Analyze a complex workplace issue of Balancing work and family roles: the employer’s role
Take an interdisciplinary approach (using 3 different disciplines) to finding solutions to the issue you have identified. Describe and evaluate the solutions you discover through your research. Develop your own solutions and suggest areas for future interdisciplinary research. The research paper should be 9-10 pages, double-spaced (see APA and M&M guidelines).
consider the following:
• Your research project should be a workplace problem, question, or issue that is complex enough to be studied or understood from multiple perspectives.
• Define the main idea of your thesis. Then focus your research on a manageable portion of that issue or problem. You need to have enough complexity on one hand, but enough focus so that you come up with meaningful results.
• Conduct research. Explore different perspectives from three disciplines, for example, psychology, economics, and history. Examine the differences and similarities in points of view.
• If possible, select a topic and approach where you can use your “home discipline,” the discipline that you believe you’re most competent in. Use this as a starting point for analyzing your topic, then bring in your other disciplines to see how they bear on the topic.
• Organize the ideas. Identify and describe the points of view of each discipline. Consider how the practitioners in each discipline approach the topic that you’ve chosen. What are the basic assumptions that each discipline makes about your topic area?
• Identify opposing arguments among disciplines. Evaluate strengths and weaknesses of each perspective. If there are areas of agreement, identify these. Examine and highlight how the disciplines intersect and shed light on the topic. If you have chosen one view over another, identify which one and why.
• Propose your own ideas for solutions. Make suggestions about areas for future study.
• In evaluating your final draft, assess how you have integrated your chosen disciplines in your interdisciplinary research paper.
