Paper
Overview & Preparation for Writing
For the final paper in this course, you will be creating a hypothetical organization and
you will use concepts from this class to guide your description of this organization.
Consider this an “ideal” organization, as in, this is how you think organizations should
be. As you describe this organization, make sure that all of your choices are justified
and explained with course concepts. You’re the founder and the boss of this
hypothetical organization so you can do what you want, but your decisions and choices
have to make sense and be explainable.
Paper Content
At a minimum, your paper should address the following issues: the “organization
concept” (what is your organization about?), its vision/mission, products/services (this is
important for us to understand your organization but don’t overdo it); management
philosophy (assumptions that guide the organizational practices); the desired culture for
this organization & how that will be achieved; the organization’s structure; leadership
strategies; conflict management strategies; decision-making strategies; assimilation
practices; etc. In addition to these concepts, you should also connect with other course
concepts to help explain your organization as appropriate.
The final paper should be 4-6 pages in length, not including the cover page and the
reference page.
The bulk of the concepts that you connect with should come from your textbook, class
lectures, or any of the other readings and/or videos that I assign. Consult with me if you
are considering sources other than those just listed. If you use sources external to the
course materials, make sure they are credible sources and cite them appropriately (but
remember, the large majority of the concepts that you connect with should come from
assigned course materials).
Evaluation
Your paper will be graded based on how well you’ve incorporated the ideas and
concepts from your text, the class, and other related sources into your paper. You will
also be evaluated based on how well all of the ideas that you connect with make sense
together (i.e. the logic you use must be clear and make sense), and how well you follow
the directions in this rubric.
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