MANAGING THE ORGANIZATION’S STRUCTURE For this assignment, you are expected to explore some aspects of your organization’s culture, at least as you see it. Since the concept of organizational culture is open to many interpretations and classifications, this assessment offers a slightly different approach from your background reading on organizational culture. Required Reading Debra Woog McGinty and Nicole C. Moss have compiled a short corporate culture survey https://www.inc.com/articles/2001/08/23312.html aimed at identifying characteristics of workplaces. It is scored in pencil-and-paper fashion. The categories of workplace description that it generates are fairly self-explanatory. Assignment – I have attached a survey but if you would like to do the survey and use your answers please attach your survey results. When you have completed the assessment think about it for a minute, and how it compares to the Academy, Baseball Team, Fortress, and Club cultures described by McNamara in the background reading. Then prepare a 2-page paper discussing: • Your organization’s scores on the McGinty/Moss assessment and whether the results fit your general expectation or constitute a surprise in some ways. • Your assessment of your organizations culture “type” according to McNamara’s categories. • The degree to which these two assessments seem to be telling you similar or dissimilar things about your organization. • Anything that you can infer from these assessments about how your organizational culture fits or doesn’t fit with you, and what (if anything) you might be able to do to make your interaction with the culture more effective. Be as specific as you can in the interests of getting the most value from the exercise for yourself. • Your overall opinion of these typologies as a means of understanding the organization and how you cope with it – what they measure well and anything that you believe they do not measure well or at all. Your paper should be short (2-pages, not including cover sheet—references not generally required) and to the point. You are expected to deal with these issues in an integrated fashion, rather than treating them as a series of individual questions. Keys to the Assignment • Your completion of all the steps in the exercise. • Your inclusion of the actual instrument or results. • Your understanding of both approaches to culture “types,” both in terms of similarities and differences. • Your ability to interpret the results of the assessment in terms of your own experience, either to confirm or to question the results. • Your ability to derive from the exercise ideas about improving your managerial understanding and/or skills. • The clarity and quality of your writing.
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