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MGTS1301
INTRODUCTION TO MANAGEMENT
Managing in the Digital Economy
Student Name
Student Number
Semester 2, 2023
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This document provides the template for your assignment. Please remove the highlighted
text before submitting your assignment.
Section 1: Introduction
Write a brief introduction that outlines your issue, explains the focus of the journal articles
that you found and outlines the three recommendations you identified.
150 words
Section 2: Management Issue
Use media articles to describe a management issue. Be sure to explain how the issue you
identified relates to one of the functions of management (planning, controlling leading or
organising) and to ethics (including corporate social responsibility, diversity or social
inclusion).
This section should not contain more than 10% direct quotes from the media articles (i.e.
45 words).
450 words
Section 3: Scholarly Management Evidence
This section should be structured into three paragraphs with one paragraph written on
each journal article.
Each paragraph should not contain more than 10% of direct quotes from the journal
articles (i.e. 15 words).
Journal article 1
Write 150 words discussing the insights this article offers on ethics, corporate social
responsibility, diversity or social inclusion. Rather than summarising the whole article,
focus on explaining what you learned about the topic.
One option is to paraphrase the author’s ideas and insights into your own words by
answering the following questions:
 What question is the author(s) trying to answer in their research?
 What did they find?
 How are their findings interesting and relevant to the functions of management you
have chosen?
 What new insights does the article offer?
150 words
Journal article 2
As for journal article 1
150 words
Journal article 3
As for journal article 1
150 words
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Section 4: Application of Evidence to Issue (600 words)
In this section you should show how one insight from each journal article relates to how
managers, leaders, and/or organisations responded to your management issue. You
should use these insights to explain the elements of ethics, corporate social responsibility,
diversity or social inclusion that were done well and elements that needed improving. You
might also comment on whether the management evidence from the journal articles
seems to support or contradict what happened in practice.
Be sure to cite each journal article as you discuss it, so it is clear which insight came from
which article.
This section should not contain more than 10% of direct quotes from the media articles
or journal articles (i.e. 60 words).
600 words.
Section 5: Recommendations (350 words)
In this section you should outline three recommendations that logically flow from the
application section. Given everything you have read, what advice would you give to a
manager, leader, or organisation who needed to respond to a similar issue in the future?
For example, if your application suggested that a certain approach led to unethical
behaviour you might recommend an alternative approach.
You may make one recommendation per journal article OR three recommendations that
are a synthesis of the three articles. Either way it should be clear that you have
incorporated ideas from all three journal articles to make your recommendations.
Be sure to cite each journal article as you discuss it, so it is clear how the
recommendations relate to each article.
This section should not contain more than 10% of direct quotes from the media articles
or journal articles (i.e. 35 words).
340 words
References
List your References here. Your references should:
 Use consistent formatting. List them by type (i.e. media articles and journal articles)
and then alphabetically by author.
 Please use the APA referencing style. This link contains a guide for the APA
referencing style: https://guides.library.uq.edu.au/referencing/apa7
 Include all of the documents and articles referenced in your essay (a minimum of
five media articles and three academic journal articles).
If you do not reference correctly, you could be found guilty of academic misconduct.
Please see this link for more information: https://my.uq.edu.au/information-and-
services/manage-my-program/student-integrity-and-conduct/academic-integrity-and-
student-conduct.
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Appendix 1
Please provide a screen shot of your three journal articles, including title, author and
abstract.
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