Purpose:
This assignment seeks to examine the impact of
environmental change on management practices.
This project was created to encourage good research and writing skills
that are needed for assignments, and to identify and evaluate theories and
theorists that influence our management building skills.
Your manager overheard you telling a colleague that
you are taking a graduate-level organizational theory class at UMGC. He
remembers his college course on organizational behavior and realizes that he
found the knowledge he learned extremely useful over the years. Lately, he has
felt that he has been overwhelmed with changes that require him and his
employees to quickly respond to situations that he cannot always solve
effectively. Experience has taught him that professional development is a
lifelong endeavor. To that end he would like you to select some articles for
him to read on the following topics: management theory, management skills and
practices, external/economic impacts to organizations, internal/structure
impacts to organizations, and/or responding to change.
Instructions for this assignment:
Step 1: Using OneSearch
in the UMGC online library, conduct a search for at
least 3 scholarly articles that address how organizations can respond to
unplanned change (whether internal or external). The articles need to be
current – published within the past five years.
· Article selection should consider management theory, management skills and practices,
external/economic impacts to organizations, internal/structure impacts to
organizations, and/or responding to change.
· Articles should bring a contemporary perspective on
one or more of the major theorists who developed management studies in the
19th-20th centuries.
Step 2: Create an
annotated bibliography for each article. Guidance on writing an annotated
bibliography can be found here. The articles should be summarized in 2-3
paragraphs as the format suggests.
Step 3: Then,
aggregately analyze and explain the articles for the way in which internal and
external factors cause change in workplace behavior. This section should
comprise 2 paragraphs using multiple course readings and research to support
how the internal and external factors identified in the selected articles
can/do cause change in workplace behavior and ultimately organizational
structure and culture. Show the connection between these contemporary writers
and the major theoretical perspectives that they drew from earlier ‘fathers’ of
management science.
Step 4: Conclude the
paper with a two to three paragraph examination of the selected articles and
the impact on managing effectively. Be sure to clearly explain your reasoning
for the selection and provide supporting examples and rationale from class
readings related to modern organization.
Title page
Annotated Bibliographies
Analysis of the Three Articles
Conclusion
Reference Page
INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO PREPARE THE SUBMISSION:
Check the instructions to make sure ALL elements of
the assignment have been covered.
Students are expected to use a variety as well as
multiple course readings and research to support ideas, reasoning, and
conclusions.
Follow writing style guidelines to ensure that your
final submission includes a Title Page, Introduction, Conclusion, In-Text Citations,
and a Reference List. Here is guidance from the UMGC Library Citing &
Writing page. Consider using the Online Guide to Writing and Research or the
Tutoring assistance – link above under Academic Support
Paraphrase and do not use direct quotation marks.
Check the UMGC Writing Center’s Guide to Paraphrasing. This means you do not
use more than four consecutive words from a source document, put a passage from
a source document into your own words, and attribute the passage to the source
document. Provide the page or paragraph number. Note that a reference within a
reference list cannot exist without an associated in-text citation and vice
versa.
The analysis should begin with an
introductory paragraph that clearly and succinctly explains what you intend to
cover in the body of the paper.
The analysis should end with a
conclusion/summary paragraph that clearly and succinctly explains what you
covered in the body of the paper.
Third-person writing is required. Third person means
that there are no words such as “I, me, my, we, or us” (first-person writing),
nor is there use of “you or your” (second-person writing). If uncertain how to
write in the third person, view this link: https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/first-second-and-third-person
Contractions are not used in business writing, so the
expectation is that students do NOT use contractions in the assignment.
The paper must be double-spaced with 1-inch margins
with 12 pt. font.
Submit the final project, WORD DOCUMENT (no .pdf) into
the appropriate assignment submission folder.
NOTE: All submitted work is to be your original work.
You may not use any work from another student, the Internet, or an online
clearinghouse. You are expected to understand general academic expectations
with regard to proper citation of sources.
