Working in Business
Task
The purpose of the assessment is to produce a professional presentation on an aspect of professionalism in the workplace. In the tutorial in week 3 (tutorial 2) your tutor will issue a presentation topic to your team and spend some time discussing how you might approach it. The topics are: * Team Diversity
Your team needs to research the topic and prepare a professional presentation to the board of directors of SOUND WAVE, an Australian ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT RETAILER with 68 stores and 3,500 employees. Your presentation should be structured as a PERSUASIVE PROPOSAL; your aim is to convince the board to implement your recommendation.
Introduction
The purpose of this presentation is to discuss a current issue affecting the company: Sound wave on Team diversity. We would like to explain the importance and impacts that work diversity have on the workplace. Secondly, we will analyse and identify possible issues and its impact arising from having team diversity. We would like to propose some possible recommendations for the management and how it should be implemented to address this issues effectively.
Possible Issues
(We will discuss this briefly as our main PowerPoint presentation will be based on the recommendation and how it will be implemented and address this issues, providing solutions for the company) * Communication challenge * Inequity job participation and satisfication
Source: (Sammartino, O’Flynn &Nicholas, 2002)
Possible Recommendation: * Embrace team work diversity to provide more accurate and beneficial decisions * Address communication challenge by : 1 Selecting and structuring teams, 2 Assessing the diversity in the current employees and any current issues, 3 Resourcing teams (providing training on team diversity) , 4 measuring team performance
Research
Source number 1: Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs
(Sammartino, O’Flynn &Nicholas, 2002)
The purpose of the assessment is to produce a professional presentation on an aspect of professionalism in the workplace. In the tutorial in week 3 (tutorial 2) your tutor will issue a presentation topic to your team and spend some time discussing how you might approach it. The topics are: * Team Diversity
Your team needs to research the topic and prepare a professional presentation to the board of directors of SOUND WAVE, an Australian ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT RETAILER with 68 stores and 3,500 employees. Your presentation should be structured as a PERSUASIVE PROPOSAL; your aim is to convince the board to implement your recommendation.
Introduction
The purpose of this presentation is to discuss a current issue affecting the company: Sound wave on Team diversity. We would like to explain the importance and impacts that work diversity have on the workplace. Secondly, we will analyse and identify possible issues and its impact arising from having team diversity. We would like to propose some possible recommendations for the management and how it should be implemented to address this issues effectively.
Possible Issues
(We will discuss this briefly as our main PowerPoint presentation will be based on the recommendation and how it will be implemented and address this issues, providing solutions for the company) * Communication challenge * Inequity job participation and satisfication
Source: (Sammartino, O’Flynn &Nicholas, 2002)
Possible Recommendation: * Embrace team work diversity to provide more accurate and beneficial decisions * Address communication challenge by : 1 Selecting and structuring teams, 2 Assessing the diversity in the current employees and any current issues, 3 Resourcing teams (providing training on team diversity) , 4 measuring team performance
Research
Source number 1: Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs
(Sammartino, O’Flynn &Nicholas, 2002)