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For this assignment you will write a 6 to 8 pages research paper focusing on a topical area that relates to the ‘design essentials’ of organization theory. You may choose from one of the topics below.

Balanced Scorecard

Benchmarking
Business Process Reengineering
Chaos Theory
Core Competencies
Corporate Entrepreneurship
Corporate Social Responsibility
Corporate Culture
Differentiation Strategy
Disruptive Change
Diversity
Downsizing
E-Business
Empowerment

Enterprise Resource Planning
Forecasting
Globalization
Information Technology
Innovation
Intellectual Capital
Intergroup Conflict
International or Global Capabilities
Job Design
Job Enrichment
Joint Ventures
Knowledge Management
Labor-management Teams
Leadership

Manufacturing Technologies
Mass Customization
Organization Development
Open Systems
Organic Design
Organizational Design
Organization Theory
Organizational Change
Organizational Innovation
Outsourcing
Porter's Competitive Strategies
Power
Product Life-Cycle Management
Organizational Purpose

Scenario Planning
Six Sigma
Specialization
Stakeholders
Strategic Intent
Supply Chain Management
Sustainability
Tacit Knowledge
Technology
Uncertainty
Values-Based Leadership
Virtual Teams
Whistle-blowing
Win-Win Strategies

Once you have selected a topic, address at least four of the following ‘design essentials’ of an organization in an APA formatted research paper:

Tools to adapt to a changing environment.
The role of managers in shaping organizations to perform well and meet the needs of society.
Designing organizations to achieve both efficiency and effectiveness.
Organization design elements: the technical core, top management, middle management, technical support, and administrative support.
Mechanistic versus organic organization design.
Open organization systems that interact with the environment.

Your paper should be professionally written, concise, and in APA format. Please be sure to cite and reference theories or concepts from class as well as outside research. Make sure you have a clear introduction, body, and conclusion to your work. Page count does not include cover page and reference page. Include a clear thesis statement at the end of your first paragraph. Assignments must be submitted through the assignment link in Blackboard. Please use headings and subheading in your paper.

Individual Case Grading Rubric

Exemplary Level

Leadership:

Student provided realistic strategies to lead effectively, which include but are not limited to building teams, innovation, ethics, integrity, vision, originality etc.

Mastery Level

Recommendations & Goals:	Problem Solving & Decision Making:	Measuring Outcomes:
Student provided relevant, feasible and high-quality recommendations and goals. Alternatives are provided and concepts are supported.	Student applied a variety of quantitative and qualitative techniques to make business decisions.	Student provided details to measure outcomes to provide the best recommendation(s). Measurables are well-thought and realistic.

Competency Level

Content:

APA:

Mechanics:

Organization:

Student identifies key ideas, examines their interrelationships, and incorporates quotations from sources logically, effectively, and gracefully, paper length is met.

Student followed APA formatting guidelines with at least four citations (in-text and reference list match) from peer-reviewed journals.

Sentence structure, grammar, diction; correct use of punctuation; minimal to no spelling errors; no run-on sentences or comma splices. Paper contains an introduction, supporting body, conclusion and reference page.

Ideas are arranged logically to support the purpose or argument. They flow smoothly from one to another and are clearly linked to each other.

The reader can follow the line of reasoning.