The topic I selected for this paper is Leadership Transition in Sports Teams. I would like to explore how leadership transitions (new coach) affect team performance and morale. When I was in college I played basketball and went through a rough transition when we got a new head coach. The trust wasnt there, he showed favortism to the players that he recruited that he transferred in. He was a very dictatorial coach that micromangaged every behavior we had as a team. Night and day comparison from new coach to old coach. A clear case of compliance over committment. Our new coach literally beat us into complaince and it took a toll on our team performance and morale. We were n longer a cohesive unit, we were more like over worked robots.
Below are the instructions of the paper and the course description to help. I am including a few articles that were mandatory couse readings. Please include articles that are useful in the paper.
DIAGNOSIS PAPER: The theories and concepts taught in this course will only
contribute to your business success if you apply what you have learned in the classroom to your everyday experiences.
The objective of the diagnosis paper is to give you some practice in looking at your life through an organizational behavior lens.
For this assignment, you will reflect on an organizational problem that you have experienced. I use the term “organizational” quite broadly; you can write about an experience at a summer job, on a sports team, a school workgroup, or any other situation in which you worked with other people for the purposes of completing a collective task.
Once you have selected an organizational problem from your past, you should describe and diagnose the problem using concepts from the course, outline the factors that contributed to the situation, and discuss how the concepts could have helped you and/or others deal with the situation more effectively.
The paper should be between 5 and 8 pages, double-spaced in 12-point Times New Roman font with 1” margins around.
The Diagnosis Paper will be graded on the following criteria:
Organization and structure: The paper employs a logical framework and analyzes a critical issue (i.e., well defined organizational problem).
Depth of analysis: The paper demonstrates a thorough diagnosis of the
organizational problem. The paper draws on, applies, and extends OB concepts
covered in the class, and is well integrated with course readings, lectures, and
discussions.
Creativity and insight: The material is presented in an original, engaging, and
interesting manner, and is presented in a persuasive style.
Style: The paper is professionally written, using appropriate grammar, spelling,
and punctuation.
Evidence-Based Conclusions: Students should support their conclusions with
evidence as opposed to relying solely on intuition. The best evidence is to source
academic work via Google Scholar, Galileo, etc. Practitioner websites are
generally considered weak and biased.
MBA 6795: Seminar in Organizational Behavior
Course Description: Organizational behavior is the study of human behavior in organizations. It is a multidisciplinary field devoted to understanding individual and group
behavior, interpersonal processes, and organizational dynamics. This class
will help you develop a better work-related understanding about yourself
and other people. Organizational behavior is an interdisciplinary body of
knowledge with strong ties to the behavioral sciences – psychology,
sociology, and anthropology – as well as economics and political science.
The field of OB focuses on applications that can make a real difference in
how organizations and people in them perform. In this class we will cover
topics in personality, perception and attribution theory, employee
motivation, job design and performance, employee performance
management and rewards, team building, leadership, organizational power
and politics, conflict and negotiation, organizational innovation and
change, employee stress management, organizational structures, and
organizational culture and development.
