08 Oct Organizational Culture Essay

ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR

Organizational Culture Essay

Your supervisor was incredibly pleased with the insights you provided the hiring committee. She has now tasked you with drafting a report on the topics you have presented to her. She has carved out 20 minutes to read through your report, making it critical for you to be mindful of your use of time to make an impact.

ESSAY INSTRUCTIONS

Your task is to use the following questions as guidelines for your report, which you will submit to your supervisor. The Section numbers next to the question refer to relevant reading from your Soomo e-text.

What is the purpose of understanding organizational culture (Section 1.8)? (Supply a 100-word maximum statement of purpose in your own words.)

Discuss any one factor that has been important to the creation of your organization’s culture

[Founders’ value, external influences, a combination of both or a different factor- Section 1.12]

(Supply a 200-word maximum discussion.)

Briefly discuss your experience in relation to how your organization has or has not maintained its culture based on your onboarding experience (Section 1.15). (Supply a 400-word maximum discussion citing examples and succinctly explaining your interpretation.)

Discuss any one method in which your organization communicates its culture either through visual methods, rituals, space, or stories. If none of these apply, you can refer to any other example of how culture is communicated. Do you agree that these external symbols reflect the underlying values and assumptions of your organization? (Section 1.17-1.18). (Supply a 400-word maximum discussion to answer this question).

  Evolve

 Describe any one aspect of your organization’s culture that you would like to see changed or strengthened. Outline how you would propose making this happen using any one of the six steps to culture change provided in your reading in Section 1.19 Creating Culture Change of your reading. (Supply a 500-word maximum discussion to answer this question).

Where needed, strengthen your report by citing examples.

Compile your work as a .doc?or .docx?file type. Check your work and correct any spelling or grammatical errors. Save your analysis with the filename YourLastName_Module 2 OrganizationalCultureAssignment. When you are ready to submit your work, click “Submit Assignment.” Enter the submission title and then click on “Select a file to upload.” Browse your computer and select your file. Click “Open” and verify the correct file name has appeared next to Submission File. Click on “Continue.” Confirm submission is correct and then click on “Accept Submission & Save.”

Turnitin®

This course has Turnitin® fully integrated into the course dropbox. This means that you should?only submit your assignments to the dropbox below.?Please do not submit your assignment directly to Turnitin.com.

Once submitted, your assignment will be evaluated by Turnitin® automatically. You will be able to view an Originality Report within minutes of your first submission that will show how much of your work has been identified as similar to other sources such as websites, textbooks, or other student papers. Use your Originality Report as a learning tool to identify areas of your assignment that you may not have cited appropriately.?You may resubmit your assignment through this dropbox as many times as you need to check to see if you have made improvements, until the due date of the assignment.?However, once you have made your first submission, you will need to wait 24 hours after each subsequent submission to receive a new Originality Report. Plan accordingly as you draft your assignment. Once the due date has passed, your assignment submission will be considered final.

This assignment is due Sunday by 11:59 PM ET.  Be sure to review the Organizational Culture Essay Rubric below for evaluation details.

This activity is used to assess one or more general education career competencies (GECC). You will see additional rows in your rubric from your instructor along with assessments of Above/Meets/Does Not Meet Expectations for each competency. These rows do not factor into your grade.