THIS WILL JUST BE AN OUTLINE!!
Using the IV003_Assessment_Template_Part1, prepare an outline, including a draft References section, of your evaluation of an organizational performance problem within an organization. Ensure that your outline includes both major and minor points. For information on outlining strategies please visit the following site from the Writing Center: https://academicguides.waldenu.edu/writingcenter/writingprocess/outlining. Please note that you are not required to complete anything for your executive summary presentation for this Pre-Assessment.
For this Assessment, you will be tasked with evaluating a performance problem for an organization. You should have a good understanding of the organization and how it operates. The organization can be (but is not limited to) where you currently work or an organization where you have worked in the past. After selecting an organization that you are personally familiar with, you are to present your evaluation and recommendations in a detailed business report.
Additionally, you will prepare an executive summary of your findings to be presented as a PowerPoint slide deck to the organization’s upper management team. Your report should address the following three sections, including specific examples from the organization, as well as relevant citations from the Learning Activities, the Walden Library, and/or other appropriate academic sources to support your evaluation.
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Section 1: Business Improvements (4–5 pages)
Your first task is to evaluate the constraints faced in your selected organization and to provide recommendations for improvement utilizing the methodologies of the Theory of Constraints, Six Sigma, and Lean. You should address the following:
Analyze some of the basic details about the organization. At a minimum, the basic details should include: the industry and products/services the organization offers, the overall operational and financial health of the organization, and a qualitative or systems diagram summary of how the organization operates to fulfill its commitments to customers.
Analyze what you believe to be the fundamental physical, policy, or market constraints that are preventing your organization from moving to the next level of performance. Be sure to clearly identify each primary constraint and provide a detailed argument and evidence for why you think each is a primary constraint to organizational performance. Be sure to support your response with appropriate concepts from performance management and/or systems thinking.
For each of the fundamental physical, policy, or market constraints that you identified as preventing your organization from moving to the next level of performance, justify a specific recommendation for how to elevate, support, and potentially eliminate the constraint.
Using the concepts of throughput accounting and Theory of Constraints accounting measurements for each of your recommendations, evaluate how the primary metrics of T, I, and OE would be affected and why the recommendations would make sense from a performance measurement perspective.
Section 2: Social Responsibility and Ethical Considerations (2–3 pages)
Your second task is to evaluate the organization in terms of social responsibility and ethical considerations. You should address the following:
Identify the major stakeholders of the organization. Illustrate how the organization’s actions do or do not effect positive social change for these stakeholders (explain in detail).
Through a systems thinking lens, apply improvements to the organization to positively effect social change.
From a systems perspective, evaluate the organization’s performance in terms of diversity and inclusion.
Assess whether there is a relationship between ethics and inclusion (explain and substantiate your position). Recommend what improvements can be implemented to positively impact both.
Section 3: Personal Mastery (1–2 pages)
Based on Senge’s definition of personal mastery, the information shared in the Learning Activities, and your own research, address the following:
Defend recommendations you would make to the upper management team to support personal mastery at both the individual level and the organizational level, being sure to include your rationale. (Consider all major stakeholders: employees, customers, and the community.) Provide specific examples to support your position.
Compose your personal vision. (Note that this personal vision goes far beyond traditional goals and objectives and should focus on purpose). In what ways does your personal vision relate to your ability to lead positive social change within your organization, your community, or more broadly?
Executive Summary Presentation (1–2 slides)
Develop an executive summary of your overall evaluation to be presented to the upper management team. This should consist of a 1- to 2-slide PowerPoint deck.
Unlocking the Service Sector
Cox, J. F. III. (2015, August). Unlocking the service sector. Industrial Engineer, 47(8), 30–35.
What’s Constraining Your Innovation?
Dalton, M. A. (2009). What’s constraining your innovation? Research-Technology Management, 52(5), 52–64. https://doi.org/10.1080/08956308.2009.11657589
Managerial Accounting and Continuous Improvement Initiatives: A Retrospective and Framework
Albright, T., & Lam, M. (2006). Managerial accounting and continuous improvement initiatives: A retrospective and framework. Journal of Managerial Issues, 18(2), 157–174.
