ASSIGNMENT

Submit a research-based Business Action Report that proposes a specific solution to a specific problem, issue, or need in a real-world organization, group, or community (by name and location). Include a transmittal memo to the specific decision-maker (by name and title) who has authority to approve your proposal. Your transmittal document will basically say: "Here's my Business Action Report on the problem of so-and-so (as explained in the WA3 Project Approval Request), with a proposed solution that I hope you will approve for action."

This major report should:

• Identify the specific core problem, issue, or need
• Explore major alternatives for solving the problem or meeting the need
• Support ideas with strong evidence or data from research using at least seven research sources (three or more of which are scholarly)
• Link the content directly to all research sources by giving in-text citations and Reference citations in full, correct APA format
• Present a solution to the problem with a clear "call to action" to make the needed changes

FORMAT: Standard APA document format with a title page and running head, double-spaced with indented paragraphs in regular 12-point Times New Roman font.

Submit your WA4 paper as one file which contains both the memo and report. If your decision is inside your organization, the right format is a Memo; if you decision-maker is outside your organization, the right format is a Letter.

TEMPLATE for Business Action Report

1. Transmittal Memo/Letter

2. FRONT MATTER:

o Title Page
o Table of Contents
o List of Illustrations (if needed)
o List of Appendices (if needed)

3. TEXT:

o Executive Summary (150-200 words)
o Introduction
o Body (w/Subdivisions)
o Conclusion

4. REFERENCES

5. END MATTER

o Appendices (if needed)

LENGTH: About five to six pages (text body = 2,200 to 3,000 words).

TIPS FROM THE PROFESSOR

Students,

Your last writing assignment will be a report to a decision-maker on a problem and solution in an organization or community.

In the report, you will do the following:

• define the problem persuasively and accurately
• propose a solution or solutions to the problem or issue
• present that solution to a decision-maker or group of decision-makers who can implement the recommendation.

The report will include the following components:

• executive summary
• letter to the decision-maker
• table of contents
• introduction
• body of the report to include headings and subheadings
• conclusion stated as a recommendation for implementation of the solution
• References page, with references listed in APA format

The complete report should also cite at least seven sources. At least three of them should come from peer-reviewed, scholarly journals. As noted above, your sources can also include interviews. The sources will be integrated into the paper to explain the problem, provide evidence of the problem, and support the solution.

Defining the Specific Problem

In preparing to write this assignment, please be aware of the following cautions in fulfilling the assignment instructions:

• If you write a report to your manager at work suggesting that more teleworking options be given to employees at your workplace, you cannot simply prepare a report on teleworking. You must show that teleworking will solve a specific problem or problems in your organization.

• If you are proposing that email be used less frequently for communication at your workplace and that another application be used to improve communication, you cannot simply write a report on the problem with having too much email. You must show that the use of email at your current workplace presents problems and that the use of another means of communication would solve the problem.

• If you write a report to your manager at work suggesting that your office become paperless, you cannot simply prepare a report on the benefits of a paperless office. You must show that your specific office can go paperless and indicate the benefits of your specific office going paperless.

Adequate recycling facilities and show how it will benefit from improved recycling facilities.

A Reminder about the Role of Primary Research in Supporting the Argument

• For a report on teleworking, you might conduct interviews with fellow workers on the topic to see how and why they might benefit from teleworking.

• If you are proposing that email be used less frequently for communication and that another application be used to improve communication, you might interview fellow employees on the situation, and you might take screen captures of alternative communication tools to illustrate how they work and would improve communication in your office.

Graphics:

Your report might benefit from graphics. As mentioned above, pictures of your workplace or community situation might help illustrate the problem you are trying to address. Graphs, tables, or charts might help show trends that will persuade your decision-maker that the problem exists.

Please do not incorporate a graphic for the sake of incorporating a graphic. Include a graphic only if it helps communicate a message in your report.

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