Part 2: Collecting and Analyzing the Data on Your Organization · Weight: 10% of

Part 2: Collecting and Analyzing the Data on Your Organization
· Weight: 10% of the final grade 
· Due no later than 11:00 p.m. on Sunday of Unit 8
Instructions and Requirements
In the research phase of your Learning Group Project, your group will consider the possible sources of information you will need to consider for preparing your report. It is important that you collect information from a variety of sources, including information from the organization, reports and articles from the popular press (like those most often found through Google), and academic sources, such as those found in monographs and juried articles in journals (which you will find in our Library and Google Scholar). 
In this phase of the project, your group will review the information that you have collected and arrange it to explain how your organization views its structure and how that structure supports its values and contributes to meeting its objectives. In this part, you will organize your research and data collected around the organizational design issues in order to explain how they help (or fail to help) your organization to be successful.
As you proceed, you may find that you need to modify your plan. If your group finds that they need to modify Part 2 or 3 of your Learning Group Project Plan, you should document those changes and include them in the deliverables.
In the analysis phase, assemble the data that you found around the organization theory and design issues that you identified as important for your organization. Discuss the actions taken by your organizations to ensure that the elements of design support organizational needs and objectives. For example, an organization might choose to manage its interdependencies with supplier organizations by setting up a common inventory system so that suppliers can deliver appropriate goods on a just-in-time basis. Your report for Part 3 will describe these actions, the organizational design issues involved, and their impact, hopefully positive, on the organization. By Unit 8, submit a group paper of 2000-2500 words, double spaced, 12-point font, excluding title page and references, that reports the analysis of the research data you have collected.
Evaluation and Feedback
Part 2: Collecting and Analyzing the Data will be marked in its entirety out of 100. The following rubric indicates the criteria students are to adhere to and their relative weights in the assignment overall.
Activity/Competencies   Demonstrated
% of Final Grade
1.
Content (70%)
a. Discussed the course   organizational design issues that emerged from the research into the selected   organization
/20
b. Discussed how the analysis   explains the organization’s design and structure.
/20
c. Discussed the actions taken by   your organizations to ensure that the elements of design support   organizational needs and objectives
/15
d. Referenced academic as well as   non-academic sources.
/15
2.
Communication (15%)
a. Uses language clearly and effectively
/5
b. Information organized intelligently and holistically (i.e., not simply   answers to questions)
/5
c. Proper introduction and conclusion to paper
/5
3.
Attention to Detail (15%)
a. APA Formatting (title, headings,   and references)
/5
b. Spelling and grammar
/5
b. Any modification of the Learning   Group Project Plan documented and reported
/5
Total 
/100