we will revisit the situations from our Week 7 and 8 Discussion. Here are those situations (some slight changes were made):

• Situation #1 - Your company policy is to deliver initial results of a performance review in an internal, private memo. You are writing such a performance review memo for an employee with several behavioral issues that must be taken care of or, by company policy, the employee will be terminated.
• Situation #2 - You are preparing to write an internal memo to your sales force that the most recent quarter's sales forecast was not met by a significant percentage. According to "higher ups," if this happened, "heads would roll."
• Situation #3 - You are the HR Manager responsible for writing to candidates who have not been approved for a job offer. In this situation, there were two candidates who were very close in most respects. The hiring committee made a decision to hire candidate #2 based on their belief that the experience candidate #2 has is just slightly more relevant to the company's needs. You are writing to candidate #1 to deliver the news.
• Situation #4 - Due to budget constraints, the company can no longer assist eligible employees with tuition reimbursement. Your job is to draft the memo that will be distributed to the employees announcing the change. Currently, 120 out of a total of 330 employees were enjoying the benefit.

For situation #1, write a performance review memo to your employee. This is a memo to an employee pointing out the behavioral issues that must be addressed to avoid termination. You can make up the issues; assume there are 2 of significance that you must address.

For situation #2, write the memo to your sales force. Discuss the boss's comment that "heads would roll" if the forecast was not met.

For situation #3, write the letter to the candidate that did not get the job.

For situation #4, draft the memo that will be sent to the employees letting them know that the tuition reimbursement benefit will be discontinued. This memo will go out to all employees, not just those who use the benefit.

The length of each will differ, of course, based on what is required. For situation #1, as an example, you'll be talking about 2 issues, so that may require a total of 3 or 4 paragraphs.

I recommend that you reread chapter 11 before you attempt this. The rubric is as follows:

Content (52 points)

Demonstrates critical thinking. Chapter concepts are applied. The expressed position is articulated with good support.

If you feel that it would be helpful, you may include one final paragraph (for each situation), separate from the body of the writing required, giving me an idea of your process.

Grammar (28 points)

The submission is free from grammatical, usage, spelling, capitalization and punctuation errors.

Of course if you need help working out how to approach the exam, please contact me by email but be sure to do so well before the due date.