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Top of Form Case Studies Content General guidelines for the team case study assignments:

• Papers must be APA formatted
• An APA-formatted bibliography must correspond with the citations in the paper. (You cannot have references without citations, or citations without references.)
• Each case study is expected to be between 800-words and 1200-words in length. You may go over the page maximum.
• Every question in the case-study must be answered and supported with research.
• All researched facts must be properly cited.
• All papers should be proofread, and be free of spelling and grammar errors.
• Direct quotes cannot represent more than 7% of the total word count of the paper.
• All case studies must have a minimum of three references that include at minimum:

Two peer-reviewed articles Our textbook Case #1:A Medical Group Explodes This case describes a situation that has commonly occurred in health care. Two organizations, in this case medical groups have decided to merge. They do so not out of an initial desire to merge, but rather facing the realities of a marketplace that is changing around them. However, as the descriptions suggests there may have been an initial superficial logic to the groups attraction to each other. On one hand there is a large multi-specialty group practice, and the other partner was a good-sized primary care group that would join forces with a significantly stronger group that has many specialties to which it might refer. However, as the board meetings suggest and the description infers, these groups are different. Tensions arise in meetings. The challenge and central question are:Can this partnership survive or is a divorce in the making? A described in Chapter 2 and quite nicely displayed in Figure 2-11, the McKinsey 7-S Framework is a new addition to the discussion of this edition. From a basic perspective, make sure you address the following: What has gone wrong with this situation? You have been brought in as a consultant by the CEO to deconstruct the issues here and provide a framework to see them through this challenge before this organization destroys itself. Also consider:

1. Do these two groups share the same values? One must wonder if in their early merger discussion did they ever discuss what the values were that they were bringing to the table?
2. Consider the structure of the groups and how they differ in decision making? Compensation?
3. Style? Consider how each group goes about managing their practice locations and the front-facing approach to the customer.
4. Staff it is not easy to suggest one group is of a higher quality than the other, but their approaches to the staff seem to be different in terms of reward.
5. For each group to recognize it is time to change is admirable. Should they join a larger organization or merge? Was this a rush to judgment?

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