Question - Organisation of the research report

A key ingredient to writing a successful report involves the planning or organizing stage. Organizing can help you to sort out your ideas and to present your report in the order that communicates best to your readers. Your essay is to be structured and written as a business report. It, therefore, must begin with a Management Summary within which you state in stark form (i.e. unsupported by argument) what you are asserting in this report and you must do that in less than two pages.

As already stated above, you begin the main body of the report with some general background on the broad research topic. This introduction should end with a brief paragraph outlining the plan of the rest of the essay what follows is the specific issues of each individual component which were considered. As for any good business report these components should be structured into sections and sub-sections and the heading for these should be in the Table of Contents. In these individual components the in-depth discussion of the relevant issues is elaborated based on the existing literature and/or data. You must provide in-text references HI 6005: Management and Organisations in a Global Environment T2 2017 7 to your sources. The last section of the report contains a brief summary followed by a complete list of references that are cited in the text of the essay. Follow a standard referencing method consistently

Executive Summary: ideally one page but no more than two.

Sections 1: Introduction 400-600 words,

Section 2: Main body of the essay consisting of each of the individual components limit each component to approximately 1,000 words each

Sections 3: Conclusions 100-300 words,

Summary and Complete List of References (5-15 references).

Total word limit is 3500 including references.

Early Management Theories Relevant to the Modern World

General Framework - From a framework (a map) describing the developments in Western Management Theory over the last hundred years or more, focus on the period from Taylor to Fayol and Weber explaining the context of their work.

Individual Components - Each member of the team choose one of the management theorists listed below and give specific examples of the portions of their theory still in use in the modern world.

1. Fred Taylor

2. Henri Fayol

3. Max Weber

Suggested limits are as follows:

• Management Summary: ideally one page but no more than two.
• Sections 1: Introduction 400-600 words,
• Section 2: Main body of the essay consisting of each of the individual components limit each component to approximately 1,000 words each,
• Sections 3: Conclusions 100-300 words,
• Summary and Complete List of References (5-15 references).