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Assessment title: - Annotated bibliography (assessment 3) (50%) (this is a final exam assignment and must be submitted on time. The assessment date cannot be extended).

Description: This 3,500-word report (+/- 10%) does not including a cover sheet or reference list

Assessment details:

· The topic of the annotated bibliography is: “How firms survive during challenging times and the role of organizational commitment and citizenship”

· This is an individual assignment. It takes the form of an annotated bibliography.

· An annotated bibliography provides a brief account of the available research on a given topic. It is a list of research sources that includes concise descriptions and evaluations of each source.

· To complete an annotated bibliography for this assessment you will need to identify and fully read 5 ACADEMIC JOURNAL articles about the topic

· The annotation usually contains a brief summary of content and a short analysis or evaluation. You are also asked to reflect, summarise, critique, evaluate and analyse the source.

· Tips on writing an annotated bibliography can be found on the link below (source: Cornell University, August 2021) https://guides.library.cornell.edu/annotatedbibliography

· “Creating a strong organization during challenging times – the case for organizational commitment and resilience”

You might consider the following approach to your annotated bibliography for each of the 5 articles:

· Statement of the problem

· Background to the paper being annotated

· Scope of the paper

· Problem the paper is presenting

· The paper’s main argument

· The intended audience for the paper

· Research methods used by the paper

· Conclusions made by the paper

· Reliability of the paper

· Relevance of the paper to the practice of organizational behaviour

· Strengths and limitations of the paper

· Your view of the paper

You will need to complete the points above for every one of the 5 academic journal articles you selected.

References: you will need to use an exact number of references for this assessment because it is an annotated bibliography. The number of references is 5.

The language used in the assessment needs to be academic and must draw on the terms learned in the unit. The expression of an opinion in the first person (“I”) is not allowed and the work needs to not have a similarity rate of more than 15%.