on your selected problem, gap, and the past and current literature you have reviewed for this assignment, identify a related business problem and project using one of three topics appropriate for the field of leadership. Explain why this project would be a good fit to address the problem.
- Explain why removing your personal biases from the literature discovery process might help you in identifying more applicable past and current research to provide supporting evidence for your topic and project.
Submit your analysis and literature matrix in the assignment area. Be sure to upload both documents before submitting the assignment.
Additional Requirements
As you complete your assignment, be sure your submission meets the following guidelines:
- Capstone Literature Matrix: Submit the completed literature matrix with your selected articles.
- Written communication: Use error-free doctoral-level writing, with original (nonplagiarized) content, logical phrasing, and accurate word choices.
- APA formatting: Format all references and citations according to the current APA style and formatting guidelines. Visit Evidence and APALinks to an external site. for help with APA.
- Font and font size: Use a consistent APA-compliant font, 12 points.
- Length: Submit a 4–5 page, double-spaced analysis in addition to the literature matrix.
- File naming protocol: Follow the standard naming conventions for any files you upload. Refer to the Submissions RequirementsLinks to an external site. for details.
Competencies Measured
By successfully completing this assignment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and scoring guide criteria:
- Competency 1: Create academically sound annotations into a matrix of literature to support business research of problems and practices occurring in the field of leadership.
- Make annotations in a literature matrix that convey how the literature provides adequate evidence for the problem, gap, and project need.
- Competency 2: Critically integrate existing relevant literature to determine an important and meaningful gap in practice for leadership.
- Identify examples of current and past articles that provide evidence for a chosen problem and gap in practice.
- Competency 3: Identify personal bias to create project topics in leadership based on need versus want.
- Describe the role of removing personal biases in the project discovery process.
- Competency 5: Analyze trends in the field of leadership as drivers of business problems and gaps in practice.
- Discuss how selected current and past articles apply to current trends in the field of leadership.
- Competency 6: Integrate results from multiple sources to formulate a problem and rationalize a business project in the field of leadership.
- Identify and provide a rationale for a business problem and project appropriate for the field of leadership.
- Use varied sentence structures and correct grammar to convey clear meaning and engage readers.
- Apply APA style and formatting to scholarly writing.
Program Lit Matrix
| Author(s) last name, All initial(s) | Publication date | Title of article or chapter | Book title | Journal title | Database | URL or Library permalink | DOI | Course | Problem | Summary (what is it about?) | Reference list entry (APA 7th ed.) | Keyword search | Theory | Model | Framework | Analysis (strengths and weaknesses compared to other studies) | Method | Design | Research ?s | Population | Sample |
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Definitions
| Items | Definitions |
| Author(s) last name, All initial(s) | If an author has multiple names listed, or a middle initial, then you will need both for each of the authors. Please note that APA 7 .0 requires that all of the authors’ names are needed for the reference, so this field can be fairly large. Be sure to spell names accurately. |
| Publication date | Review APA for whether you need the actual full date (i.e. Month, day, year) or just the year. Typically, website or news articles use the full date, where as scholarly articles use the year only. APA will provide guidance. (For example, see items 15, 16, 17, and 18 in Chapter 10 of APA 7.0, which use the full date instead of just the year). |
| Title of article or chapter | Titles are placed into references without title case. So, write it here using proper case. The first word is title case (i.e., The not the), any word after a colon or period is also title case. The rest of the words are lowercase (unless they are proper nouns). |
| Book title | Titles are placed into references without title case. So, write it here using proper case. The first word is title case (i.e., The not the), any word after a colon or period is also title case. The rest of the words are lowercase (unless they are proper nouns). |
| Journal title | Titles are placed into references without title case. So, write it here using proper case. The first word is title case (i.e., The not the), any word after a colon or period is also title case. The rest of the words are lowercase (unless they are proper nouns). |
| Database | Include the database, search engine, or location from which you found the article. This is good to keep track of in case you are looking for it again and cannot recall how you accessed it; it will also help you with your Literature Review where you list out all of the databases and search engines you used to find articles. |
| URL or Library permalink | Include the live link to where you found the article or library permalink. While you typically will not use this in your reference, it will be handy for you to use to refind the article if needed. If there is no DOI for the article, but it is available online, then, depending on the type of article, you might use the link in your reference. APA gives guidance on the rules in their handbook. Having it here is helpful. Note that you do not put protected (i.e. secured by a password or log-in requirement) URLs in your references. Thus, Capella Library permalinks would never show up in your reference list. |
| DOI | Use the currently approved method of properly writing a doi as per the most up to date Capella adopted form of APA. |
| Course | What course are you in where you found the article? Just list it here. This is helpful if you forget later and want to remind yourself where you studied the particular article. |
| Problem | See the "Business Problem" formative for this. What is the problem statement in the article? What problem are the authors investigating, researching, or studying? |
| Summary (what is it about?) | Include the FINDINGS of the study! Do not simply copy the abstract here. That is plagiarism and it will lead to accidental or inadvertent (or purposeful!) academic dishonesty. Be sure to paraphrase using your own words in this section. Get into this IMPORTANT habit now, so that you can trust your content later that it will not create a problem for you if you use your words in your own writings. |
| Reference list entry (APA) | Please review APA for their requirements on references. Write it correctly here and then you can use this to quickly create reference lists for your work. |
| Keyword search | Get in the habit of keeping track of the search terms you use to find articles. Using Google Scholar linked to the Capella Library is a great place to start practicing. Database searches are more complicated and you should schedule time with a Capella Librarian to practice how to use the databases. |
| Theory | What theory or concepts are used in the article? Typically, this will only be used if your article is scholarly. |
| Model | Is there a model or models (processes, steps, etc.) being discussed in the literature? If so, name it and explain how it was used here. |
| Framework | Was a particular framework discussed in the literature? If so, describe, name it, and attribute it if the article did. |
| Analysis (strengths and weaknesses compared to other studies) | Describe your own thoughts as to how well the article was written, researched, and presented. For example, did you find it credible? Why or why not? Did you feel like the statistical analysis was done well, accurately, or did you see errors? Give your own thoughts on whether you would trust the article to use it as the foundation of a study YOU were going to do later. |
| Method | Was this qualitative, quantitative, or a mixed methods (or other) study? |
| Design | What technique or design was used? Delphi? Correlation? Regression? Experimental? Time-longitudinal? (….) |
| Research ?s | You can copy paste here. What were the research questions used in the study? Hypothesis are not required unless you found them helpful or intriguing. Sometimes authors use propositions instead – you can use those here if you find them helpful. |
| Population | Who were the participants in the study? |
| Sample | How many participants were in the study? |
