2023 Competency This competency will allow you to break down the structure and purpose of an organization and | Assignments Online

 

Competency

This competency will allow you to break down the structure and purpose of an organization and how it aligns with employee objectives.

Instructions

In your continued role as the organizational behavior consultant for NoJax Inc., you have now been tasked with analyzing the current structure of the business and how it’s impacting employee behaviors.

Use the NoJax Company Background document

as a reference, and pay special attention to the policy and structure sections of the document. Write a report for senior management that provides observations on the overall structure of the business and the implications it may have on organizational behavior. Be sure your report addresses the following:

• Choose a minimum of three of the six organizational behavior structure characteristics (span of control, chain of command, etc.). Describe each in terms of how they’re used within NoJax’s structure, and provide an opinion about whether it has a positive or negative influence on NoJax’s organizational behavior. Be sure to support and explain your opinion with observations from the background document.
• Identify the type of organizational structure that NoJax is currently using. Provide an opinion about whether it has a positive or negative influence on NoJax’s organizational behavior. Be sure to support and explain your opinion with observations from the background document.
• Rank decision-making power, creativity, and ease of communication from most important to least important for NoJax’s success. Explain if you think NoJax’s current structure is effectively cultivating the characteristic you have ranked as most important. Be sure to support and explain your opinion with observations from the background document.

Grading Rubric

FFCBA01234No PassNo PassCompetenceProficiencyMasteryNot SubmittedDoes not correctly identify three organizational behavior structure factors and/or analyze their impact.Correctly identifies three organizational behavior structure factors and demonstrates basic understanding of their impact. Analysis of impact is underdeveloped and missing key connections between factors, observations, and behaviors.Correctly identifies three organizational behavior structure factors and analysis demonstrates a thorough understanding of the connection between factors, observations, and behaviors. Analysis is supported by a minimum of two observations from the case.Correctly identifies three organizational behavior structure factors and analysis demonstrates a thorough understanding of the connection between factors, observations, and behaviors. Analysis is supported by a minimum of three observations from the case.Not SubmittedDoes not correctly identify the type of organizational structure and/or analyze its impact.Correctly identifies the type of organizational structure and demonstrates basic understanding of their impact. Analysis of impact is underdeveloped and missing key connections between structure and behaviors.Correctly identifies organizational structure and analysis demonstrates a thorough understanding of the connection between structure and behaviors. Analysis is supported by a minimum of two observations from the case.Correctly identifies organizational structure and analysis demonstrates a thorough understanding of the connection between factors and behaviors. Analysis is supported by a minimum of four observations from the case.Not SubmittedDoes not rank organizational characteristics and/or analyze if they’re being cultivated in the current structure.Does rank organizational characteristics and demonstrates basic understanding of how to use structure to cultivate them. Analysis of structure is underdeveloped and missing key connections between structure and characteristics.Does rank organizational characteristics and analysis demonstrates a thorough understanding of the connection between factors and behaviors. Analysis is supported by a minimum of two observations from the background document.Does rank organizational characteristics and analysis demonstrates a thorough understanding of the connection between factors and behaviors. Analysis is supported by a minimum of four observations from the background document.