week 2

CLED 835

Organizational Culture: Overview Assignment Instructions

Overview

Throughout the class you will work on a series of assignments that focus on the organizational culture for one specific non-profit organization. To complete this series of assignments, students are asked to identify one specific non-profit organization (i.e. church, non-profit ministry, para-church organization) and to utilize the same organization for all three assignments.

The three specific assignments that will utilize the same non-profit organization are:

1. Organizational Culture: Overview Assignment

2. Organizational Culture: Assessment Assignment

3. Organizational Culture: Action Plans Assignment

Instructions

As the first step in the series of Organizational Culture assigments, you will identify the organization (please choose an organization that you have personal knowledge of) and provide a general overview of the organization using the “Three Levels of Culture” identified by Edgar Schein.

The Three Levels of Culture presented by Edgar Schein are:

1. Artifacts

2. Espoused Beliefs and Values

3. Basic Underlying Assumptions

Please note this is not an assessment of the organization; rather, this assignment is designed to provide information about the non-profit organization.

You should keep in mind the following as you complete the assignment:

1. The assignment should be formatted according to current APA formatting standards.

2. The assignment should demonstrate interaction with the course resources.

3. All academic papers at the doctoral level should include a title page.

4. Please include section headings throughout the assignment.

5. Reference the grading rubric for more details about the assignment.

The suggested outline for this assignment (Organizational Culture Overview Assignment) is the following:

1. Introduction (no more than 1 page)

a. Include the name of the organization

b. Include your relationship to the organization

2. Overview of Organization’s Artifacts (1 page)

3. Overview of Organization’s Espoused Beliefs and Values (1 page)

4. Overview of Organization’s Basic Underlying Assumptions (1 page)

5. Conclusion (no more than ½ page)

Note: Your assignment will be checked for originality via the Turnitin plagiarism tool.