For ANN HARRIS ONLY

Purpose of Assignment

The purpose of this assignment is to provide you with an opportunity to apply communication theories and research to actual business situations. The discussion with other learning team members is designed to identify and consider different perspectives. 

Assignment Steps

Read Case 2: Global Shared Services, McDonald's Corporation, located in Mastering Leadership. 

Discuss in your learning team the communications and group behavioral issues that might arise in an organization that hires employees for their first job. Each member must post at least two substantive comments (a minimum of 350 words each) to the learning team discussion area. 

Each team member must also submit a summary of the team discussion in a paper of 1,050-words or more. 

Purpose of Assignment 

The purpose of this assignment is to provide you with an opportunity to apply research definitions of a creative organization to real life examples. 

Assignment Steps 

Identify and discuss several global creative organizations using the criteria and descriptions in Ch. 10 and 11 of Mastering Leadership. 

Include the strategic opportunities for change that each organization utilizes. Each member must post at least two substantive comments (a minimum of 350 words each) to the learning team discussion area that includes the following: 

• An explanation as to why these organizations should be considered as creative.
• An exploration of alternative viewpoints.

Each team member must submit a summary of the team discussion as a 1,050-word or more paper.