A topic analysis will help you to understand what your assessment question is asking you to do.

Look for the following three key pieces of information:

1. The task or instruction terms tell how you are to deal with the content. Charles Sturt University has a list of explanations for common instruction words.
2. The key topic or concept words direct you in what to research.
3. The limits or qualifiers tell you the specific focus of the topic or concept.

Your MGT387 assessment 2 is to write a 2000 word report. 

Task: Imagine that you work for a Chinese business that is going to expand internationally.  Your manager has asked you to explain how cultural variables can affect the way employees/managers behave and communicate in the workplace.  Choose two countries to use as the basis of this assignment (you may choose China and another country).

1. Describe the first four cultural value dimensions from the GLOBE project, and apply them to your two chosen countries.
2.  Explain how these cultural values will influence behaviour and expectations in the workplace of your two chosen countries.  What are similar and what is different?
3. Explain differences in communication styles between the two countries (think about monochronic/polychronic; high-context/low-context, and so on).
4. As a manager from China working with employees from your chosen foreign country, provide 3 suggestions for overcoming challenges/conflicts that might occur due to different behaviours, expectations and communication styles.  Please give reasons for the three suggestions.

Does your task place any limits? E.g. location, dates, or peer-reviewed sources.
You may need to brainstorm additional terms and words regarding your selected location. 

Write down the key concepts from your topic and have a go at brainstorming as many alternative keywords and phrases as possible.

Thinking about your topic in this way forces you to describe your topic in "other words", which will provide you with some useful keyword alternatives as well as help you to cement your understanding of the topic.

Dictionaries and encyclopaedias can help you to find additional keywords and get an overview of the concept.

To start searching, it can be useful to begin with an encyclopaedia, dictionary or handbook to get an overview of your topic, or an explanation of words or concepts that are unfamiliar.