With the current trend towards providing support for assertions in the news, social media, academics, and business $($i$.$e$.,$ analytics$),$ learning to find support for your statements is a valuable skill. In this discussion, you will get some practice finding support for the topic provided as well as some practice applying a model to explain your response to a query.

Part $1$: Supporting Assertions $($initial posting$)$: Go to the Purdue Global Library following the instructions above, and look for peer$-$reviewed research articles regarding the topic of: "Better salary and benefits motivate better employee performance."

It does not matter whether the peer$-$reviewed research found support or not for this statement.

Choose an article not used by another student in this discussion, and report the findings using an in$-$text citation $($see the reading area$),$ and accompanying reference in APA format. $($Hint: In research studies, you can look at the Abstract section at the beginning or in the final pages where the summarized results are usually found.$)$