business report

Activity 1: Your CEO has asked each departmental head to undertake a critical review of their
systems, processes and practices as part of a major organisational change agenda. You have
been asked to review an area of HR/business practice (See Objectives document for topic I have
chosen) and present a business report to key stakeholders with recommendations for improving
practice. To provide the basis for your report, you have been asked to conduct a critical review
of information sources relevant to (See Objectives document for topic I have chosen)
Activity 2: a. Summarise the key stages of the research process. b. Compare two different
research methods (primary one as mine and secondary one as another source)
I should:
• Undertake a critical review of different information sources (at least four) e.g. research digests,
academic and professional literature, online databases, key texts relevant to the selected area of
practice (Relevant to UK, Please use ACAS, CIPD, Chartered Management Institute and
https://www.ons.gov.uk/ (Office for national statistics)
• Draw meaningful conclusions from the review of the different information sources.
• Make justified recommendations to named stakeholders for sustaining and/or improving
practice.
Report should include:
• Executive summary (literature review) (overview, methods of analysis, findings,
recommendations)
• Table of contents (list of numbered sections)
• Introduction (terms of reference)
• Main body (headings and sub-headings – these could be for each information source
reviewed). You should use a mix of narrative and diagrammatic formats to present their
findings.
• Conclusions
• Recommendations
• Reference list/Bibliography (Again THESE SHOULD BE EXCLUDED FROM THE WORD
COUNT)
• Appendix (Make a questionnaire/survey up as my primary quantitative source of resource and
make the statistics up results too)