Help With a Capstone and Essay on Analyzing Communication

During this course you will prepare and submit a number of short papers on a series of topics. These papers are an opportunity for you to demonstrate your understanding of concepts drawn from the module and the course.

For this assignment, read the following email:

E-mail Post

From: [email protected]

To: All Employees

Subject: Lying on Time Cards

It has come to my attention that many of you are lying on your time cards. If you come in late, you should not put 8:00 on your card. If you take a long lunch, you should not put 1:00 on your time card. I will not stand for this type of cheating. I simply have no choice but to institute an employee monitoring system. Beginning next Monday, video cameras will be installed at all entrances to the building, and your entry and exit times will be logged each time you use electronic key cards to enter or leave. Anyone who is late for work or late coming back from lunch more than three times will have to answer to me. I don’t care if you had to take a nap or if you girls had to shop. This is a place of business, and we do not want to be taken advantage of by slackers who are cheaters to boot. It is too bad that a few bad apples always have to spoil things for everyone.

Senior Vice President of Human Resources

Your paper should accomplish the following objectives:

1. Explain where the Senior Vice President of Human Resources went awry with this e-mail.

2. Analyze the ethicality of this e-mail.

3. Re-write the e-mail using the information you learned in Chapters 1 to 3 in Bovée and Thill (2018).

You must follow the following format and guidelines for all short paper assignments:

1. Title Page: Include your name. the paper title, course title, instructor's name, and date.

2. Introduction: Discuss the purpose of the paper in succinct, declarative sentences. The introduction should offer a preview of the paper and its value, and be based upon the concepts studied in the course.

3. Discussion Content: Present relevant and legitimate information to support your purpose or argument and display evidence of an in-depth analysis of the topic.

4. Conclusion: This should be a summative paragraph which includes what you learned from rewriting the message.

5. References: A minimum of one reference must be used to support your discussion. Document all sources according to APA Style.

Your paper should be submitted as a Word document (.doc, docx or .rtf) file and adhere to the following guidelines:

· Be 3-4 pages in length (not including the title and the reference pages).

· Be double-spaced, in Arial or Times New Roman font, with a font size between 10 and 12 point.

· The margins should not exceed 1" on all sides.

· Follow APA guidelines for formatting [PDF file size 131 KB], including the title and the reference page.