Critical thinking – Communications Management MGT421

• (WORD format only) via allocated folder.
• Students are advised to make their work clear and well presented, marks may be reduced for poor presentation.
• Students must mention question number clearly in their answer.
• 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)

Assignment Regulation:

• All students must use their own words.
• Citing of references is also necessary in APA style.
  • Your answers MUST include at least 1 outside references (other than the slides and textbook)
  • Using references from SDL will be highly valued.
  • use this TextBook
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  Critical Thinking

  1. Visual aids are used by business writers for many purposes. Here we have a graph used to represent the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) Per Capita for Saudi Arabia. Why do you think the author decided to use the bar graph among the other visual aids? Briefly analyze the bar graph below? (2 Marks)

  Source: GASTAT
  Writing Exercise

  1. In the role of a senior decision-maker in business, write a (policy/ notice of change) memo for your employees on one of the following subjects: (3 Marks)
  1. On-site smoking
  2. Changes in working hours
  3. Overtime
  4. Or early retirement.

  
  
  
  Answer:for each q the words should be around 250-300

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  Reference
  Gross Domestic Product Second Quarter 2021. (2021). General Authority for Statistics. https://www.stats.gov.sa/