2 BA300 Manager Interview Assignment This is a research paper, so you need to approach it as just that. The point of this assignment is to demonstrate that you can complete research, and connect that research to the class material. In doing this, you will show that you understand and can explain the class material through the research. The research in this assignment is the information that you collect from the interview and shadowing experiences. Complete the following steps to complete this project: Step 1: Choose an interview and shadowing subject – This should be a person that: 1. Is currently a manager with employees that they manage, 2. You have access to for both the interview and shadowing, and 3. Agrees to allow you to interview and shadow them. If you need a letter from the professor to gain their approval, please request one from the professor. Step 2: Conduct your interview - Use the questions listed below for conducting your Manager Interview. You’ll want to take notes and, if possible, audio record the interview for use when you’re preparing your paper. Step 3: Shadow your interviewee – spend at least 4 or more hours following the manager through their daily routine. Make notes during this time that focus on what the manager may or may not be doing well based on your opinion and the material from the class. Step 4: After conducting your interview – prepare a 5-7-page paper that reports your findings from the interview. Think of the interview and shadowing as a primary source (like a book or research journal) to use to write your paper. You MUST clearly cover the following five points: a. Summarize the manager’s responses to the questions. b. Evaluate and compare the manager’s responses compared to textbook and lecture discussions. c. What advice might you give to the manager in order to improve his/her performance? d. What information most surprised you from the interview and was most useful to you? e. Use the interview to identify lessons for doing management that you would keep in mind if you held a managerial position. TIPS FOR WRITING YOUR PAPER: DO: DON’T: 1. Use subtopic titles to identify main topics or sections of the paper. 2. Use direct quotes from the interview/shadowing to emphasize and connect ideas, and to show that you completed both. 3. Make direct connections between the class topics and things identified in the interview/shadowing. 4. Use correct English words and grammar in your paper to make this a credible research paper. 5. Use correct paragraph structure, meaning that all sentences in a paragraph should support a topic sentence. If a sentence doesn’t support the topic sentence, that means that another paragraph is needed with a different topic sentence or the sentence should be deleted. 1. Write in the first person by using I, me, my, etc. This is a research paper, it’s about the interviewee and not about you. 2. Inject bias into your paper and make the research less credible by establishing a .

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BA300 Manager Interview Assignment
This is a research paper, so you need to approach it as just that.
The point of this assignment is to demonstrate that you can
complete research, and connect that research to the class
material. In doing this, you will show that you understand and
can explain the class material through the research. The
research in this assignment is the information that you collect
from the interview and shadowing experiences.
Complete the following steps to complete this project:
Step 1: Choose an interview and shadowing subject – This
should be a person that:
1. Is currently a manager with employees that they manage,
2. You have access to for both the interview and shadowing, and
3. Agrees to allow you to interview and shadow them.
If you need a letter from the professor to gain their approval,
please request one from the professor.
Step 2: Conduct your interview - Use the questions listed below
for conducting your Manager Interview. You’ll want to take
notes and, if possible, audio record the interview for use when
you’re preparing your paper.
Step 3: Shadow your interviewee – spend at least 4 or more
hours following the manager through their daily routine. Make
notes during this time that focus on what the manager may or
may not be doing well based on your opinion and the material
from the class.

2. Step 4: After conducting your interview – prepare a 5-7-page
paper that reports your findings from the interview. Think of the
interview and shadowing as a primary source (like a book or
research journal) to use to write your paper. You MUST clearly
cover the following five points:
a. Summarize the manager’s responses to the questions.
b. Evaluate and compare the manager’s responses compared to
textbook and lecture discussions.
c. What advice might you give to the manager in order to
improve his/her performance?
d. What information most surprised you from the interview and
was most useful to you?
e. Use the interview to identify lessons for doing management
that you would keep in mind if you held a managerial position.
TIPS FOR WRITING YOUR PAPER:
DO:
DON’T:
1. Use subtopic titles to identify main topics or sections of the
paper.
2. Use direct quotes from the interview/shadowing to emphasize
and connect ideas, and to show that you completed both.
3. Make direct connections between the class topics and things
identified in the interview/shadowing.
4. Use correct English words and grammar in your paper to
make this a credible research paper.
5. Use correct paragraph structure, meaning that all sentences in
a paragraph should support a topic sentence. If a sentence
doesn’t support the topic sentence, that means that another
paragraph is needed with a different topic sentence or the
sentence should be deleted.
1. Write in the first person by using I, me, my, etc. This is a
research paper, it’s about the interviewee and not about you.
2. Inject bias into your paper and make the research less
credible by establishing a relationship between you and the
interviewee, such as “my mom” or “my dad”.

3. 3. Use slang or curse words to describe or explain something.
4. Use the interviewee’s first name to refer to them. After
you’ve introduced their full name, you use their last name.
Potential Interview Questions:
Note: you will probably have more or different questions based
on who you are interviewing.
1. Background information on the manager’s company and
his/her management position:
a. In what industry is your company?
b. What products and services do your company offer?
c. What is your position in the company?
d. How many subordinates do you supervise?
e. How many years of management experience do you have and
how has the experience affected your approach to management?
f. What formal business education or training programs have
you received? How has this education and training helped you
to manage more effectively?
2. What are some of the typical issues or problems that you
must deal with? How do you typically try to develop solutions
to these problems?
3. In your work, what does it mean for you to be efficient; to be
effective?
4. What legal or ethical challenges do you encounter? How do
you try to resolve such challenges?
5. What planning processes are used in your organization and
what is your role in the organization’s planning? What do you
see as strengths and weaknesses of this planning process?
6. What are developments in the external environment that are

4. most important for you personally and for your organization?
How do you and your organization try to respond to these
environmental developments?
7. How are teams used in your organization and what is required
for teams to be successful?
8. How do you try to motivate your employees? What have you
found are good approaches for motivating employees? What
have you found are bad approaches to motivating?
9. How do you recruit employees for vacant positions? What
factors affect your selection of an applicant for a job (If a
manager says something like “how well the person fits,” ask
him/her to explain more what that means)?
10. How do you evaluate employee performance? Is there any
type of formal assessment process, and, if so, how is the
assessment process used?
11. What issues or concerns do you consider if you must
dismiss/fire an employee?
12. What does being a leader mean to you?
13. What do you think are effective and ineffective approaches
to leadership?
14. What do you believe are keys to effective communications?
What obstacles exist to effective communications and how do
you try to overcome these obstacles?
15. How do you try to innovate within your organization? What
challenges do you experience in trying to innovate?
16. Generally, how does a manager’s personality affect his/her

5. ability to manage?
17. What advice would you give to a college graduate about
how to perform well as a manager?
Annotated bibliography
Class: Social work class
Topic:Substance Abuse within Teenagers
· APA format
· 4 sources and one of them must be a book
· 3 scholarly articles one book/ E-book and it has be at least 1.5
Pages
· The articles or books have to be published in 2010-2019
Research Term Paper Rubric:
Criteria
A
(90%+)
B
(80-89%)
C
(70-79%)
D/F
(0-69%)
Thesis/
Conclusion
(10.00%)
Thesis is insightful and original; argument is well-developed
and supported by visual evidence, primary and secondary
sources; conclusions are valid and compelling.
Thesis is lucid and meaningful; argument is developed and
sustained throughout; conclusions are logical.
Thesis statement reasonably clear although obvious; argument
not well supported by body of paper (e.g., argument meanders);
conclusions unconvincing or superficial.

6. No clear thesis.
Depth and comprehension of content
(30.00%)
Paper demonstrates profound and nuanced comprehension of the
material.
Paper demonstrates comprehension of the material.
Paper occasionally misinterprets the material.
Paper incorrectly interprets the material.
Demonstrated Research Skills
(30.00%)
Paper demonstrates that student has exceeded research
expectations, independently discovering and analyzing new
primary and/or secondary scholarly materials, including foreign
language materials. Student has a sophisticated understanding
of scholarly writing and can identify and question the
assumptions, methodology, and arguments therein.
Paper demonstrates thoughtful analysis of sources and some
independent research (location and retrieval of information from
a variety of sources). Student distinguishes between
information, interpretation and opinion in scholarly writing.
Paper demonstrates use and general comprehension of the
required number of primary and secondary sources to which
student was directed by Professor. Student distinguishes
between primary and secondary sources and can use them
appropriately when directed.
Student failed to use required number of sources or sources to
which student was directed. Student shows a lack of
understanding of assigned sources.
Academic Integrity
(20.00%)
Student adheres fully to the standards of academic integrity,
particularly regarding the differentiation of one’s own ideas and
those of others by properly acknowledging sources.
Student generally adheres to the standards of academic
integrity, particularly regarding the differentiation of one’s own
ideas and those of others by properly acknowledging sources.

7. Student has attempted to adhere to the standards of academic
integrity by documenting direct quotations but has not
sufficiently differentiated summarized ideas of others from
student's own observations.
Student has not acknowledged sources properly.
Formal requirements / Grammar / Organization
(10.00%)
Paper contains virtually no mechanical errors. Student writing is
lucid, elegant and evocative. Structure and organization of
paper is coherent, fluid, sophisticated, and sustained throughout
the paper.
Paper shows evidence of thorough proof-reading and contains
properly formatted footnotes and bibliography with a clear,
persuasive writing style. Organization/ structure of paper is
coherent and logical.
Relatively few errors in citation format, bibliography, grammar
with relatively clear writing style. Paper meets stated length
requirements. Organization/structure of paper is attempted but
not consistent throughout.
Paper is replete with mechanical, language, and grammatical
errors. Paper does not meet length requirements. Paper is
disorganized.