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organizational behaviour1    MGT5OBR ORGANISATIONAL BEHAVIOUR     Assessment 2: Individual Assignment    This individual assignment provides you with an opportunity to develop your critical thinking skills  and skills in reading and understanding academic journal articles.    This assignment is an Article Analysis. Your task is to compare and contrast three academic journal  articles. You need to:   (a) Summarise each article   (b) Analyse the articles   (c) Provide recommendations     As a general guide these three main parts should be roughly equal in word count. The introduction  and conclusion should each be approximately 10% of the length of the paper.    Instructions    1. Select one of the articles provided by the workshop facilitator, and then use the library  databases and search engines to find two additional journal articles published on the same  topic.     In approximately week 3, your workshop facilitator or the subject coordinator will provide a short list  of recent academic journal articles. Select one of the articles for inclusion in your report.    The two additional journal articles must have been published between 2010 and present and must  be selected from the following list of journals:     *Journal of Organizational Behavior  *Organizational Behavior and Human Decision  Processes   *Journal of Applied Psychology  Academy of Management Journal  British Journal of Management  Human Relations  Journal of Management  Leadership Quarterly      *It is recommended that you start your search  within one of the journals marked with an *.  These journals principally publish topics in  organisational behaviour.     **Note: These are the exact names of the  acceptable journals. Click on the journal name to  go to the online library access page (La Trobe  sign in may be required).    2. Read each article thoroughly.     Pay particular attention to the introduction, literature review, and discussion sections. You can skim  the methods and results sections. You will use this information to analyse and compare and contrast  the articles.     3. Write your essay     The individual assignment should be written in a neat, professional and engaging manner using an  essay format.     Your essay should have the following sections:   http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com.ez.library.latrobe.edu.au/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)1099-1379 http://www.sciencedirect.com.ez.library.latrobe.edu.au/science/journal/07495978?sdc=1 http://www.sciencedirect.com.ez.library.latrobe.edu.au/science/journal/07495978?sdc=1 http://ovidsp.tx.ovid.com.ez.library.latrobe.edu.au/sp-3.25.0a/ovidweb.cgi?QS2=434f4e1a73d37e8ceb49fbbfe17c3e8f0887af26ec1e236f2ca70b4426cb6bebc635f2968b168c15539d0615db36080a771afd6da9259c9b3ca17860396db0cd27797f31109738222ad83d544b24948b491040f7ff0b3d566e03ff562abfa1e8c8b3f48a94eefda1780660d946ba0014a76cdc4bc97a72f2aee200f6ee8621feeacf2d869877f29960ed794516b1b0a6db3a6f8b12046d94be7f4df180e0039a4d9b9890b7bcee9e2a556ff10cfb46b2a414686d41626e7c085193493c578c55de11d4d47400be1e83c6881b2173b831a1f6cc69b0d568b4e4d9624b5f77b1d2 http://web.a.ebscohost.com.ez.library.latrobe.edu.au/ehost/command/detail?vid=0&sid=6543dd2a-1e07-4a0d-a5f9-c57f1b3b6db3%40sessionmgr4010&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZSZzY29wZT1zaXRl#jid=AMJ&db=bth http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com.ez.library.latrobe.edu.au/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1744-6570 http://journals.sagepub.com.ez.library.latrobe.edu.au/loi/hum http://journals.sagepub.com.ez.library.latrobe.edu.au/loi/jom http://www.sciencedirect.com.ez.library.latrobe.edu.au/science/journal/10489843?sdc=1 2   • Introduction  o Try to write something engaging to capture the reader’s interest.  o Clearly identify the topic that ties the three articles together (e.g., motivation,  organisational citizenship, etc.).  o Include a brief overview of the assignment and how it is organised.   • Article summary  o Briefly summarise the articles. Focus on describing the key concepts and main points  from each article (e.g., the theoretical concepts).   • Article analysis   o Identify and discuss on which points they agree and on which points they differ. Can  the differing opinions be synthesised? If you deem an author’s position more  credible explain your arguments. If you disagree with an author’s position, explain  your reasoning. Do the research findings matter, and can the research be applied in  real work settings?  • Recommendations   o Based on the above analysis, what specific recommendations can you make for  managers or organisations? Aim for 2 to 4 clear and concise recommendations.   ▪ Don’t simply re-state the authors’ recommendations from each article; develop  your own recommendations based on all three articles.   ▪ If it isn’t possible to make any recommendations (e.g., all the articles were  severely flawed), explain your reasoning.   • Conclusion   o Summarise and integrate your findings. Identify any limitations within your essay.  Final comments.   • References   o Provide references as a separate page at the end of the document.     You need to use the APA or Harvard Referencing System.     Length:  The total length of the assignment is a maximum of 2,000 words (+/- 10%)  (Reference list and title page are excluded from the word count)    Weighting:   40% of your total mark.    Due date:     Sunday ending Week 8 by 11:55pm     Submission:   Submit via the LMS (Assignment Turnitin). Hard copies are NOT required    Format:  The document should be written as clear, concise essay.  It is important that  your essay has a logical flow and good structure, makes use of relevant  subheadings where appropriate, and that you write using coherent,  integrated text, avoiding grammatical and spelling mistakes. For reading (and  marking) ease please use a 12-point Calibri font with 1.5x spacing.    Marking Criteria:  Please refer to the LMS for marking criteria.           3    Tips  • Focus your discussion and analysis on the key concepts and theories in the articles.   • Focus your discussion and analysis on the information contained in the three articles, and  only the three articles.   • You can skim the methods and results sections for each article, especially for highly complex  statistical analysis. Teaching staff understand that these sections are often complex and  difficult to understand, and they will not expect detailed analysis of these sections. The  paragraphs just before the Methods section will usually give a brief overview of how the  study or studies were conducted, and the first few paragraphs of the Discussion section will  usually give you a brief summary of the results.   • Use in-text citations throughout your report and include a separate reference page at the  end of the document.   • In the main body of the report, use in-text citations to identify the articles and the source of  your ideas. In APA and Harvard style, this means you should provide the author surnames  and the year of publication when discussing something from that article. For example, ‘Smith  and Jackson (1997) argued that Concept X …’ or ‘Concept X can be defined as … (Smith and  Jackson, 1997)’.   • Ask for help if you are unsure about what to do.  • Refer to Assessment Help Guide (located on the LMS).  • Only use the three articles as references.                                      MGT5OBR: Assessment 2 Marking Guide   Individual Assignment  CRITERIA*  A: Excellent (> 80 %) B: Very good (70 – 79%) C: Good (60 – 69%) D: Acceptable (50 – 59%) N: Unacceptable (

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Introduction
	“Diversity: The art of thinking independently together” – Malcolm Forbes. Demographics is the study of population based on factors such as race, sex, age among others. Demographics are used by corporations, government and non-government organizations to learn the characteristics of population for many purposes such as economic market research and policy development. Demographic data is collected for corporate marketing goals in order to build a profile for customer base of organization. The common variables that are used in demographic research are income level, race, employment, age, sex etc. in order to identify customers, demographics make certain generalizations. Demographic researches are done by government in order to forecast economic pattern and manage resources well. Large companies conduct demographic research to determine product or service and best capture market. 
	Demography brings in many benefits to any organization. It brings in individuals from different education level, age, experiences and backgrounds at a common place. Demography brings in lots of things to learn from each other. It is important for the organizations to have all types of people around. Demography brings in out of box thinking. Chris (2012) claims that diverse workforce would create the opposite and more desirable environment of “more innovation, more outside the box thinking and better governance”. It becomes difficult for the organization to make people with diversity work together. 
	Diversity will bring in innovation; profitability as people from different location are aware of marketing products and services in their particular areas; talents pools as it will work as recruitment shopping basket; and multiformity as people are with varied skills and strengths. 
	On contrary, Chris (2012) explained that diversity brings in with: Conflicts as people feel annoyed, confused and threatened with views and background of others; Bureaucracy as decision making becomes difficult and also get delayed as different views and many disagreements; unproductivity as team spirit can be spoiled when too much diverse team leads nowhere; Disunity as all people have different opinion to run the management and get engaged doing there own things if there is no protocol and authority to ensure common practices.
	There are many reasons for having a demographic different management in organization. Few are: (Priscilla, 2013)
· Talent Shortage – Talent shortage is one of the reasons due to which demographic difference is encouraged. It becomes important for organizations to attract, retain, manage and utilize their human resources effectively. 
· Consumer Need – It has been realized by the organization that in today’s scenario in order to sell different products and services it is very important to have knowledge of that particular region or culture or market. 
· Globalization – Organizations are expanding their operations and going global. Sometimes location of operation is highly priced in inputs. Thus, companies decide to establish their operation units in the location which are feasible to get cheaper inputs in terms of labor. For globally establishing, workforce diversity is the critical measure.
Yves R.F (2015), Journal titled “Harnessing demographic differences in organizations: What moderates the effects of workplace diversity?”, Vol 38, DOI 10.1002
	The research has been done by Yves R.

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