Posted: September 13th, 2017

Business Writing #3.

?Elaine Bridger, the former professional poker player you hired to oversee your poker tournaments, knows the business inside and out. As a former touring pro, she has unmatched credibility. She also has seemingly boundless energy, solid technical knowledge, and an engaging personal style. Unfortunately, she hasn’t been quite as attentive as she needs to be when it comes to communicating with customers. You’ve been getting complaints about voice-mail messages gone unanswered for days, confusing e-mails that require two or three rounds of clarification, and reports that are haphazardly thrown together. As valuable as Bridger’s other skills are, she’s going to cost the company business if this goes on much longer.

ASSIGNMENT: Draft a brief (one page maximum, in memo format) informal performance appraisal and improvement plan for Bridger. Be sure to compliment her on the areas in which she excels but don’t shy away from highlighting the areas in which she needs to improve, too: punctual response to customer messages; clear writing; and careful revision, production, and proofreading. Use what you’ve learned in this course so far to supply any additional advice about the importance of these skills.

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Ethical and unethical leadership
Order Description
required to critique a journal article. This handout will give you a few guidelines to follow as you go. Choose a journal article that you are interested in. The following journals contain some articles that would be suitable:
Things to look for:
? It should involve some substantial data analysis;
? It should not use sophisticated statistical methods that are beyond this subject.

Evaluation. Your paper is marked on the following criteria: quality of content (choice of topic and sources, whether the review demonstrates understanding and the ability to link different sources and draw inferences), style (clarity of presentation, adherence to guidelines as outlined above), and thoughtfulness (independence and stringency of thoughts expressed, in particular, in the discussion of implications).
First of all, your critique should include some basic information:
1. Name(s) of the author(s)
2. Title of article
3. Title of journal, volume number, date, month and page numbers
4. Statement of the problem or issue discussed
5. Literature review.
6. The author’s purpose, approach or methods, hypothesis, and major conclusions.
The bulk of your critique, however, should consist of your qualified opinion of the article.
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Read the article you are to critique once to get an overview. Then read it again, critically. At this point you may want to make some notes to yourself on your copy.
The following are some questions you may want to address in your critique.
1. Is the title of the article appropriate and clear?
2. Is the abstract specific and representative of the article?
3. Is the purpose of the article made clear in the introduction?
4. Are the study design and methods appropriate for the purposes of the study?
5. Is all of the discussion relevant?
6. Should some sections of the manuscript be expanded, condensed or omitted?
7. Are the author’s statements clear?
8. Has the author been objective in his or her discussion of the topic?
Assignment Requirement
? The research paper should be type written, 1.5 line-spaced, using 12-point size font times new roman, and should not exceed 10 pages (excluding cover page, and references).
? The cover page should provide the title of the research paper, the complete student name, student ID number, and course code.
? The report should contain the following sections:
(1) Introduction;
(2) Literature Review;
(3) Research Aims and Objectives;
(4) Research Methodology;
(5) Discussion;
(6) paper critique;
(7) Conclusion;
Ethical and Unethical Leadership: A Cross-Cultural
and Cross-Sectoral Analysis
Silke Astrid Eisenbeiß • Felix Brodbeck
Received: 17 April 2012 / Accepted: 29 April 2013 / Published online: 23 May 2013
Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013