WRTG394 WEEK 4 DISCUSSION 2
Your third assignment in WRTG 394 involves writing a memo requesting permission to conduct research on the topic for your research report. You should focus on the following as you prepare your report:
- Being specific – your assignment directions (located in the assignment area of the classroom) give you good examples of ways in which you can make sure that you are proposing a solution to a specific problem. You must answer the question, “How will MY workplace or community (this should be narrowly defined as your neighborhood, apartment community, base housing community, etc.) be made better by the solution(s) I recommend?”
- Identify a specific decision maker (or makers if, for example, you are proposing a solution to a workplace issue in your department that might require action by the HR director as well as your dept. head). Examples of such persons might be your apartment community manager, the director of base housing where you are stationed, your department head in your workplace, or your commander for your military unit.
- Use some primary research – interviews with co-workers, photographs showing a problem like the need for recycling or going to a paperless office, screen captures showing the large numbers of emails employees must deal with on a daily basis.
This assignment can be invaluable to you in preparing for your research report. Note what the assignment directions say:
You will find that writing up the proposal will be invaluable in eventually putting together your final research-based report. You will be able to apply the scholarly research you conducted for writing assignment #2 to your specific proposal and evidence of the problem that you have gathered for writing assignment #3.
For this discussion topic, please respond with a paragraph in which you describe the topic you are proposing and the audience (the decision maker(s) mentioned above;
Proposed Problems
In the current business-world, workplace diversity is continually increasing. The phenomena can either be of positive results in an organization or a downfall depending on how its approached. The primary objective of a workplace is to maximize workers’ participation and productivity. Currently, the managerial department lacks the best approaches to manage diversity, a division of labour, productivity and accountability. As a result, there is a division among workers and lack of accountability which ultimately hinders….Continue Reading….