If you have not selected a company for your project, return to the “Select a Company for Your Project” page. There is a chart listing a variety of companies. Choose wisely.
Now that you have made your decision as to which business to use, conduct some research on this business and prepare a report using APA style, approximately 2 pages long, not including the cover page and reference page. You should use at minimum 2 resources for this report. One resource will be the corporate web site for the business. A second resource might be the textbook or any other credible resource.
Assume you have been hired as a consultant to assess management’s effectiveness and efficiency in this company. Your report should cover the following points, which you can use for headings in your report.
· Introduction
· (APA style does not use the word Introduction for a heading. You still must have an introduction to your report.)
· Identify and
iefly describe the business
· Present the purpose of this report.
· Mission/Vision/Values Statement
· Mission Statement
How does this mission statement represent the company’s values?
How does this mission statement represent the responsibilities to stakeholders?
· Vision Statement
How does this vision statement establish direction and commitment for the company?
· Values Statement
How does this values statement provide a foundation for decision making?
· Problems and Challenges
As the consultant, present one key problem you believe this company is facing. Justify your decision.
As the consultant, which of the seven managerial challenges (presented in the textbook) might exist for this company? (There will be more than one.)
· Conclusion
As the consultant, present the importance of creating trust in the company’s management.
As the consultant, present the importance of the company’s building a learning organization.
General information about the Project and This Report
· APA Style
· For your convenience, we have provided a template in APA Style. Download this template linked here. You can reuse this template for other parts of the project.
· The template is an MS Word document and is already formatted for APA Style.
· Tabs are set for indenting; paragraphs are set for double spacing.
· This template includes a cover page, headings you see in the outline above, and the references page. Your title for this report is Management Overview.
· The template gives you a good guide to follow for APA style.
· There are tutorials in Canvas that show you how to use APA Style and how to cite information you find.
· You can also get help in the Writing Assistance Center (WAC) with APA citation and style.
· Resources and Citations for this Project
· You should not copy/paste any parts of your report from a website on the internet.
· Provide a citation for any information that is not your own. For example, if you tell how many people a company employs, then include a citation for this data to let your reader know which resource you used for this data.
· The purpose of any research here at school and on your job is to find solid, reliable information and then to form your own ideas about your findings.
· We want to see evidence of research with your own findings based upon this research
· You do NOT cite your own ideas.