Q OL 690 Module Eight Group Discussion Guidelines and Rubric Overview: At the end of Module Seven, the instructor will assign each student to a group. Each group will be assigned one of the following areas of concentration: social (people), economic (profit), and environmental (planet) focus. The group’s challenge is to discuss how to best balance competing demands that affect an organization’s corporate social responsibility commitments. Prompt: This group discussion will focus on a fictitious, publicly traded company named Global Energy Services, Inc. that provides oil to three states. This organization is facing significant challenges in a number of areas: 1) With the price of oil falling and revenues negatively impacted, the company is at risk of not meeting the shareholder expectations for the next quarter and perhaps even the year; 2) An EPA report on a lucrative oil drilling field in one of the states indicates that the fresh water supply may be contaminated and must be remediated immediately; 3) Organizational changes to reduce expenses and pay for the water supply cleanup will almost certainly require headcount reduction affecting employee morale and further reducing staff to work on the other issues. The rumor mill is already active with concerns about layoffs and budget reductions. The group is tasked with providing a one- to two-page summary of recommendations to the organization’s board of directors regarding the following issues: How to balance the performance objective of revenue growth and increased market share Remediating the costly environmental issue caused by the company Addressing the hard decision to downsize at a critical time Collaborate with your group members directly in your group discussion topic thread. Once your group has completed its summary, post it directly into the discussion topic thread and designate one group member to submit it to Brightspace for grading as well. The summary can be submitted as bullet points or as a narrative but must clearly: Identify the priority order of social (people), economic (profit), and environmental (planet) focus. Include your rationale. Address two steps you propose for your area relative to balancing the need to address the environmental issue while considering company growth and employee concerns. It is possible that your proposed solutions may even encompass a holistic approach that serves all focus areas at once. Critical Element Exemplary (100%) Proficient (90%) Needs Improvement (70%) Not Evident (0%) Value Introduction Meets “Proficient” criteria and All challenges that the company Introduction is provided, but is No introduction is provided 10 augments with some is facing are present in the missing one or more of the consequences of the challenges introduction challenges the company is facing the company facing Recommendations Meets “Proficient” criteria and Provides recommendations to Provides recommendations to Does not provide 30 augments recommendations the board of directors that are the board of directors, but they recommendations to the board with examples thoughtfully detailed are missing details of directors Identifies Priority Meets “Proficient” criteria and Identifies the priority order of Identifies the priority order of Does not identify the priority 25 of Focus discusses outcomes in rationale focus and gives rationale focus, but is missing rationale order of focus Steps Meets “Proficient” criteria and Addresses two proposed steps Addresses one proposed step Does not address proposed 25 provides additional steps for the area relative to for the area relative to steps balancing the need to address balancing the need to address the environmental issue while the environmental issue while considering company growth considering company growth and employee concerns and employee concerns Articulation of Submission is free of errors Submission has no major errors Submission has major errors Submission has critical errors 10 Response related to citations, grammar, related to citations, grammar, related to citations, grammar, related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, and spelling, syntax, or organization spelling, syntax, or organization spelling, syntax, or organization organization and is presented in that negatively impact that prevent understanding of a professional and easy-to-read readability and articulation of ideas format main ideas Total 100%