Are Happy Workers More Productive

Question

Instructions

This application assignment requires you to share a newsworthy story that describes your view of the assigned topic in organizational behavior.  In other words, your view may explain the topic's effect, relevance, importance, non-significance, etc. in workplace behavior.  The assigned topic for Application Assignment 2 is:  

Are Happy Workers More Productive?  

News Story:

News story must be from a credible source within the last 4 years with appropriate citation.

Context must be provided on why the story is immediately relevant to the topics being covered.

Responses which are purely opinion and anecdotal are not considered to be substantive in nature.

Two external sources to support information required In addition to the news story from a credible source.

Original news story from an external source plus two additional external sources required.

Assigned textbook chapters from the course do not count as external sources but concepts still need to be used.

Application Assignments must be at least 500 words of content.

Assignment Structure:

Make sure to identify your concept in the title or first sentence of your Application Assignment.

Assignment must provide only a brief summary of your work related news article/workplace experience to frame your discussion so that what you are discussing is clear but is not the majority of the post. 

Primary focus of the assignment is not describing your story in great detail but rather meeting the relevant criteria outlined in the application assignment rubric using your work related article or workplace experience as the context.