Instructions to Assignment #3

Discussion Forum – Current News and Event

 Required Assignment

Chapter 3 (SM) – The Internal Organization: Resources, Capabilities, Core Competencies, and Competitive Advantages

Please read Chapter 3 in Strategic Management (SM): Concepts and Cases: Competitiveness and Globalization

 Instructions

Class Participation – Discussion Forum – Current News and Event

Review the Class Participation Policy located in the attached document for this course.  Learners are expected to have weekly interaction with the Faculty Mentor as well as with other Learners through class participation in the Class Discussion Forum.  Learners must post to the Course Discussion Forum at least once each week.  The post should be a direct response to the topic for the week and include brief commentary on the posts of other classmates. Your post must be substantial and thoughtful and be a minimum of 250 words.  It is recommended that you write your post in Word to track your word count and then copy and paste it into the discussion forum space in the course syllabus.

Each Learner will prepare a short discussion of a current event article on an issue in Business or Business Management that is related to the objectives of the course.  Your class participation assignment is to select the news item and discuss it with the class via the Class Participation Forum.

Discuss a news item or event that has arisen within the past month that has relevance to this course.  Please use the following article:

Topic: What Is Competitive Advantage?

Source:  https://www.thebalance.com/what-is-competitive-advantage-3-strategies-that-work-3305828

Summary of the news item:  Please write it.

 

Write in complete sentences and use good grammar, double-spacing, 12 point font, with one inch margins. Be sure to cite your resources and provide the references using APA 6th ed. format.  Remember to reference all work cited or quoted by the text authors.  The discussion form must consist of three sections and include Summary, Conclusion, and References.

 

Please provide a brief conclusion.

Special Requirements

 

• All in-text citations (directly or not directly quoting the material) must include author’s last name, the year of publication, and page number.  Do not make them up because I will check them. 

 

• A complete reference should appear in the reference list at the end of the paper.  I will not accept the paper without in-text citation page number and paragraph number.

 

• Also, remember that you should have 75% of your references published within the last 10 yrs.

 

• Avoid writing in the first person when writing in APA formatting.

 

• Avoid writing in passive voice.

 

• The idea that you cite in the paper must match with the content of the textbook or journal.

 

• Use journals, textbooks, and websites

 

Example for an In-text Citation

 

(Kreitner & Kinicki, 2013, p.456, para.4).

 

Example for a Reference

 

Kreitner, R., & Kinicki, A. (2013). Organizational behavior (10th ed.). New York,

 

NY:   McGraw-Hill/Irwin.