Competencies

• Evaluate organizational behavior and leadership on performance.
• Analyze the impact of employee behavior on engagement.
• Evaluate leadership practices that support organizational effectiveness.
• Implement leadership strategies for managing group & team dynamics.
• Evaluate the relationship among individuals, teams, and culture on organizational performance.
• Critique the impact of leadership on organizational outcomes.

Scenario

You are the new organizational behavior manager for a corporation. Your role is to assess the work environment and improve employee performance and workplace culture. As one of your first projects, you decide to complete a company performance review. Before beginning this company performance review, you need to conduct research. Your research will entail a lot of time and resources, and you need to address some preliminary areas with the board of directors in an upcoming meeting. You will need to create a white paper for the board, stressing the importance of this work and why a company performance review is needed.

Instructions

Write a white paper to present to the board of directors that includes the following items to help strengthen the support for the need for a company performance review:

• Determine organizational behavior and leadership’s role in organizational performance.
• Discuss the impact individual human behavior has on the organization’s success.
• Assess effective leadership practices on employee motivation.
• Discuss one leadership strategy for a group and one leadership strategy for a team that enforces positive relationship building.
• Explain the impact of diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives on individuals, teams, and the overall culture.
• Discuss leadership impact on leading change for continued organizational success.
• Provide attribution for credible sources used in the white paper.

A – 4 – Mastery

Clearly and strongly determined the organizational behavior and leadership’s role on the organizational performance, using clear examples in a well-organized white paper.

Clearly and strongly discussed effective individual human behavior has on the organization’s success, using clear examples in a well-organized white paper.

Clearly and strongly assessed effective leadership practices on employee motivation, using clear examples in a well-organized white paper.

A – 4 – Mastery

Clearly and strongly discussed a leadership strategy for a group and one for a team that enforce positive relationship building, using clear examples in a well-organized white paper.

A – 4 – Mastery

Clearly and strongly explained diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives on individuals, teams, and the overall culture, using clear examples in a well-organized white paper.

A – 4 – Mastery

Clearly and strongly discussed leadership impact on leading change for continued organizational success, using clear examples in a well-organized white paper.

A – 4 – Mastery

Used and relied on all credible sources in a well-defined white paper.