Assignment Task: Written Business Report
The Problem: Business reports are a type of document in which you analyze a problem and apply business theories to produce a range of suggestions for improvement. With business reports, typically, there is no single correct answer but several solutions, each with its own costs and benefits to an organization. It is these costs and benefits that you need to identify and weigh-up in your report.
Imagine you are leading an ad hoc committee formed at the Lethbridge College for investigating and reducing the College's environmental impact within the larger context of climate change. This problem has also been recently identified by our College leadership as a key focus of the College's new strategic plan, due in part as a result of student feedback sessions where environmental sustainability was repeatedly identified as a top concern.
Teamwork - This business report will be a group project, created by a team of four to six students. Your first meeting will be in class, which will give you a chance to discuss personal expectations and communication logistics:
- What are your grade goals for this project?
- When can you coordinate meeting out of class? Discuss your schedules.
- What aspects of the project is each of you most interested in exploring? How will you divide the workload among yourselves? (Please note that you will be required to keep an Action Log which records individual hours worked and tasks completed. This Action Log will be used to calculate your individual Accountability mark for the project.)
A group project is designed to provide practice in collaboration, one of the key objectives of this course. However, it's not uncommon for groups to experience interpersonal conflicts. If your group is having difficulties resolving conflicts, please discuss your concerns with me in time for us to explore options.
Process Steps for Preparing Your Business Report -
Step 1: Limit the Topic
Step 2: Anticipate the audience and issues
Step 3: Prepare a work plan
Step 4: Conduct research
Step 5: Organize, analyze, interpret, illustrate the data
Step 6: Compose the first draft
Step 7: Review, revise, proofread, and evaluate
Written Business Report - Your final written business report should be 8-10 pages in length, and will include the following:
1. Title Page
2. Table of Contents
3. Executive Summary
4. Introduction
- Background
- Problem
- Significance ("So What?")
- Scope
- Organization
- Literature Review
- Definitions of Key Terms
5. Body - Research Findings
- Results of the Survey
- Analysis of Findings
- Discussion
- Emerging Themes
- Conclusions and Recommendations
6. References
7. Appendix
Attachment:- Business Report.rar