Part 1: Topic Selection (Due Week 1)
Pick out your two companies and their change. In 1 double spaced
page, please submit your company selections, with a brief write-up on the
changes you will be comparing in the two companies. Pick two companies which
have undergone some type of fairly substantial change in the recent past. Find
the company and the change information online, using EBSCO, or using a
company’s case described somewhere in our textbook. (See page 388 of the
textbook index for page numbers and names of each of the cases described in the
textbook.) Other ways to find information: utilize Google or Yahoo Finance, or
Reuters, and look up Annual Reports of companies which interest you. Often
reading the first sections of these reports (i.e. letters from CEO’s) will give
you ideas about changes they have gone through in the past year(s).
Be sure that:
1. Your
companies are publicly traded so that their information will be easy to
research and find
2. Your
change in the two companies are comparable (i.e. don’t compare a new CEO to a
change in HRIS – DO compare two changes in CIO) and
3. The
changes happened in the recent past so that you will find plenty of online
information about how they were handled, but not so recent that the information
about the change “results” is still up in the air.
Your topic will be graded/approved and returned to you so that
you know your topic will work for the course. You must get approval to move
forward with your project. This section will be worth 25 points and must
have at least two
references.
