Management at Every Stage of Growth

Week 10 Assignment – Management at Every Stage of Growth
Text book: Growing Pains:
Building Sustainably Successful Organizations. Flamholtz, Eric, G. and Yvonne Randle.

Overview
In this assignment, you will analyze the skills of managers that managers need to be effective throughout their careers and all stages of organizational growth. You will be graded on the quality of your answers, the logic or organization of the report, your language skills, and your writing skills.
Using a company of your choice or one mentioned in the textbook, write a 3–4 page paper that answers the following:
Evaluate the five levels of managerial skills that increase manager effectiveness (refer to Pyramid of Management and Leadership Development, p. 219).
Review the “Five Levels of the Organization Hierarchy” on page 229. Choose two skills from each level and:
Evaluate how the managerial skills contribute to the success or decline of an organization at each stage of organizational growth, and support with specific examples.
Evaluate how the lack of managerial skills contributes to the decline of an organization at each stage of organizational growth. Support with specific examples.
Note: There are seven stages of organizational growth. To make sure you have one skill for each stage of growth, you may use more than one skill from the five levels of management skills.
This course requires the use of Strayer Writing Standards. For assistance and information, please refer to the Strayer Writing Standards link in the left-hand menu of your course. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
The specific course learning outcome associated with this assignment is:
Examine management characteristics that support all stages of organizational growth.

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