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The activities guide instructors to help students evaluate sources and discuss research implications without requiring immersion in dense journal prose. Bounded exploration supports students in connecting workplace interests to organizational behavior and human resource management topics by locating summaries and developing their own workplace hypotheses, bridging research and practice.","International Journal for Business Education  \n\n| Volume 166  Number 1 | Article 4 |\n| --- | --- |\n| 1-8-2025\u003Cbr>Structured Activities to Introduce Management Research to Undergraduate Business Students\u003Cbr>Amanda S. Hinojosa\u003Cbr>Howard University, [amanda.hinojosa@howard.edu](amanda.hinojosa@howard.edu)\u003Cbr>Follow this and additional works at: [https://ir.library.illinoisstate.edu/ijbe](https://ir.library.illinoisstate.edu/ijbe)\u003Cbr> Part of the Business Administration, Management, and Operations Commons, and the Organizational Behavior and Theory Commons |  |\n\nRecommended Citation  \nHinojosa, Amanda S. (2025) \"Structured Activities to Introduce Management Research to Undergraduate Business Students,\" International Journal for Business Education: Vol. 166: No. 1, Article 4.  \nDOI: [https://doi.org/10.61403/2164-2885.1145](https://doi.org/10.61403/2164-2885.1145)  \nAvailable at: [https://ir.library.illinoisstate.edu/ijbe/vol166/iss1/4](https://ir.library.illinoisstate.edu/ijbe/vol166/iss1/4)  \nThis Article is brought to you for free and open access by ISU ReD: Research and eData. It has been accepted for inclusion in International Journal for Business Education by an authorized editor of ISU ReD: Research and eData. For more information, please contact [ISUReD@ilstu.edu](ISUReD@ilstu.edu).  \nStructured Activities to Introduce Management Research to Undergraduate Business Students  \nAmanda S. Hinojosa Howard University  \nCorresponding Author: Amanda S. Hinojosa ([amanda.hinojosa@howard.edu](amanda.hinojosa@howard.edu))  \nABSTRACT  \nFollowing the frameworks for research and inquiry-based learning, this paper describes a series of activities that can be used in undergraduate management classrooms to expose students to management research. The focus of these activities on finding reputable article summaries allows instructors to introduce management research, explain how to evaluate it, and discuss the key implications of research without overwhelming students with the prose and technicalities presented in full research articles. The activities presented in this paper are intended to help students become informed seekers and consumers of research about organizational behavior and human resource management topics. Through bounded exploration in these activities, students are encouraged to think about workplace topics that interest them, find research summaries, and create their own hypotheses about people at work. These small activities can help to bridge the gap between research and practice by making research consumption more accessible to today's students and tomorrow's managers.  \nKeywords: Management, Research, Organizational Behavior, Evidence-Based Management, Research Methods, research-based learning, inquiry-based learning  \nThe gap between research and practice has been oft-lamented by management scholars (Rynes, 2012) . One of the causes of this gap is a lack of exposure to research during education in business schools. 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