Current Events Crisis Analysis Essay
This paper should be written in an APA-Style format.
Your paper will be evaluated on the following:
Content
Grammar
Structure and mechanics
Relevance to the topic(s)
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Current Events Crisis Analysis:
This assignment requires students to identify and examine a current example of a crisis taken from the news. Students will analyze various elements for consideration and apply course concepts. Students will critique the company/individual in terms of what was done well and what perhaps could have been orchestrated better and why.
Instructions:
Write about a company or industry that has faced or currently faces a crisis (or that is grappling with an issue which threatens to become a crisis.)
Include the following components:
1) analyze the underlying causation);
2) a stakeholder analysis;
3) review what the organization did in response,
4) evaluate its effectiveness and determine whether other approaches might have been taken.
You should do an analysis rather than a description. In addition, you should include documentation of source material. Finally, whichever sort of topic you choose should be of real interest to you.
Length:
3-5 pages (it’s expected that you employ sources, attributions and bibliography.)
Be sure to provide informed and thoughtful answers to all of the guideline suggestions/questions.
Style:
APA Format
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