Case Study: Undercover Boss or a familiar organization

Select an Undercover Boss episode and also review some of the recent information related to your selected company. Please make sure your selected company is a publicly traded company so you can easily review their annual reports/10K as well as any other recent articles to provide you some insight.

In this case, I would like for you to select an Undercover Boss episode and also review some of the recent information related to your selected company. Please make sure your selected company is a publicly traded company so you can easily review their annual reports/10K as well as any other recent articles to provide you some insight.

Note: It's an optional to use your organization or an organization you are familiar with as your case. It's important that you have enough relevant information to succeed in this assignment.

Paper, 4-6 pages (not including title and reference page), due in Week 7, must include the following elements:

• Review of the strategic issues presented in the case.

• Application of the Pearce and Robinson Strategic Management Model (p. 2) with its 11 steps as described in the text.

• Analysis of the case from the theoretical framework of at least two of the articles discussed in the course. [Select primary sources; do NOT choose wikipedia and similar secondary sources for this part of the assignment.]

• Discussion of implications of the case for middle managers.