Week 1 Report

Your week one paper asks you to do this..

Week 1: Identify a subject organization. Provide an initial assessment of some organizational problem utilizing relevant OD and change themes. Provide an annotated reference list of at least five peer-reviewed resources that can help you better understand the OD and change themes, and assess the organizational problem.

USE THESE LEVEL ONE HEADINGS AFTER YOU PROVIDE A BRIEF INTRODUCTION THAT INTRODUCES THE PURPOSE OF THE PAPER AND THE SUBTOPICS YOU WILL COVER.

Case Organization

In this section address the questions, what is the organization? what does it do? and who does it do it to/for? (BE SURE where you are providing facts about the organization you provide credible sources to support your claims of fact.)

Initial Assessment

In this section provide an initial assessment of some organizational problems that are evident in your case study organization. Your assessment in other courses have focused on problems related specifically to individuals, group/teams, or organizational levels (that were the focus of the specific course). In this course, you will use your full range of organizational and leadership theory knowledge across all levels and interact between the levels to determine needed interventions and change.

Symptoms

In this subheading answer the question: What are the symptoms of the problems?

Evidence

In this subheading answer the question: What is the evidence that problems actually exist?

Relevant Themes

In this subheading answer the question: What are the relevant OD and change themes that might explain the problems (and not just the symptoms)?

Annotated Reference List

In this section Provide an annotated reference list of at least five peer-reviewed resources that can help you better understand the team’s themes and assess the organizational problem. IMPORTANT – an Annotated Reference List is not like the regular reference list at the end of a paper. An annotated reference list is a list of references that after the reference you provide a brief summary (usually about 150 words) descriptive and evaluative paragraph. The purpose of the annotation is to inform the reader of the relevance, accuracy, and quality of the sources cited.

The reference you select for your annotated reference list are not the references you use for this paper. They are studies you have selected from the library or other credible sources which will be valuable in your future research on the team issues which may be problematic to your case organization.

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