Construct a research paper that examines the effectiveness of induced competition among workers to stimulate results. This means research into the psychology of the involvement of the ego in a work process that is otherwise monotonous and repetitive. Determine to what extent induced competition among workers drives employees to work harder by dividing workers into those who excel because they are driven to win and those who work hard because of a fear of failure.
Successful management is often based not on putting together the best individual workers but on putting together the best team to work together. Craft a research paper that examines the best way to create and manage a team for a specific project. Use this paper to examine such aspects of team building and management as the importance of personal trust, the importance of working comfortably with each other, the viability of assigning team roles and how to handle interpersonal criticism.
A management research paper would explain the value of information management in a world that has changed significantly the way that information is kept. Storage of important information was all kept on paper file not long ago, whereas today much of that same information cannot actually be held in one's hand. Write a paper that researches whether quick access to information kept on a computer actually is more efficient, reliable and secure than old-fashioned methods of keeping information in hard copy form.
Successful management and ethics may not always go hand in hand, and this opens the door to many different potential research paper topics. One way to deal with this aspect of management is to conduct research into how much value is placed on leadership over communication when dealing with a group dynamic. Begin by analyzing the ethics involved in a manager choosing to withhold certain valuable information from the group because divulging the information might undermine his leadership and result in management control trickling down to other members of the group.