Observe your work environment for a period of one to three days. Take note of particular habits of employees relating to ergonomic issues (i.e. posture at workstations, lifting techniques, patterns of movements, biomechanical factors). Refer to page 333 of the textbook and develop a hypothesis around your observations. Describe how you would go about testing that hypothesis, and how you would ultimately implement a training program, behavior modification, or design change to the environment, equipment, or process to positively affect what you observed.
- Submit your selected topic and summary outline to your professor via e-mail before you begin writing your Research Paper. Generally, your outline should include the following major sections, which correspond to level 1 headings per APA publications guidelines:
- Introduction-Briefly describe issue and state the purpose for the paper.
- Background-Review relevant literature on the subject. This is a good section to satisfy the requirement for at leastfive primary sources. Be sure to use APA formatted in-text citations to identify sources for information. Note thatin-text citations are required even if the information has been reworded.
- Methods-State how you will address the issue. For example, you could perform a literature of review of relatedresearch literature, conduct interviews, and/or perform observations. If you use a tool such as a standardizedchecklist you should provide information from the research literature on the tool's reliability and validity.
- Results-Present the findings from implementation of your selected methods. The inclusion of tables, figures,and/or pictures in addition to describing the results in the text adds much to the paper's readability.
- Conclusions-Present your conclusions and recommendations. In general your own opinions should only beincluded in this section.
- References-Must be in APA format