Project Presentation: Organizational Design Recommendations
Based on Assignments 1-4, you will evaluate your organization’s design and develop a set of recommendations for the organization. You will present these recommendations in a slide presentation that is recorded using the tool of your choice: Screencast-O-Matic
(Links to an external site.)
, Author Stream, PowerPoint recording or another tool. The presentation should be 6-8 minutes (points will be deducted for presentations that are too short or too long).
At the end of week 7, you will upload the presentation into the Presentation Discussion Board titled: Presentation Submission and Peer Review.. You can attach the recorded presentation to a thread or provide a link directly to the tool or to YouTube. Your peers will watch and respond to your presentation during week 8. In turn, you will comment on their presentations.
Your organizational design recommendations should address:
Strategy and/or strategic planning;
Structure and design elements
People strategy
Culture/ethics/values
Submission Instructions:
Please type in the word “submitted” at this link to indicate that you uploaded your presentation video in the presentation discussion board. Please see the full grading rubrics in Canvas. This assignment is worth 30 points.
week 1 – Assignment 1: Planning for a Design Project
This assignment should include the following:
Briefly describe the organization that you will be analyzing and your relationship to it.
If you were to actually conduct a design analysis for your company, how would you go about gathering data for the assessment? (See Ch. 2)
What framework or criteria would you use to evaluate the current design? (See p. 49-55)
Draw the open systems model for your organization. Include elements that are specific to your organization/industry.
Please make sure to directly apply/cite concepts from Week 1 and Week 2 readings, lectures etc.
week 2 – This assignment should include the following:
Evaluate the mission and vision statements of your organization.
How is strategic and operational planning executed within the company? In what ways could planning efforts be improved
Using the lectures and at least one Ch. 3 framework, describe the corporate and/or business level strategy of your organization?
week 3 – Assignment 3 should include the following:
What type of structure does your organization have (e.g., functional, divisional, etc.)? Please provide an organizational chart/figure in the Appendix (not included in page number count).
What are the strengths and weaknesses of the structure for your organization? Please refer to span of control, centralization etc.
What are the lateral structures in the organization and are they effective at limiting vertical differentiation and promoting integration/communication?
week 4 –
Based on Ch. 6, evaluate the people strategy of your organization.
Using a framework from the textbook or lecture, describe the dimensions of your organization’s culture. How is culture communicated (i.e. elements of)? (Refer values and ethics as well.)
How do/do not the people strategy and organizational culture fit with the strategy and structure of the organization?
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