Effective Business Communication
Assessment One: Practical Assessment: Professional Written
Communication
Task Description
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Weighting:
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This
assessment accounts for 20% of your final grade.
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Length:
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The
assessment must be between 1000-1500 words in length. Two points
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Cover sheet:
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will be deducted for assessments that
are over or under by 200 words.
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The
assessment must include a cover page that contains your name, student
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Style:
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number,
resident campus, assessment title, and lecturer and/or tutor.
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The assessment must be single-spaced, 11
Point; Times New Roman.
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References:
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The
assessment must include 5 academic references. You must use the APA
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Other:
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reference
style.
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This
assessment is aimed to assess your written communication skills.
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Students
who do not perform well will be highly recommended to consider
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training
with Academic Learning Centre (ALC). The assessment is aimed to
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ensure
that you have an advanced level of writing skills before you proceed
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into other units in the postgraduate
course. The assessment will also assess
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the
integrity of your work. Given all students will do the same assessment,
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plagiarism
will be monitored to ensure that your submitted work is original
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and
not purchased or copied from other students. Where assessments are
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Task description:
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found
to be similar, penalties may apply in accord with University policy.
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In this
task, you will write a memo in response to the case study provided
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below.
The memo must be logically structured, free of grammatical errors,
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professionally
styled; in addition, follow the writing conventions for memos
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Case study:
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as
discussed in the lecture and supporting material.
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You are the CEO of Data Solutions,
which is a medium sized company that
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sells
data management software. The company is based in Brisbane and has
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offices
in both Melbourne and Sydney. You have become aware that
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although
the external marketing and promotions communications are
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effective
there is a problem with the internal communication. There are
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Problems:
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three
primary general problems:
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1.
Decisions made at the executive level are not being communicated clearly
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and
in a timely manner to the employees.
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2.
For the most part supervisors and employees do not work in the same
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offices. Due to this situation, the
supervisor to employee communication is
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ineffective.
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3.
Emails are being sent out that are unprofessional.
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With
these problems in mind, you undertake research in order to
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understand
these problems more specifically and come up with logical and
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practical
recommendations to solve these problems. As you refine your
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knowledge
of these problems you narrow each one down to one specific
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issue.
So for example for problem one, the issue could be that the
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employees
do not understand why decisions are being made. For problem
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two, the issue could be that employees
do not feel comfortable seeking
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work-related
feedback from their supervisors. As you develop your
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recommendations
you make sure that you clearly link the problems to the
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solutions
(as articulated within the recommendations). Having this
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information
you now write a memo to all of the members of the organization. You will write
the memo based upon the following structure.
Outline of Memo:
1) Opening
a. To:
b.From:
c.Date:
d.Subject:
2)
Objectives
and background
a. Specific
purpose
b.
General
purpose
3) C.
Context
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3.
Problems
a.Problem one—quantitative and qualitative significance
b.Problem two—quantitative
and qualitative significance
c.Problem three—quantitative
and qualitative significance
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4. Action steps to solve the problems
a.Problem one
b.
Problem
two
c.
Problem
three
6)
Closing
a.Briefly outline
a synopsis of the memo
b.
Offer
assistance and provide contact details
7)
References—APA
style.
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