Project Overview

Organizations across multiple industries have experienced change related to internal and external influences founded upon behavioral theories. Short- and longterm organizational success requires leaders to distinguish connections between these influences and individual, group, and organizational behaviors.

Organizational behavior reviews the usual suspects that influence organizational performance and sustainability, including, but not limited to, leadership approach and style, motivational methods and models, internal and external culture, individual behaviors, attitudes, and individual perceptions.

The purpose of this project is to explore these topics from the three specific layers related to organizations: the individual, the group, and the entire organizational system. The project will be a case study analysis of an organization. The analysis will include exploring the organizational modeling, the leadership theory used, and the organizational culture of the company in the case study. By examining an organization through the case study, you will better understand how the different aspects of organizational behavior manifest themselves within a company and how that influences the operations of the company. You will use this case study for this project: The GM Culture Crisis: What Leaders Must Learn From This Culture Case Study. (http://switchandshift.com/the-gm-culture-crisis).

In this assignment, you will demonstrate your mastery of the following course outcomes:

• Analyze organizational shifts in common business practices in the form of structure or design throughout history for their influence on modern organizational ideals
• Assess internal and external influences to ensure alignment with organizational outcomes
• Analyze behavioral cause and effect in terms of the organizational outcomes in both employee and organizational performance
• Analyze the impact of culture on organizational operations for its influence on leadership styles and motivational theories on behavior within the organization
• Apply organizational behavior models and decision-making tools used by management in a business organization

Prompt

For this project, you will analyze a real-world case study through the lens of organizational behavior, including at least cultural, diverse, motivational, and leadership model perspectives. You will identify these key components within the case study, using proper organizational behavior terminology, and discuss the impacts each appears to have within the organization itself.

Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:

I. Introduction

A. How is the organization described in the case study? What are its key attributes? What are its strengths and weaknesses?

II. Organizational Modeling

A. Describe a current behavioral organizational model used in the case study.

B. Compare the current behavioral organizational model used above to other models used within the industry and also within external related industries.

C. Explain why there are differences between the organizational model used by the organization in the case study and those used by organizations in another similar industry. In other words, what are some of the reasons for using these different organizational models?

D. Compare the current impact of culture on current organizational models to the impact culture has had on past organizational models.

E. Explain how the organization is or is not operating within an organizational model unique to its industry.

F. Explain if motivational models have shifted in comparison to the organizational modeling trends.

III. Evaluate Leadership Theory

A. Describe a leadership style used in the case study and why there was a shift in leadership style throughout the case study.

B. Explain the characteristics and decisions of management in the case study that help explain the shift in leadership style.

C. Identify the internal and external influences on the organization that may have caused the shift in leadership style. Be sure to explain your choices.

D. Describe the relationship between a leadership style used by the organization in the case study and the decision-making process.

IV. Assess Organizational Culture

A. Discuss the internal culture present within the organization. Be sure to utilize terms relative to organizational behavior.

B. Identify specific examples from the case study that demonstrate the internal culture present within the organization.

V. Insights and Conclusions

A. Explain why the leadership style(s) and internal culture of the organization complement each other or do not complement each other.

B. Explain whether or not the changes in leadership style or internal culture of the organization influenced each other.

C. Explain how the leadership styles and internal culture of the organization may have influenced the behavior of the employees within the organization. You could consider providing specific instances or examples from within the case study to support your response.