Week 5: Changing Corporate Culture Project Annotated Bibliography - This week, you will create an annotated bibliography based on your Course Project topic. It requires four high-quality sources. Each annotation will include the correct APA style reference, a summary of the source, a quotation, and a discussion of what you learned from it and how it will be useful to you. Please refer back to the Changing Corporate Culture Project Overview for all of the assignment requirements, and the Assignment Connection in the Week 5 Lesson for more tips and advice.

Each annotation will have these elements.

The correct APA-style reference

A summary of the source, written in your own words (never copy the abstract)

One brief, interesting quotation, introduced with a verb phrase, author/date citation, and page number

A discussion of what new information you learned from the source and how you can use it

Example

Karsten, M. (2016). Gender, race, and ethnicity in the workplace: Emerging issues and enduring challenges. Praeger.

Summary: This book identifies three dimensions of diversity in the workplace: gender, race, and ethnicity. The book is divided into five main sections: discrimination in the workplace, harassment, diversity, family issues, and special challenges. The author explores these issues through the discussion of numerous case studies drawn from real life.

Interesting Quote: "Overall race relations in the United States often are reflected in the workplace" (p. xiii).

Insights: I learned many interesting facts about well-known companies and how they have dealt with issues of gender, race, and ethnicity in the workplace, both in the past and in more recent times. Even the most successful organizations struggle with these challenges. Because it was published in 2016, it predates the Black Lives Matter movement and other recent developments, so it needs to be supplemented by other more recently published sources to provide a fuller picture.

Tips

Use the Cite feature in our DeVry databases as a general guide but not as a substitute for understanding correct APA citation rules.

Pay close attention to capitalization and italics.

Put your sources in alphabetical order by the lead author's last name.

Try using search terms such as change management or workplace culture as a starting point, and then move on to terms more specifically related to your topic choice.

Submit your assignment as an APA-style document. The Assignment Connection in the Week 5 Lesson will provide more tips and advice.