Assignment 2: LASA: Applying Organizational Consulting Strategies
INSTRUCTIONS
For your final paper, you will apply what you've learned in this course and in your program. For this project, you will not complete a consultation project, but you will develop a plan of what you would do if you were to complete an organizational consulting project. The organizational areas that you will be addressing are the same areas as in your previous coursework in the Organizational Leadership program at the University. You should review your materials from your previous courses, specifically in the areas of organizational leadership, conflict, communication, ethics, and employee motivation and team management.
By using the literature from this course and your previous courses, (a) describe the importance of each organizational area, (b) identify the data and information you would use to assess each area, and (c) describe the consulting strategy that would be most effective in addressing each area.
Leadership-both executive leadership and midlevel leadership
Why is effective leadership important to organizational success?
What organizational data and information would tell you how well the leadership is doing?
What metrics and information would tell you that leadership effectiveness is improving or declining?
What consulting strategy or strategies would be most effective in addressing leadership issues?
Organizational conflict
Why is it important for an organization to effectively manage conflict?
What data and information would you want to look at to assess an organization's conflicts?
What organizational outcomes and data would tell you that the conflicts are improving or getting worse?
What consulting strategy or strategies would be most effective in addressing organizational conflict concerns?
Organizational communication
Why is effective communication important within an organizational environment?
What data and information would you look at to assess an organization's communication effectiveness?
What metrics or outcomes would tell you that organizational communication is improving or declining?
What consulting strategy or strategies would be most effective in addressing organizational communication issues?
Organizational ethics
Why is organizational ethics important?
What information and data would you look at to assess your organization's ethics?
What metrics or outcomes would you use to measure organizational ethics? Why did you choose these metrics?
What consulting strategy or strategies would be most effective in addressing areas of ethical concern?
Employee motivation and team management
Why are employee motivation and team management important to organizational effectiveness?
What data and information would you want to look at to assess how well an organization is doing with leading employee motivation?
What data and information would you want to look at to assess how your organization is doing with managing its teams?
What metrics and outcomes would tell you whether these areas are improving or declining?
What consulting strategy or strategies would be most effective in addressing employee motivation and team management issues?
When describing the importance of a functional area, be sure to use academic literature to support your writing. Remember, you are not assessing an organization but are describing how you would go about assessing the various areas above.