Select a peer-reviewed journal article that addresses research questions concern

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Select a peer-reviewed journal article that addresses research questions concerning a business topic of interest. Choose an article that is of interest to you that you can use for your course research paper due in Week Six. Below are the elements that generally are involved in an article review. Write a response answering the following elements: Details of publication Who wrote the article? Does it contain contributions from more than one author? What is the name of the journal that published the article? What is the target audience of this journal? Contents and argument What is the author’s central thesis? What are the author’s assumptions? What is his or her research methodology? How has he or she organized the article? Evaluation Do you agree with the thesis and the other major points of the article? Why or why not? What are the article ’s major weaknesses? What are its primary strengths and contributions? Are the author ’s presuppositions, method, and approach valid and appropriate? For whom was the article written and what was its purpose? Has it accomplished this purpose, and does it adequately communicate to its intended audience?

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https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.economist.com/news/2009/02/09/scientific-management#ampf=undefined

The above mentioned article is used as the base for the study of the questions answered above. The following are the answers:

It is published by John Wiley and Sons and is written by Tim Hindle.

It is written by one author only, but has compiled the ideas of many influenctial writers and authors.

The name of the journal that published this article is The Economist (thought it is the part of book The Economist Guide to Management Ideas and Gurus)

- the target audience of the author is the Business Class, trying to understand the new tools and techniques for improving a business.

- The authors central theise runs around "Scientific Management" which was advocate by Fedric Taylor.

- The authors assumptions are that everyone is trying to expand its business to do that organisations need good bosses to make good employees.

- the author has read and compiled the articles, findings and understandings of various people in the field. So the sources could be books, internet and personal interviews.

- the article is well organized with introduction, body and conclusion.

- yes I do agree with major parts of the article as it is something I feel is important for a business. Good Managers is what we need today, and in order get what we want, we need to find out new methods rather than sticking to the old once.

- the strength is that is it brought light to an important management theory, but the aithoa himself has no say in it.

- The article is weittwr for students of professionals who are will to understand management and implement various theories they feel are suilsuit to them, it has definitely accomplished it's purpose.

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