Organizational Issue and Strategic Solution Analysis: Starbucks
Overview
Leaders address issues and propose solutions. As a leader, you'll need to stay on top of
events that may facilitate or hinder productivity. You must create and implement
solutions to address these issues. You will continue to use the approved organization you
selected in the Week 2 and 3 Assignments. Describe its organizational issue and identify
how it hinders organizational efficiency. This assignment exposes you to complex
modern organizational challenges. The solutions you devise should reflect your learning
and research of organizational and individual influences in the workplace.
Instructions
The new CEO has selected your consulting firm to provide an analysis of the
organization's efficiency. Write a 2–3 page, double-spaced paper in which you present to
the CEO your findings during your research steps. You must propose strategic solutions
in your paper that include the following:
- Describe the organization and the organizational issue that adversely affected
productivity you propose to review and resolve.
- Use the description and feedback from the instructor in the Week 3 Assignment.
- Analyze the organization's culture and how it has contributed to the identified issue.
Hint: Review the mission and vision statement as well as the corporate website for
information.
- Describe how the current corporate culture facilitated the development of the current
, issue.
- Identify the organization's areas of weakness as they relate to the issue.
To help identify the areas of weakness, apply your research on organizational behavior
approaches to aspects of corporate culture—such as diversity, teamwork, and
motivational strategies.
- Develop recommendations for management that include the organizational practice
modifications you would use to solve identified weaknesses and issues.
Overview
Leaders address issues and propose solutions. As a leader, you'll need to stay on top of
events that may facilitate or hinder productivity. You must create and implement
solutions to address these issues. You will continue to use the approved organization you
selected in the Week 2 and 3 Assignments. Describe its organizational issue and identify
how it hinders organizational efficiency. This assignment exposes you to complex
modern organizational challenges. The solutions you devise should reflect your learning
and research of organizational and individual influences in the workplace.
Instructions
The new CEO has selected your consulting firm to provide an analysis of the
organization's efficiency. Write a 2–3 page, double-spaced paper in which you present to
the CEO your findings during your research steps. You must propose strategic solutions
in your paper that include the following:
- Describe the organization and the organizational issue that adversely affected
productivity you propose to review and resolve.
- Use the description and feedback from the instructor in the Week 3 Assignment.
- Analyze the organization's culture and how it has contributed to the identified issue.
Hint: Review the mission and vision statement as well as the corporate website for
information.
- Describe how the current corporate culture facilitated the development of the current
, issue.
- Identify the organization's areas of weakness as they relate to the issue.
To help identify the areas of weakness, apply your research on organizational behavior
approaches to aspects of corporate culture—such as diversity, teamwork, and
motivational strategies.
- Develop recommendations for management that include the organizational practice
modifications you would use to solve identified weaknesses and issues.
