MGMT321 Organizational Behavior Decision Making and Business Environment
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MGMT321 Organizational Behavior
Summer 2018
INDIVIDUAL ASSIGNMENT – DECISION MAKING AND THE BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT (20%)
Part 1: PESTEL Analysis (250 words)
The PESTEL analysis is a popular technique for analyzing the general external environmental influences influencing organisational performance and effectiveness. The successful management of opportunities challenges and risks can be analyzed in terms of Political, Economic, Socio-cultural, Technological, Environmental and Legal influences. Set out a detailed PESTEL analysis of your chosen organization (business, university organization, or a non-profit organization).
Identify clearly the impact of environmental influences on the organisation and those key features likely to require urgent management action.
Part 2: Organizational sub-systems (250 words)
Think carefully about your chosen organization and analyze its functions and activities using the framework of five main interrelated sub-systems of task, technology, structure, people and management.
Part 3: Interview (500 words)
This assignment involves a written analysis of an interview with someone from the chosen organization. The purpose of this assignment is to enrich your practical knowledge regarding the evaluation of the environmental factors affecting managerial choices in behavior and increase your awareness and understanding of managerial decision-making process in a diverse environmental context. Use the following questionnaire, which measures how well the organization approaches important decisions. Read each statement and ask your interviewee to indicate how true it is for their own team or company, using the following ratings:
- Never
- Rarely
- Often
- Always
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Questions and Answers
- We involve all people who have a stake in or knowledge about the topic.
Many groups make a big mistake from the start of problem solving: they leave out people who have knowledge about or a stake in the results. Consequently, their organization loses good ideas, and those people who are left out of the process resist implementing the final decision.
- We expressly state our hopes for the organization and specific hopes for each major project or decision.
If you aren’t clear about where you want to go, you won’t get there. You need a set of guiding objectives with which participants can align themselves.
- We listen to each person’s thoughts and feelings about a topic to withstand the real
issue(s).
Too many organizations start to solve a problem or decide on a course of action before they understand the real issue(s). Understanding the real issue(s) pays off in greater clarity and a deeper level of buy-in from participants.
- All the options for a project or decision get out on the table.
It pays to air all alternatives before leaping to conclusions. This discourages the tendency to settle on preset ideas and enables the group to consider a wide range of solutions, and then drill down to find the best.
- We focus our information gathering on how the options help us realize our hopes.
By working together to gather information, the group learns as a whole. It also discourages one or two members from gathering only information that supports their viewpoint.
- When we review our choices, we listen to everyone’s negatives and positives on each option before deciding.
Ideally, each team member should express something negative and something positive about each option. Allowing participants to choose an option to advocate and then defend leads to ego attachment to an idea and kills effective team decision making in the end.
- Each person expresses his or her candid judgment on which choices would best advance the team’s hopes.
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What you want is each person’s unbiased view of what would be best for the organization. You don’t want individuals to be pressured to conform or to fear losing face if they change their minds. So, consider secret straw ballots to determine how members stand on an option.
- We summarize the individual conclusions and identify the most desirable course of action as well as other acceptable choices.
Ideally, participants should work together to improve what appear to be the most favored choices, considering elements of other favored choices. It’s unwise to come up with only one solution. Better to identify acceptable alternative solutions and deal with changes that might be needed to improve them, and then select the best among the good ideas.
- We monitor whether our decisions are working and promptly modify them as needed. It is important to set a specific time frame in which to assess how well your decision is working. Be aware that situations change, and a good decision made previously may no longer be adequate for the current dilemma.
- We celebrate the team’s progress and the fulfillment of our hopes. Celebrate how your choice helped your organization fulfill its objectives.
Add up the scores to determine the group’s approach to decision making. If the score is 60 or more, the group demonstrates outstanding teamwork when making decisions. If the score is between 50 and 60, the team has much strength on which to build and opportunities for growth. An initial score between 30 and 50 is typical of many groups. The decisions in this case could be better if the team practiced the principles represented by the questions listed. Below 30, the group is drastically under-using the talents of its members.
Your written analysis should include a summary and analysis of the person’s responses, as well as reflections about your own learning based on the accurate answers. The emphasis should be on what you learned from the interview. Be sure to use theory from your text to compare your experience with your interviewee’s experience. Grading will be based on how well you link theory to what your interviewee told you and your critical reflection on your own learning.
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QUALITY OF RESPONSE NO RESPONSE POOR / UNSATISFACTORY SATISFACTORY GOOD EXCELLENT Content (worth a maximum of 50% of the total points) Zero points: Student failed to submit the final paper. 20 points out of 50: The essay illustrates poor understanding of the relevant material by failing to address or incorrectly addressing the relevant content; failing to identify or inaccurately explaining/defining key concepts/ideas; ignoring or incorrectly explaining key points/claims and the reasoning behind them; and/or incorrectly or inappropriately using terminology; and elements of the response are lacking. 30 points out of 50: The essay illustrates a rudimentary understanding of the relevant material by mentioning but not full explaining the relevant content; identifying some of the key concepts/ideas though failing to fully or accurately explain many of them; using terminology, though sometimes inaccurately or inappropriately; and/or incorporating some key claims/points but failing to explain the reasoning behind them or doing so inaccurately. Elements of the required response may also be lacking. 40 points out of 50: The essay illustrates solid understanding of the relevant material by correctly addressing most of the relevant content; identifying and explaining most of the key concepts/ideas; using correct terminology; explaining the reasoning behind most of the key points/claims; and/or where necessary or useful, substantiating some points with accurate examples. The answer is complete. 50 points: The essay illustrates exemplary understanding of the relevant material by thoroughly and correctly addressing the relevant content; identifying and explaining all of the key concepts/ideas; using correct terminology explaining the reasoning behind key points/claims and substantiating, as necessary/useful, points with several accurate and illuminating examples. No aspects of the required answer are missing. Use of Sources (worth a maximum of 20% of the total points). 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