MGMT20001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Google Scholar, Proquest
17 May 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
OB Skill Building Session
•Academic Skills Hub
The writing process
•Analyse the task
-Unpack the question
•Brainstorm
-Be creative
-Generate multiple ideas
•Research
•Planning
•Writing
•Edit & Proofread
1. Explain the so-called ‘double curse” as outlined by Dunning
•Directive word: explain - make something clear by elaborating on it. Give reasons adn try to
analyse cases
•Content: Double curse/Dunning
•Double curse - being incompetent and unaware, do not have the capabilities to undertake a
task, and do not realise this
•200 words
2. Draw on the scenario to identify and explain how the ‘double curse’ contributes to
problems in organisations
•Directive words:
-draw on - refer back to, make use of the case in order to do something
-identify - establish or indicate who or what someone or something is. Give reasons for
associations or connections using examples
-explain - make something clear by elaborating on it. Give reasons/ analyse cases
•Content: double curse / problems in organisations
•400 words
3. How are self-serving attributions influencing the decision Edward has made about the
future of EDJ
•Directive words:
-How - ask about the way in which something happens or is done
•Content Words:
-Self-serving attributions - a product of personal and self-serving bias where you would
attribute the cause of success to factors inside of yourself and failures to the outside
environment. When you make attributions about others you say their failures are a product
of themselves and their successes are a result of outside
-Decisions that Edward made -
•400 words
Research
1. Plan
•Starting point - read required reading and identify key concepts you can undertake further
searches on
•Tip - the keywords too describe the article are highlighted
•Are there single key words? incompetence, overconfidence, self-aware
•Are there key terms? self-serving attributions, leadership effectiveness
•Are there alternative words?
-Leader - manager, CEO, executive
-Self-serving attribution - self serving bias
•Truncation (*) searches variations of a word
•Wildcards (?) searches variations of a character e.g. organi?ation
•Quotation marks - key search terms together
•AND OR NOT refine search phrase (leader* OR manger* OR CEO*)
Document Summary
Ob skill building session: academic skills hub. Generate multiple ideas: research, planning, writing, edit & proofread, explain the so-called double curse as outlined by dunning, directive word: explain - make something clear by elaborating on it. Draw on - refer back to, make use of the case in order to do something. Identify - establish or indicate who or what someone or something is. Give reasons for associations or connections using examples. Explain - make something clear by elaborating on it. Give reasons/ analyse cases: content: double curse / problems in organisations, 400 words, how are self-serving attributions in uencing the decision edward has made about the future of edj, directive words: How - ask about the way in which something happens or is done: content words: Self-serving attributions - a product of personal and self-serving bias where you would attribute the cause of success to factors inside of yourself and failures to the outside environment.
