Assessment 2 Report Template

Assessment 2 Report

Possible template for the report – make sure you remove all of my words and examples

TO: CEO, XXXX

[indicate which organisation, some news stories might apply to more than one]

FROM: HR Team [list your student names here]

TOPIC: [indicate title of news story, and source and date]

Contents

TOC o “1-3” h z u 1Introduction PAGEREF _Toc460936121 h 11.First issue} PAGEREF _Toc460936122 h 11.1Clarification of issue PAGEREF _Toc460936123 h 11.2Literature and theory PAGEREF _Toc460936124 h 21.3Recommendation/s PAGEREF _Toc460936125 h 22Second issue PAGEREF _Toc460936126 h 22.1Clarification of issue PAGEREF _Toc460936127 h 22.2Literature and theory PAGEREF _Toc460936128 h 22.3Recommendation PAGEREF _Toc460936129 h 23Summary and conclusion PAGEREF _Toc460936130 h 24Reference list PAGEREF _Toc460936131 h 2

IntroductionThis will be guided by your approach in the one page brief. Provide a quick summary of that brief – describe why you are sending this report to the CEO, outline the news story, and introduce your report.

List the issues that will be raised and then address them in separate sections.

First issue}Clarification of issueOne key issue raised by this news story is xxxx.

Literature and theoryStone discusses xxxx and says ………

Grass (2015) studied xxxx in three countries and agrees with Stone that ……

However, Grass’s study may not apply to our organisation because (why not, are the other countries not relevant, is it in a different industry etc).

Sky’s (2010) study of an organisation similar to ours found ….. Sky (2010) recommended that organisations should do ……

Sun’s research (2005) also found ….. but suggested that organisations could choose ……

Recommendation/s

Draw on the discussion above to make recommendations based on evidence. For example. Given the importance of xxx to our organisation, we recommend that we adopt some changes to xxx in accordance with the findings of Stone, Smith and Jones above. I recommend that we ….. Second issueClarification of issueAnother key issue raised by this news story is yyy.

Literature and theoryStone discusses xxxx and says ………

Moon (2015) studied yyy and agrees with Stone that ……

Rock (2015) studied an organisation similar to ours and recommends that …..

Several other authors studied yyy and came to similar conclusions. For example Brick (2011) found ….

Recommendation

Third issue

As before

Summary and conclusionDraw the report together with a summary and a conclusion

Reference listat least eight academic peer-reviewed journal articles.

Brick

Grass

Moon

Rock

Sky

Sun

Stone