Assignment: Managing Competing Agendas

In this assignment, you will explore how the organization and political environment of an agency or departments can impact the issue you selected.

Using the issue you selected, write a three to four (3-4) page paper in which you respond to the following questions:

1. Examine the organization of the agency in which the issue resides. Describe the structure and departments within the agency and the manner in which the departments interact with each other.

2. Given the description you provided in Question 1, describe the primary ways the human resource management part of the organizational structure positively or negatively impacts the issue that you selected.

3. Given the description you provided in Question 1, describe the primary ways the budgeting part of the organizational structure positively or negatively impacts the issue you selected.

4. Given the description you provided in Question 1, analyze the political environment and explain (2) challenges that political responsiveness may present for management.

5. Include at least four (4) peer-reviewed references (no more than five [5] years old) from material outside the textbook. Note: Appropriate peer-reviewed references include scholarly articles and governmental Websites. Wikipedia, other wikis, and any other Websites ending in anything other than ".gov" do not qualify as academic resources.