The purpose of this Assignment is to develop students' critical thinking skills and to test their knowledge of relevant theory and course content learnt.
In this Assignment you are given the following statement:‘Organizations can make very little impact on strengthening creativity, innovation and design thinking processes as these are dependent on individual employees'.
Using this statement as a prompt, you are required to write anargumentative academic essayof 2000 words (excluding reference list). In your essay, identify and define what is meant by creativity, innovation and design thinking, whether you agree, do not agree or partially agree with the statement and why you agree/disagree/partially disagree using relevant theory. You must also use real-world corporate examples (e.g., examples from companies like Google, Tesla etc) to justify your stance.
Structure of the argumentative academic essay:
Your argumentativeacademic essay must have the following components:
1.Introduction: must include (a) the purpose of writing your essay (e.g., The purpose of writing this essay is to critically evaluate and put forth arguments on whether organizations can impact the strengthening of their creativity, innovation and design thinking processes )
(b) the stance taken by you (e.g., I agree with the given statement)
(c) the scope of the essay - what theories will be used in your essay, what real-world examples will be given in your essay
(d) the structure of the essay - what will you explain in body paragraph 1, what will you explain in body paragraph 2 etc.
2.Body paragraphs: Your argumentative academic essay can include 2-3 body paragraphs. You can give each paragraph a sub-heading if you wish.
In the body paragraphs, you must provide scholarly definitions of what is creativity, innovation and design is, what arguments you present to support the stance you have taken, and corporate examples as well. Remember that the stance you have written in the Introduction and the stance you take in the body paragraphs must be the same. You must also include in-text references of all scholarly work (i.e., journals, academic textbooks, e-books etc) and of non-scholarly work (i.e., company websites, newspaper articles, company videos etc) used. Non-scholarly work has to be cited when real-world corporate examples are used to support your arguments.
3.Conclusion: Provide a brief summary of your essay including the arguments you presented and the real-world examples you gave
4.References: List all scholarly and non-scholarly work you have used in the essay in the reference list. The reference list is not included in the word count. References should be in alphabetical order and in RMIT Harvard style.