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Group Assingment

Group Assingment

Q Instructions For this assignment, you will work in groups, preassigned by me. You will be provided with a group discussion board for this assignment which you can use to work collaboratively. • Organizations are complex entities with a cultural context and history that operate on various levels and define how work gets done and how people interact. Organizational development professionals enter such a cultural context and need to explore, experience, and understand the culture, the market in which it exists, and member’s experiences to grasp both the problematic symptoms and drivers that are causing the organization to fall short of strategic goals and objectives. (include vision and mission) • Identify an organization that has experienced some problem and engaged in a change initiative. • Describe and analyze the historical, market, and cultural elements that contributed to the described problem, what changes were defined by the change initiative, and why this initiative was not successful. • As a team, identify an organization to assess. As you select an organization, consider the intersection of people and information within the organization as well how information is viewed as a capital market exchange in an organization. • Once the organization is selected, look at the organization’s vision and mission or any articles written about your chosen company. • Now that you are familiar with the concept of human capital in value-added perspectives and contributions to enterprise goals, detail your collective response to the following questions: • How do you perceive this new human capital movement in terms of transactional information markets, employee satisfaction, retention, and perceived leadership value within the organization? • Does leadership value the organizational workforce more, and what artifacts can you present that support your conclusions? • Students will form small groups, preassigned by instructor and provided a Group Discussion board for this assignment. Work together in the group discussion space to compose a single summary paper that will be submitted by one member of the team on behalf of the group. Formatting: • Your assignment should be approximately 500-1,000 words in length (typically, a minimum of four double-spaced pages), not counting the cover page, reference list page, appendices, figures, or tables. • Please format any references in the most current APA format. • An abstract is not required. • Please refer to the rubric associated with this assignment for detailed guidance about expectations and grading. • Please submit this assignment here by 11:59 PM CT on Sunday. ________________________________________

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For our group project we have chosen to identify the company Sears for our organization that has experienced some problem and engaged in a change initiative. Sears was once America’s largest retailer, dominant with its massive economies of scale, no competitor could ever hope to topple it, however, worsening deterioration of Sears is a reminder to all business leaders of how even the greatest companies can fail (Colvin, 2016). In the article “Here are 5 things Sears got wrong that sped its fall” it was noted that after 125 years in business Sears Holdings, once the biggest retailer in the country, eventually filed for bankruptcy in 2018 (Thomas, 2018). Led by hedge fund manager and CEO Eddie Lampert,