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MGMT 3614 Spring Class Assignments

(28% Total: Assignment #1 – 14% and Assignment #2 – 14%)

· Project #1 - Cultural Audit (14%)

· DUE: Tuesday, March 11, 2014.

· Paper must be emailed to me by 11:59pm (3/11/14) in a PDF format

· Summary: Cultural Audit of an organization of your choice. Your Cultural Audit will include an analysis of “your” organization (includes but is not limited to a description of organization, discussion of present organizational culture, artifacts, values, etc.).

· Project #2 - Change Implementation Analysis (14%)

· DUE: Monday, May 12, 2014.

· Please email me a copy by 11:59pm (5/12/14) in a PDF format

· Summary: The second assignment is to write a proposal addressing the change process in your project #1 organization.

· Scenario: Your organization is being bought out by BIGGER Company, Inc . Your job will be to propose to upper management how to address the human resource challenges the company will face during the merger process. That is, how will one encourage the employees to embrace the cultural changes that are occurring during and after the merger? The Change Implementation Analysis should consist of your analysis of the buy-out situation and the proposed actions to address the merger impact on your employees’ attitudes and behaviors. That is, how is significant change going to impact your employees and how will you as the change agent in your company deal with the employee-related repercussions related to significant change.

Assignment Late Penalties: -5 points per late day.