MGT120 – Essentials of Management
Individual Research Assignment – Business Trend Paper
Objective
This assignment is designed to sharpen your critical analysis skills when reviewing business publications. You are to select and critique a business trend or issue from the following categories:
- Organizational Culture
- Business Innovation
- Entrepreneurship
- Globalization
- Organizational Change
A good grade on this paper requires a number of elements.
- Identify a subject you find interesting.
- Select a minimum of two articles pertaining to the subject and prepare your paper. For example, select an article(s) Harvard Business Review; from the Wall Street Journal; Fortune; Business Week, or any reputable print or Internet source that pertains to business issues.
- Review our text, as a reference/source, to provide context.
- Use Bloom’s Taxonomy as a model. Expand beyond the basics of the article(s).
- Reflect on your observations, present your personal opinion, pose questions, identify problems, present arguments, and identify possible outcomes and/or future directions.
- Great papers integrate information, convey understanding and are well written in a concise, articulate, well-organized manner, free of mistakes.
- Note: This is a business paper. You are free to use headings, lists, etc., to convey your ideas.