Context
You are a member of the management group of your chosen organisation. At a recent executive meeting, your CEO mentioned that the business should enhance its preparedness given recent events within and outside the business. Specifically, the reference was in relation to some reports and articles in the business press about a management-related issue. The issue may have implications for the industry as a whole, but more importantly for the business in the near future. Your CEO is interested in hearing more about the issue and has tasked you with finding out more
information.
Your starting point In Week 5 (tutorial 3), you will be given two pieces of information that will help you start on this assessment: 1) An organisational profile and 2) A link to a sample article. The organisation profile (one page) depicts an organisation that has been identified specifically for you and is based on several successful Australian firms that operate across a wide range of sectors/industries. We have previously interviewed a few of these firms. Some firm- related information is provided in the profile and you can make more assumptions about the
nature of the business, if need be. The profile will outline a “real world” business issue within the short description that’s provided.
The sample article given to you will help you with the context (see section above). The article will be focussed on the specific business issue outlined in the profile. The article is just an example and should be used as a stimulus for further investigation of the matter. You should research the business issue using the article and locate additional relevant pieces of evidence on the same topic. Ideally these should be sourced from quality publications i.e., peer reviewed journals. Summarise the key points about the business issue across all pieces of evidence and think about what they may mean for your organisation.
Your task
This assessment task requires you to identify, analyse and address a business issue outlined in your chosen organisational profile. You would start the report by identifying and introducing the business issue (i.e., the ‘what’ question and its implications for the business). This would involve summarising the key points and considering the implications for the business. You would further prepare a detailed report that examines the underlying reasons for the issue (the ‘why’?), and how best to address the issue (the ‘how’?) providing
succinct recommendations for the business in moving forward. When completed, the report will be forwarded to the CEO for consideration.
Tips for writing the report:
Use the template on the following pages to structure your report. You can modify the structure any way you like but be sure to include a cover page that has your name, student number. You should also provide the context for your issue so your reader can take this into account when considering your report. Please note there will be a 5 mark deduction for Reports which are less than 1350 words or more than 1650 words. The title page, executive summary and reference list is not included in the word count – in-text references are.
