Assignment: Understanding your Organization

1. Write a three to five-page paper (using APA formatting) that describes your organizational profile, namely, your organizational environment, relationships, competitive environment, strategic context and system for performance improvement.

2. Include what you think is meant by Continuous Process Improvement.

NOTE: The paper should be formatted as follows:

APA Cover Page

Three sections: (use the bolded text below as your main section headers)

- Background - Brief introduction of the organization

- Key Elements - Discuss the organizational environment, relationships, competitiveenvironment, strategic context and system forperformance improvement. Include what you believe or have to know what is meant by Continuous Process Improvement.

- Reflections - Critical Thinking - Provide your perspectives of: the topic being studied or this week's written assignment orassigned article researched or what you learned this week. State why is it important and how does this relate to our course oryour work situation.