Business report format:

Purpose – What result do you hope to achieve?

Audience – Who is the recipient of the report?

Context – What are the background factors?

Ideas – What are the main ideas to be addressed?

Find Info – What research do you need?

Clear outline – What is the most effective way to present your main ideas?

Use the format of your submission to help communicate your ideas

Background

The company you selected in Assessment One is currently a signatory to the United Nation’s Global Compact, or considering becoming a member. The United Nation’s Global Compact guides companies’ social performance. Like all signatories, your company would be or is planning to be a member of their Global Compact Local Network, which aims to achieve compliance with the ten principles of the Global Compact

In this scenario, your company wants to identify ways of improving compliance to two of the Global Compact principles. Your task is to write a persuasive piece of internal communication addressed to your company, as a member of staff. The goal of the submission is to propose recommendations to achieve or improve compliance with two principles of the Global Compact.

• Your task is to write a persuasive submission to your company.
• The goal of the submission is to propose recommendations to achieve compliance with two principles of the Global Compact.

In your own words, the Submission will:

• Review and present a selection of business practices and/or approaches from your company and other companies from similar industries that may be used to achieve compliance to the two principles of the Global Compact.
• Discuss both the positive and negative lessons learned from these business practices and approaches.
• Develop business practice recommendations which will improve compliance to the two Global Compact principles. These should be based on the review you have undertaken and your understanding of the lessons learnt.
• Discuss the benefits, challenges and implications for key stakeholders if these recommendations are implemented.

When proposing a set of recommendations, make sure to look at the supply chain of the business to understand how your two principles may relate to the operations of your business. It is then your task to develop a persuasive report recommending strategies that your company can adopt.

Principle 1: The elimination of discrimination in respect of employment and occupation.

Principle2: Encourage the development and diffusion of environmentally friendly technologies