Assignment Overview:

The purpose of this assignment is to develop students’ critical thinking skills and to test their knowledge of relevant theory and course content learned. 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 an argumentative academic essay of 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.

What is an argumentative academic essay? An argumentative academic essay is a piece of writing that examines and interprets a given ‘claim’ or ‘statement’ and defends or refutes it with the use of theoretical and practical evidence. In such an essay, you are essentially building up and presenting your own argument(s) on the statement while using scholarly (i.e., journal articles, textbooks, theories, etc.) and practical evidence (e.g., corporate stories, news items relating to companies, etc) to support your arguments. Hence, you are not simply describing or summarizing what others have said about a given statement but introducing and developing your own arguments on it