Borneo: Paradise Under Siege

Borneo: Paradise Under Siege

The websites for extra insight into Fairfield are Government statistics through census data, a link between occupation and income levels,   http://www.trademe.co.nz/jobs/salary-guide

and finally http://www.enz.org/new-zealand-salaries.html.  There may be other sites that you find as well but these plus the Zoodle.co.nz site allow you to cross reference your data

Congratulations on submitting your first assessment due on Monday at 10.30am. You are moving towards more complex analysis and discussion of data about Fairfeild. One point is to remember  that you will do this under  your teacher's guidance so that you can write the Malaysia based report with more confidence

Make sure you have read the required part of the text book for the next week, pages 46 -59 

The Allan Report (1989 - 2008) will be sent to you electronically this week or by Monday of week 3.
To prepare for next week students need to read the Fairfield data on pages 83 -93 of the student book

Fairfield is located in the Hutt Valley of the Wellington region. Students explore the demography of the Lower Hutt region and describe selected features in graphs or tables to compare these features with the rest of New Zealand. The reason for this exploration is students are required to choose n appropriate  sole trader type of business for this local  neighbourhood shopping centre, Fairfield.

See the location of the area in the middle of the image below to be studied in week 3. Wellington city to the right of the image

See Neighbourhood Shopping Centres in Lower Hutt ( 1989 - 2008) by Dr Allan

Organisational Structure Week 2

This week the reading is about how organisations vary their structures and the elements for the success of organisations  The reading for this week is based on pages 313 - 327 of the text book. In the following, Steve jobs talks on the video from youtube about how to be successful in business, Lets see what he  says about how business succeeds.

Welcome "Ardents" to the KYSB Research and Writing for Business paper

The teachers are

Alison Scott, David Birkett, Gaynor Birkett, Patsy Deverall

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We model the first report to you to show you each section. This is based on a typical University style report with academic references, visual data and analysis, recommendations and implications. See the Fairfield local shopping centre below. This is situated in Lower Hutt near Wellington New Zealand. It is like any other local shopping centre, small and convenient. When you read through your materials you will see that you are required to learn how to describe data (visual) and demographic material, to analysis and discuss the local region and decide what is the most appropriate business to operate in this shopping centre.Then you write a report about this

Use your Academic Writing Skills

Use your IELTS writing skills
to assist the report writing process

Assessment 1 Week 4 Data Description Practice 5%

Assessment 2 Week 5 Data Discussion 10%

Assessment 3 Week 6 ( Mid Trimester open book test )15%

Assessment 4 Week 7 Recommendations and Implications 10%

Assessment 5 Week 12 Individual Malaysia Report 20%

Final Test Week 12 40% 

( Note:  to pass this course students must gain a minimum of 40% in the final test)

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You are invited to participate

Fairfield Lower Hutt

Your first report is based on selecting an appropriate business for this local shopping centre

We want you to become good researchers. See this great website  to help your study skills

and we want you to become confident writers in the University and to know how to reference a report or an essay

and to go on safari as a research and writer with your questioning