essay

3 problems within a company Alaska auto techs that are attached

Paper instructions:

Individual Project #3 – Due 12/13

Instructions

The purpose of this assignment is to give you an opportunity to apply what has been learned in the course (through readings, exercises, resource materials, and discussions) to problems in an organization of your choice. As such, select a real organization and determine the following:

a) Select a company of your choice with either publicly available information or to which you have access to insider information.

b) Identify 3 issues or problems that are currently facing the organization.

c) Determine related concepts from BA351 that can be used to determine why these problems are occurring.

d) Make specific recommendations to improve organizational effectiveness.

Assignment Approach

The organizational problems should be clearly defined, manageable in scope, relevant to the course, and recent. Your report will also need to specifically address organizational change relevant to the recommendations that you put forth in your report. You may collect data via 1) experience gained from personal exposure, 2) information collected from a company contact, and/or 3) research from available public information.

Project Instructions

Your individual written report should follow these guidelines:

.doc format

6 pages in length

1” margins

double-spaced

12-point font

APA style

references to textbook and three additional sources

Your individual written report should include the following sections:

Introduction

Company Summary

Assignment Approach

Purpose Statement

Data Collection

Methodology

Problem #1 Problem number one is the lack of motivation in the entire company.

Problem Definition with Organizational Context.

The motivational problem falls into the category of individual processes in the organization. I think the problem with motivation starts with the owner. It is hard to be motivated to be on time to a job or place of employment when the owner is repeatedly late and some days just does not show up at all.

Course Concept(s) – reference pages in textbook plus one source

Recommendation(s)

Problem #2

Problem Definition with Organizational Context

Course Concept(s) – reference pages in textbook plus one source

Recommendation(s)

Problem #3&?ßsp;

Problem Definition with Organizational Context

Course Concept(s) – reference pages in textbook plus one source

Recommendation(s)

Change Management (provide specific recommendations for each step of how you will approach change based on your recommendations above)

Step 1 – Create a Sense of Urgency (SEE – FEEL – CHANGE… be creative!)

Step 2 – Get the Vision Right

Step 3 – Build the Guiding Team

Step 4 – Communicate for Buy-in

Step 5 – Empower Action

Step 6 – Celebrate Short-term Wins

Conclusion (no new ideas here, please)

References (cite textbook and three additional sources; APA style required)

Project Evaluation (combines efforts on Individual Project #2 and Individual Project #3 for 30% of your overall grade)

Your grade will be evaluated on the following criteria:

Problem Definition (6 points): how well (i.e., thoroughly and concisely) you describe the organizational context

Concept Application(6 points): how well you apply relevant organizational behavior concepts directly to each identified problem

Recommendation Relevance (6 points):  how relevant your recommendations are to your analysis and the course material

Change Management (6 points): how well you address the first six steps of change using Kotter’s model for your recommendations

Quality of Project (6 points): overall organization, grammar, writing ability, formatting, structure, and ability to follow directions

NOTE:  If you have questions at any point, please do not hesitate to contact the professor at 435.729.0771.

Due Date

December 14, 2013 2:00:00 AM AKST

this report done according to the following

BA 351 Project 2

Cindy Carlson Davis

The company I chose is Alaska Auto Techs, it is a small automotive shop in Anchorage that has been experiencing some problems lately.

The problems I see are, low revenue stemming from multiple issues, a lack in motivation not only from the employees but the owner as well, quality of customer service is slowly sliding and quality of work is not monitored any more.

The only contact for this is the owner and myself.

I will attempt to correlate the problems with some of the concepts in the book and apply principles to improve the organization’s efficiency, leadership skills and create a  valuable human and organizational relationship, hopefully to  help find a solution other than just closing the business.

I think the concepts that I will apply here are, I will look at the differences in the individuals in the  company, the motivational behavior of the owner and employees the company culture and the individual job satisfaction.  I will look at the individual and the business.