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The focus is on examining different jobs in the field of human services. You found multiple jobs in the field of human services on O*Net and you will use that information in this Discussion. You can also use information from your local classified ads for this Discussion.
Please respond to the following statements/questions:
- Pick one job that interests you from one of the career resources you learned about this week.
- In reviewing your job choice, briefly discuss some of
the information from the sections listed below:
- Tasks, tools, and technology
- Knowledge, skills, and abilities
- Work activities and context
- Wages and employment trends
- State and national availability
- Based on the information you found, why do you think you are well matched to the field of human services?
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Please read the chapter two information on subjective relativism and watch the video. Attached you will find some additional information on this topic that addresses the related Ethical Relativism issue. Be sure to understand the distinction between them. We will return to this topic later on in Chapter 11.Create your post and respond to two classmates.
Ethical Relativism problem
EthicsDefinition: The study of character, morals, human conduct, and human values, right and wrong.
1. Ethical Relativism: An individual prescriptive or descriptive stance regarding the theory that there are no morally binding universal standards for all peoples. Descriptive=and empirical study. Normative=what ought to be or what we should do.
2. Cultural Relativism: A descriptive or prescriptive stance regarding the relativity of values in cultures.
3. Both 1 and 2 are in contradistinction to Ethical Objectivism.
4. Ethical Objectivism: One or more moral principles are objectively binding on all peoples. A normative stance (i.e. implies obligation).
5. Ethical Absolutism: When a theory admits of no exceptions (i.e. “an exceptionless command” such as Kant’s Categorical Imperative).
6. “Although all ethical absolutists are ethical objectivists, not all ethical objectivists are ethical absolutists.
Ethical objectivists believe that universal moral principles exist but that many of these principles allow for exceptions.”( see p.215)
Five Problems with Ethical Relativism
a) Ethical Relativism in no way guarantees tolerance; rather, each individual society decides arbitrarily what it wants to be tolerant about.
b) Ethical Relativism can justify brutal and inhumane actions.
c) There is at least one universal moral principle that can be found.
d) Genuine moral progress requires a transcultural moral standard, but ethical relativism rules out there being such a standard, and so cannot account for the moral progress that has in fact taken place.
e) If we leave decisions of right and wrong up to the majority of each society, then on issues for which the vote is close, the rightness of an action, such as capital punishment, could vary from day to day.
Stewart Kelly, Thinking Well, an Introduction to Critical Thinking, (Mayfield Publishing Co., 2001), pp. 207-218.
Also, I need response to this student please
Subjective relativism is the action of something being approved by one person, but it may be disapproved by another. Not everyone will agree and approve of behavior at the same time, at the space place. Every person has their own beliefs and morality of what they believe is right. We can not impose what we believe on what others believe in. Each individual has a different morality and most do not have the same rightness from wrong actions. For example, in the video, the speaker states, " people say everything is relative, even truth..." This inference is wrong because truth to an individual might not be true for another.
In my opinion, it is not best to be a subjective relativist because every individual has their own beliefs and what they think is right or wrong. Not everyone is going to like being told something is one way or the other. Something I feel is right of doing; another individual might find it is a bad idea.
and this one too
Ethics is concerned with the definition of deciding what is good or bad and morally right or wrong. Subjective relativism holds the idea that an individual chooses to what is right or wrong for themselves. It is based on the notion that what is right for a particular individual may not be right for another person. Therefore, each individual decides what is right for them and what is wrong. For example, abortion might be the right thing to do for a specific person and wrong for someone else. An individual is in charge of their values which vary from one person to another. There is no concept of moral principle is subjective relativism, and each behavior and action is based on an individual's desire.
I believe that subjective relativism is wrong because it gives individuals room to claim that their actions are morally right if they approve of it, regardless of the harm it might have on others. This would mean that even in the most severe cases of an evil action, there are no universal concepts of wrong or right. Also, I believe that subjective relativism is wrong because each person would have their own rules that might distort society's peace. This lacks a concept of the guiding principles of right and wrong. Molarity guides people on what is wrong and right and what characters an individual is supposed to develop, and which characters not to create. Subjective relativism denies culture and society the right to decide what is right or wrong. In deciding on any moral opinion, each person is capable of being in error. Therefore, subjective relativism is wrong because whatever individuals think is right for them cannot be suitable for the entire population.
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Background: Many organizations are facing the painful reality that they are not keeping up with the demands of the national, let alone global marketplace. The most blatant examples of forced transformations have come from technology companies – many of whom have been finding it difficult to keep up with continuous changes in their industry. Other companies, however, that deal with more traditional products, like clothing, cosmetics, and various health care products, have also been challenged by the changing times. Today, companies like Macy’s, K-Mart, Sears, Hewlett Packard, Zales, and Barnes & Noble are just a few that either need or face transformation.
Project Objectives: To integrate the topics of the entire course by putting yourself in the shoes of a practicing leader from a real-life organization, reveal her/his dilemma, define goals for change & transformation, and prepare a working plan for change. The recommended length of the paper is10 pages in APA format, but no more than 15 (not including references, abstract, and cover page). You are encouraged and expected to use new and primary sources for your research. This will make sure your projects include up-to-date information.
Project Requirements – Organizational Case Study Analysis:
This project will be a team effort. Each student will propose an organization to analyze; preferably a company that would benefit from transformation – one that you are either professionally familiar with or that you have heard about in the news. At the end of the first week of class you will post your information about this company on the Discussion Board (a template for your submission is provided below). Here, you will share ideas about how the organization you have identified is adapting to external influences (such as competitive forces, global economics, etc.) and internal influences (such as communication dynamics, power struggles, or cultural misalignment). During the first couple days of the second week, the professor will select several organizations from the submitted proposals. These selections will then determine the project teams.
Students will select an organization to study, from those identified by the professor, thereby aligning themselves with a specific team. This will happen on a first-come, first served basis, after the selected companies have been identified on Blackboard - and the teams will include no more than six, and preferably five students. Note: Instructors reserve the right to make any changes to the teams’ composition to ensure that every student is properly assigned to a team. The respective team members will then share responsibility for conducting the analysis, examining the organization’s activities through various frames -- structural, human resources, political and symbolic. They will prepare a report of their findings, outlining relevant claims and conclusions, demonstrating their understanding of organizational frameworks, and supporting their work with evidence and examples.
Each team will have a site within Blackboard for collaboration, with tools for a Group Discussion Board, File Exchange, email, and any other needed functions. You are welcome to use whatever other means of communication your team desires. The professor will have access to your Learning Group site and will examine it on occasion. Unless the team is experiencing problems, the professor will not participate directly.
The following structure will be used to help organize your thoughts and findings:
Group Charter and Case Description
Your team will create a charter that will support your project tasks and intergroup relations and reflect that you are members of a team that will be successful. A template for the charter is provided on Blackboard.
PART 1: Case description (Investigation stage):
Organize and conduct the discovery stage - identify the significant issue(s) that requires the organizational leader’s attention. This is where you answer questions that relate to who, what, where, when, and why.
Research and explain the context for the case, focusing on the organizational frames and necessary background information.
The background information about the organization or event puts the reader into the middle of the situation and helps them see the complexity of the situation and available options.
Background information on the company, industry, region, or country (if relevant), may be necessary to provide the context for understanding the case situation, and its political, economic and/or cultural constraints.
PART 2: Analysis and Solution (Consulting stage):
This is the “consulting” part of your project. Here you are expected to share with the reader: (a) the main issue(s) and underlying elements of the case; (b) the procedure(s) used for obtaining adequate and appropriate information for the case; (c) a detailed analysis of the situation described in the case through the prism of material from relevant coursework or discipline based literature; and (d) recommendations for how the case can be resolved. The following structure would help you present your ideas:
Case Synopsis/ Key Issues:
A brief synopsis of the case from the “consulting” point of view. Refocuses the reader’s attention on the key issues of the case and clearly specifies the objectives of the case. This is basically an “executive summary” of your findings done in a professional language.Interviews, secondary sources, observations, company website, etc., including questions for the interviews and respondents
Methods used to obtain information
Analysis of the Situation - Use the available frames, and any information from previous courses, to analyze the situation:
The structural & human resource frames (which structure would best support the transformation effort and what should its human resource efforts focus on?)
The symbolic frame (how should the organization position itself for a change in culture? How will the current culture respond to transformational efforts?)
The political frame (who are the various stakeholders and how do they relate to each other? How will the organization navigate the dynamics associated with interpersonal relationships, power, conflict, competition, coalitions, formal/informal communication systems, and the multitude issues associated with the human experience?).
Recommendations & Solutions
Identify possible solutions, possible outcomes, and forces that promote and resist change, to include supporting rationale.
A set of alternative courses of action (if you see several of them) that would resolve the problem.
Plan of action: a clear recommendation supported by theory, the frames identified in this course, and logic that can reasonably be implemented.
Recommendations must be reasonable, interesting and specific. Don’t forget to strengthen your recommendations with appropriate articles/books/websites relevant to the topics of the course.
Conclusion:
Conclude the paper with your final thoughts and implication of the potential usefulness of the results to the “client” and to you as future organizational leaders.
Appendices and References:
The analysis must include a bibliography (in APA format) of at least six sources (publications and documents that you used to compile your information and to analyze and prepare the case).
Each team member will complete a learning team member assessment at the end of Week 5. This will help the professor determine everyone’s level of contribution to the final product, to include time, effort quality and general leadership competency.
Template for Discussion Board Posting of your recommended organization
(Due by midnight Sunday of Week 1)
Organization: name, what does it do?
Access: what relationship do you have with the organization; how will you obtain information? What people and information can probably be used to research the organization, its issues, and its potential strategies for successful outcomes?
Where: where is the organization located? (it can be located anywhere in the world)
What: what is the current understanding about the nature of the problem, or issue, or decisions to be made? Why is some kind of transformation (probably) called for?
Who: who are key decision maker(s) or the strategic leadership team involved here?
When: what are the timing parameters - is this situation current, or sometime in the past or future?
Why: why is this issue important (or why should it be important) for the organization and its leaders?
Suggested length about 500 words.
Final Project
Background: Many organizations are facing the painful reality that they are not keeping up with the demands of the national, let alone global marketplace. The most blatant examples of forced transformations have come from technology companies – many of whom have been finding it difficult to keep up with continuous changes in their industry. Other companies, however, that deal with more traditional products, like clothing, cosmetics, and various health care products, have also been challenged by the changing times. Today, companies like Macy’s, K-Mart, Sears, Hewlett Packard, Zales, and Barnes & Noble are just a few that either need or face transformation.
Project Objectives: To integrate the topics of the entire course by putting yourself in the shoes of a practicing leader from a real-life organization, reveal her/his dilemma, define goals for change & transformation, and prepare a working plan for change. The recommended length of the paper is10 pages in APA format, but no more than 15 (not including references, abstract, and cover page). You are encouraged and expected to use new and primary sources for your research. This will make sure your projects include up-to-date information.
Project Requirements – Organizational Case Study Analysis:
This project will be a team effort. Each student will propose an organization to analyze; preferably a company that would benefit from transformation – one that you are either professionally familiar with or that you have heard about in the news. At the end of the first week of class you will post your information about this company on the Discussion Board (a template for your submission is provided below). Here, you will share ideas about how the organization you have identified is adapting to external influences (such as competitive forces, global economics, etc.) and internal influences (such as communication dynamics, power struggles, or cultural misalignment). During the first couple days of the second week, the professor will select several organizations from the submitted proposals. These selections will then determine the project teams.
Students will select an organization to study, from those identified by the professor, thereby aligning themselves with a specific team. This will happen on a first-come, first served basis, after the selected companies have been identified on Blackboard - and the teams will include no more than six, and preferably five students. Note: Instructors reserve the right to make any changes to the teams’ composition to ensure that every student is properly assigned to a team. The respective team members will then share responsibility for conducting the analysis, examining the organization’s activities through various frames -- structural, human resources, political and symbolic. They will prepare a report of their findings, outlining relevant claims and conclusions, demonstrating their understanding of organizational frameworks, and supporting their work with evidence and examples.
Each team will have a site within Blackboard for collaboration, with tools for a Group Discussion Board, File Exchange, email, and any other needed functions. You are welcome to use whatever other means of communication your team desires. The professor will have access to your Learning Group site and will examine it on occasion. Unless the team is experiencing problems, the professor will not participate directly.
The following structure will be used to help organize your thoughts and findings:
Group Charter and Case Description
Your team will create a charter that will support your project tasks and intergroup relations and reflect that you are members of a team that will be successful. A template for the charter is provided on Blackboard.
PART 1: Case description (Investigation stage):
Organize and conduct the discovery stage - identify the significant issue(s) that requires the organizational leader’s attention. This is where you answer questions that relate to who, what, where, when, and why.
Research and explain the context for the case, focusing on the organizational frames and necessary background information.
The background information about the organization or event puts the reader into the middle of the situation and helps them see the complexity of the situation and available options.
Background information on the company, industry, region, or country (if relevant), may be necessary to provide the context for understanding the case situation, and its political, economic and/or cultural constraints.
PART 2: Analysis and Solution (Consulting stage):
This is the “consulting” part of your project. Here you are expected to share with the reader: (a) the main issue(s) and underlying elements of the case; (b) the procedure(s) used for obtaining adequate and appropriate information for the case; (c) a detailed analysis of the situation described in the case through the prism of material from relevant coursework or discipline based literature; and (d) recommendations for how the case can be resolved. The following structure would help you present your ideas:
Case Synopsis/ Key Issues:
A brief synopsis of the case from the “consulting” point of view. Refocuses the reader’s attention on the key issues of the case and clearly specifies the objectives of the case. This is basically an “executive summary” of your findings done in a professional language.Interviews, secondary sources, observations, company website, etc., including questions for the interviews and respondents
Methods used to obtain information
Analysis of the Situation - Use the available frames, and any information from previous courses, to analyze the situation:
The structural & human resource frames (which structure would best support the transformation effort and what should its human resource efforts focus on?)
The symbolic frame (how should the organization position itself for a change in culture? How will the current culture respond to transformational efforts?)
The political frame (who are the various stakeholders and how do they relate to each other? How will the organization navigate the dynamics associated with interpersonal relationships, power, conflict, competition, coalitions, formal/informal communication systems, and the multitude issues associated with the human experience?).
Recommendations & Solutions
Identify possible solutions, possible outcomes, and forces that promote and resist change, to include supporting rationale.
A set of alternative courses of action (if you see several of them) that would resolve the problem.
Plan of action: a clear recommendation supported by theory, the frames identified in this course, and logic that can reasonably be implemented.
Recommendations must be reasonable, interesting and specific. Don’t forget to strengthen your recommendations with appropriate articles/books/websites relevant to the topics of the course.
Conclusion:
Conclude the paper with your final thoughts and implication of the potential usefulness of the results to the “client” and to you as future organizational leaders.
Appendices and References:
The analysis must include a bibliography (in APA format) of at least six sources (publications and documents that you used to compile your information and to analyze and prepare the case).
Each team member will complete a learning team member assessment at the end of Week 5. This will help the professor determine everyone’s level of contribution to the final product, to include time, effort quality and general leadership competency.
Template for Discussion Board Posting of your recommended organization
(Due by midnight Sunday of Week 1)
Organization: name, what does it do?
Access: what relationship do you have with the organization; how will you obtain information? What people and information can probably be used to research the organization, its issues, and its potential strategies for successful outcomes?
Where: where is the organization located? (it can be located anywhere in the world)
What: what is the current understanding about the nature of the problem, or issue, or decisions to be made? Why is some kind of transformation (probably) called for?
Who: who are key decision maker(s) or the strategic leadership team involved here?
When: what are the timing parameters - is this situation current, or sometime in the past or future?
Why: why is this issue important (or why should it be important) for the organization and its leaders?
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Please read the chapter two information on subjective relativism and watch the video. Attached you will find some additional information on this topic that addresses the related Ethical Relativism issue. Be sure to understand the distinction between them. We will return to this topic later on in Chapter 11.Create your post and respond to two classmates.
Ethical Relativism problem
EthicsDefinition: The study of character, morals, human conduct, and human values, right and wrong.
1. Ethical Relativism: An individual prescriptive or descriptive stance regarding the theory that there are no morally binding universal standards for all peoples. Descriptive=and empirical study. Normative=what ought to be or what we should do.
2. Cultural Relativism: A descriptive or prescriptive stance regarding the relativity of values in cultures.
3. Both 1 and 2 are in contradistinction to Ethical Objectivism.
4. Ethical Objectivism: One or more moral principles are objectively binding on all peoples. A normative stance (i.e. implies obligation).
5. Ethical Absolutism: When a theory admits of no exceptions (i.e. “an exceptionless command” such as Kant’s Categorical Imperative).
6. “Although all ethical absolutists are ethical objectivists, not all ethical objectivists are ethical absolutists.
Ethical objectivists believe that universal moral principles exist but that many of these principles allow for exceptions.”( see p.215)
Five Problems with Ethical Relativism
a) Ethical Relativism in no way guarantees tolerance; rather, each individual society decides arbitrarily what it wants to be tolerant about.
b) Ethical Relativism can justify brutal and inhumane actions.
c) There is at least one universal moral principle that can be found.
d) Genuine moral progress requires a transcultural moral standard, but ethical relativism rules out there being such a standard, and so cannot account for the moral progress that has in fact taken place.
e) If we leave decisions of right and wrong up to the majority of each society, then on issues for which the vote is close, the rightness of an action, such as capital punishment, could vary from day to day.
Stewart Kelly, Thinking Well, an Introduction to Critical Thinking, (Mayfield Publishing Co., 2001), pp. 207-218.
Also, I need response to this student please
Subjective relativism is the action of something being approved by one person, but it may be disapproved by another. Not everyone will agree and approve of behavior at the same time, at the space place. Every person has their own beliefs and morality of what they believe is right. We can not impose what we believe on what others believe in. Each individual has a different morality and most do not have the same rightness from wrong actions. For example, in the video, the speaker states, " people say everything is relative, even truth..." This inference is wrong because truth to an individual might not be true for another.
In my opinion, it is not best to be a subjective relativist because every individual has their own beliefs and what they think is right or wrong. Not everyone is going to like being told something is one way or the other. Something I feel is right of doing; another individual might find it is a bad idea.
and this one too
Ethics is concerned with the definition of deciding what is good or bad and morally right or wrong. Subjective relativism holds the idea that an individual chooses to what is right or wrong for themselves. It is based on the notion that what is right for a particular individual may not be right for another person. Therefore, each individual decides what is right for them and what is wrong. For example, abortion might be the right thing to do for a specific person and wrong for someone else. An individual is in charge of their values which vary from one person to another. There is no concept of moral principle is subjective relativism, and each behavior and action is based on an individual's desire.
I believe that subjective relativism is wrong because it gives individuals room to claim that their actions are morally right if they approve of it, regardless of the harm it might have on others. This would mean that even in the most severe cases of an evil action, there are no universal concepts of wrong or right. Also, I believe that subjective relativism is wrong because each person would have their own rules that might distort society's peace. This lacks a concept of the guiding principles of right and wrong. Molarity guides people on what is wrong and right and what characters an individual is supposed to develop, and which characters not to create. Subjective relativism denies culture and society the right to decide what is right or wrong. In deciding on any moral opinion, each person is capable of being in error. Therefore, subjective relativism is wrong because whatever individuals think is right for them cannot be suitable for the entire population.
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Background: Many organizations are facing the painful reality that they are not keeping up with the demands of the national, let alone global marketplace. The most blatant examples of forced transformations have come from technology companies – many of whom have been finding it difficult to keep up with continuous changes in their industry. Other companies, however, that deal with more traditional products, like clothing, cosmetics, and various health care products, have also been challenged by the changing times. Today, companies like Macy’s, K-Mart, Sears, Hewlett Packard, Zales, and Barnes & Noble are just a few that either need or face transformation.
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Project Requirements – Organizational Case Study Analysis:
This project will be a team effort. Each student will propose an organization to analyze; preferably a company that would benefit from transformation – one that you are either professionally familiar with or that you have heard about in the news. At the end of the first week of class you will post your information about this company on the Discussion Board (a template for your submission is provided below). Here, you will share ideas about how the organization you have identified is adapting to external influences (such as competitive forces, global economics, etc.) and internal influences (such as communication dynamics, power struggles, or cultural misalignment). During the first couple days of the second week, the professor will select several organizations from the submitted proposals. These selections will then determine the project teams.
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Each team will have a site within Blackboard for collaboration, with tools for a Group Discussion Board, File Exchange, email, and any other needed functions. You are welcome to use whatever other means of communication your team desires. The professor will have access to your Learning Group site and will examine it on occasion. Unless the team is experiencing problems, the professor will not participate directly.
The following structure will be used to help organize your thoughts and findings:
Group Charter and Case Description
Your team will create a charter that will support your project tasks and intergroup relations and reflect that you are members of a team that will be successful. A template for the charter is provided on Blackboard.
PART 1: Case description (Investigation stage):
Organize and conduct the discovery stage - identify the significant issue(s) that requires the organizational leader’s attention. This is where you answer questions that relate to who, what, where, when, and why.
Research and explain the context for the case, focusing on the organizational frames and necessary background information.
The background information about the organization or event puts the reader into the middle of the situation and helps them see the complexity of the situation and available options.
Background information on the company, industry, region, or country (if relevant), may be necessary to provide the context for understanding the case situation, and its political, economic and/or cultural constraints.
PART 2: Analysis and Solution (Consulting stage):
This is the “consulting” part of your project. Here you are expected to share with the reader: (a) the main issue(s) and underlying elements of the case; (b) the procedure(s) used for obtaining adequate and appropriate information for the case; (c) a detailed analysis of the situation described in the case through the prism of material from relevant coursework or discipline based literature; and (d) recommendations for how the case can be resolved. The following structure would help you present your ideas:
Case Synopsis/ Key Issues:
A brief synopsis of the case from the “consulting” point of view. Refocuses the reader’s attention on the key issues of the case and clearly specifies the objectives of the case. This is basically an “executive summary” of your findings done in a professional language.Interviews, secondary sources, observations, company website, etc., including questions for the interviews and respondents
Methods used to obtain information
Analysis of the Situation - Use the available frames, and any information from previous courses, to analyze the situation:
The structural & human resource frames (which structure would best support the transformation effort and what should its human resource efforts focus on?)
The symbolic frame (how should the organization position itself for a change in culture? How will the current culture respond to transformational efforts?)
The political frame (who are the various stakeholders and how do they relate to each other? How will the organization navigate the dynamics associated with interpersonal relationships, power, conflict, competition, coalitions, formal/informal communication systems, and the multitude issues associated with the human experience?).
Recommendations & Solutions
Identify possible solutions, possible outcomes, and forces that promote and resist change, to include supporting rationale.
A set of alternative courses of action (if you see several of them) that would resolve the problem.
Plan of action: a clear recommendation supported by theory, the frames identified in this course, and logic that can reasonably be implemented.
Recommendations must be reasonable, interesting and specific. Don’t forget to strengthen your recommendations with appropriate articles/books/websites relevant to the topics of the course.
Conclusion:
Conclude the paper with your final thoughts and implication of the potential usefulness of the results to the “client” and to you as future organizational leaders.
Appendices and References:
The analysis must include a bibliography (in APA format) of at least six sources (publications and documents that you used to compile your information and to analyze and prepare the case).
Each team member will complete a learning team member assessment at the end of Week 5. This will help the professor determine everyone’s level of contribution to the final product, to include time, effort quality and general leadership competency.
Template for Discussion Board Posting of your recommended organization
(Due by midnight Sunday of Week 1)
Organization: name, what does it do?
Access: what relationship do you have with the organization; how will you obtain information? What people and information can probably be used to research the organization, its issues, and its potential strategies for successful outcomes?
Where: where is the organization located? (it can be located anywhere in the world)
What: what is the current understanding about the nature of the problem, or issue, or decisions to be made? Why is some kind of transformation (probably) called for?
Who: who are key decision maker(s) or the strategic leadership team involved here?
When: what are the timing parameters - is this situation current, or sometime in the past or future?
Why: why is this issue important (or why should it be important) for the organization and its leaders?
Suggested length about 500 words.
Final Project
Background: Many organizations are facing the painful reality that they are not keeping up with the demands of the national, let alone global marketplace. The most blatant examples of forced transformations have come from technology companies – many of whom have been finding it difficult to keep up with continuous changes in their industry. Other companies, however, that deal with more traditional products, like clothing, cosmetics, and various health care products, have also been challenged by the changing times. Today, companies like Macy’s, K-Mart, Sears, Hewlett Packard, Zales, and Barnes & Noble are just a few that either need or face transformation.
Project Objectives: To integrate the topics of the entire course by putting yourself in the shoes of a practicing leader from a real-life organization, reveal her/his dilemma, define goals for change & transformation, and prepare a working plan for change. The recommended length of the paper is10 pages in APA format, but no more than 15 (not including references, abstract, and cover page). You are encouraged and expected to use new and primary sources for your research. This will make sure your projects include up-to-date information.
Project Requirements – Organizational Case Study Analysis:
This project will be a team effort. Each student will propose an organization to analyze; preferably a company that would benefit from transformation – one that you are either professionally familiar with or that you have heard about in the news. At the end of the first week of class you will post your information about this company on the Discussion Board (a template for your submission is provided below). Here, you will share ideas about how the organization you have identified is adapting to external influences (such as competitive forces, global economics, etc.) and internal influences (such as communication dynamics, power struggles, or cultural misalignment). During the first couple days of the second week, the professor will select several organizations from the submitted proposals. These selections will then determine the project teams.
Students will select an organization to study, from those identified by the professor, thereby aligning themselves with a specific team. This will happen on a first-come, first served basis, after the selected companies have been identified on Blackboard - and the teams will include no more than six, and preferably five students. Note: Instructors reserve the right to make any changes to the teams’ composition to ensure that every student is properly assigned to a team. The respective team members will then share responsibility for conducting the analysis, examining the organization’s activities through various frames -- structural, human resources, political and symbolic. They will prepare a report of their findings, outlining relevant claims and conclusions, demonstrating their understanding of organizational frameworks, and supporting their work with evidence and examples.
Each team will have a site within Blackboard for collaboration, with tools for a Group Discussion Board, File Exchange, email, and any other needed functions. You are welcome to use whatever other means of communication your team desires. The professor will have access to your Learning Group site and will examine it on occasion. Unless the team is experiencing problems, the professor will not participate directly.
The following structure will be used to help organize your thoughts and findings:
Group Charter and Case Description
Your team will create a charter that will support your project tasks and intergroup relations and reflect that you are members of a team that will be successful. A template for the charter is provided on Blackboard.
PART 1: Case description (Investigation stage):
Organize and conduct the discovery stage - identify the significant issue(s) that requires the organizational leader’s attention. This is where you answer questions that relate to who, what, where, when, and why.
Research and explain the context for the case, focusing on the organizational frames and necessary background information.
The background information about the organization or event puts the reader into the middle of the situation and helps them see the complexity of the situation and available options.
Background information on the company, industry, region, or country (if relevant), may be necessary to provide the context for understanding the case situation, and its political, economic and/or cultural constraints.
PART 2: Analysis and Solution (Consulting stage):
This is the “consulting” part of your project. Here you are expected to share with the reader: (a) the main issue(s) and underlying elements of the case; (b) the procedure(s) used for obtaining adequate and appropriate information for the case; (c) a detailed analysis of the situation described in the case through the prism of material from relevant coursework or discipline based literature; and (d) recommendations for how the case can be resolved. The following structure would help you present your ideas:
Case Synopsis/ Key Issues:
A brief synopsis of the case from the “consulting” point of view. Refocuses the reader’s attention on the key issues of the case and clearly specifies the objectives of the case. This is basically an “executive summary” of your findings done in a professional language.Interviews, secondary sources, observations, company website, etc., including questions for the interviews and respondents
Methods used to obtain information
Analysis of the Situation - Use the available frames, and any information from previous courses, to analyze the situation:
The structural & human resource frames (which structure would best support the transformation effort and what should its human resource efforts focus on?)
The symbolic frame (how should the organization position itself for a change in culture? How will the current culture respond to transformational efforts?)
The political frame (who are the various stakeholders and how do they relate to each other? How will the organization navigate the dynamics associated with interpersonal relationships, power, conflict, competition, coalitions, formal/informal communication systems, and the multitude issues associated with the human experience?).
Recommendations & Solutions
Identify possible solutions, possible outcomes, and forces that promote and resist change, to include supporting rationale.
A set of alternative courses of action (if you see several of them) that would resolve the problem.
Plan of action: a clear recommendation supported by theory, the frames identified in this course, and logic that can reasonably be implemented.
Recommendations must be reasonable, interesting and specific. Don’t forget to strengthen your recommendations with appropriate articles/books/websites relevant to the topics of the course.
Conclusion:
Conclude the paper with your final thoughts and implication of the potential usefulness of the results to the “client” and to you as future organizational leaders.
Appendices and References:
The analysis must include a bibliography (in APA format) of at least six sources (publications and documents that you used to compile your information and to analyze and prepare the case).
Each team member will complete a learning team member assessment at the end of Week 5. This will help the professor determine everyone’s level of contribution to the final product, to include time, effort quality and general leadership competency.
Template for Discussion Board Posting of your recommended organization
(Due by midnight Sunday of Week 1)
Organization: name, what does it do?
Access: what relationship do you have with the organization; how will you obtain information? What people and information can probably be used to research the organization, its issues, and its potential strategies for successful outcomes?
Where: where is the organization located? (it can be located anywhere in the world)
What: what is the current understanding about the nature of the problem, or issue, or decisions to be made? Why is some kind of transformation (probably) called for?
Who: who are key decision maker(s) or the strategic leadership team involved here?
When: what are the timing parameters - is this situation current, or sometime in the past or future?
Why: why is this issue important (or why should it be important) for the organization and its leaders?
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