1 BUSS215 – Management Principles Portfolio Project Directions and Rubric This Assessment is worth 20% of your grade. Completing this Assessment will help you to: Course Outcomes: • Explain various motivational techniques and rewards designed to improve employee satisfaction. • Apply the five primary functions of management; staffing, planning, organizing, controlling and leading. • Develop and demonstrate an understanding of how strategic planning meets the organizational and departmental business objectives. • Create and present a research paper that includes the basic functions of management that defends your management and leadership decision-making process using Multimedia. Program Outcomes: • Recognize management and leadership skills. • Identify and apply the basice functions of management such as staffing, planning, organizing, controlling, and leading to the decision-making process. Institutional Outcomes: • Information Literacy and Communication - Utilize apporopriate current technology and resources to locate and evaluate information needed to accomplish a goal, and then communicate findings in visual, written and/or oral formats. • Relational Learning - Transfer knowledge, skills and behaviors acquired through formal and informal learning and life experiences to new situations. • Community and Career - Participate in social, learning, and professional communities for personal and career growth. Deadlines Timeline Activity Grading Due Week 6 by Wednesday at 11:59 pm, ET. Submit your rough draft for peer review. This will count for 20% of your overall Portfolio Project grade. Due Week 7 by Saturday at 11:59 pm, ET. Upload your Portfolio Project to Upload to your ePortfolio. This will count for 80% of your overall Portfolio Project grade. BUSS215 – Portfolio Project 2 Directions: You will have the opportunity to write a Portfolio Project in which you explore a business concept that is interesting to you and relate the ideas covered in this course which you may then connect to your life and your future career interests. Using your information literacy skills, you will research the information necessary to write your Portfolio Project on a concept in business that we have covered in this course (please see below for the approved topic list). The main objective of this Portfolio Project is to explore a business concept, summarize the concept, and analyze the main points of experts in the field. In the project you will provide a summary of the topic along with how it relates to what you have learned in this course as well as to your role as a professional. It is an expectation for this course that all written projects will follow the standards for fair use of information, including the avoidance of all intentional and unintentional plagiarism, and incorporating appropriate usage according to the conventions of the APA citatio ...

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BUSS215 – Management Principles
Portfolio Project Directions and Rubric
This Assessment is worth 20% of your grade.
Completing this Assessment will help you to:
Course Outcomes:
• Explain various motivational techniques and rewards designed
to improve employee
satisfaction.
• Apply the five primary functions of management; staffing,
planning, organizing,
controlling and leading.
• Develop and demonstrate an understanding of how strategic
planning meets the
organizational and departmental business objectives.
• Create and present a research paper that includes the basic
functions of management that
defends your management and leadership decision-making

2. process using Multimedia.
Program Outcomes:
• Recognize management and leadership skills.
• Identify and apply the basice functions of management such as
staffing, planning,
organizing, controlling, and leading to the decision-making
process.
Institutional Outcomes:
• Information Literacy and Communication - Utilize
apporopriate current technology
and resources to locate and evaluate information needed to
accomplish a goal, and then
communicate findings in visual, written and/or oral formats.
• Relational Learning - Transfer knowledge, skills and
behaviors acquired through formal
and informal learning and life experiences to new situations.
• Community and Career - Participate in social, learning, and
professional communities
for personal and career growth.
Deadlines
Timeline Activity Grading
Due Week 6 by Wednesday
at 11:59 pm, ET.

3. Submit your rough draft for
peer review.
This will count for 20% of
your overall Portfolio
Project grade.
Due Week 7 by Saturday at
11:59 pm, ET.
Upload your Portfolio Project to
Upload to your ePortfolio.
This will count for 80% of
your overall Portfolio
Project grade.
BUSS215 – Portfolio Project 2
Directions:
You will have the opportunity to write a Portfolio Project in
which you explore a business
concept that is interesting to you and relate the ideas covered in
this course which you may then
connect to your life and your future career interests.
Using your information literacy skills, you will research the
information necessary to write your
Portfolio Project on a concept in business that we have covered
in this course (please see below
for the approved topic list). The main objective of this

4. Portfolio Project is to explore a business
concept, summarize the concept, and analyze the main points of
experts in the field. In the
project you will provide a summary of the topic along with how
it relates to what you have
learned in this course as well as to your role as a professional.
It is an expectation for this course that all written projects will
follow the standards for fair use of
information, including the avoidance of all intentional and
unintentional plagiarism, and
incorporating appropriate usage according to the conventions of
the APA citation guidelines.
Your research project must be on one of the following approved
topics:
1. Political Tactics
a. Posturing
b. Empire Building
c. Making the Supervisor Look Good
d. Collecting and Using Social IOUs
e. Creating Power and Loyalty Cliques
f. Engaging in Destructive Competition
2. Managers and Entrepreneurs in the Global Workplace
3. Managerial Functions
4. Five Approaches to Management Theory
5. The Changing Work Environment of Management
6. Communication in the Global Workplace
7. Social and Ethical Responsibility
8. International Management
9. Project Management
10. Strategic Management
11. Decision Making & Problem Solving

5. 12. Human Resource Management
13. Motivation & Job Performance
14. Working in Teams
15. Leadership & Power
16. Organizational Change & Conflict Management
General Expectations:
Your research paper should include:
• A title page and a reference page
BUSS215 – Portfolio Project 3
• A well developed paper that addresses an important business
concept, where you
incorporate what you have learned in this course and how this
impacts you as a
professional.
• This Portfolio Project is to be a minimum of three to four
pages (not including title and
reference page), typed and double-spaced. It should conform to
APA rules for citations
and formatting. Using parenthetical citations, paraphrases,
block quotes, or a combination
of such in your essay, you will need to cite from five (5)
different scholarly resources of
your choice. Complete a references page, in addition to using
in-text citations, to cite

6. your sources correctly using the APA format.
o Use the Virtual Library and the Internet to do a search related
to the approved
topic of your choice.
o At least five critically evaluated scholarly resources.
o Begin the project by creating an outline based on your
research.
o Review your course materials (textbook, lectures, discussion,
and current events)
to ensure that you have captured the major elements for your
chosen topic.
o Begin writing your paper, ensuring that you cite references
from concepts covered
in our class and in your outside research.
o Give at least one example of how this topic has occurred or
could occur in the
workplace.
o As a manager, provide a detailed description as to how you
would handle the
situation.
• Be precise and concise in your writing! Be sure your
paragraphs flow and that you end
the paper with a conclusion.
Rough Draft (Due Week 6)
Initial post: Due Week 6 by Wednesday at 11:59 pm, ET.
Upload your rough draft to the discussion board for peer review.

7. Peer Review: Due Week 6 by Friday at 11:59 pm, ET.
Select a minimum of one of your classmate’s essays and provide
both constructive and
meaningful feedback.
Use the constructive feedback you received to revise your
Portfolio Project before final
submission in Week 7.
Please see below for the Grading Rubric.
BUSS215 – Portfolio Project 4
BUSS215 – Portfolio Project Grading Rubric
Criteria Exceeds Expectations Meets Expectations Below
Expectations Points
Content
60 points
60 – 54 points
All ideas are clearly logically relate to
and support the overall topic.
Transitions are very clear and easy to
follow; paragraphs are always unified
and coherent. Project fully supports

8. and develops ideas.
53 – 42 points
Few lapses in clear or logical
relationship and supports topic; few
transitions missing or incorrect; few
violations of unity or coherence.
Project sufficiently supports and
develops ideas.
41 – 0 points
Unclear or confusing; most points are
not supported and/or thesis development
is missing. Little to no development of
ideas, and support for ideas is missing
completely.
Organization
15 points
15 – 13.5 points
Introduction provides all necessary
elements of information; sets clear
expectations; conclusion is decisive,
creates a fully satisfying sense of
completion.
13.4 – 10.5 points
Introduction provides necessary
information but expectations may be
unclear; conclusion ends paper clearly;
creates a reasonably good sense of
completion.

9. 10.4 – 0 points
Introduction confusing, vague or
missing necessary information.
Conclusion has a weak or vague ending
or introduces new ideas. Project may be
missing introduction or conclusion.
APA
Formatting
10 points
10 – 9 points
All sources are listed in APA format
and document is created adhering to all
APA guidelines (Times New Roman
or Arial, 12-point font, and 1-inch
margins).
8 - 7 points
All sources are listed in APA format
but the document does not adhere to 1-
2 of the APA guidelines (Times New
Roman or Arial, 12-point font, and 1-
inch margins).
6 – 0 points
Sources contain significant errors in
APA formatting and document does not
adhere to the APA guidelines (Times
New Roman or Arial, 12-point font, and
1-inch margins).

10. Mechanics
10 points
10 – 9 points
No major grammar, punctuation, or
spelling errors.
8 - 7 points
No major errors, some problems with
grammar, punctuation, and spelling (3-
4 minor errors).
6 – 0 points
Too many errors; detracts significantly.
Unclear or awkward sentences.
Sources/
References
5 points
5 – 4.5 points
Paper contains more than 5 scholarly
resources for research. Direct quotes
are less than 10% of the paper. In-text
citations are used to support content.
4.4 – 3.5 points
Paper contains the 5 required scholarly
resources for research. Direct quotes
are less than 15% of the paper. Good
uses of in-text citations, but citations
contain 1-2 errors.

11. 3.4 – 0 points
Only fewer than 5 required references or
no resources included. Paper shows
evidence of plagiarism.
Instructor
Comments:
Total
Points:
BUSS215 – Portfolio Project 5
Pick one of the following to answer, at least 350 words
OPTION A: China:Describe and discuss ancestor veneration in
Chinese culture. Why is it important and what role did it have in
shaping the structure of the family and providing order and
stability, as well as explaining good or bad fortune? Then,
discuss the Chinese theory of the Mandate of Heaven. How does
it relate to the view of T'ian (Heaven) and the ancestors
watching over and regulating human behavior?
OPTION B: China: Compare and contrast Daoism, Confucian

12. philosophy, and Legalism. Be sure to explain the basic
structure of each belief. Explain how each was a response to
the Warring States Period. Which philosophy do you think
would be the best for organizing a society in a functioning
manner and why? Use these links to help expand upon our
readings and my lecture:
http://worldhistoryeducatorsblog.blogspot.com/2013/09/the-
three-teachings-confucianism-taoism.html
Option C Japan: This option asks you to focus on the Japanese
classic Tale of Genji byMurasaki Shikibu. The daughter
of Fujiwara Tametoki written ca. 1000 during
the Heian Period. The Tale of Genji centers on the life and
loves of Hikaru Genji, son of the Emperor of Japan during
the Heian Period. The beloved concubine of the Emperor gives
birth to Genj, then soon dies. Genji gorws up and has his first
illicit affair with the young wife of the Emperor. She gives birth
to a boy who was raised as the Emperor’s son. Genji goes on to
have numerous other affairs with other court ladies, but one
affair, with a lady of the opposite faction, results in his
exile. After exile, he returns and becomes a noted political
figure. His wife has an affair and gives birth to a child, who
serves to remind Genji of his past. Genji leaves the capital to
enter a temple after the death of his true love.
Read the following synopsis of Tale of the Genji and watch the
video provided at the following websites:
http://www.learner.org/courses/worldlit/the-tale-of-genji/
http://www.taleofgenji.org/summary.html
After watching and reading, address the following: Discuss
gender relations in Japan during this period. How are women
treated in the text? What positions do men hold versus women?
What makes an elite man attractive to court women?