Controls OB Project Instructions For this project, you will create a œStatement of Excellence for an organization you find interesting. This document is a complete summary of how an organization has been designed. The purpose is for you to gain insight into how a company’s culture and organizational design can be purposefully created and used to diagnose and correct potential problems. I typically create a document like this as I prepare for a consulting or corporate training engagement. This prepares me to speak intelligently about the company in the terms and metaphors they are used to hearing. Selecting a Company and Gathering Information Start by selecting a company that you find interesting. If you like, you may choose a company that you have studied in other classes, or choose one that you like because of their products, because their industry interests you, you want to work in that company or industry, or you currently work there. It will be important that you have access to ample amounts of information about company you choose; otherwise you will have a difficult time completing this assignment. Information might be available on the company website”look at pages including About Us, Culture, Media, etc.; in the first pages of annual shareholder reports; in the media”including pundit reports and opinions; and/or through your own personal experience”perhaps at your place of employment. In some cases where you cannot find the information you are looking for, you may need to fabricate it. This is often true of the Org chart as many companies do not publish one. It will be especially useful to you if you select a company that has an observable OB related need for change (e.g., merger of cultures, low employee satisfaction, high turnover, change in management, change in people related processes, low employee engagement, poor communication, high conflict levels, an overly political environment, team related issues, etc.). Occasionally a student will choose to do the OB Project on a company that does not exist. While this is more labor intensive because all aspects of the report will need to be fabricated, it is encouraged, especially for those that are entrepreneurially minded. Many portions of this report will be useful when filling out business loan applications and working with investors. Write the Paper You will construct this document in 7 separate segments. You will turn in each segment in a different week according to the schedule found online. Since the documents are all related, you will include previous segments when turning in the segment due. Thus, each week the document you assemble and turn in will get longer and more detailed. Having previous segments of the document available will give peer reviewers context when they grade your paper. If you like, you may update and make changes to past segments of the paper when turning the current segment. This will allow you to accommodate changes in your thinking as you go through this process or in response to feedback from reviewers. This is a report, not a paper. For the most part, you will not be writing a great deal of prose in this document. Aside from the introduction and conclusion, most of the segments will simply list information using headings, brief paragraphs, and lists. However, please note, most sections in the OB Project instructions request that you provide some brief commentary and critical analysis of information you are listing. In some cases, there may be much more information available than you can realistically include in this document. In this situation, use the described page count for each segment as a guide for when to cut back. When deciding what to cut, be sure to include content for most or all the requested information rather than fill up the entire space with one topic. Use 1 margins, 10-12pt fonts, and 1.15 spacing. Write your papers in a word processer and then save it to a PDF file before uploading it online. This is a business document. IT SHOULD LOOK LIKE ONE! Please use what you have learned in MGMT 2200 Business Communication to make the paper easy to follow and pull information from. Being able to effectively communicate in writing is essential to your success. Examples of successful reports are available online. If you need a refresher, please refer to this site: A great deal of this paper will be copied and pasted from external sources. To avoid plagiarism, you will need to cite your sources using footnotes. Simply place the URL or source title in the footnotes at the bottom of the page and place a numeral after the quoted content. Grading The segments in this project will be peer reviewed. Each week your papers will be distributed to 3 of your peers who will grade JUST THE SEGMENT DUE THAT WEEK using a rubric. As you do your peer reviews, please provide comments that will be helpful and allow the student to make meaningful revisions. While you are only grading the segment due that week, the rest of the project is available to provide you context you should read all earlier segments before grading the current week’s segment. In this way you will learn something and fairly assess the student’s work.