Question 5 - The majority of students are going to start your career in an employment situation, where you are working for a manager or perhaps several managers, in a knowledge worker type role where you interact with your manager(s) several times a day.

Please discuss how you could successfully manage yourself to be a highly productive worker, in an environment were you like the work you do, but you don't like your manager(s).

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Hint: Using theories / concepts from the course, such as, 1 Communications, 2 Teamwork, 3 Customer Service Orientation, 4 Problem Solving Orientation, 5 Productivity / Work Ethic and 6 Likeability, to describe your actions.

Essay Question = Marked out of 25 Marks but the actual weight is 10% of the Semester

1. Students will be radomly assigned an Essay Question, from a database of questions. Please cut and paste the Essay Question from Blackboard and work on it off line. There is a separate area to cut and paste your answers when you have finished. There is no ability to just upload your answer.
2. To answer the Essay Question, you must use sentence and paragraph style.
3. Please start your answer, by restating the question and then start your answer. For some of the questions, it is very important to state up front your opinion or what perspective you are taking to answer the question.
4. You require a minimum of 4 significant supporting points, which all need to come from the textbook or PowerPoint slides and must be framed in the context of the modern workplace.
5. Please let me know which specific sections of the textbook or the PowerPoint slides you used by indicating right after the section, the follow format....(Wk 4 Class PowerPoints Slides 3, 5, 7) or (Chapter 5 in the textbook page 24 - 28) Students Do NOT have to include both the PowerPoints and the Textbook for each footnote you only need one or the other.
6. Please use the Blackboard Yellow Highlighter on the sections you use from the textbook or the PowerPoints slides. I have attached a reminder on how to find the Yellow Highlighter.
7. This is NOT a research essay question. Students are asked to use their textbooks and classnotes. The use of other sources will result in a grade of zero.
8. Your essay answer will be graded on how well you frame your answer from the perspective of the response to the question and how it would or could apply to a workplace, and the factors below in the Essay Question Grading Rubric.
9. Answer Length - The essay question needs to be between 850 - 1,000 words long. If it is less than 850 words the essay answer will NOT be accepted and will receive a grade of zero.**
10. If you are over a 1,000 words, I will automatically deduct 10%, at 100 words over an additional 10% etc. for each 100 words. In my opinion, it's also not fair to have up to 24 hours to plan your work and be over the limit. It seems logical that someone with way more information has a better chance of getting a higher mark, so I'm striving to keep boundaries on both ends of the word count limit.

Essay Question Grading RubricOrganization - Does your answer make sense - in terms of, how well you support and connect your thesis to your overall argument, using theories, concepts, and key scholars from the course materials only. (Before even considering, the accuracy of what has been written.)Out of 7 MarksIntegration of Evidence - Does your answer have enough supporting examples. Plan on using a minimum of 4 examples in your thesis using theories, concepts, and key scholars from the course materials only, to support your argument. Please highlight these sections with yellow marker so it's clear when you are referring to a new key concept or theory, we have studied this semester.Out of 7 MarksWriting Accuracy - The quality of your grammatical response - Clear communications. Your answer is well written, well organized and your arguments flows logically and your (minimum of) 4 key supporting points uses theories, concepts, and key scholars from the course materials only, are easy to understand in the context of your argument. As a reminder, please use paragraphs, as way to create a break between ideas and or new concepts. It makes it much easier to read and understand your answer when you have finished one idea / concept / argument before you start something new. It also helps you receive starts a better mark. Out of 7 MarksStrength of the Argument / Logic - Is the situation discussed realistic? Out of 4 Marks

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