Individual Assignment:
Due date: To Be Advised
Length: 2,000 words
Weight: 40%
Aims of the assignment
The aims of this assignment are for you to:
1. Develop your understanding of the nature of the key organisation perspectives and their related theories;
2. Demonstrate an understanding of the key perspectives and the meta-theoretical assumptions that underpin each;
3. Develop research skills and the ability to assess the strengths and weaknesses of various debates and arguments;
4. Gain skills in the written presentation of an argument, including the ways in which scholars incorporate and acknowledge the ideas of other writers.
Key Criteria for Assessment:
For this assignment your essay will be assessed on the extent to which it demonstrates:
• Your ability to conduct research and use it to develop an argument/answer that will discipline your response.
• Your ability to write a clear, compelling, well-presented and properly referenced response to the question.
• Your ability to directly respond to all of the key issues raised by the question asked.
• The ability to move past description to analysis; to move past a focus on who, what, when and how questions to also answer the associated why questions.
• The ability to provide your own answer to the question in your own words
The Question To Be Answered:
What managers most often want to know about their organization's culture is how to change it. But what is recommended to managers on the basis of culture theory differs markedly according to the perspectives adopted (Hatch and Cunliffe, 2013: 185).
Choose two of the four perspectives and discuss their different views on organisational culture and how their advice to managers who are seeking to influence organisational culture might be different.