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Please consider a problem in your workplace or community that you…
Please consider a problem in your workplace or community that you would like to solve. The problem you identify should be focused and solvable.
Some examples might be the following:
Your workplace should use texting to communicate among employees for some situations, rather than email.
The alley behind your townhouse community has trash and debris building up. It should be cleaned up.
An intersection in your community should have a traffic light.
Your company now uses Google mail. You feel it should switch to Outlook.
The printer in your department is networked to every computer in your department. Employees waste valuable time walking to the printers to pick up their printouts. Each office should have its own printer.
The library in your community does not have enough books. The library has a policy of disregarding books that are not checked out within a year. This results in many potentially popular books being eliminated.
A sidewalk in your community is in significant disrepair. It should be broken up and redone.
The staff members at your place of work should have a person to confide in to complain or blow the whistle on other employees who are not performing well or who misbehave. There is no Human Resources unit to which an employee can share reports in confidence. You need this type of HR unit or person.
The football field at your local high school has items that need to be repaired. Perhaps the scoreboard, the bleachers, or the field itself have problems that need to be addressed.
Please take some time to consider a problem in your workplace or community, one that can be solved by an individual (e.g., a manager, owner, department head, etc.) or a group of individuals (e.g., a board of directors).
Respond to this discussion topic by answer the following questions:
What is the problem that you have identified?
Is this a community problem or a workplace problem? (choose one)
How can the problem be solved or at least addressed?
Who can implement this solution?
What evidence is there to show that this problem exists?
How will you demonstrate this evidence to your decision-maker?
Some examples could be the following:
If you are writing about an intersection that needs a traffic light, you might show pictures of the intersection, or even show a brief video of the intersection showing its precariousness. You might also interview 3-4 people who live near or drive through the intersection.
If you are writing about the need for repairing the local football field, you might show pictures of the items in disrepair. You might also interview 3-4 people who have experienced the problem.
If you are writing about a need to move from Google mail to Outlook, you might show screen captures of what the Google mail interface looks like alongside screen captures of what the Outlook interface looks like.
Please note that, in this discussion topic, you do not have to show the pictures, interviews, videos, or screen captures. You simply need to state the ways in which you could demonstrate the problem.
