You are asked to complete one analytical summary selecting an article of your choice from an academic journal in the field of Human Resource Management. Analytic summary paper should be typed, and double-spaced. The title for this assignment is the article’s bibliographic form (use the same format as for an APA 7th Ed. reference list). A sample paper and rubric are provided on D2L for additional details.
Acknowledgement: Organizational Framework for this ASP is adapted from R.B. Closson.
Use the following as sub-heads for your paper:
- State the most important point of the article in your estimation.
- Identify evidence in the article that supports or illustrates the most important point or theme as well as anything that seems to contradict it.
- Explain in what ways, if any, the article supports or contradicts concepts, theories or points of view in our text or other articles that we have read.
- Analyze the work’s underlying assumptions about the subject, as well as any biases it reveals.
- Explain how the author’s points resonate with your experience as a practicing professional in human resource management (if you are) or as an employee. If you have no experience in either capacity with the topic, then project situation where you think it might have been helpful or why it would not have been useful.
- Identify new concepts and /or insight that the article provided you (be specific). Make a statement about the value of this new information to you. Or if nothing is new, explain why nothing new is apparent to you in the article. For example, where have you encountered these concepts previously? Identify questions the article generated about the topic and/or the field of human resource management, (be specific).