After you have decided on the general approach you would like to take in your report (from your own experience or a detailed description of a particular work environment), and you have decided on the specific workplace you would like to examine critically, you can begin writing your work critical report. Your report should include the following elements:
1. An introduction of the work environment and a preview of your conclusion about it. You might also include any good or bad feelings—biases—you have toward the workplace that might influence your decisions.
2. Fully developed and well-detailed sections explaining and critiquing a number of cultural values perpetuated in the workplace you are examining critically. Discuss each of these values in terms of their cultural production and contextual distribution by your employers, and your own critical consumption (accommodation, resistance, and negotiation) of these values.
3. A conclusion based on ways you think the work environment might be improved.
Your audience should be people who have work experience in the kind of job or company you are writing about, but who have not worked exactly in the same job or company. In other words, assume that your audience has fairly general knowledge of your topic, but lacks specific understanding of the particular problems you (or the employees of the workplace you have examined) have faced at work.
The report will be presented to the class and the written version will be due on the first day of presentations.
