Assignment task: Reaction Paper (covering LinkedIn articles and other materials)
Summary of Instructions:
I. This Reaction Paper (2 pages TOTAL) requires reading four brief LINKEDIN articles by S. McHale, summarizing them (in the first 1.5 pages) in outline/bullet-point form, and then WATCHING the SCHEIN video and READING the MORGAN CHAPTER (all of which are included on our "Mod 3 Learning Materials page). Finally, in the final half-page of your reaction paper, compare two "views of culture" as per the detailed instructions below. Need Assignment Help?
Full Instructions:
1. Read Morgan, chapter 5 (using the Brytewave menu link).
2. View YouTube Video: Organizational Culture Edgar Schein
3. Read the following four brief case studies by Siobhan McHale:
- The BIG reason why 70% of change efforts fail (10/15/18).
- Does fear drive performance? (11/27/18)
- The fall of Enron: A values brochure won't fix the culture (09/11/18)
- What you've been told about culture is wrong (part 1, 06/18/18)
II. Write up an outline of 1.5 pages: Although you are being asked to write up a brief OUTLINE (or bullet point format) --- and NOT an essay --- please be sure to use and define terms from the readings, and cite appropriately, to demonstrate your mastery of the learning materials:
- Summarize the key ideas of McHale's view of culture (e.g., emergent patterns of relating).
Final half-page:
A. In a brief three-paragraph "reaction," compare and contrast TWO of the THREE viewpoints (McHale, Schein, & Morgan's).
- Summarize EITHER Schein's view of culture OR Morgan's view of culture.
- (You have already summarized McHale's view of culture, in the "outline" portion of your reaction paper).
B. As you write about TWO of the THREE views of culture, consider:
- What do they have in common?
- How are they different?
- Which one do you feel is most effective as a management approach? And why?