You have been directed by your corporate or organizational president to research one of the following situations/problems and prepare a formalized research paper or executive memorandum. This memorandum or paper (add a transmittal letter if a research paper format is used) should be addressed to the president, board of directors, and your professor. For this research, you should conduct a review of literature based on the current practices being used in today’s organizations (in terms of your selected research problem/situation). Also, you will prepare a section of recommendations and suggestions, which could persuade the reader to consider the worthiness or validity of these recommendations. Rather than just offering a historical or secondary research foundation for this paper, you will be using this material to help build your points for support and acceptance of your ideas on this topic by the president, board of directors, and professor. Finally, please keep in mind the impact of your ideas in the scheme of employment relations in this particular organization. 1. Student should write a well-researched paper, approximately 6 pages (not counting a title page, table of contents, references or appendices). 2. Student should follow the APA Style Manual for referencing and citing sources in the paper. 3. Paper should be written in third person – not first person. 4. Paper should be error-free, so it may be wise to have another person proof your work. 5. All sources must be properly cited, according to APA style. In essence, you need to use in-text citations (no footnotes or endnotes in this paper whatsoever). Full citations of all works should be included in the References section, formatted in APA Style. 6. The paper must contain the following elements: a. Title Page (or letter of transmittal if a memorandum format is used) b. Table of Contents (unless a memorandum format is used). c. Introduction d. Problem Statement (5-8 sentence paragraph that clearly defines the problem and why it needs to be researched). e. Review of current practices (literature) in the area f. Strategic plan for change or creation of the anticipated change g. Strategic approach for implementation of the change(s) h. Final recommendations i. Summary/Conclusions j. References section