Beginning in October, student-consultants in teams of 4 or 5 will spend 20 hours per team learning about your organization and your identified performance gap. From this, teams will leverage their education and experience to provide recommendations and where realistic templates that can be leveraged by the company.

Example project topics include, but are not limited to:

• Create a needs analysis plan that you can take forward and implement including templates for surveys and focus group/interview questions.
• Conduct a needs analysis including research on what types of corporate buy in initiative would be effective for specific content areas and organizational operations.
• Propose training and development solutions aligned with your organization’s competencies.
• Design a training plan that includes recommended learning objectives, delivery approaches and training evaluation strategy.
• Where realistic for the project and your needs, the students can provide templates that can be leveraged in the proposed training initiative (surveys, lesson plan, evaluation tools).
• Design plan, suggested delivery and evaluation tools for specific topics which may include: Job Satisfaction, Job Involvement, Organizational Commitment, Perceived Organizational Support, Employee Engagement skills for subject management experts.

This list of project examples is not meant to be exhaustive. If you have another project idea that relates to employee organizational commitment, please use Riipen’s in app chat to contact the professor, who will work with you to determine if it’s a fit for this assignment.