Prompt
The general manager has reviewed your analysis of a successful company and was impressed
with your work. As a result, you have been asked to provide recommendations for a
management improvement plan for a struggling company.
For the second part of the final project, you will focus on a struggling company and make your
recommendations in a management improvement plan. Your recommendations will show how
management performance, employee perception, and organizational success intersect. You must
select a company from this list of suggested companies. Resources related specifically to the
struggling companies listed are provided.
Toyota (specific to recalls over the last decade) Toyota.com The Toyota Recall What Really Happened to Toyota? Can Toyota Recover Its Reputation for Quality?
WorldCom Ex-WorldCom CEO Ebbers guilty WorldCom: The Accounting Scandal
Enron Enron Case Study Enron Scandal (4:48)
Motorola What Happened to Motorola 10 Reasons Why Motorola Failed
Eastman Kodak Kodak Moments Just a Memory as Company Exits Bankruptcy Kodak CEO Talks Company’s Future Eastman Kodak Files for Bankruptcy Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:
I. Profile of a Struggling Company
1. Assess how the management planning practices interfere with or prohibit the
organization’s ability to optimally function. You could consider
using the fundamental principles of management in your explanation. 2. Describe how the employees’ perception and organizational culture have been
impacted by management’s performance. You could consider
the connections between management and its impact on culture. 3. Explain how communication has played a part in management’s inability to
increase employee performance. You could consider the connections
to specific communication barriers that exist within the organization. II. III. Management Plan Recommendations: For this section of the summative assessment,
you will make recommendations for the management improvement plan.
1. Describe how implementing the fundamental principles of management will
help to improve the management process within your company. You could
consider the factors that interfere with or prohibit effective management. 2. Identify how aspects of the fundamental principles of management will be
implemented and communicated to all personnel within the company. You could
consider thinking about this from a training standpoint. 3. Describe how the application of the fundamental principles of management will
lead to increased employee performance. You could consider what needs to
improve the most to help increase employee performance. 4. Explain how applying ethical principles to the fundamental principles of
management would be sustained and monitored by the company. You could
consider using the rational decision-making model to show how this process can
help with ensuring long-term success. Conclusion: For this section of the summative assessment, you will provide a summary
of your recommended changes to the management improvement plan using examples
revolving around the fundamental principles of management. a. Summarize how these management changes, based on the fundamental principles of
management, will help to ensure organizational success. Be sure to provide examples of how
these changes will have the most direct impact. Final Project Two Rubric Guidelines for Submission: Final Project Two must be three to four pages in length (plus a cover
page and references) with double spacing, 12-point Times New
Roman font, one-inch margins, and APA formatting. Include at least two references cited in APA
format.
Instructor Feedback: This activity uses an integrated rubric in Blackboard. Students can view
instructor feedback in the Grade Center. For more information, review these instructions. Critical Elements Exemplary (100%) Proficient (85%) Needs Improvement
Not Evident (0%) Value
(55%) Profile:
Management
Planning Assesses how the
Meets “Proficient” management
criteria and details planning practices
are justified by the interfere with or
fundamental
prohibit the
principles of
organization’s
management
ability to optimally
function Assesses how the
Does not assess
management
how the
planning practices
management
interfere with or
planning practices
prohibit the
interfere with or 12
organization’s ability
prohibit the
to optimally
organization’s
function but details
ability to optimally
are inaccurate or
function
cursory Describes how the
employees’
Meets “Proficient” Describes how the
perception and
criteria and details employees’
organizational
show a keen
perception and
Profile: Employees’
culture have been
insight into the
organizational
Perception and
impacted by
connections
culture have been
Culture
management’s
between
impacted by
performance but
management and management’s
details are
culture
performance
inaccurate or
cursory Profile:
Communication Meets “Proficient” Explains how
criteria and details communication has
show a keen
played a part in
awareness of the management’s
communication
inability to increase Explains how
communication has
played a part in
management’s
inability to increase Does not describe
how the
employees’
perception and
organizational
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management’s
performance Does not explain 12
how
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process within the
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