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‫المملكة العربية السعودية‬
‫وزارة التعليم‬
‫الجامعة السعودية اإللكترونية‬

Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Ministry of Education
Saudi Electronic University

College of Administrative and Financial Sciences

Assignment 2
Communication Management (MGT 421)
Due Date: 9/04/2022 @ 23:59
Course Name: Communication Management

Student’s Name:

Course Code: MGT421

Student’s ID Number:

Semester: Second

CRN:
Academic Year:2021-22-2nd

For Instructor’s Use only
Instructor’s Name:
Students’ Grade:
Marks Obtained/Out of 10

Level of Marks: High/Middle/Low

General Instructions – PLEASE READ THEM CAREFULLY
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The Assignment must be submitted on Blackboard (WORD format only) via allocated
folder.
Assignments submitted through email will not be accepted.
Students are advised to make their work clear and well presented, marks may be reduced
for poor presentation. This includes filling your information on the cover page.
Students must mention question number clearly in their answer.
Late submission will NOT be accepted.
Avoid plagiarism, the work should be in your own words, copying from students or
other resources without proper referencing will result in ZERO marks. No exceptions.
All answered must be typed using Times New Roman (size 12, double-spaced) font.
No pictures containing text will be accepted and will be considered plagiarism).
Submissions without this cover page will NOT be accepted.

Learning Outcomes:
1. Analyze effective business letters, memorandums, and case studies.
2. Perform all communication abilities, including thinking, writing, speaking, listening,
and assessing the technology.

Assignment Question(s):
Part 1: Case Analysis
Read the discussion forum below, which shows several employees' posts about how to
develop a better performance review system. Then, answer the questions that follow.
Jackson: Hi team, this week we’ll use this forum to discuss our performance review system.
Specifically, we want to explore the benefits and drawbacks about the timing of our reviews.
Currently, our reviews are conducted annually. The HR team wants to know what we think about
quarterly reviews. The HR team wants us to share our views with them by September 10.
Cynthia: I’ve never experienced quarterly reviews before, so it’s hard for me to say if that’s
better. My hunch is quarterly reviews would be more fair and helpful. But, I also assume they
take a lot of extra time for our managers. @Erin I think your last company held quarterly reviews.
What are your experiences with more frequent reviews? Has anyone else worked at a company
with more frequent reviews? Tell us what it was like.
Erin: @Cynthia your assumptions match my experience. I enjoyed getting more frequent
feedback. But, when I was a manager, it was a crushing responsibility because the company
expected me to conduct the reviews without lightening my load elsewhere. @Nigel thanks for
sharing your experiences with monthly reviews. You mentioned the reviews are more like checkins that don’t require so much time by the managers. Totally makes sense to me. @Vilma also
think your comments about adding peer reviews makes a lot of sense and relieves managers.
Nigel: Hi all, there’s one discussion point I hope we can meet in person (or by online conference)
to discuss. I appreciate the HR team wants our input about the frequency of reviews, but I’m
worried that we’re not addressing one of the problems: perceived fairness of the reviews. I
believe in 15 minutes, we could work out a few common concerns to share with the HR group
from our whole team.
Jackson: Thanks for your comments, team. Overall, here are what I think are the key take-aways:
(a) we want more feedback, so quarterly reviews may be helpful; (b) we don’t want to create an
unreasonable burden on managers; and (c) we want more conversation around objectivity and
fairness of the reviews. At this point, I propose I draft our comments into a short report for your
review. I also suggest we set up a one-hour

Questions:
1. Identify five strategies used in this online forum. (3 Marks)
2. What are the main differences and similarities between blogs and forums? (1 Mark)
3. In your point of view, do you think this forum is an effective or ineffective forum?
Why? (1 Mark)

Part 2: Writing Exercise
Anne Jenkins is a finance manager for J.L.N. Used Cars (JLN), a used-car business with about 30
dealerships. She is in charge of running the company's financing program. She sets terms for
loans provided through the dealerships. She also manages a team that works directly with
dealerships to ensure that loans are promoted and granted appropriately. On Anne to-do list for
the day, she has several writing tasks.

Anne needs to be efficient with her writing thus she hires you to help her writing in
one of the following options: (5 Marks)
Option 1: Recently, Anne was reimbursed for several trips she took, but the company did
not cover several of her expenses. She wants to write an email to the personnel director
requesting compensation for mileage in which she used her own auto for several recent
work trips. Help Anne to write a claim Message. OR
Option 2: Anne wants to send a memo to dealership managers about changes to
financing eligibility. Help Anne to write an announcement regarding these changes. OR
Option 3: Anne wants to better understand the customer profile of those who choose to
finance their car purchases through the dealerships. She wants the dealership managers to
ask three questions of these customers during the upcoming month and then provide her
with the responses. Help Anne to write a request message.

Answers
1. AnswerOnline forums have grown in popularity as a result of its ability to save
users time by allowing them to answer fast while also keeping the conversation
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