You are to decide on an organization that you want to evaluate. The organization can be a current or a past employer of yours. It must be a company with which at least you have significant familiarity. It is important that you have some knowledge of the inner workings of the company– its struggles, its strengths, its culture, and so forth . You will produce a 2-3 page written report (excluding cover sheet, references and any figures, tables or appendices). The paper should include the following sections:
Organization Background – Provide just enough details on the company for me to be able to understand the problem that will be described. Resist the urge to provide irrelevant details and feel free to omit or disguise any details that might be sensitive in nature. [about ½ page]
Organizational Culture – Provide a brief description of the elements of the company’s culture in terms of artifacts, shared values, and shared assumptions as well as the dominant culture based on the competing values framework. Use pages 547-559 in your textbook as a guide for this section. [about 1 page]
Problem – Describe, specifically, one problem that the company is struggling with that will serve as the focus of the paper. Resist the urge to discuss multiple problems–focus on one specific issue with which the organization is struggling. Be sure to focus on a problem that within the scope of this course. [about 1 page]
All work submitted for grading shall be of collegiate quality, language, depth and organization. All work should be proofread, free of grammatical errors, include proper citations, and be in accordance with The Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 7th ed.
