Impartial Managerial Communications: Communicating Within A Doiverse Workforce

MAN-373: MANAGERIAL COMMUNICATIONS

Final Project

Students Please Note:​ The final project must be submitted to turnitin.com. Reference the “Turnitin Requirement” section of the course Syllabus (or Using Turnitin for Assignments on the Topic List Page) for general instructions. Upload both your assignment and the originality report within the Final Project assignment link.

OVERVIEW

The final project requires you to analyze a contemporary managerial communications issue. You should choose your topic (see below) by Week 8 of the term and submit a preliminary outline; that is, the scenario and questions for case analysis, by Week 10. Select your topic carefully; this project is designed to touch on information from the entire course. You will produce a written report as well as a PowerPoint presentation about the report. They will be submitted and graded as two separate assignments.

SCOPE

Regardless of the selected topic, the report must maintain a sharp focus on the theory, concepts, and vocabulary of managerial communications. Your topic choice becomes the object of the research; that is, your case study provides the real world situation that allows you to demonstrate that you can apply the theories and concepts to real situations. Refer back regularly to the course objectives to keep yourself on track. In other words: the events you describe are not the subject of the report. Rather, they are the means for you to illustrate and apply managerial theories and concepts. Your report should demonstrate the role that effective managerial communications has in promoting opportunities for business development.

TOPICS

Choose from the following topics for your project:

● Communicating During Organizational Crisis: Crisis examples should be recent, specifically within the last decade; possible example organizations include the Susan G. Komen Foundation (Planned Parenthood issue) or Pennsylvania State University (Jerry Sandusky/child abuse )

● The Impact of Social Media on the Quality of Organizational Communications ● Impartial Managerial Communications: Communicating within a Diverse Workforce

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● The Deterioration of Articulate Messages: The Organizational Consequences of Being Misunderstood

● A Conflict Management Policy for Dealing with Miscommunication that Ignites Loss of Productivity and Motivation

● Key Factors in Establishing an Effective and Efficient Communication System ● Successful Communications Skills for Mediating, Negotiating, and Settling Grievances ● Creating Organizational Communication Policies That Provide Articulate Intergenerational

Communications ● Communicating Practices for Managing a Worldwide Virtual Workforce ● Ethics and Communications

Should there be another contemporary managerial communication issue you would like to research, notify your mentor as early as possible and secure her or his written approval prior to beginning your project (by Week 8).

PROJECT GUIDELINES

Requirements, Including Submissions Choose your topic by the end of Week 8. As noted, if you wish to choose a topic outside of those suggested, notify your mentor as early as possible and secure her or his written approval prior to beginning your project. Submit your preliminary outline, final report, and PowerPoint by the dates indicated on the Course Calendar.

Credible Resources During the research phase of the project, select only university-level credible sources. These sources can be easily located using the research resources available through Moodle and by searching scholarly and professional journals. Unacceptable sources include dictionaries, encyclopedias, textbooks, Wikipedia, and any Internet sources that cannot be properly checked for reliability and integrity. Sources such as blogs and other social media may be cited only as anecdotal information to lend support to public opinion, but not to explain or define the concept under discussion. Sources should be current; that is, from the last decade. Report Specifications A university-level research paper must be professionally written using APA citation format, including in-text references to facts and ideas from other sources. Also, the final work requires an appropriate References section. Applying APA style can be easily accomplished by using Word's “References” tab or by following the formatting requirements of the APA (​http://www.apastyle.org​). You should provide a statement of purpose and an indication of the direction of your research in the opening paragraph, and your report should be of appropriate depth as well as unified and cohesive. You should draw clear and logical conclusions based on theories and concepts. Your report should be written in complete, well-constructed sentences with precise grammar, word choice, punctuation, and spelling.

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Your writing should be sharp, coherent, and clear. The report must fulfill all stated requirements and include 2500 to 3000 words of ​con​tent​ (approximately 10 pages). Preferred fonts are Calibri 11-point or Arial 11-point with 1-inch margins. The work must have an appropriate TESU coversheet and “References” page in addition to its content pages. Preferred style is to have your full name in the paper’s footer left margin, along with the page number centered, and the course code at the right margin. The PowerPoint Presentation You are also required to create a PowerPoint Presentation of your project. Your slides should support a presentation of 8 to 10 minutes, suitable for a business gathering in which the organization’s management team has assembled to hear a summary of your research. The tone of your product must be business formal. Your PowerPoint presentation, which should consist of no more than 8 slides, should contain per​tinent facts that you would like to share. Do not put the research paper or paragraphs from the paper on the slides; your slides should include main ideas and highlights. Follow accepted PowerPoint style.

RUBRICS AND GRADING Check the embedded rubrics for the final project and the PowerPoint presentation to view the criteria on which you’ll be graded.

WRITING RESOURCES

The following links provide online writing aids to help you with your paper assignments.

● OWL​ (Online Writing Lab) at Purdue University ● Writer's Handbook​, the Writing Center at the University of Wisconsin–Madison ● APA Guidelines

Final Project Report

Submit your final project using the Final Project Report assignment link.

PowerPoint Presentation

Submit your PowerPoint presentation using the PowerPoint Presentation assignment link.

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