How people and structure influences organizational Performance

Purpose: The purpose of the Annotated Bibliography is to summarize the sources that you have gathered to support your Research Proposal project. These summaries help you to think about the complex arguments presented in your sources and the massive information therein in terms of short, digestible articulations. In addition, these summaries will likely form the basis for Draft 1 of your Research Paper (the review of literature) that you will complete in Unit IV, which is largely comprised of summaries that are transitioned together and that form a conversation about the issue. Description: In this assignment, you will create an Annotated Bibliography consisting of five sources. Each entry will consist of a reference list citation that precedes a 100-150 word summary of the source. If each of the five entries is less than the word count, it is likely you have not fully developed your summary, and this lack of development can severely impact your grade for this assignment. Your Annotated Bibliography will include the elements listed below. Elements: Your Annotated Bibliography must contain specific elements. Your grade is largely based on your inclusion of these elements, as well as your ability to summarize your sources. For assistance, you may want to refer to the example in Chapter 20, Section 20f, of Strategies for Writing Successful Research Papers (pp. 436-438). The elements include the following. 1. Cover page and APA formatting: You will include an APA-style cover page for your Annotated Bibliography. See the example in The CSU APA Guide (6th edition) on page 16. Your cover page should include the following: the title, your name, and the name of your university (Columbia Southern University). Your title will appear in the running head which should include up to 50 characters from the title of the paper, along with a sequential page number in the upper right-hand corner. The following conventions should be followed as well. See the Annotated Bibliography example (linked below) for guidance: • The entries should be ordered in alphabetical order according to the first substantive word in the reference list citation. • The entire Annotated Bibliography should be double-spaced, with no additional spaces between entries. • No reference list should be included with the Annotated Bibliography, as the entries themselves will contain the reference list citation information. • The first line of each reference list citation should be flush left with the left-hand margin (no indentation), and the second and proceeding lines should be indented ½” from the left-hand margin (hanging indent of one-half inch). • The summary paragraph begins on the line following the end of the reference. It lines up with the indented portion of the reference, with the exception that the first line is indented an additional one-half inch. (Look at the example to see how this formats.) 2. Entries: Each of the five entries should begin with a reference list citation in APA format and be followed by a 100-150 word summary of the source’s information. An Annotated Bibliography summary should include the most important information from the text. Sometimes, this means that you will broadly summarize larger portions of text (as in main ideas of a whole essay); other times, this means that you will focus on summarizing one paragraph out of an entire source. Whenever you quote information, use APA in-text citations. See attached example.

Example:

Review of Literature
Matthew Etherington, the author of the article “E-Learning pedagogy in the Primary
School Classroom: the McDonaldization of Education,” (2008) writes about the dehumanization
of primary students as a direct result of online pedagogy. Human evolution has led to the
creation of better technology. That technology has led humans to become reliant on machines,
which do not require or necessitate any social interaction to be effective. This is confirmed by
Etherington (2008) when he stated “when a child gets on their computer….there is no sense of a
physical connection – there is only a mask” (p. 34).
To delve further, socialization is defined from an industry perspective by John Macionis
in his book Society the Basics (2009) in this statement: “sociologists use the term socialization to
refer to the lifelong social experience by which people develop their human potential and learn
culture” (p. 72). Macionis also stresses that socialization is also significantly enhanced by
children attending a physical school. It is in school that they begin to recognize cultural, racial,
social, and gender differences between themselves and others and what makes them different, in
addition to being able to decipher which characteristics allow them to connect with others.
Additionally, while in school, children also begin to form their own peer groups, which permit
“escape [from] direct supervision of adults” (Macionis, 2009, p. 81). This freedom is how they
first begin to establish personal relationships outside the family....