Pretend you’re writing to the lead manager at a facility with a list of suggestions to improve the organization along with rationale supporting your recommendations.
First section – To, From, Subject, Date
Second section – Introduction: Lead your reader into the origins of the recommendation report (e.g., “I have been investigating best practices for. . . .”
Third section – This is where you will provide your recommendations. The recommendations will come from the readings, videos, and classmates’ contributions.
Fourth section – Request an action or propose a next step
Last section – Let’s not call it a bibliography or reference list, but that’s essentially what this section is—a list of your sources. You could use a bulleted list with a lead-in such as “Sources of further information.”
One feature of effective recommendation reports is that they incorporate many improvement ideas rather than focusing only one organizational issue. “Read hungry” for numerous ideas to help an organization. Assume that your reader is seeking a variety of ideas; do all you can to squeeze in as many valuable suggestions as you can adequately explain. Do not focus on one “burning issue”; address an assortment of ideas—show your professor you're learning about a variety of methods that could be used in organizations. Another feature of effective recommendation reports is that they use something from all of the assigned information sources for that module. Your major purpose in these reports is to demonstrate to your professor that you carefully read and watched the module's learning material and have identified a variety of things that can help make organizations more effective. Don't address only your organization's (i.e., where you work) issues; provide a variety of best practices for the reader to consider. Take a broad approach and suggest a number of improvements related to the particular learning module. Make use of the readings, videos, and classmates’ contributions by looking for (a) ideas you would use as a manager to improve employees’ health, safety or security or (b) ideas an organization could implement and benefit from. To be clear, you're writing a report, hypothetically to your boss or business owner, but you're assuming the boss saw what the learning module was about and made a request something like "Please carefully review the material in that module and give me a number ideas for ways we can improve." Students often find things in the readings that support their beliefs, and that’s okay. However, please also look for things in the readings you or your organization are not doing that would make you a more effective manager or make your organization more effective. Be sure to carefully read classmates’ contributions at the course website for useful information. Often a classmate will give information that will help you support a point you want to make in your report. There are a few rich and insightful blogs each topic, so “scour” these for ideas and backing for what you’re advocating. Read through a number of blogs looking for insights and good ideas. Use some way to attribute others' ideas that you are using in the report, and list those classmates' names in your Sources of further information section. That is recommended because the recommendation report grading rubric includes this criterion: Use of the videos and classmates’ contributions: To what extent did the writer actively and aggressively pull actionable knowledge from the videos and classmates’ contributions? Make it easy, within the text (paragraphs), for the reader to know when you're drawing on a classmate's ideas.
The following assignments are works of fiction and all items and situations are completely hypothetical to complete the required assignment.