Purpose
To assess your ability to:
- Students will use the knowledge from this week's readings to complete this assignment.
Action Items
- Read this week's assigned readings.
- Assume that you are a team leader of a company that is based in the
Saudi Arabia but has offices worldwide. You have been assigned a new
manager who is a citizen of another country.
- This week you need to write a report recommending that all the staff on your team receive bonuses.
- You know the tone you would take if your manager were from the Saudi
Arabia, but you are uncertain about what tone or level of politeness is
appropriate for this new manager.
- Pick a country and do some research on the Internet about tone,
style, and politeness in different cultures, remembering that not
everyone in a country or culture is exactly alike.
- Write a short memo to your instructor explaining what you have
learned and how you would shape your recommendation report in this
situation.
Submission Instructions
Complete this assignment and submit per your professor's instructions.
Grading Criteria
0 - 10 points
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week 13 assignment
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MEMO
To: *****************.
From:
******* Alloush <s1300*****@seu.edu.sa>
Date: Thursday, December 28, 2014
Subject:
My Recommendation Report Form.
As this week’s assignment request, I will talk about how to
formulate a recommendation report which I will send it to the manager of the
company's branch in Japan. In this report, I will recommend a bonus in this
month’s salary.
In the beginning, I made some research on Japanese culture
to know how they talk to each other in business and that's what I found:
·
Addressing someone properly is key. For instance, “Dr.
Smith” might feel a little insulted if you refer to him as “Smith”.
·
Attach the suffix “san” to their last name, or “ sama ” if
you are trying to be particularly respectful depending on the status and age of
the person
·
Japanese workers know that twice a year they will receive a
bonus payment, the bonus has become an
integral part of the wage system.
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The term “bonus” suggests a special reward for good work.
Accordingly, I decided
shaping my report as a memo format as follows:
1.
First, heading guide includes
"To", "From", " Date", and " Subject" lines, which will
be " Recommendations for a Bonus
in This Month’s Salary".
2.
Secondly,
a brief background to discuss how feasibility has already been determined, like
this :" In our October10 meeting, we discussed how would our bonus system
be. We agreed that the bonus should be twice a year in June and January. This report outline the amount of
each one and recommend a third bonus for this month".
3.
Thirdly,
the body of the memo includes these headings: The Amount of the bonuses, Causes
of the Third Bonus.
4.
Fourthly,
a conclusion discusses benefits of following the recommendations.
Eventually, I think this
report will be polite as expected in Japan and direct to the point without
being rude. In addition, I used an authoritative tone as requested.
.Copies: All technical writing teachers, Saudi
Electronic University