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Organizational Behavior Team Project -

The purpose of the project is to give your team an opportunity to apply what has been learned in the course (through course lectures, readings, and discussions) to problems in an organization of your team's choice. Class members will work in teams of four people. Your team should identify a public, private, or non-profit organization to study (PLEASE, no student groups). You can choose an organization where your team members work or have interests.

Your team is to gather information from people in an organization through direct contact. You may supplement this information with data from the media, the organization's literature, and other secondary sources. You should identify a relatively recent problem to analyze (i.e., this should not be an historical account of a problem and the company's solution). You should focus your analysis by applying the concepts from the course. While it is acceptable to incorporate several concepts from the course, please aim for depth rather than breadth regarding the use of course concepts. Your goal is to diagnose the mechanisms that are causing the problem or issue of concern in the organization. Initially, you may notice many symptoms (for instance, high turnover, seemingly low morale, low commitment, motivation etc.), but your task is to get to the underlying reason for these symptoms. And beware, sometimes the initial symptoms we think we see are not what they appear to be.

There are three broad goals for this assignment:

1. One goal of this assignment is obviously to take the initiative to make a positive contribution to an organization.

2. Another major goal is to provide an opportunity for you to learn more about organizational behavior first hand and to use your critical thinking and reflection skills to link your experience with this organization to your learning in relation to organizational behavior theory.

3. The final goal is to provide a forum for you to hone your skills as a team member and leader and to reflect on the learning gained from this team experience. Each team will make a presentation to the class and write a paper that describes what you did for the organization, what you learned about organizational behavior, and what you learned about working on a team.

To meet these broad goals, your team should answer the following questions in the assignments detailed below.

a) What are the issues or problems facing the organization?

b) What course concepts can be applied to understand why this problem is occurring?

c) What recommendations can you offer to help improve organizational functioning?

This written project should summarize what you did for/within the organization, what you have learned about organizational behavior, and what you have learned about working on a team.

AGAIN...

The overall objectives of this project are to answer the following questions:

a) What are the issues or problems facing the organization?

b) What course concepts can be applied to understand why this problem is occurring?

c) What recommendations, based on these course concepts, can you offer to help improve organizational functioning and address the problem you identified?

Your group project will be evaluated on the following criteria:

a) Problem definition: How well (i.e., thoroughly and concisely) do you describe the organizational context, the relevant parties, and the factors that are important to the problem?

b) Accurate and thorough use of course concepts.

c) Integration of course concepts with information about the company and problem, i.e., how well do you integrate course concepts with information about the problem to illuminate the problem in a way that leads to solutions?

d) Extent to which recommendations are consistent with analysis.

e) Quality of written analysis.

f) Quality of oral presentation.

General Words about Teamwork

The issue of equity is a concern that some students have about working in teams and about team grades. If you work harder and do better work than your peers, why should your grade be dependent on them? This view is generally a function of coming from educational environments that only ask for and measure individual performance. Your output for many of the assignments in this school will be a team product, such as a team case presentation. Team tasks should be given team rewards. This means that you not only must make a direct contribution to the development of the in-class presentation, but that you also have an obligation to make your team work effectively.

A frequent problem associated with group projects is a team member who does not do his/her share of the job. You are urged not to let problems develop to the point where they become serious. Beware of excuses like: "I am too busy with urgent work - health - social - problems right now but I'll make it up later." It is surprising how many people who have one problem have a series of other problems. Be reasonable, but don't be a doormat. Everyone in this class is expected to carry an equal share of the teamwork load.

Note - Only need 5 to 6 pages. Organization is in the real estate sales person and mortgage loan originator office under one owner, since I am a realtor and loan originator there.

Attachment:- Assignment File.rar