MANAGING AND LEADING PEOPLE IN ORGANIZATIONS
MGT 143
FINAL GROUP PROJECT
This project has two components: a written and an oral part. For the written part, your
team will analyze two companies per instructions below and write about your
suggestions for this company. Remember that your ideas are more important than
simply a description of what is happening in that company. The second component will
be visual presentation of these ideas to a small group of your classmates (poster-session
type format).
The following are topics we have discussed in our class this semester.
– Motivation and Rewards
– Feedback and Performance Appraisal Systems
– Communication with Employees and across the Company
– Organizational Culture
– Creativity and Innovation
– Ethics/Social Responsibility
For this final project, you and your team will need to do some research into current
events, and find two companies to discuss that are each dealing with issues in one of
these categories. You can do this research via public information (internet, magazines
and newspapers, etc.) or, if possible, for one of the companies (not both) you may have
the opportunity to interview some employees and/or observe first hand the state of events
in that company.
For each, you will write about a page or two describing the course concept and the way
you see it applied to this situation. Remember to interpret and analyze the facts with
respect to the course learning, and don’t just spit back the details like a newspaper
article might. (You may include appendices with the original texts if you choose to, or
transcripts of your interview notes, but these are not required. Do cite any material you
use in your research, including names and titles of all people with whom you spoke, in a
separate page called References.)
Then, in about 2-3 more pages, you will describe how your team, acting as a group of
consultants, would recommend that this company improve their situation with respect to
this topic based on the course concepts that you learned in this class. You may also
integrate concepts from other areas or organizational functioning we covered this
semester to support your arguments.
Remember to use different companies for different topics. In other words, 1st
company of your choice might be dealing with creativity issues, while 2nd company may
have a problem with motivating employees, etc. TEN PAGES is the limit…FIVE for
each topic area MAX (not including references). You will be graded on the depth of your
understanding of the course concepts, the value of your recommendations, and the
appropriateness with which you identify these events in real organizations.
This assignment is due on the last day of class, 04/26/15 via link posted on the Course
Site AND a hard copy handed in class to me. The “Gallery Walk” (visual/oral
presentation) will be held that day as well.
Good luck!
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