Write a simple email delivering bad news in a positive way. follow the instructions below. Business Communication Professional Rationale At some point in your professional career, you will have to deliver Bad News to a client or employee. Using our skills of Courtesy, Care, and Conventionality—as well as Professionalism— please complete the following. Scenario You are to assume the role of a Diversity Analyst. Facebook, which has had a long history of diversity challenges, has hired you to analyze their recent diversity and inclusion efforts. Unfortunately, while the company has made some improvements to its efforts to become more inclusive, they are still far behind where they should be. Your analysis found that Facebook efforts to improve its internal practices have not met projections. Now, it is your job to relay the bad news to the Diversity and Inclusion Officer, Maxine Williams, 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA 94025 in a letter format. Using the following report as your own findings, relay this information to Ms. Williams using courtesy, care and conventionality. https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2020/07/15/fac… (example is attached) 1 MEMO To: employees From: Sales Manager Date: 2nd February, 2022. Subject: Grand Sales Award It is my pleasure to announce that our department has been awarded a grant for outstanding sales by the federal government. This follows our company’s recognition when it comes to offering the best customer service and also participating in corporate social responsibility activities. In support of all these, we have been awarded a grant for our sales, which will definitely help our company grow bigger and better. In the distribution of the grant, the management decided that half of it would be given to the employees in equal proportions. This is because if it weren’t for all of you, we wouldn’t have achieved this. Your determination, hard work, and corporation have played a significant role in enabling this company to be successful. Therefore, it is with pleasure that you all have to celebrate this small win, as we continue working for greater wins in the future. The allocation of individual shares of the grant will be done tomorrow in our normal meeting, and therefore, all workers should be present in the room by 10 a.m. Basically, it is evident that the year has started well, and we would like to encourage all of you to keep the same energy and spirit for better outcomes. Regards, Management. 2 Bad News To: employees From: Management Date: 2nd February, 2022. Subject: Organizational Transformation With the current COVID-19 pandemic, a lot of changes are being experienced in different organizations, and this is mainly to ensure the created objectives are met. It has not been the best season since there has been a struggle to change the normal functionality of the firm to maintain high performance. As you all know, we also have companies that have shut down completely for the safety of their workers, while others have shut down because of bankruptcy. However, I appreciate the fact that all workers have stood by the company even during this hard period, and as management, we have been trying as much as we can to support you as well. Unfortunately, we have realized that there is some sort of imbalance that exists between the revenue and the expenditures. This is because we’ve lost most of our clients during the pandemic, and therefore there has been a significant reduction in the income being generated. For this reason, the management has resorted to laying off some of the employees to ensure we achieve the balance. It was a hard decision to make, but we figured out that it was the only option we had. The layoff will be based on a variety of factors, including less incompetence and involvement in unethical behavior, among others. It is our hope that you will receive this message positively. The intention is not to punish others but basically to ensure the company remains with fewer employees, which can be easily managed, especially when it comes to finances. However, once the impact of the pandemic lessens, the laidoff workers can consider reapplying for different positions because, either way, they will still be considered part of the firm. Regards, Management. Purchase answer to see full attachment Tags: Professional Career internal practices Bad News User generated content is uploaded by users for the purposes of learning and should be used following our company’shonor code & terms of service.

MLA In-Text Citations: The Basics

Guidelines for referring to the works of others in your text using MLA style are covered throughout the MLA Handbook and in chapter 7 of the MLA Style Manual. Both books provide extensive examples, so it’s a good idea to consult them if you want to become even more familiar with MLA guidelines or if you have a particular reference question.

BASIC IN-TEXT CITATION RULES

In MLA Style, referring to the works of others in your text is done using parenthetical citations. This method involves providing relevant source information in parentheses whenever a sentence uses a quotation or paraphrase. Usually, the simplest way to do this is to put all of the source information in parentheses at the end of the sentence (i.e., just before the period). However, as the examples below will illustrate, there are situations where it makes sense to put the parenthetical elsewhere in the sentence, or even to leave information out.

General Guidelines

• The source information required in a parenthetical citation depends (1) upon the source medium (e.g. print, web, DVD) and (2) upon the source’s entry on the Works Cited page.
• Any source information that you provide in-text must correspond to the source information on the Works Cited page. More specifically, whatever signal word or phrase you provide to your readers in the text must be the first thing that appears on the left-hand margin of the corresponding entry on the Works Cited page.

IN-TEXT CITATIONS: AUTHOR-PAGE STYLE

MLA format follows the author-page method of in-text citation. This means that the author’s last name and the page number(s) from which the quotation or paraphrase is taken must appear in the text, and a complete reference should appear on your Works Cited page. The author’s name may appear either in the sentence itself or in parentheses following the quotation or paraphrase, but the page number(s) should always appear in the parentheses, not in the text of your sentence. For example:

Wordsworth stated that Romantic poetry was marked by a “spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings” (263).

Romantic poetry is characterized by the “spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings” (Wordsworth 263).

Wordsworth extensively explored the role of emotion in the creative process (263).

Both citations in the examples above, (263) and (Wordsworth 263), tell readers that the information in the sentence can be located on page 263 of a work by an author named Wordsworth. If readers want more information about this source, they can turn to the Works Cited page, where, under the name of Wordsworth, they would find the following information:

Wordsworth, William. Lyrical Ballads. Oxford UP, 1967.

IN-TEXT CITATIONS FOR PRINT SOURCES WITH KNOWN AUTHOR

For print sources like books, magazines, scholarly journal articles, and newspapers, provide a signal word or phrase (usually the author’s last name) and a page number. If you provide the signal word/phrase in the sentence, you do not need to include it in the parenthetical citation.

Human beings have been described by Kenneth Burke as “symbol-using animals” (3).

Human beings have been described as “symbol-using animals” (Burke 3).

These examples must correspond to an entry that begins with Burke, which will be the first thing that appears on the left-hand margin of an entry on the Works Cited page:

Burke, Kenneth. Language as Symbolic Action: Essays on Life, Literature, and Method. University of California Press, 1966.