Instructions

Step 1 Visit the websites of various organizations in your city or county to identify firms that have developed a formal vision or mission statement. Include some websites of nonprofit organizations and government agencies in addition to small and large businesses.

Step 2 Ask to speak with the director, owner, or chief executive officer of several organizations. Explain that you are studying vision and mission statements in class and are conducting research as part of a class activity.

Step 3 Ask several executives the following four questions, and record their answers.

1. When did your organization first develop its vision or mission statement? Who was primarily responsible for its development?

2. How long have your current statements existed? When were they last modified? Why were they modified at that time?

3. By what process are your firm's vision and mission statements altered?

4. How are your vision and mission statements used in the firm?

Step 4 Provide an overview of your findings to the class in course room.