Assignment: Profile of a Struggling Company Enron
Submit a profile of Enron. This milestone will serve as a rough draft and must cover the three critical elements described in the Project Guidelines and Rubric document.
Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:
• Profile of a Struggling Company
o 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.
o 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.
o 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.
• Management Plan Recommendations: For this section of the summative assessment, you will make recommendations for the management improvement plan.
o 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.
o 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.
o 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.
o 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.
o 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.
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
o The answer should be typed, using Times New Roman font (size 12), double spaced, with one-inch margins on all sides.
o The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
o Also include a reference page. The Citations and references must follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.