You are required to write a literature review on the topic below in Organizational Behavior. The purpose of this assignment is to deepen your understanding of a specific field. Randolph (2009) is a helpful guide for writing a literature review is also useful in preparing your paper and the rubric found on Table 3 (page 12). Please follow the Table 3 to write the paper.
TOPIC: How to Recognize and Reward Employees?
Practical Assessment, Research & Evaluation, Vol 14, No 13
Randolph, Dissertation Literature Review Page 12 Table 3. Boote and Beile’s Literature Review Scoring Rubric
Category
1. Coverage 2. Synthesis 3. Methodology 4. Significance 5. Rhetoric Criterion 1 2 3 A. Justified criteria for Did not discuss the
Discussed the literature Justified inclusion and
inclusion and exclusion criteria for inclusion or included and excluded exclusion of literature
from review
exclusion
B. Distinguished
Did not distinguish what Discussed what has and Critically examined the
between what has been has and has not been
has not been done
state of the field
done in the field and
done before
what needs to be done
C. Placed the topic or Topic not placed in
Some discussion of
Topic clearly situated in
problem in the broader broader scholarly
broader scholarly
broader scholarly
scholarly literature
literature
literature
literature
D. Placed the research in History of topic not
Some mention of history Critically examined
the historical context of discussed
of topic
history of topic
the field
E. Acquired and
Key vocabulary not
Key vocabulary defined Discussed and resolved
enhanced the subject
discussed
ambiguities in
vocabulary
definitions
F. Articulated important Key variables and
Reviewed relationships Noted ambiguities in
variables and
phenomena not
among key variables and literature and proposed
phenomena relevant to discussed
phenomena
new relationships
the topic
G. Synthesized and
Accepted literature at
Some critique of
Offered new perspective
gained a new perspective face value
literature
on the literature
H. Identified the main Research methods not Some discussion of
Critiqued research
methodologies and
discussed
research methods used methods
research techniques that
to produce claims
have been used in the
field, and their
advantages and
disadvantages
I. Related ideas and
Research methods not Some discussion of
Critiqued
theories in the field to discussed
appropriateness of
appropriateness of
research methodologies.
research methods to
research methods to
warrant claims
warrant claims
J. Rationalized the
Practical significance of Practical significance
Critiqued
practical significance of research not discussed discussed
appropriateness of
the research problem
research methods to
warrant claims
K. Rationalized the
Scholarly significance of Scholarly significance
Critiqued scholarly
scholarly significance of research not discussed discussed
significance of research
the problem
L. Was written with a
Poorly conceptualized, Some coherent structure Well developed,
coherent, clear structure haphazard
coherent
that supported the
review From “Scholars before Researchers: On the Centrality of the Dissertation Literature Review in Research Preparation,” by D. N. Boote and
P. Beile, 2005, Educational Researcher, 34(6), p. 8. Copyright 2005 by Sage Publications. Reprinted with permission of Sage Publications
