HUMAN RELATIONS AND SUPERVISION

ASSIGNMENT 1: ARTICLE SUMMARY

Due date: Monday, Feb. 3, 2020, by 11:59pm This assignment is worth 15% of the final grade.

Select one article from a business, management or supervision journal or magazine.

Articles may be found in print or digital publications from a library collection. You can use a full-text electronic periodical index or database, such as those accessible via your registering college library’s web site or your local public library, to find an appropriate article. If you registered at Mohawk, you can go to http://library.mohawkcollege.ca and then use your ID and password to access the databases. See the explanation in our course area regarding accessing electronic resources.

Articles must have been published within the last 5 years, and be at least 1000 words (approximately 4 pages) in length. Articles should be about supervision topics, such as those covered in this course. Some topic examples are: planning, interviewing, hiring, orientation, training, coaching, mentoring, motivation, delegation, performance review, employee discipline, communication, meetings, managing conflict, managing change or time management.[unique_solution]

Do not use an article that is already based on the library context, because one of the requirements of this assignment is that you apply the topic to libraries. As an example, a general article on hiring would be fine, an article on hiring nurses would be fine, but an article on hiring library staff should not be chosen.

Read the article and prepare a report, 600-800 words in length, to discuss the main issues in the article, your response to it and how this particular issue is relevant to supervisors in libraries and the information industry.

Include the following:

full publication information: author, article title, journal title, issue and date, and page numbers; if you found the article online, include the URL or DOI as well. You may choose to provide this information as a Works Cited list in MLA format.

a brief summary of the main points of the article in your own words

your own thoughts on the ideas expressed in the article and how it connects to our course material. For example: Do you agree or disagree with the author, and why? Do you feel that the article presents a balanced and unbiased approach to the topic? Why or why not? Are there other aspects of the topic that you felt the author should have addressed? What information in

the article was most surprising? How does the information in this article fit with what is presented our course text and first lectures?

an explanation of how you expect that these concepts could be applied in a library and information industry environment

Use these headings to identify the three sections of your report:

Article Summary

Response to Article

Application to Library Environment

Write this assignment, and all assignments for this course, in sentences and paragraphs, not point form.

NOTE: A portion (approx. 20%) of each assignment’s mark is used to evaluate language skills (grammar, spelling, punctuation, capitalization, word choice – proper usage, appropriate vocabulary) and organization (headings, paragraphs, visual appeal).

RUBRIC

Criteria	Exemplary – 3	Proficient – 2	Developing – 1	Unsatisfactory – 0
	marks	marks	mark	marks
Article choice and	Article chosen	Article chosen	Article chosen	Article does not
publication	meets assignment	meets assignment	meets assignment	meet assignment
information	criteria regarding	criteria regarding	criteria regarding	criteria.
	length,	length,	length,
	publication date	publication date	publication date
	and topic, and all	and topic, and	and topic, and
	requested	most requested	some requested
	information is	information is	information is
	included.	included.	included.
Summary of	Clearly identifies	Identifies article’s	Some	Key concepts of
article	article’s key	key concepts and	identification of	article not
	concepts and	condenses	article’s key	identified clearly
	synthesizes	supporting	concepts.	and/or supporting
	supporting	information.	Explanation of	information not
	information.		supporting	provided.
			information not
			clear.
Comments on	Provides	Provides	Provides limited	Provides no
ideas in	thoughtful and	reflection of	reflection of	reflection of
article/Critical	substantive	article in terms of	article in terms of	article in terms of
thinking	reflection of	connection with	connection with	connection with

	article in terms of	course content,	course content,	course content,
	connection with	(dis)agreement	(dis)agreement	(dis)agreement
	course content,	with ideas,	with ideas,	with ideas,
	(dis)agreement	determination of	determination of	determination of
	with ideas,	bias, missing or	bias, missing or	bias, missing or
	determination of	unexpected	unexpected	unexpected
	bias, missing or	information.	information.	information.
	unexpected
	information.
Application to	Insightfully	Discusses relevant	Discusses relevant	No application to
Library	discusses in detail	applications for	applications for	library
Environment	relevant	library	library	environment.
	applications for	practitioners.	practitioners.
	library	Discussion has	Discussion has
	practitioners.	sufficient detail to	limited detail and
	Discussion has	create	creates only
	sufficient detail to	understanding of	limited
	create	the connections	understanding of
	understanding of	to the library and	the connections
	the connections	information field.	to the library and
	to the library and		information field.
	information field.
Language Skills	No grammar,	Few grammar,	Frequent	Many grammar,
and Assignment	sentence	sentence	grammar,	sentence
Organization	structure, spelling	structure, spelling	sentence	structure, spelling
	or punctuation	or punctuation	structure, spelling	or punctuation
	errors. Includes	errors. Includes	or punctuation	errors. Does not
	section headings	section headings	errors. Does not	include section
	and meets length	and meets length	include section	headings and
	requirements	requirements	headings or does	does not meet
	(600-800 words).	(600-800 words).	not meet length	length
			requirements	requirements
			(600-800 words).	(600-800 words).

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