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Option #1
For this Portfolio Project option, analyze and synthesize data acquired from an illustrative, fictional case study (see below) and present the findings in a paper. The audience for this paper is organizational development specialists and business executives who are attendees at a professional OD association meeting.
Use the organization you identified in the Module 4 Critical Thinking Assignment (in either option). This organization should serve as the beginning of the final case study, however:
- If you completed the Module 4, Option #1 Critical Thinking Assignment, you will already have some of this information collected and created regarding the fictional organization.
Your project will include:
- An illustrative, fictional case study
- Diagnostic methods
- Analysis and feedback methods
- Appropriate organizational development intervention options with the inclusion of general risk and value scenarios
- Evaluation methods and planned changes
- References of outside sources including academic sources
Your final paper must be 8-10 pages long, cite a minimum of five sources, and be formatted per the CSU-Global Guide to Writing and APA Requirements. The CSU-Global Library is a great place to find sources! Include a title page and reference list page as part of the final project (but not as part of the page count). Submit your final case study to the Week 8 Assignments page.
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Fictional Case Study
Chalace Epley Lowry was an employee in the Communications department at Wal-Mart
in the year 2007. Chalace Lowry found herself without a job after being in the company for only
a few months. In her early days in the company, she had a seminar with Wal-Mart. It is during
this seminar that Wal-Mart preached against unethical issues and stated that was important to
report any cases of unethical acts that may happen.
The vice president of Corporate Communications by then, Mona Williams, asked Lowry
to copy papers. Lowry figured they might be stock related. But she found out later that the
company, Wal-Mart, was planning a large amount of stock buyback, $15 million to be specific.
She thus decided to talk to the then supervisor, Sarah Clark who told her to inform the
company’s ethics office. Lowry was afraid that the company was trading on the insider
information and thus decided to take the action. However, the ethics officer went ahead and
disclosed Lowry’s identity to Williams.
This was quite unethical, given that the two were in the same department (Williams and
Lowry). Lowry argued that she was not given an option as to whether her identity should be
disclosed or not. She said that she thought it was part of the requirements when filling a
complaint. She was not pleased by how the Wal-Mart’s ethics office handled the whistleblowing
situation. According to Lowry, it was phrased as if it was part of the compliant to tell Williams
that she had filed a complaint. She stated that she didn’t have a choice since she was not given a
second option.
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Lowry was not accusing Williams of anything; she was just concerned since she saw
some red flags. She decided to report the case so that Wal-Mart would conduct investigations in
case there was a problem or something that would be detrimental to the company was going on.
According to Wal-Mart, there was nothing wrong with disclosing her identity. The
company claimed that there was no wrong-doing on the issue. They said that Lowry was just
being contradictory. When the Ethics Officer was asked, he determined that the said document
was not related to stock trading at all and that the vice president of Corporate Communication,
Mona Williams violated no ethics policies.
However, Lowry was given a choice of staying in her current position by Wal-Mart but
she declined the “offer” and said she couldn’t simply because her colleagues would talk about
her and how she did not understand the concept of team dynamics. She therefore said that it
would be hard for her to get along with her colleagues given the situation. Sh...