Overview
For this Performance Task Assessment, you will assume the role of a consultant who has been asked by the upper management team to evaluate an organizational performance problem within an organization. You will present your findings in the form of a written report with an executive summary presented as a PowerPoint presentation. The organization for this evaluation will be one of your choosing, and it should be one with which you are familiar. This organization could be where you currently work or where you have worked in the past.
Assessment Submission Length: A business report of approximately 710 pages and 1- to 2-slide executive summary.
Instructions
To complete this Assessment, do the following:
- In the IV003_Assessment_Template_Part1 file, complete your work on your business report, using your Pre-Assessment submission as a starting point and incorporating any feedback, as appropriate.
- Download the IV003_Assessment_Template_Part2 (PowerPoint presentation), which you will use to develop your executive summary slide deck.
- Be sure to adhere to the indicated assignment length.
Before submitting your Assessment, carefully review the rubric. This is the same rubric the assessor will use to evaluate your submission and it provides detailed criteria describing how to achieve or master the Competency. Many students find that understanding the requirements of the Assessment and the rubric criteria help them direct their focus and use their time most productively. This Assessment requires submission of a 7- to 10-page business report plus a 1- to 2-slide PowerPoint presentation.
Important Note:This Assessment features one of the Business Skills for Good that you will develop throughout your MBA program. The Business Skill for Good for this Competency is personal mastery. Peter Senge in his book The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization (2006), offers the following definition of personal mastery at the individual level: Personal mastery is the discipline of continually clarifying and deepening our personal vision, of focusing our energies, of developing patience, and of seeing reality objectively (p. 7). He proceeds to describe the organization that supports personal mastery as being able to provide that environment by continuingly encouraging personal vision, commitment to the truth, and a willingness to face honestly the gaps between the two (p. 162).
For this Assessment, you will be tasked with evaluating a performance problem for an organization. You should have a good understanding of the organization and how it operates. The organization can be (but is not limited to) where you currently work or an organization where you have worked in the past. After selecting an organization that you are personally familiar with, you are to present your evaluation and recommendations in a detailed business report.
Additionally, you will prepare an executive summary of your findings to be presented as a PowerPoint slide deck to the organizations upper management team. Your report should address the following three sections, including specific examples from the organization, as well as relevant citations.
TASK:
Section 1: Business Improvements (45 pages)
Your first task is to evaluate the constraints faced in your selected organization and to provide recommendations for improvement utilizing the methodologies of the Theory of Constraints, Six Sigma, and Lean. You should address the following:
- Analyze some of the basic details about the organization. At a minimum, the basic details should include: the industry and products/services the organization offers, the overall operational and financial health of the organization, and a qualitative or systems diagram summary of how the organization operates to fulfill its commitments to customers.
- Analyze what you believe to be the fundamental physical, policy, or market constraints that are preventing your organization from moving to the next level of performance. Be sure to clearly identify each primary constraint and provide a detailed argument and evidence for why you think each is a primary constraint to organizational performance. Be sure to support your response with appropriate concepts from performance management and/or systems thinking.
- For each of the fundamental physical, policy, or market constraints that you identified as preventing your organization from moving to the next level of performance, justify a specific recommendation for how to elevate, support, and potentially eliminate the constraint.
- Using the concepts of throughput accounting and Theory of Constraints accounting measurements for each of your recommendations, evaluate how the primary metrics of T, I, and OE would be affected and why the recommendations would make sense from a performance measurement perspective.
Section 2: Social Responsibility and Ethical Considerations (23 pages)
Your second task is to evaluate the organization in terms of social responsibility and ethical considerations. You should address the following:
- Identify the major stakeholders of the organization. Illustrate how the organizations actions do or do not effect positive social change for these stakeholders (explain in detail).
- Through a systems thinking lens, apply improvements to the organization to positively effect social change.
- From a systems perspective, evaluate the organizations performance in terms of diversity and inclusion.
- Assess whether there is a relationship between ethics and inclusion (explain and substantiate your position). Recommend what improvements can be implemented to positively impact both.
Section 3: Personal Mastery (12 pages)
Based on Senges definition of personal mastery, the information shared in the Learning Activities, and your own research, address the following:
- Defend recommendations you would make to the upper management team to support personal mastery at both the individual level and the organizational level, being sure to include your rationale. (Consider all major stakeholders: employees, customers, and the community.) Provide specific examples to support your position.
- Compose your personal vision. (Note that this personal vision goes far beyond traditional goals and objectives and should focus on purpose). In what ways does your personal vision relate to your ability to lead positive social change within your organization, your community, or more broadly?
Executive Summary Presentation (12 slides)
Develop an executive summary of your overall evaluation to be presented to the upper management team. This should consist of a 1- to 2-slide PowerPoint deck.
-use real life examples, APA formatted citations, answer all the questions-task at each sections.
-uploaded few file to read about this assignmnet, also both power point slides and the writing template are uploaded
-check the Rubric file about all the requirements