BUS 520 ASSIGNMENT 3

Assignment 3: Position Paper: Power, Politics, and Culture

First Name Last Name

Strayer University

BUS 520

Prof. Andrea Banto

October 15, 2017

Instructions (please delete)

Due: Week 8, worth 250 points

Length: The assignment should be five to seven pages, excluding title page and reference page

Important: You will continue with the same organization you selected in Assignment 1.

Focus: For this assignment, analyze the ways power and politics have influenced an organization’s culture. You’ll apply best practices you learned in course resources and your own research to make recommendations for improving this organization’s culture.

Key considerations:

· Power and politics greatly influence an organization’s culture. In business, the culture can make or break an organization’s productivity.

· You will make recommendations on how to improve the culture in your selected organization, focusing on the problem and weaknesses you identified in Assignment 1

· The purpose of this position paper is to present and support your recommendations to improve the culture.

· Research the organizational culture of your selected organization and any articles related to the topic and relevant to your research.

References needed: at least two quality resources such as the course textbook, company website, business websites (CNBC, Bloomberg, etc.), resources from the Strayer Library, and/or outside sources. Note: Wikipedia and web-based blogs do not qualify as credible resources.

PLEASE REMOVE THE TEXT IN RED THROUGHOUT THE PAPER AND REPLACE WITH THE REQUIRED INFORMATION!!

Leave the text in black as it is. You are required to write the questions and then provide the response or use headings for each section.

Assignment 3: Position Paper: Power, Politics, and Culture

Introduction

In this section, provide a brief introduction of the company you focused on in Assignment 1 and restate the problem you identified.

1. Sources of Power

· Review the sources of power as described in the textbook.

· Discuss how these sources of power could be used by management to improve organizational performance and benefit your department. Be specific about how you will use them (actionable items).

2. Leadership Behavior and Culture

· Provide specific recommendations (and justify each) explaining how the study of power and politics could influence the leadership behavior.

· Discuss how influencing the leadership behavior as a result of these recommendations could improve the organizational culture.

3.Leadership Influence

· First, discuss the importance and complexity of leadership behavior.

· Second, discuss how leadership behavior influence organizational structure.

· Third, discuss how leadership behavior influence performance (individual and organizational).

4. Executive Summary

· Summarize your recommendations for ways in which the organization could build a stronger culture. Focus on the actionable items you recommended.

· Note: An executive summary is a condensed version of your full report.

· It should summarize briefly all the main points in concise paragraphs.

· It should be written clearly and should use language appropriate for the audience.

· You will write this last.

Sources

Be sure to cite all your sources; provide at least two (2-3) qualified sources (i.e., peer-reviewed journals, government, or a professional organization Website). Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not quality as academic resources

Here are examples of sources (please deleted and replace with yours)

Sample Source List

1. Michael Harvey, 2013, The Nuts & Bolts of College Writing, http://libdatab.strayer.edu/login?url=http://search. ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=590706&site=eds-live&scope=site

2. William R. Stanek, 2010, Storyboarding Techniques chapter in Effective Writing for Business, College and Life, http:// libdatab.strayer.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=359141&site=e ds-live&scope=site&ebv=EB&ppid=pp_23

3. Zyad Hicham, 2017, Vocabulary Growth in College-Level Students’ Narrative Writing, http://libdatab.strayer.edu/ login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=edsdoj&AN=edsdoj.9b7fad40e529462bafe3a936 aaf81420&site=eds-live&scope=site

4. Anya Kamenetz, July 10, 2015, The Writing Assignment That Changes Lives, https://www.npr.org/sections/ ed/2015/07/10/419202925/the-writing-assignment-that-changes-lives

5. Brad Thor, June 14, 2016, The Best Writing Advice I Ever Got, http://time.com/4363050/brad-thor-best-writing-advice/

6. Karen Hertzberg, June 15, 2017, How to Improve Writing Skills in 15 Easy Steps, https://www.grammarly.com/blog/ how-to-improve-writing-skills/

7. Roy Peter Clark, 2008, Writing Tools: 55 Essential Strategies for Every Writer

8. C.M. Gill, 2014, The Psychology of Grading and Scoring, Essential Writing Skills for College & Beyond

9. ABC Company’s Policy & Procedures Committee, Employee Dress and Attendance Policy, this is a policy in my office

10. Henry M. Sayre, 2014, The Humanities: Culture, Continuity and Change Vol 1, this is the HUM111 textbook