1. Abstract Page: How many words?

    Around 102 words.

2. What's the topic about? 

    Relationships between race and gender diversity and business performance.

3. Introduction

     1.What's the research problem? 

        How to leverage their cultural diversity for competitive advantage?

     2.What's  the context of the research study?

        Summarizing our results here and their implications for managers and human resource practitioners and describe the challenges we encountered along the way in          the hopes of advancing the study and practice of diversity in organizations in the future.

     3.What's the Rational of the study?   

        CEO of Hewlett wants to find more evident to support his ideas.

        BOLD Initiative asked a group to survey the relationships between gender and racial diversity and business performance.

     4.What's the authors' thesis or main argument?

        The Diversity between gender and racial.

     5.Did they provide definitions of key concepts? If so, what are these concepts?

       Organizations must also implement management and human resource policies and practices that inculcate cultures of mutual learning and cooperation

4. Literature Review

Identify the theoretical framework they used to guide their investigation

Did they give credits to those who have laid the groundwork for your research? If so, provide examples of these credits.

Did the authors critically evaluate relevant literature information?

Did the authors argue that their research study will make a significant and substantial contribution to the literature (i.e., resolving an important theoretical issue or filling a major gap in the literature).

5. Research Methods [Describe in detail the steps you will take in attempting to answer the research question]

Name the research methods used in their study

Provide details about how they conducted their research

Guidelines:

1. Design -Is it a questionnaire study or a laboratory experiment? What kind of design did they chose?
2. Subjects or participants - Who took part in their study ? What kind of sampling procedure did they use?
3. Instruments - What kind of measuring instruments or questionnaires did they use? 
4. Procedure - How did they carried out  their study? What activities are involved? How long did it take?

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