FINAL PROJECT & PRESENTATION FORMAT and REQUIREMENTS

Final Presentation Goal: To analyze the use of management and organizational behavior concepts within an organization and evaluate their impact on organizational success.

Who: You will complete this project individually or with approximately 1-3 other classmates.

Steps:

1. Choose a medium to large for-profit organization. If you have questions about your choice, please see your instructor. You MAY NOT choose the following companies:
   • Apple
   • Microsoft
   • Nike
   • Wal-Mart
2. Conduct primary and/or secondary research on the organization.
   • Check out the CSCC Library Research page for source suggestions.
3. Determine minimum of four course content areas each from a different learning unit where your team has enough information to apply course concepts and terminology to company examples.
   • See topic suggestions on last page.

Note: Some information is difficult to access from secondary research. It may help if your team interviews a company employee or if a student on your team is employed by the organization.

4. Based on your research create a presentation covering the four content areas, tying in course terminology and drawing conclusions regarding the organizations success.
   • See GRADING RUBRIC

5. Project Format and Requirements:

   NOT an information giving presentation

   • Draw inferences and analyze.
   • Every slide should apply course terminology and concepts addressing the question: Does this organization use these concepts effectively? Why or why not?
   • DO NOT re-teach course concepts. Apply them to the company situation.
   • Will be presented live online.
6. • Participation: If there are more than one person presenting, all members must present a portion of the presentation.
   • DO NOT read speakers notes.
   • Length of Presentation: Approximately 12-18 minutes

Learning Unit #1 Management Fundamentals

• Contrast two positions within the company and how their need for technical, human and conceptual skills are different.
  • CONCEPTS: Identify Technical Skills, Human Skills and Conceptual Skills
• Describe a project that the company implemented and characterize how management used the functions of planning, organizing, leading, and controlling.
  • CONCEPTS: Examples of Planning, Organizing, Leading and Controlling
• Provide concrete examples as to how the company currently use a historical management approach.

CONCEPTS: Examples of classical-scientific, behavioral, quantitative or operations, systems, quality, or contingency management.

Learning Unit #2 Individual Differences

• Examine the company values and their impact on employee behavior and thinking.
  • CONCEPTS: Apply Schwartz Model or Ajzens Theory of Planned Behavior or you can also tie in Chapter 14 Organizational Culture terms of Espoused and Enacted Values.
• Examine an ethical challenge facing the company and its managers.
  • CONCEPTS: Apply Cognitive Dissonance Theory
• Examine a decision(s) by the CEO or managers and determine how internal and external factors impacted their choices.
  • CONCEPTS: Evaluate using Kelleys Model of Attribution examining Consensus, Distinctiveness and/or Consistency.
• Examine the behavioral outcomes of job satisfaction. Find articles or first-hand knowledge regarding employee turnover, counterproductive work behaviors, or organizational citizenship behavior.
  • CONCEPTS: Turnover, Counterproductive Work Behaviors, or Organizational Citizenship Behavior.
• Examine company issues of diversity by finding an article, conduct a survey of employees or use first-hand accounts regarding demographics and examine how this impacts the organization.
  • CONCEPTS: Diversity, Generational Differences, LGBTQ, Gender Issues, or Disabilities.

Learning Unit #3 Motivation

• Identify company practices that specifically fulfill a motivation theory. Be sure to explain which theory and how the practices fulfill it.

o CONCEPTS:

• • Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivators
  • Fulfillment Need Theories Maslows, Hertzberg, or McClelland
  • Goal Setting Examples of goals & how they are determined. Are they SMART?
  • Expectancy Theory Are choices & motivators offered to enhance effort and outcomes?
• Evaluate the companys pay practices for starting wages or increases by conducting a survey and/or researching pay practices for similar industries and jobs and comparing them.
  • CONCEPTS: Equity Theory, Elements of Justice Theory Distributive, Procedural, & Organizational.
• Evaluate a job/position using the Job Characteristics Model and provide suggestions on how to change the job to fulfill all components of the model.
  • CONCEPTS: Job Characteristics Model examples of Skill Variety, Task Identity, Task Significance, Autonomy, and Feedback.
• Characterize what the company does to influence behavior and habits by linking consequences.
  • CONCEPTS: Positive Reinforcement, Negative Reinforcement, Punishment, Extinction and/or use of reinforcement schedules.
• Evaluate pay-for-performance programs and their effectiveness for the company.

Learning Unit #4 Groups and Teams

• Illustrate at least three types of work teams used within the company and evaluate their effectiveness.
  • CONCEPTS: Work Teams, Project Teams, Cross Functional Teams, Self-Managed Teams, Virtual Teams
• Evaluate the external conditions of a specific group or team within the organization and how this might hinder or help its effectiveness.
  • CONCEPTS: Size, structure, member resources, member roles, group norms, status, personalities and their impact on groupthink, conformity, and social loafing.
• Characterize a group or team process that you or an employee observed or participated with.
  • CONCEPTS: Provide examples of each stage of Tucks Five Stage Model or the Punctuated Equilibrium Model.