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The Professor As A Manager Research Paper

Management The author of this report has been tasked with answering to a number of questions. The first thing will be to identify one projected in the author's working or educational environment and specify the main work process involved. The author of this report will also be identifying at least two actions that a manager can take in order to improve the work process in question. There will be a providing of the rationale as to why those two managerial tasks and interventions were selected and described. Indeed, managers should intervene and exert control as needed but they should also empower their employees and allow them to succeed and thrive whenever possible.

The author of this report will stick with the school environment when it comes to the project that will be discussed. Indeed, the author of this report has written many essays in the high school and now the college environment. The manager of course, would be the professor or teacher that oversees the class. For each assignment, there are a list of givens and standards that are in place. These standards and parameters include the length of the essay, the subject of the essay, the citation style of the essay (if applicable),...

There are also typically references to what kind of sources are acceptable. For example, Wikipedia is often off-limits when it comes to sources. Some professors ban internet sites altogether while others say that only "reputable" websites are allowed like news sites or ones that have .org or .edu address extensions. One type of source that is generally always accepted would be academic journal articles. Further, peer-reviewed academic journal articles are usually the most beloved as they are based on research and the results have been reviewed by the peers of the author(s) (SDSU, 2015).
As noted before, the professor is the "manager" in this paradigm and the professor needs to exert control. In the modern academic sphere, one tactic that a teacher or professor would engage in would be to check for plagiarism to ensure that a student is not using a paper that was submitted prior and/or is using material without proper citation and credit given to the authors of said material. If there is a general…

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Harvard. (2015). What's Wrong with Wikipedia? § Harvard Guide to Using Sources. Isites.harvard.edu. Retrieved 9 October 2015, from http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k70847&pageid=icb.page346376

SDSU. (2015). Peer-Reviewed Articles -- SDSU Library and Information Access. Library.sdsu.edu. Retrieved 9 October 2015, from http://library.sdsu.edu/research-services/research-help/peer-reviewed-articles
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