RMT366 Assignments
Assignment 2 Case Analysis
This document is to be used to identify your organization, describe your organization in detail (often referred to as an organizational scan-see below), and create an initial/proposed timeline to assess and create a change plan for your organization. This document should be in a proposal or report form. It needs to be at least 4 pages long (double-spaced), using whatever format you choose. Address the document to me, or both the principal and me.
First-off: make sure you have contacted a principal and have received some sort of positive verification that you can use this organization as your "case study." You will not be able to do a "physical visit" to the organization you choose. If you do not have a contact that you can reach via email, etc., you may research any business you choose that provides you with the information you need to successfully complete the project.
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Through this assignment I will be able to provide you with feedback and guidance to ensure you are able to successfully complete the project.
This database may help you identify a corporation for study:
https://startabusiness.org/wa/business-search/#Advanced_Search
(Links to an external site.)
See attached instructions.
Have an e-mail record of your contact if possible.
Describe your organization in detail to me. Make sure to include products, services, organizational structure and use following from the Organizational Scan article that is attached:
ORGANIZATIONAL SCAN DOMAINS:
• External Business Environment
• Mission/Vision
• Strategy/Goals
• Values
• Structure
• Leadership
• Management
• Management Practices
• People
• Climate
• Policies/Procedures
• Systems
• Work Processes
• Objectives
• Measures
• Workplace Environment
• Products/Services
• Organizational Results
You may not gather information on each point but gather as much information as you can.
Guidelines: Using the "Phases of OD Programs," on p. 121 in the French & Bell text create a proposed timeline for securing and performing the first four of the seven phases of OD programs: entry, contracting, diagnosis, and feedback, using a maximum of one page, of the four page minimum.
Feel free to use a table format with respective OD phases, contact person (principal), timeline, and preferred outcome in each column. Remember that this timeline needs to be in synch with the course requirements/timelines, and leaves room for flexibility in scheduling. In other words, don't leave stuff until the last minute. If you schedule an appointment required to complete an assignment, one day before an assignment due date, you are asking for trouble.
Formatting information:
Please use section headings for each area of information you are presenting STRUCTURAL: vision, mission, budget, org. structure, general description of principals, etc.), HUMAN RESOURCES: numbers of employees, policies in place, evaluations, etc; POLITICAL: governance, how organized, corporation, department, partnership, non-profit, etc.; SYMBOLIC: sense making, communication, how the organization is defined to stakeholders and teams.
Remember that with an APA format paper (one option) title would all be in caps, section headings would be centered with the first letters of each word capped, sub-headings would be italicized and aligned left. Not necessary to use colons with headings, nor citations and references. Everything would be double-spaced, including paragraph breaks.
If you have concerns regarding your writing get in touch with the online writing center ahead of the assignment submission. Their contact information is:
Email consultations are available on a first-come/first-served basis by emailing your paper to onlinetutoring@cwu.edu. Email requests should include the following:
Name & Student ID
Campus & Major
Year of study (Junior/Senior)
Languages spoken
Course # and Professor
I've attached a little article that describes the concept of an "Organizational Scan" for your review.
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Here is a longer but very informative article on organizational scan:
FOUR 04-08-ART-TheOrganizational SCAN-Tosti-V.1.pdf
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I have attached some examples of proposal such as this that may help you. I do not expect that you will have the level of detail that is in these, they are just guides. These proposals indicate that the principal has already been contacted so yours will be structured slightly differently.
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Proposed headings:
Introduction
Purpose
Organization Description
Analysis of organization based upon the four frames and categorizing the organizational scan domains under each (there can be overlap do the best you can):
Structural
Political
Symbolic
Human Resources
Goals and Objectives/Research
Timelines Benefits/Anticipated Outcomes
Contact Information