Business Communication Skills Assignment - Summaries and Analysis

This assignment assesses business communication skills through concise summaries and analysis of provided texts. The first task requires a one-sentence summary (under 30 words) of a paragraph regarding a superannuation fraud case in Australia. The second task involves a two-sentence summary (under 60 words total) of two paragraphs discussing the Reserve Bank of Australia's observations on tax cuts and wage growth. The final component demands a comprehensive summary (under 410 words) of an article on corporate greenwashing, emphasizing the need for Harvard-style referencing. The article explores the concept of greenwashing, its impact, regulatory responses from the FTC, and the role of agencies and public awareness in addressing this practice. The assignment highlights the importance of clear communication, concise summarization, and critical analysis within a business context, including the ability to reference sources appropriately.

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Business Communication Skills Assignment
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a) Write a ONE SENTENCE summary of the following paragraph. Your summary
sentence cannot exceed 30 words
Australians are asked to check their super balances after a young woman was charged over a
fraud of more than $10 million from Superannuation funds and the biggest Sharebroker.
b) Write a TWO SENTENCE SUMMARY of the following two paragraphs. Your
summary sentences cannot exceed 60 words in total
There is no evidence to show if the combination of interest rate cuts is helping the cash strapped
households and the economy of Morrison government as stated by the RBA. The low and middle
tax offset did not meet its expectations as wages growth remained low, and confidence in
consumers went down after the cheques started to be accounted for.
c) Write a summary of the following article. Your summary cannot be more than 410
words. Do not forget to use the Harvard Style to reference the article.
Companies across different sectors in the United States realize the benefits of greenness.
However, critics are concerned about the impacts of greenwashing, which is the description of
making environmental friendliness to gain market share. The greenwashing has escalated
recently even though it has been there for an extended period. TeerraChoice issued a report
about the same and concluded that products were guilty of greenwashing (Jackson and
Chapman, 2012).
The FTC has the have a set of environmental marketing guidelines called green guides
published under code of federal regulations. This agency held a series of workshops for green
packaging, textile, and renewable energy claims.

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Concerning the updated guidance, the FTC is following the trend of revising
environmental marketing guidelines just as other agencies of marketing. Attorney Randi,
litigation of partner, also agrees to the move since it provides the basis of making predictions
on the US regulatory scheme. Revisions are also predicted to entail a definitional language, and
the FTC is expected to address the thirty party certifications (Tanyel, Mitchell and McAlum,
2015). The United State is said to be having over 500 green labels which are viewed on credit
card number as per the case study. The FTC has started to set up enforcements against claims
of considering clear violations of green guides. Accordingly, it has charged four sellers other
sellers for wrong labelling.
Concerning the health impact of Greenwash, it is said to be harmful with cited samples,
and hence FTC has promised to tighten up rules. There have also been agencies to give
guidelines on how to avoid greenwashing charges.
The Greenpeace was the first one to step in the vacuum keeping an eye on the use of
greenwashing and created several groups to monitor the ads along with other information.
Various websites that encourage anti-green wash has been pointed out, and the public is not
sure what is valid and the invalid (Dahl, 2010).
For the Green claims work, the full-blown environmental management system might be
incorporated, which also shows awareness of ecological results. Taking part in Global
reporting is another step (Lyon and Montgomery, 2013). However, the effectiveness of the
changes to the Green guides is questionable on the modification of Greenwashing. There are
allegations that several labels are acquired by self-certification provided the details of the
products submitted to the publishing body such as energy star. There is hope to have a new
floor which keeps rising, which seems to become through.

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References
Dahl, R., 2010. Greenwashing: do you know what you're buying?
Jackson, D., and Chapman, E., 2012. Non-technical skill gaps in Australian business graduates.
Education+ Training, 54(2/3), pp.95-113.
Lyon, T.P., and Montgomery, A.W., 2013. Tweet jacked: The impact of social media on
corporate Greenwash — Journal of business ethics, 118(4), pp.747-757.
Tanyel, F., Mitchell, M.A., and McCallum, H.G., 2015. The skillset for the success of new
business school graduates: Do prospective employers and university faculty agree? Journal of
Education for Business, 75(1), pp.33-37.