Professional Communication II - Portfolio 2131366 HARSHITHA GADDE

  Media Interview What is a Media Interview? Media interviews are conversations of a journalist or a host with a person of interest with the purpose to broadcast or publish. The discussion usually has a focus like a latest development, work, issue or the journey of a celebrity to give both professional and personal insights into their personalities and lives. Talk shows like Koffee with Karan, Late Night with Conan O’Brian, in depth interviews by Karan Thapar, Oprah Winfrey are all examples of media interviews.   What is the purpose? Media interviews usually focus on celebrities. Celebrities aim to promote their success, ventures, initiatives, ideologies or opinions. Media interviews have also been used by terrorist groups, extremist organizations, and dictators to assert their beliefs, opinions and agenda. When media interviews are not objective or biased to push forward an agenda, it becomes a means of propaganda. This has been observed in several mainstream media platf...

  Promotion Interview What is a promotion Interview? Promotion interview also referred as internal interview is an interview conducted to promote an already established employee of an organization to a higher position in the organization’s hierarchy. The need for the interview is usually to increase the responsibility of an existing employee based on their performance so far. The organization is already aware of the abilities and strengths of the interviewee to a large extent. Therefore, the interview involves understanding the level of motivation and the readiness of the interviewee for greater responsibilities. As a consequence, the interview would consist of questions that do not deal with the basic details of the candidate, rather test the level of expertise and knowledge required for the position.         What is the need for a promotion interview? As the definition points out, the promotion interview is conducted to fill a position in t...

Case Study Report Harshitha G 2131366 English and Cultural Studies Department, CHRIST (Deemed to Be University) ENG422: Professional Communication- II Kishore Selva Babu 15 Jan 2023 Executive Summary The following case study report provides an analysis of the value conflict faced by the business partners of a home baking business with regards to the nature of their packaging of cupcakes. There is a conflict between compostable cupcake liners and cardboards boxes against the regular paper ones argued on either side by the two business partners. The report offers recommendations to resolve the conflict. It identifies the interference of personal values in professional work, the effect of personal relationships on professional decisions and the conflict between pragmatism and idealism in this case. To resolve this, it recommends using the compostable packaging to attract sustainable investors and diversify their business model and research-based evidence to prove the...