BUSN 733: Individual Formal Business Report - Research and Analysis

This assignment requires students to write an individual formal business report (BUSN 733) on a global business topic. Students must select a topic from a provided list, which includes comparing import regulations between trading partners, evaluating technology tools for global partnerships, analyzing ethical implications of outsourcing, presenting a case study, analyzing news articles related to global business management, and examining specific country relationships. The report must adhere to a specific outline format, include a minimum of four pages of body text, and cite at least three published research sources using APA format. Students are encouraged to use the provided business report template and gather information from various sources, including interviews. The report is due August 9th and plagiarism is strictly prohibited. Resubmissions are allowed with a grade penalty for plagiarized work. The assignment emphasizes research, analysis, and effective report writing skills in the context of global business management.

BUSN 733
INDIVIDUAL FORMAL BUSINESS REPORT
Presenting Your Research
Select a Topic:
This is an individual – not a group – project. Select a topic from the list below.
Available Topics:
1. Choose two different countries who are trading partners. Compare and contrast import regulations
in these two countries. What recommendations can you make to exporters in each country that
would help them be successful?
2. Research and evaluate the top three technology tools currently used to support global business
partnerships. What made you select these at the top tools? What advantages to they offer and to
whom? Would you recommend them? Why?
3. Consider the ethical implications of companies in North America outsourcing low-skill jobs to other
countries. What are the main benefits of this trend? Who receives these benefits? What will the
global labour market look like in 10 years if this trend continues at its current pace?
4. Select a Global Business Management Case from one of your textbooks. This must be a case that
you have not yet been assigned or have worked on in the previous or current semester. Present the
case, in detail, and offer your proposed alternatives and solutions. (Case selection subject to
approval of your instructor.)
5. Global Business Management in the News. Find three mainstream news articles, no more than six
months old, which relate to Global Business Management. Analyze the articles and suggest
solutions or alternatives. Ensure that you integrate material from your Global Business
Management course work into your analysis/solutions.
6. Australia and India in 2015: What are the main issues affecting business relationships between
these two regions. How have these issues changed in the last 10 years? Based on your research,
what will this relationship look like in 2025?
7. Canada and Brazil in 2015: What are the main issues affecting business relationships between
these two regions. How have these issues changed in the last 10 years? Based on your research,
what will this relationship look like in 2025?
8. Canada and Nigeria in 2015: What are the main issues affecting business relationships between
these two regions. How have these issues changed in the last 10 years? Based on your research,
what will this relationship look like in 2025?
9. Canada and Egypt in 2015: What are the main issues affecting business relationships between
these two regions. How have these issues changed in the last 10 years? Based on your research,
what will this relationship look like in 2025?
10. Russia and France in 2015: What are the main issues affecting business relationships between
these two regions. How have these issues changed in the last 10 years? Based on your research,
what will this relationship look like in 2025?
11. Canada and Korea in 2015: What are the main issues affecting business relationships between
these two regions. How have these issues changed in the last 10 years? Based on your research,
what will this relationship look like in 2025?
12. India and China in 2015: What are the main issues affecting business relationships between these
two regions. How have these issues changed in the last 10 years? Based on your research, what will
this relationship look like in 2025?

BUSN 733
INDIVIDUAL FORMAL BUSINESS REPORT
Presenting Your Research
13. Cross-Functional Teams in Global Business: You are managing a work team with 10 people on it,
including yourself, representing freight forwarding, accounts receivable, global sales, production,
logistics and senior management. The team members are based in three different countries (your
choice) and are evenly split in terms of gender (male/female). You have one openly gay team
member. You have one queer-phobic team member. You have been put in charge of this team for
the next year and your team’s objective is to make internal business transactions (monetary and
non-monetary) flow seamlessly across borders. In addition to being in regular operational contact
with each other, team members will meet weekly.
a. Can a tool like the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator assist you in designing and managing
communications within your team? How?
b. What technology would you use to hold meetings with this team? Justify your choice.
c. Would you design a team charter to help you manage this team? Why or why not?
d. If you would employ a team charter to assist in the management of this team, what would
the key elements be?
e. What choices can you make, at the outset of this project, to support a positive team
environment for all team members?
14. Examine the role of the WTO and the IMF in global business. Is their impact, on balance, positive or
negative? Support all your statements with strong and verifiable research.
15. Discuss how trade between Canada and Cuba has changed in the last 10 years and explain why this
has happened. Discuss the challenges and opportunities associated with doing business with Cuba.
Describe at least two different scenarios for the relationship between the two countries in the
future.
Objectives:
Part One: The Report
 Research and develop a formal report on the topic you selected.
 Develop and apply effective research and organizational skills in preparing a report.
 Prepare your report using the outline format, as practiced earlier in the course, as a structure for
your report.
 Use the Business Report Template, as provided on eCentennial.
Business Research Report
Use the Business Report Template provided as a guide to preparing your report. The report should include
a cover page, a minimum of four pages of body/text (11 pt font, one inch margins), a maximum of six
pages of body/text, and a reference page containing your citations. You are required to cite at least
three published, validated research sources. There are many sources available in the Library and the
Reference Librarians are waiting to help you find them. You will lose marks for incomplete or poorly
formatted citations, and for incomplete or poorly research assertions. Every fact you state MUST be cited.
Use APA format for your citations, as demonstrated and discussed as part of the template. Further
information on APA style can be found in your textbook. There are also excellent examples available on the
Web.
Gathering Information:
Part of your assignment includes finding appropriate research sources and providing accurate and
appropriately formatted citations (APA style) for each source. A report of this nature should have a
combination of sources. You need at least three unique published, validated sources for your work. ALL
SECONDARY RESEARCH SOURCES SHOULD BE PUBLISHED, regardless of whether they are found online or
in the library. This means that the following Internet sites are NOT appropriate for your secondary
research:
 Corporate company websites (these are not published or validated by a third party)
 Blogs
You may use Wikipedia as an additional source to the three other secondary research sources that you
find. It must not be the only source. As noted above, three additional published sources must be used.

BUSN 733
INDIVIDUAL FORMAL BUSINESS REPORT
Presenting Your Research
It can be appropriate to gather primary research in the form of interviewing experts. The details of your
interview, such as the questions you prepared and the interviewee’s responses, should be included as a
transcript in the Appendix of your report. Interviews should also be properly cited using APA style. These
sources should be IN ADDITION to your secondary research - the three published sources you
find and use.
USE EXTREME CAUTION when doing research online. Please note that many students in the past have
received zero for plagiarism. Any work that you submit MUST be written by you, NOT cut and paste from
an Internet site or from some other source. If you do use a quote from a web site, it must be properly cited
within the text and on the reference page. Work that is submitted and deemed to be plagiarized will be
given a zero grade.
The report can be resubmitted after it is graded the first time and if appropriate changes are made, the
grade may be increased. Reports given a zero grade due to plagiarism, can be resubmitted and will be
graded. The final report grade will be the report grade upon resubmission, multiplied by 0.5.
Materials to be submitted on or before August 9th at 11:00pm into the digital drop box.:
1. Formal business research report
2. Report Outline (can be included in the report as an appendix)