Aspects of communication

When we consider the issue of communication and sustainability there are at least two important aspects of communication that relate to sustainability: Effective communication throughout a workplace is an essential ingredient to align people’s efforts towards achieving organisational goals. Yet it seems that ‘communication problems’ are continually mentioned as one of the main difficulties for most organisations.Your boss, the CEO of ABC Company, has asked you to prepare a report investigating the question: ‘why managers should make effective communication a priority’? In so doing she expects you to examine four issues:When we consider the issue of communication and sustainability there are at least two important aspects of communication that relate to sustainability:1. Theactual communication of sustainability activities and achievements (sometimes called carbon footprint communications), and 2. Thesustainability of anorganisation’s communications activitiesthemselves.•CSR (corporate social responsibility)20 refrenceswith 10 of academic with proper citation. in report format.

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Writing reports
Why are students asked to write reports?
University students write reports for a variety of purposes. Some
reasons include to:
Academic Skills
• report on a research study or project that you have undertaken.
This is referred to as a research report
• report on a research study or project you plan to undertake. This
Quick Guide
is called a research proposal and has much the same structure
as a research report except that you are reporting on what you
are going to do rather than on what you have done
What is in this guide
• report on what you have found out by reading about a topic. This
• Why are students asked to write
type of report is called a research by reading report
reports?
• report on and evaluate something, for example a workplace
• Suggested structures for three types
practice or behaviour. This type of report is called an evaluative
of reports
report.
• What the parts of reports are for
• Common problems with reports
Suggested structures for three types of
• Related Quick Guides
reports
If you don’t have any specific guidelines from your lecturer, it is the purpose of the report that generally dictates
the particular structure you use to present your ideas. All reports have sections with headings and, usually,
subheadings. Often these are numbered in larger reports. The number of sections varies according to the
type of report and according to what the assignment specifically requires.
A research report (and research proposal)
The structure of this type of report typically includes the sections and headings (and subheadings) in the table
below. Often the headings are also numbered. If you have sub-sections within each of the major sections you
can number them as follows:
1.1
1.1.1
1.1.2
1.2
Letter of transmittal (generally ONLY requested in Business and Tourism)
Abstract (Also often called an Executive Summary or Summary)
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Methods, Procedure or Methodology