This assessment requires the student to analyse the social impact of the A2 milk company based on the concepts and theories discussed in class and featured in the readings in Weeks 1 \u2013 4. <\/p>\n
Students will take the perspective of a consultant, engaged by the firm to undertake an evaluation of the organisation\u2019s business strategies, policies, and operations in order to identify key issues that pertain to its social impact. Students are expected to conduct secondary research on their chosen firm by gathering online information and publicly available data. Students must develop recommendations on how the firm may improve its social impact initiatives. <\/p>\n
The report must be well structured and concisely written. It must include essential information to enable the reader to understand the report’s findings, conclusions, and recommendations. The report must engage with course concepts, theories, and frameworks to address the following:<\/p>\n
\u2022 Provide a brief background on the chosen firm \u2013 a brief history, market, industry, products and services, organisation, etc. Include here some discussion of the positive and negative social impacts of your firm’s core business. The report has a word limit of 2,000 (+\/- 10%) <\/span>The Executive Summary, References and Appendices are <\/span><\/span>not<\/span>included in your word count<\/span>.<\/p>\n The suggested format for your Report is as follows: This assessment requires the student to analyse the social impact of the A2 milk company based on the concepts and theories discussed in class and featured in the readings in Weeks 1 \u2013 4. Students will take the perspective of a consultant, engaged by the firm to undertake an evaluation of the organisation\u2019s business strategies, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[9],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/15942"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/15942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=15942"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=15942"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=15942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\u2022 Identify and describe key programmes, activities, business models, and\/or strategies that the firm undertakes in order to positively impact society and\/or the environment (e.g. Fonterra\u2019s KickStart Breakfast programme, Fonterra\u2019s policy to meet the World Organisation for Animal Health standards, Fonterra\u2019s activities to limit its carbon footprint)
Guidance: <\/span>Use Porter & Kramer\u2019s (2011) shared value creation framework to guide the analysis<\/em>
\u2022 Explain the social impact of the initiative\/s on the firm\u2019s stakeholders (if any)
Guidance:
* <\/span>Choose one or two key initiatives (programmes, activities, business models, and\/or strategies) and undertake a stakeholder assessment based on Laasch & Conaway’s (2014) model of Stakeholder Mapping<\/em>
* Choose one of the above key initiatives and conduct a Corporate Social Performance (CSP) assessment based on Lasch & Conaway\u2019s (2014) CSP framework<\/em>
\u2022 Develop conclusions regarding the firm\u2019s social impact initiatives
\u2022 Present and justify recommendations on how the firm could improve its social impact initiatives
\u2022 Use course readings to support your explanations and justifications
\u2022 Use APA 7th edition where appropriate
\u2022 Include a reference list<\/p>\n
I <\/span>Executive Summary<\/span>: An executive summary is a summary of the whole report on one page. It should summarise the Report’s Aims, Key Question, Methods, Main Findings \/ Conclusions, and Recommendations
II Introduction<\/span>: Introduce the topic and purpose of the report (include some discussion of course concepts and ideas that will be relevant for your report)
III <\/span>Analysis and Discussion<\/span>: Brief background of the firm \u2013 provide information relevant to the analysis; present information relevant to the report’s objectives and analyse the data that has been gathered (include discussion here of the firm\u2019s social impact activities, and how the firms\u2019 stakeholders are impacted)
IV Conclusion<\/span>: Summarise the body\/discussion and state the significance of your findings\/evaluation
V <\/span>Recommendations<\/span>: Make suggestions based on the findings\/evaluation in the report
VI References<\/span>
VII Appendices<\/span>: Relevant graphs, tables, images that support the analysis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"