Business Question

Individual Research PaperThis assignment gives you an opportunity to investigate trends in a topic related to virtual and
global teams. You must complete this assignment individually, without contacting other
students, and you may not use a paper or any part of a paper from a previous class or from
another person. If you have any questions about this assignment, please post them in the Ask
the Professor discussion forum so that everyone can benefit from the answers. This
assignment addresses Course Objectives 3, 4, and 5.
Pick a topic related to virtual and global teams that interests you and explore it further in 6-8
pages. Sample topics: use of technology among virtual teams; team-based rewards and
recognition programs; characteristics of effective leaders of virtual teams; use of virtual teams in
global corporations; theories of virtual team development. Identify and discuss the trends in
your chosen topic area.
Support your opinions and statements with a minimum of five references from sources
published within the last ten years and integrate appropriate concepts and theories from our
work over the semester. You can cite scholarly and practitioner-oriented journals, newspaper
articles, and YouTube videos about the topic, but not Wikipedia, consulting company websites,
or other non-academic sources. Please use the UMGC library to conduct a search for
appropriate sources of information. You can access the library through the Resources section
of our classroom (on the ribbon above the course title banner) or directly at
https://sites.umuc.edu/library/index.cfm. Librarians are available by phone, email, and chat;
they can help you narrow your topic, create a search strategy, and identify appropriate sources.
Writing should be in third person. For help with writing in the third person, see
https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/first-second-and-third-person?page=2.
Please see the rubric for the grading criteria for this assignment.
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Criteria for Grading Individual Research Paper
Note: The research paper should be 6-8 pages long, excluding the reference and cover pages.
Criteria
A
B
C
F
Points
Earned
Student
Student
Student
Student
demonstrated
demonstrated
demonstrated less
demonstrated
exceptional
satisfactory
than satisfactory
unsatisfactory
knowledge of
knowledge of
knowledge of
knowledge of
Knowledge relevant theories and relevant theories and relevant theories and relevant theories and
of Relevant concepts from the
concepts from the
concepts from the
concepts from the
Theories
course; all
course; most
course; some
course; many
and
statements and
statements and
statements and
statements and
Concepts
opinions were
opinions were
opinions were not
opinions were not
(5 pts)
supported by
supported by
supported by
supported by
appropriate citations appropriate citations appropriate citations appropriate citations
from the literature.
from the literature.
from the literature.
from the literature.
5 – 4.25 points
4 – 3.25 points
3 – 2.25 points
2 – 0 points
Comments
Student did excellent
Student did a
Student made a less
work in translating
satisfactory job
than satisfactory
Quality of theory into practical translating theory in effort in translating
Topic
application, with the practical application
the theory into
Application
use of 2 or more
by using 1 or more application. There
(5 pts)
examples.
examples.
was 1 or no
examples.
Application section
was missing.
5 – 4.25
4 – 3.25
3 – 2.25
2 – 0 points
Student did an
Student did a
Student did a less
Student did an
exceptional job of
satisfactory job of than satisfactory job inadequate job of
researching the topic researching the topic of researching the researching the topic
and integrating
and integrating
topic and integrating
and integrating
course materials with course materials with course materials with course materials with
the research.
the research.
the research.
the research.
Student cited more
Student cited the
Student may not
Student did not cite
Quality of
than the minimum minimum number of
have cited the
the minimum number
Interpreting
number of
references; sources minimum number of of references; many
the Theory/
references; sources listed were primarily references; some of the sources listed
Research
listed were all
scholarly or
sources listed were were not scholarly or
(5 pts)
scholarly or
practitioner journals,
not scholarly or
practitioner journals,
practitioner journals, newspapers, annual practitioner journals, newspapers, annual
newspapers, annual reports, or academic newspapers, annual reports, or academic
reports, or academic books from the last reports, or academic books from the last
books from the last
ten years.
books from the last
ten years.
ten years.
ten years.
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5 – 4.25 points
4 – 3.25 points
3 – 2.25 points
2 – 0 points
Comments
Student presented
Student presented
Student presented
Student presented
ideas in a compelling ideas presented in a ideas in a somewhat
ideas in a poorly
manner with no
clear, coherent
organized manner
organized or
distracting grammar
manner with few
with several
incoherent manner
Presentation or spelling problems; distracting grammar distracting grammar with many distracting
of Ideas and
the page length
or spelling problems; or spelling problems; grammar or spelling
Mechanics requirement was met. the page length
the page length
problems; the page
(5 pts)
requirement was met. requirement may not length requirement
have been met.
may not have been
met.
5 – 4.25 points
4 – 3.25 points
3 – 2.25 points
2 – 0 points
Comments
All citations,
Most citations,
Some citations,
Most citations,
APA intext
quotations, and
quotations, and
quotations, and
quotations, and
citation mgt
references were
references were
references were not references were not
and
properly formatted or properly formatted or properly formatted or properly formatted or
reference contained one or two
contained a few
contained major
contained many
list accuracy
minor errors.
minor errors.
errors.
errors.
(5 pts)
5 – 4.25 points
4 – 3.25 points
3 – 2.25 points
2 – 0 points
Comments
Total Points Earned
(25 points max)
Overall Comments