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Background

A report is a structured paper that starts off setting out your ideas.

The structure is reflected in the below:

You are to write this as a report.

The Essay will be a preliminary review of the topic. The Report will then incorporate these insights into information suitable for business.

References you consult in the production of the report are to be listed in an appendix at the back. These references should be a combination of business documents, newspaper articles, trade magazines, websites and other contemporary information.

In preparing for this assignment:
• Map out your structure before you begin researching and writing your report.
• You can write a letter, email, memo or a traditional report structure
o Ensure the purpose, aims and scope of the report are clearly explained.
• If you have an executive summary, it should be very concise, summarising the main recommendations and findings. Provide interpretation of situations and options. Show the important hard facts and figures. Your recommendations should include implications, with values and costs where applicable. Unless yours is a highly complex study, limit the executive summary to less than two sides of standard business paper.

• The body of the report should be divided into logical sections. The content must be very concise. Use hard facts and figures, evidence and justification. Use efficient language - big reports with too many words are not impressive. The best reports are simple and quick to read because the writer has properly interpreted the data and developed viable recommendations.

• Do not cram lots of detail, diagrams, figures, evidence, references etc., into the main body of the report. Index and attach these references as appendices at the end of the report.
• Where you state figures or evidence you must always identify the source.
• Show figures in columns. Try to support important figures with a graph.
• If it's appropriate to acknowledge contributors, then do so in the introduction or a separate section.
• When interviewing, indicate what ideas you would like to use in your report.

The Question

Drawing upon your research from your essay, identify and explain recommendations. When developing your recommendations, keep in mind ideas that describe our era as innovation, disruption, and fast paced constant change. At the same time, we are increasingly hearing about the challenges of mental health in our workplaces with one in six workers experiencing some form of depression, stress or anxiety. The ability to maintain our own wellbeing must become an important part of the conversation in our workplaces. Globalisation, glocalisation and the need to be agile to meet the changing business environment are contributing factors towards a growing concern about mental wellness and wellbeing of people as well as sustainability of organisations.

In 2014, PwC measured the impact of mental health conditions as a total cost of absenteeism, presenteeism and compensation claims estimated in one year across all industries. They estimated that mental health conditions have a substantial impact on Australian workplaces - approximately $11 billion per year. This comprises $4.7 billion in absenteeism, $6.1 billion in presenteeism and $146 million in compensation claims. It further discovered that every dollar spent on making workplaces healthy, a $2.30 is returned in benefits to the organisation.

Present a business case to implement strategies to address wellness in one of the organization discussed in Week 6 Lecture