Answer the Following Questions:
Imagine that a manager assigns two employees, Jane and Joe, to create a budget for an upcoming IT project. Both Jane and Joe are seasoned IT professionals with lots of experience and strong technical backgrounds. Jane, however, is more comfortable with financial planning tasks than Joe.
Let’s assume that for this budget creation task, Jane is promotion focused and Joe is prevention focused. Jane also prefers that she is given more autonomy is completing this task, while Joe prefers less autonomy.
Using the scenario and motivational characteristics given above, answer the following:
How might Jane and Joe each differ in their approach to successfully completing this budget creation assignment?
Purpose:
- Writing detailed emails that thoroughly explain technical concepts is a valuable skill in today’s business world.
- The purpose of this assignment is for you to practice explaining technical concepts in a small yet highly detailed narrative while also learning proper email etiquette.
- I want you leave this course being comfortable professionally answering the questions of managers and being confident in your expertise while doing so.
Task:
- You will answer the questions posted in the assignment below in a small paper that is to be formatted as an email.
- Imagine you are writing your responses as an email to a superior manager that asked you these questions.
- You will turn in a paper in the Moodle TurnItIn assignment, not send me an email with your responses.
- You will be graded on your ability to apply the concepts from the chapter to these questions and on the quality of your answers.
- Your responses should included details from our coursework to explain how and why these concepts support your answers.
- Each paper will include an email greeting (to me or a fictitious boss) and contain the proper email salutations.