Business Communication Individual Assignment
The task is to make a closed – ended questions. It must be written as a report. The scenario is already given.
All of the instructions are in one of the files and the other file shows an example on how it should look like.
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DIPLOMA IN MANAGEMENT STUDIES
FULL TIME
BUSINESS COMMUNICATION
Continual Assessment 2 (40%)
Due: 5 February 2021 at 11.59am
The Continual Assessment consists of an INDIVIDUAL Report Writing component based on the given
scenario.
SCENARIO
Background
Remote work, mobile work, telecommuting or working from home refer to a work arrangement in which
employees do not commute or travel to a central place of work. This phenomenon is not new – many
business organisations offered telecommuting as an option to employees even before the novel
coronavirus took the world by storm. However, as the virus began to spread at an exponential rate,
businesses had no other option but to switch to remote work. As a result, the number of employees
working from home has increased drastically.
Assume you are working for the Ministry of Manpower (or the Department of Labour in your country).
The Head of Department, Mr X (insert name) would like to find out the views of employees on working
from home. He has requested you to conduct an online survey on 10-15 working adults in your country
to find out the following:
• How many days in a week do they work from home?
• How many hours (per day) on the average do they spend working from home?
• What do they like about working from home?
• What do they dislike about working from home?
• What challenges do they face while working from home?
• If given a choice would they prefer to continue working from home? Why?
• Do male and female employees have similar opinions? If not, why?
• How can their remote work experience be enhanced?
• Other relevant questions.
Project Brief
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Task
1. You will have to conduct an on-line survey to determine the answers for the questions stated
above and compile a report. You would need to design a questionnaire to survey 10-15 working
adults who are currently working at home or have had experience working from home. They
must be employees of an organization – not self-employed. It is important to find out their
demographic details (gender). This information can be used to cross tabulate with other variables
for data analysis. The data that you have collected should be attached to the appendix of your
report.
2. Based on your survey findings and analysis, do make appropriate recommendations (strategies/
steps/actions) that business organisations can take to improve the remote working experience.
You are strongly encouraged to examine other related aspects that will be useful as well.
TASK – REPORT WRITING (40% Individual Assessment)
A. SUGGESTED REPORT FORMAT
1. The report (40%) should consists of the following sections:
Assignment Cover Page/ Title Page
a. Executive Summary
b. Table of Contents
c. Introduction
i. Statement of Problem
ii. Statement of Purpose
iii. Scope of Report
iv. Limitations of Report
v. Sources of Data Collection
d. Findings and Analysis
e. Conclusions
f. Recommendations
g. References (APA format)
h. Appendices (include the survey questionnaire and compilation of the results)
2. The report should be typed with 1.5 line spacing, using font size 12 (Times New Roman).
3. Refer to the marking scheme for report writing for a breakdown on how your report would be assessed.
4. The main text of the report (including introduction, findings & analysis, conclusions and
recommendation) should be between 6-8 pages. Marks will be deducted for exceeding the page limit.
You should include relevant charts and graphs in your main report.
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B. REPORT SUBMISSION
The Report is due on 5 February 2021 at 11.59am. Please ensure that you submit your assignment
before the cut off time. If your assignment is submitted too close to the cut off time, you may not be
able to submit successfully and may get an error page instead.
The Report must be submitted online via the Dropbox in D2L. Please read the instructions provided in
D2L under “Online Activities – Dropbox” carefully before submission.
1. Please ensure that your Report is submitted in a single word document in MS Word format.
2. The cover page should include your FULL name (according to the student register) and email address.
Please adhere to the cover page format shown below:
The Benefits of Regular Exercise
3 May 2020
Prepared for:
Mr. Soh Kam Bing
Fitness Coordinator, Alpha Training Centre
Prepared by:
Your Name (as in IC/Passport)
3. Save your file as FamilynameFirstname
For e.g.
TanMeiMeiSall or
PremaSubroya , omit D/O, S/O
4. Once you have submitted your file to your course Dropbox folder, you will be brought to the File
Submission Successful page.
IMPORTANT: You will also receive a Confirmation Email from lmssupport@sim.edu.sg in your MyMail
account.
Report Title
Date of Submission
Full Name of Recipient,
Job Title and Name of
Organization
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If you do not get to the File Submission Successful page and you did not get the Confirmation Email
from D2L in your MyMail account confirming the receipt of your assignment, your assignment
submission may not be successful.
C. DECLARATION:
By submitting this assignment online, I declare that I have read and understood the following
statements:
(a) This project assignment is my original work and no part of it has been copied from any other sources
or written for me except where due acknowledgment is made.
(b) I acknowledge the meaning of:
What is Plagiarism: It is the use of someone else’s work in its entirety or some parts in exact form or in
very close form, as your own without acknowledgment to original author(s). Examples of plagiarism in
assignments include the use of other authors: phrases, facts and illustrations, statistics, and assembled
materials, without acknowledging them.
What is Collusion: It is the use of other person’s work or ideas with the consent of the other person(s),
without formally acknowledging them in your own work. Although students can discuss their ideas and
projects freely with anyone, when it comes to writing the report, each student must use his or her own
words to produce their respective reports. Sharing the same phrases or paragraphs or sections of texts
and illustrations (without any acknowledgments) in different reports constitute collusion.
(c) I understand that plagiarism and/or collusion is a serious offence. Students caught for plagiarism,
collusion or allowing their work to be plagiarized will be subjected to SIM University’s disciplinary
procedures.
D. LATE SUBMISSION
Penalty Marks for Late Submission of Report
By one day: 20% to be deducted from total marks
More than one day: Submission will NOT be accepted
Appeals
You may appeal via Live@ Edu email account
Technical Assistance
• If you need technical assistance using the D2L system, please email SIMGE D2L’s team at
lmssupport@sim.edu.sg or contact helpdesk at 6248 0073.
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• If you have queries that requires administrative support pertaining to assignments and modules,
please email he10@sim.edu.sg. via your Mymail account. Queries using non-SIM email addresses
will not be entertained.
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Int
r
oduction
1
.1 Aut
h
oris
ation
(1
line
)
This rep
ort
is
authorized
by
Ms Teo
,
Minister,
Ministry of Manpo
wer
, Singapore.
1.2 S
tatement of Problem
(
5
–
7
lines
)
(Background)
–
about working from home, statistics etc from secondary rese
arc
h
1.
3
Statement of Purpose
(2
–
3 lines
)
The purpose report is to
analyse the views of working adults on working from home and make
recommendations on ways to improve their experience.
1.4 Scope of Rep
ort
The scope of the
r
eport includes:
·
Demographic details
·
Frequency of remote work
(
per week/h
ours per day)
·
1.5 Limitations of the Report
(2-3 lines)
A sample size of 1
0
may
not be representative of the total number of
adults working from home.
(
max 2 limitations)
1.6 Sources and Methods of Data Collection
( 2
-3 lines)
Data was collected via primary and secondary
research
. Primary research consists of an online
survey of 10 working adults and secondary
research
was done via the internet.
( 1 to 1.5 pages) length
2.0 Findings and Analysis
2.1 Demographic Details
|
No. |
Males |
Females |
| 5 |
Figure 1. Demographics
Figure 1 shows that there were 10 respondents. 50% of them were males and the other 50% were females.
2.2Frequency of remote work
Your chart
Figure 2. Frequency
According to Figure 2,…… (followed by the analysis backed up with secondary research wherever possible)
1.
0
Introduction
1
.1 Authoris
ation
(1
line
)
This report is
authorized
by
Ms Teo
,
Minister,
Ministry of Manpo
wer
, Singapore.
1.2 S
tatement of Problem
(5
–
7
lines
)
(Background)
–
about working from home, statistics etc from secondary rese
arc
h
1.3 Statement of Purpose (2
–
3
lines
)
The purpose report is to
analyse the views of working adults on working from home and make
recommendations on ways to improve their experience.
1.4 Scope of Rep
ort
The scope of the
r
eport includes:
·
Demographic details
·
Frequency of remote work
( per week/h
ours per day)
·
1.5 Limitations of the Report
(2
–
3 lines)
A sample size of 1
0
may
not be representative of the total number of
adults working from home.
(
max 2 limitations)
1.6 Sources and Methods of Data Collection
( 2
–
3 lines
)
Data was collected via primary and secondary research. Primary research consists of an online
survey of 10 working adults and secondary
research
was done via the internet.
( 1 to 1.5 pages) length
1.0 Introduction
1.1 Authorisation (1 line)
This report is authorized by Ms Teo, Minister, Ministry of Manpower, Singapore.
1.2 Statement of Problem (5-7 lines)
(Background) -about working from home, statistics etc from secondary research
1.3 Statement of Purpose (2-3 lines)
The purpose report is to analyse the views of working adults on working from home and make
recommendations on ways to improve their experience.
1.4 Scope of Report
The scope of the report includes:
Demographic details
Frequency of remote work ( per week/hours per day)
1.5 Limitations of the Report (2-3 lines)
A sample size of 10 may not be representative of the total number of adults working from home.(
max 2 limitations)
1.6 Sources and Methods of Data Collection ( 2-3 lines)
Data was collected via primary and secondary research. Primary research consists of an online
survey of 10 working adults and secondary research was done via the internet.
( 1 to 1.5 pages) length