imagine yourself after graduation and working in your ideal job at your ideal company. You have identified a problem in the company’s operations that you believe you have a solution for:
a new piece of equipment or technology that will benefit your company
a new procedure or policy you wish your company to adopt
a change to an existing procedure or policy that will increase efficiency, productivity, or employee relations.
You have already discussed your idea with your immediate supervisor and delivered a short, informal report of your proposal. Now your supervisor has asked you to prepare a formal, researched report for the Board of Directors, who must give final authorization to your proposal. To present at their next meeting, write a formal, researched report using the APA Format template you produced earlier in this project.
While you are free to invent names, job positions, and other details, the problem, equipment/technology, or procedure you focus on must be “real world” in nature. In other words, it must be something for which you can locate reliable research data. Your report must use at least 6 academic/professional quality sources, and no more than TWO can be THOROUGHLY EVALUATED, HIGH QUALITY web pages. (I do not consider online government reports or institutional reports, i.e. Center for Disease Control, American Cancer Society, American Medical Association, etc., to be “web pages”; these are typically academic/professional quality sources.) All sources must be correctly cited both in text and on your References page using APA style. In addition to integrating the sources, the report must contain a minimum of the following elements:
