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6-2 Final Project Two Milestone One: Profile of a Struggling Company

6-2 Final Project Two Milestone One: Profile of a Struggling Company

Q Submit a profile of your chosen struggling company. This milestone will serve as a rough draft and must cover the three critical elements described in Part I of the Final Project Two Guidelines and Rubric document. For additional details, please refer to the Final Project Two Milestone One Rubric document and the Final Project Two Guidelines and Rubric document. OL 215 Final Project Two Milestone One Guidelines and Rubric For this assignment, due in Module Six, you will submit a one- to two-page document that will provide a profile of your chosen struggling company (from the list below). This milestone will serve as a rough draft and must cover the critical elements below. You are expected to provide a minimum of two to three paragraphs for each of the three critical elements, which include: management planning, employee’s perception and organizational culture, and communication. Be sure to focus on the company at the time of their struggle. Instructor feedback should be applied to your Final Project Two submission. Toyota (specific to recalls over the last decade) • Toyota.com • Looking Under the Hood at Toyota- What Went Wrong? • What Really Happened to Toyota? • Can Toyota Recover Its Reputation for Quality? WorldCom • Ex-WorldCom CEO Ebbers guilty • WorldCom Accounting Scandal Enron • Enron Case Study • Enron Scandal (4:48) Motorola • What Happened to Motorola • 10 Reasons Why Motorola Failed Eastman Kodak • Kodak Moments Just a Memory as Company Exits Bankruptcy • Kodak CEO Talks Company’s Future • Eastman Kodak Files for Bankruptcy Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed: I. Profile of a Struggling Company a. Assess how the management planning practices interfere with or prohibit the organization’s ability to optimally function. You could consider using the fundamental principles of management in your explanation. b. Describe how the employees’ perception and organizational culture have been impacted by management’s performance. You could consider the connections between management and its impact on culture. c. Explain how communication has played a part in management’s inability to increase employee performance. You could consider the connections to specific communication barriers that exist within the organization. Guidelines for Submission: Submit assignment as a Word document with double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, and one-inch margins. Rubric Critical Elements Proficient (100%) Needs Improvement (75%) Not Evident (0%) Value Profile: Management Planning Assesses how the management planning practices interfere with or prohibit the organization’s ability to optimally function Assesses how the management planning practices interfere with or prohibit the organization’s ability to optimally function but details are inaccurate or cursory Does not assess how the management planning practices interfere with or prohibit the organization’s ability to optimally function 30 Profile: Employees’ Perception and Culture Describes how the employees’ perception and organizational culture have been impacted by management’s performance Describes how the employees’ perception and organizational culture have been impacted by management’s performance but details are inaccurate or cursory Does not describe how the employees’ perception and organizational culture have been impacted by management’s performance 30 Profile: Communication Explains how communication has played a part in management’s inability to increase employee performance Explains how communication has played a part in management’s inability to increase employee performance but details lack relevance or are cursory Does not explain how communication has played a part in management’s inability to increase employee performance 30 Articulation of Response Submission has no major errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization Submission has major errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization that negatively impact readability and articulation of main ideas Submission has critical errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization that prevent understanding of ideas 10 Earned Total 100%

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Describes how the employees’ perception and organizational culture have been impacted by management’s performance but details are inaccurate or cursory Does not describe how the employees’ perception and organizational culture have been impacted by management’s performance 30 Profile: Communication Explains how communication has played a part in management’s inability to increase employee performance Explains how communication has played a part in management’s inability to increase employee performance but details lack relevance or are cursory Does not explain how communication has played a part in management’s inability to increase employee performance 30 Articulation of Response Submission has no major errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization Submission has major errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization that negatively impact readability and articulation of main ideas Submission has critical errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization that prevent understanding of ideas 10 Earned Total 100% Management planning The actual percentage of debt taken by Enron had never been revealed by members of the management team of the organization (Peterson, 2021). There had been lack of responsibility shown by every member of the management team of the organization for which the organization had to suffer eventually. There had been lack of proper analysis of risk by the organizational members because of which such a huge risk could not be identified and mitigated. There had not been any requirement of making other individuals (not associated with the organization) to consider Enron to be extremely productive for investment. There should have been consideration of the consequences to be faced by the management and other employees for being caught doing unethical things in future. There had been greed shown and given higher level of importance by