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BUSS215 – Management Principles Portfolio Project Directions and Rubric This Assessment is worth 20% of your grade.

Completing this Assessment will help you to: Course Outcomes:

• Explain various motivational techniques and rewards designed to improve employee satisfaction.

• Apply the five primary functions of management; staffing, planning, organizing, controlling and leading.

• Develop and demonstrate an understanding of how strategic planning meets the organizational and departmental business objectives.

• Create and present a research paper that includes the basic functions of management that defends your management and leadership decision-making process using Multimedia.

Program Outcomes:

• Recognize management and leadership skills. • Identify and apply the basice functions of management such as staffing, planning,

organizing, controlling, and leading to the decision-making process. Institutional Outcomes:

• Information Literacy and Communication - Utilize apporopriate current technology and resources to locate and evaluate information needed to accomplish a goal, and then communicate findings in visual, written and/or oral formats.

• Relational Learning - Transfer knowledge, skills and behaviors acquired through formal and informal learning and life experiences to new situations.

• Community and Career - Participate in social, learning, and professional communities for personal and career growth.

Deadlines Timeline Activity Grading

Due Week 6 by Wednesday at 11:59 pm, ET.

Submit your rough draft for peer review.

This will count for 20% of your overall Portfolio Project grade.

Due Week 7 by Saturday at 11:59 pm, ET.

Upload your Portfolio Project to Upload to your ePortfolio.

This will count for 80% of your overall Portfolio Project grade.

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Directions: You will have the opportunity to write a Portfolio Project in which you explore a business concept that is interesting to you and relate the ideas covered in this course which you may then connect to your life and your future career interests. Using your information literacy skills, you will research the information necessary to write your Portfolio Project on a concept in business that we have covered in this course (please see below for the approved topic list). The main objective of this Portfolio Project is to explore a business concept, summarize the concept, and analyze the main points of experts in the field. In the project you will provide a summary of the topic along with how it relates to what you have learned in this course as well as to your role as a professional. It is an expectation for this course that all written projects will follow the standards for fair use of information, including the avoidance of all intentional and unintentional plagiarism, and incorporating appropriate usage according to the conventions of the APA citation guidelines. Your research project must be on one of the following approved topics:

1. Political Tactics a. Posturing b. Empire Building c. Making the Supervisor Look Good d. Collecting and Using Social IOUs e. Creating Power and Loyalty Cliques f. Engaging in Destructive Competition

2. Managers and Entrepreneurs in the Global Workplace 3. Managerial Functions 4. Five Approaches to Management Theory 5. The Changing Work Environment of Management 6. Communication in the Global Workplace 7. Social and Ethical Responsibility 8. International Management 9. Project Management 10. Strategic Management 11. Decision Making & Problem Solving 12. Human Resource Management 13. Motivation & Job Performance 14. Working in Teams 15. Leadership & Power 16. Organizational Change & Conflict Management

General Expectations: Your research paper should include:

• A title page and a reference page

BUSS215 – Portfolio Project 3

• A well developed paper that addresses an important business concept, where you incorporate what you have learned in this course and how this impacts you as a professional.

• This Portfolio Project is to be a minimum of three to four pages (not including title and reference page), typed and double-spaced. It should conform to APA rules for citations and formatting. Using parenthetical citations, paraphrases, block quotes, or a combination of such in your essay, you will need to cite from five (5) different scholarly resources of your choice. Complete a references page, in addition to using in-text citations, to cite your sources correctly using the APA format.

o Use the Virtual Library and the Internet to do a search related to the approved topic of your choice.

o At least five critically evaluated scholarly resources. o Begin the project by creating an outline based on your research. o Review your course materials (textbook, lectures, discussion, and current events)

to ensure that you have captured the major elements for your chosen topic. o Begin writing your paper, ensuring that you cite references from concepts covered

in our class and in your outside research. o Give at least one example of how this topic has occurred or could occur in the

workplace. o As a manager, provide a detailed description as to how you would handle the

situation. • Be precise and concise in your writing! Be sure your paragraphs flow and that you end

the paper with a conclusion. Rough Draft (Due Week 6) Initial post: Due Week 6 by Wednesday at 11:59 pm, ET. Upload your rough draft to the discussion board for peer review. Peer Review: Due Week 6 by Friday at 11:59 pm, ET. Select a minimum of one of your classmate’s essays and provide both constructive and meaningful feedback. Use the constructive feedback you received to revise your Portfolio Project before final submission in Week 7. Please see below for the Grading Rubric.

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BUSS215 – Portfolio Project Grading Rubric

Criteria Exceeds Expectations Meets Expectations Below Expectations Points

Content

60 points

60 – 54 points All ideas are clearly logically relate to and support the overall topic. Transitions are very clear and easy to follow; paragraphs are always unified and coherent. Project fully supports and develops ideas.

53 – 42 points Few lapses in clear or logical relationship and supports topic; few transitions missing or incorrect; few violations of unity or coherence. Project sufficiently supports and develops ideas.

41 – 0 points Unclear or confusing; most points are not supported and/or thesis development is missing. Little to no development of ideas, and support for ideas is missing completely.

Organization

15 points

15 – 13.5 points Introduction provides all necessary elements of information; sets clear expectations; conclusion is decisive, creates a fully satisfying sense of completion.

13.4 – 10.5 points Introduction provides necessary information but expectations may be unclear; conclusion ends paper clearly; creates a reasonably good sense of completion.

10.4 – 0 points Introduction confusing, vague or missing necessary information. Conclusion has a weak or vague ending or introduces new ideas. Project may be missing introduction or conclusion.

APA Formatting

10 points

10 – 9 points All sources are listed in APA format and document is created adhering to all APA guidelines (Times New Roman or Arial, 12-point font, and 1-inch margins).

8 - 7 points All sources are listed in APA format but the document does not adhere to 1- 2 of the APA guidelines (Times New Roman or Arial, 12-point font, and 1- inch margins).

6 – 0 points Sources contain significant errors in APA formatting and document does not adhere to the APA guidelines (Times New Roman or Arial, 12-point font, and 1-inch margins).

Mechanics 10 points

10 – 9 points No major grammar, punctuation, or spelling errors.

8 - 7 points No major errors, some problems with grammar, punctuation, and spelling (3- 4 minor errors).

6 – 0 points Too many errors; detracts significantly. Unclear or awkward sentences.

Sources/ References

5 points

5 – 4.5 points Paper contains more than 5 scholarly resources for research. Direct quotes are less than 10% of the paper. In-text citations are used to support content.

4.4 – 3.5 points Paper contains the 5 required scholarly resources for research. Direct quotes are less than 15% of the paper. Good uses of in-text citations, but citations contain 1-2 errors.

3.4 – 0 points Only fewer than 5 required references or no resources included. Paper shows evidence of plagiarism.

Instructor Comments:

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