Business & Finance
Literature review and inquiry formulation
Literature review and inquiry formulation.
For this first assignment, you are asked to complete a literature review on one of the topics below. You are asked to critically review 3 educational journal articles on your topic and write a 600-800 word literature review on the articles you’ve selected.
The topics are:
- Leadership and Emotional Intelligence
- Motivation
- Managing Up and Across
- Cross-Cultural Communication
Steps to complete your literature review:
- Choose a topic that you are interested and would like to know more about. It should be looked at as an opportunity to develop your skills in that area as well.
- Formulate an inquiry question that specifically describes what would like to know about your topic. For example, ‘Discuss the barriers that hinder effective team productivity and provide ways of confronting and preventing those challenges in the future.’
- Search for and locate academic journal articles and books that include your topic’s information.
- Select at least 3 academic journal articles to review. Read your articles and begin to sort and classify them according to their findings.
- Organize your articles by sorting and classifying their findings in a meaningful way, always considering your original topic and inquiry question. Identify themes and patterns in your research.
- Write your review.
Submissions should be double-spaced, 12 pt. font. The word count does not include references or cover page.