Develop Key Business Management Skills: Business Report Writing Exercise

Demonstrate understanding of business management functions relevant tools models and their use in the practice week activity

Evidence through personal reflection how you have developed your key skills. Your journal content can be used to support your report and each skill area discussed must be referenced to the entry in your journal

You start the research for the topic as a group exercise in Week 5 – once that week has completed you use your group research as the starting point for your individual submission in Week 7.

This assignment is deliberately set as a time limited activity and you have specific time to write it up. This is to replicate what happens in the workplace. It is supposed to be challenging – when you engage in the unit and learning materials and classroom activity you will have access to everything you need to complete this work.

 Write a formal report, with headings, using your reading, research, learning and journal content as a starting point. We suggest writing the report in two parts:

Part 1 (approx. 1,200 words) – written based on your research findings so in 3^rd person

Your report may include:

• Introduction / Summary of the assignment case study (Business Case Company)
• Demonstrate understanding of business functions and any relevant management tools and their use in the practice week activity – your application (theory to practice)
• Examples of tools applied
• Supporting evidence of reading about the topic areas beyond topic areas discussed in class
• Correctly referenced in Harvard Style

Example - Project Management Focus – Trade Show

To demonstrate a sound understanding your report might include some of the following elements:

• The Business Case Company and the industry it operates within
• Your key findings from your project management topic evidenced and referenced (these might include:
• Rationale for exhibiting,
• Project plan milestones,  
• Potential return on investment (benefits for the company),
• Project plan and budget,
• Gantt chart of plan,
• Work breakdown structure (WBS)
• Conclusion – This section should draw together the main points from your investigation/analysis. It summarises what has been learnt from undertaking this research. It should evaluate the options available to The Business Case and what would impede implementation (No new information should be included in the conclusion)
• Evidence of research and reading beyond topic areas discussed in class

Part 2 (approx. 1,200 words) – written about yourself so 1^st person

Your personal reflection is based on your learning experience, your journal entries in BREO will form part of this assessment. Those journal entries added on a regular basis evidence how you have developed and used key skills in the initial learning in the unit and in the analysis of the business case for this assignment.

You might include evidence and links to key skill development in the following areas:

Communication (both verbal and written – evidenced by classroom discussion, presentations and report writing)

Numeracy – (evidenced by examples of use of data and statistics in your seminar activities and this submission)

ICT (evidenced using Microsoft Office programs during the unit)

Problem Solving (evidenced by examples of analysis and information gathering, during the unit and in the submission of the assignment)

Working with Others (evidenced by reflecting on your experience working in teams during the unit)