Running head: RESEARCHED JUSTIFICATION REPORT 1 RESEARCHED JUSTIFICATION REPORT 2 Researched Justification Report Jaclyn Gosciak Strayer university April 29, 2015 RESEARCHED JUSTIFICATION REPORT Problem Statement Road works, late trains, broken alarm clocks; are examples of excuses that workers provide for coming late to work. However, within the business world, the competitiveness of the market does give space for legitimate or fake lateness. Continual staff lateness has the capacity to influence the productiveness and profitability of the company adversely. There are lots of companies which have bowed to competitors considering that they might no longer maintain up with strict timelines commonly observed in the higher circles of industry operations. Clearly, lateness is the scenario where employees fail to report to work early so as to start their respective working day shifts on time. Overview of alternatives There are several choices that the administration can undertake to get to the bottom of this predicament. The primary option is to provide a transparent lateness policy. The policy must have the right timekeeping requirements, clear shift patterns and the working hours. The policy must set out the consequences of reckless and persistent lateness. Additionally, the new rules should state the disciplinary measures to be undertaken within the event that the rules are violated. Any working time misused has to be compensated and so the policy must be explicit on how the employees will make up for the lost time. Any employee who foresees the likelihood of reporting late to work has to report this to the specified officer with duly explained motives. This would give the management or the officer in charge to plan in advance on how to cover up for this time (Benbow, 2011). Criteria There are two options that can be used in saving the situation. . The primary one is to have the workers sign a sheet every time they report on and off duty. Beneath this policy, every employee has to know of the existence of the policy and the enforcement needs to be fair and regular. This makes it hard for the implementation process to take root since it not always easy to manage this kind of program. A different option is to make use of a biometric computing device where the employees signs in with their finger prints each time they report to work. They're additionally supposed to log off after the end of their shifts/working day. This may be the easiest alternative seeing that it's particularly convenient to watch the staff when you consider that there's an automated recording and monitoring method. It's for this reason a favored choice over the manual signing which can with no trouble be manipulated. However, there is need for further research to determine the workability of this technology.. Although there is proof of its success in other areas like the registration and balloting techniques, it's vital that the success of this tech ...

1. Running head: RESEARCHED JUSTIFICATION REPORT 1
RESEARCHED JUSTIFICATION REPORT 2
Researched Justification Report
Jaclyn Gosciak
Strayer university
April 29, 2015
RESEARCHED JUSTIFICATION REPORT
Problem Statement
Road works, late trains, broken alarm clocks; are examples of
excuses that workers provide for coming late to work. However,
within the business world, the competitiveness of the market
does give space for legitimate or fake lateness. Continual staff

2. lateness has the capacity to influence the productiveness and
profitability of the company adversely. There are lots of
companies which have bowed to competitors considering that
they might no longer maintain up with strict timelines
commonly observed in the higher circles of industry operations.
Clearly, lateness is the scenario where employees fail to report
to work early so as to start their respective working day shifts
on time.
Overview of alternatives
There are several choices that the administration can undertake
to get to the bottom of this predicament. The primary option is
to provide a transparent lateness policy. The policy must have
the right timekeeping requirements, clear shift patterns and the
working hours. The policy must set out the consequences of
reckless and persistent lateness. Additionally, the new rules
should state the disciplinary measures to be undertaken within
the event that the rules are violated. Any working time misused
has to be compensated and so the policy must be explicit on
how the employees will make up for the lost time. Any
employee who foresees the likelihood of reporting late to work
has to report this to the specified officer with duly explained
motives. This would give the management or the officer in
charge to plan in advance on how to cover up for this time
(Benbow, 2011).
Criteria
There are two options that can be used in saving the situation. .
The primary one is to have the workers sign a sheet every time
they report on and off duty. Beneath this policy, every
employee has to know of the existence of the policy and the
enforcement needs to be fair and regular. This makes it hard for
the implementation process to take root since it not always easy
to manage this kind of program. A different option is to make
use of a biometric computing device where the employees signs
in with their finger prints each time they report to work. They're
additionally supposed to log off after the end of their
shifts/working day. This may be the easiest alternative seeing

3. that it's particularly convenient to watch the staff when you
consider that there's an automated recording and monitoring
method. It's for this reason a favored choice over the manual
signing which can with no trouble be manipulated. However,
there is need for further research to determine the workability
of this technology.. Although there is proof of its success in
other areas like the registration and balloting techniques, it's
vital that the success of this technology within the human
resource area.
Methods
This predicament was established after a keen observation of
the current workplace tendencies where lateness is one of the
greatest problems hampering many companies. An evaluation of
the eventualities revealed that this had been a recurrent
challenge that was once slowly fitting unmanageable. In a
number of interviews, managers said that it was fairly irritating
to deal with workplace time theft, principally where workers
report late to work. In other cases, the staff leaves their
workstation before the stipulate time. A close study of previous
written manuscripts and case studies portray this as one of the
most common workplace issues that are threatening the
profitability and productivity of the working environment.
References
Top of Form
Benbow, L. B. (2011). Sorting letters, sorting lives: Delivering
diversity in the United States Postal Service. Lanham, Md:
Lexington Books.
MORLEY, T. (2015). How to Deal With an Employee Who Is
Habitually Late. Franchising World, 47(10), 46-48.
Bottom of Form
Running head: SHORT TITLE OF YOUR PAPER 1
SHORTENED TITLE IN ALL CAPS 9

4. Justification Report
(Student Name)
ENG 315 – Professional Communications
(Professor Name)
(Correct Date) August 11, 2014
Transmittal letter
Presents report to reader and summarizes main points or
analysis (p. 206)
Table of Contents
Executive Summary 4
Problem Statement 5
Terminology 5
Major Sections of the Report 5
Alternatives 5
Criteria. 5
General Methods. 5
Major conclusions. 6
Scope and Limitations of the Research 6
Criteria 6
Methods 6
Overview of Alternatives 6
Evaluation of Alternatives 6
Criterion 1. 6
Criterion 2 7
Findings and Analysis 7
Recommendation 8

5. References 8
Executive Summary
(i.e. Abstract, Overview, or Précis) (1 page)
-Summarizes the essential elements in an entire report
-Presents the report in miniature: the introduction, body, and
summary as well as conclusions and recommendations (p. 207)
REMOVE THIS PAGE FROM YOUR REPORT and ALL THE
INSTRUCTIONS
Superstructure for Justification Report with Explanation
Preliminary Parts—in order
Title page (page 1)
-APA format
Transmittal Letter (page 2)
-Presents report to reader and summarizes main points or
analysis (p. 206)
Table of Contents (page 3)
Executive Summary (i.e. Abstract, Overview, or Précis) (page
4)
-Summarizes the essential elements in the entire report
-Presents the report in miniature: the introduction, body, and
summary as well as conclusions and recommendations (p. 207)
Report Text—the actual report will begin on this page, page 5
References: The references page beginson a separate page

6. following the report.
Parenthetical citations in other sections of your report will lead
readers to the References listed here, just as they do in a more
traditional research report.
Title of Report
Introduction (taken from p. 208 in book); the introduction does
not get a header.
Problem Statement
Begin with Problem Statement
-Orients reader to the topic and problem being investigated
-Why is the topic important? Explain how report will help
reader solve the problem.
Terminology
Next, define any terminology needed by readers to understand
the report
Overview of Alternatives
Then, preview the Major Sections of the Report (write this
section LAST):
· Alternative A (Describe the courses of action or possible
solutions that were investigated. Which were rejected and
why?)
· Alternative B (Describe the courses of action or possible
solutions that were investigated. Which were rejected and
why?)
Criteria
Criterion 1 [name it] Describe the five criteria by which the
alternatives were judged.

7. Criterion 2
Criterion 3
Criterion 4
Criterion 5
Research Methods
Describe general methods that were used to research needed
information to determine the best recommended alternative.
Evaluation of Alternatives
Criterion 1, [name it]
Alternative A
1. narrate findings from research article 1 here
2. narrate findings from research article 2 here
Alternative B
1. narrate findings from research article 1 here
2. narrate findings from research article 2 here
Criterion 2, [name it]
Alternative A
3. narrate findings from research article 1 here
4. narrate findings from research article 2 here
Alternative B
3. narrate findings from research article 1 here
4. narrate findings from research article 2 here
Use the information you found in your research to evaluate the
alternatives, based on the criteria you have described, following
the pattern above. Take each criterion in order and discuss it in
relationship to the alternatives.
This section evaluates each alternative (i.e. possible solution)
by each criterion presented in turn (i.e. each standard you are
using to determine how well each possible solution might work)
Include relevant facts and evidence from your research (1
primary source; 3 secondary sources). Research should be used

8. to support each evaluative statement. This section should read
like a narrative.
Findings and Analysis
Briefly summarize in narrative form the major discoveries that
emerged from the Evaluation of Alternatives section. Include a
visual, such as the one below.
This section assesses, overall, what you discovered in your
research, and it breaks down the feasibility of each alternative
course of action you just discussed in the last section in a
briefer form, for readers who do not have time to read the
narrated, longer Evaluation of Alternatives section.
“Feasibility” just means possibility – in this case, you are
considering the possibility of adopting the alternatives based on
the criteria by which they are measured. See Figures 3 and 3
below:
Figure 1: Alternatives Analyzed by Criteria
Criteria
Machine A results
Machine B results
Cost
Expensive
Cheap
Efficiency
High
High
Construction Time
Long
Moderate
Air Pollution
Low
Moderate
Et Cetera
Moderate
High

9. Figure 2: Alternatives in Figure 1 Broken Down Further by
Feasibility
Criteria
Machine A
Machine B
Cost
Low
HIGH
Efficiency
HIGH
HIGH
Construction Time
Low
Moderate
Air Pollution
HIGH
Moderate
Et Cetera
Moderate
HIGH
TOTAL FEASIBILTY
Low-Moderate
Moderate-HIGH
The chart in Figure 3, based on the results in Figure 2, indicates
that Machine B has overall HIGHER feasibility (i.e. it makes
more sense to adopt based on the results) than Machine B (with
three HIGH feasibility criteria and two Moderate feasibility
criteria). By contrast, Machine A only has 2 HIGH feasibility
criteria, two Low feasibility criteria, and one Moderate
criterion.

10. Charts like these can help readers grasp the long narrative of
data in the Evaluation of Alternatives section quickly and
simply. They also help to justify your recommendation to
come, and show readers at a glance how you arrived at that
recommendation.
Recommendation
Write a one to three sentence recommendation of the
alternatives you suggest based on your analysis of the data in
the previous section.
-If several alternatives are highly feasible as recommendations,
you might rank them and explain why or how each receives its
ranking based on the criteria you feel your reader will privilege
most. You might also recommend the top two alternatives and
explain why you recommend them over the others
-Suggest specific steps that readers can take to act on each of
your recommendation(s)
References
This is your precise APA style References page; see tab 7 in
your Maimon, Peritz and Yancy handbook. It begins on a
separate page following the report.
Parenthetical citations in other sections of your report will lead
readers to the References listed here, just as they do in a more
traditional research report
Outline of Justification Report following the preliminary pages:
1. Introduction
2. Problem Statement

11. 3. Terminology
4. Overview of Alternatives
a. Alternative A
b. Alternative B
5. Criteria
a. Criterion 1
b. Criterion 2
c. Criterion 3
d. Criterion 4
e. Criterion 5
6. Research Methods
7. Evaluation of Alternatives, in order
a. Criterion 1, [name it]
i. Alternative A
1. narrate findings from research article 1 here
ii. Alternative B
1. narrate findings from research article 2 here
b. Criterion 2, [name it]
i. Alternative A
1. narrate findings from research article 1 here
ii. Alternative B
1. narrate findings from research article 2 here
8. Findings and Analysis, including chart/s
9. Recommendations
10. References (begin on a separate page)