Q Instructions Each person should submit their team's case study, though the final submission text will be the same for all your team members. -- Virtual Group Case Study MBA 506: Leadership, Teams, and Communications In this assignment, you will discuss a real business case study within a virtual team environment and give and receive feedback on how you interact with team members during the assignment. Goals: • Build your analytical skills through the case analysis • Create an opportunity to watch and learn from others’ team interactions • Reflect on how you work with others Timing: Your team should meet for no more than an hour total (40 minutes of work time, 20 minutes to debrief). Your team should schedule two separate zoom meetings back to back. The brevity of this meeting is part of the challenge of this assignment, as teams often have to work together under pressure. Team Case Study Discussion: Please schedule a 40 minute zoom video call meeting with your team to work on the case. Come prepared to your team meeting by reading the case ahead of time. Reference the class lectures and readings to help you analyze your case and understand the characters’ behaviors. Use APA style in-text citations (author and year in parentheses), but you do NOT need to include a reference section at the end. Make sure to show an in-depth understanding and apply these concepts correctly. Team Debrief: After the 40 minutes of work time, restart a new zoom meeting for a 20 minutes to debrief about how the assignment went. The team debrief questions are located at the end of this document. How you answer these questions will not affect your grade, so please discuss them honestly. Submission Format: • Copy and paste the format example on the last page of this document into a Google Doc that your group can share while you are meeting together. Also have the document shared on screen in the zoom meeting. • Please include each participating team member’s full name at the top of the document. • Your case paper should be a maximum of 600 words (around three double spaced pages). If you’re working in Google Drive, you can go to Tools and Word Count to check your progress. Please keep all headers exactly as they appear in the format example on the last page. All words on the page, including the title, subtitle, and your names, are included in the word count. • On an additional page of the same document, please answer the team debrief questions. This section will NOT count toward your word limit. • Please have each team member download the finished case study as a word document and submit it in the assignment dropbox on Brightspace (under Assignments -> virtual case study assignment folder) Case Study Paper Structure and Grading: As a team, please create a double spaced document that answers the following questions. 1. Problem statement (5 points): The problem statement should reflect the core issues in the case. It reflects the analysis you have done, rather than the surface issues often presented in any business problem. 2. Analysis of problem, including at least two root causes (10 points): This is the most critical and often the most difficult section. Your goal for this section is to clearly show why the identified problem exists. If you have done a good job here, the rest of your work will be far easier. 3. Your recommendations, including implementation and feasibility (10 points): These have to be specific. For example, saying that two people “should cooperate” is inadequate. Instead, clearly state the actions and conditions that will increase the likelihood of cooperation. Be sure your recommendations are consistent with your analysis, and meet the requirements for solving the problem. Evaluate your recommendations for both their costs and their risks. Be sure to consider implementation. 4. Develop one innovation for the organization in the case (5 points): This is open ended and can include a new product idea, a new system to help with operations, or anything else that would be both novel and useful in the case. The more creative, the better. 5. Team Debrief discussion notes (10 points): After you complete the case study, you and your team will discuss how it went and take notes about your discussion in the “team debrief” section of the document. Total points possible for team case assignment: 40 All team members whose name is included on the submission will receive the same score. Any team member who is not participating will be expected to submit the alternate assignment below by the deadline for this assignment and should not have their name included with the team submission. Alternate Assignment: Please do your best to be present for the virtual case study in order for the best experience for everyone. If there is an emergency, a tech issue the day of, or you are not able to attend, the alternate assignment is to individually write a case analysis of the case using the same case analysis guide above. The alternate assignment for individual students should be a minimum of 1200 words (approximately 5 double spaced pages). This alternate assignment should be completed by the case due date. Please title the document “Virtual Case Study Individual Alternate Assignment” at the top of the page. Also complete the “team debrief” section as a self-evaluation. Virtual Team Case Study (Format Example) 600 word limit Team Member First and Last Names: • Name • Name • Name • Name • Name Problem Statement: Text text text Analysis of Problem: Text text text Your Recommendations (including implementation and feasibility): Text text text Innovation: Text text text Guided Team Debrief (Last page, no word limit) • What did your team do well? • How could your team have improved? • Who emerged as the leader of the team? Was there more than one leader? How effective was that? • Were you happy with the pace of your work? Did you make good progress in the beginning, or run out of time? • What could your team have done to be better prepared before meeting together? To what extent did you feel your team demonstrated the following? Give examples. • Psychological safety - “If I make a mistake on our team, it is not held against me.” • Dependability - “When my teammates say they’ll do something, they follow through with it.” • Structure and Clarity - “Our team has an effective decision-making process.” • Motivation – “Team members were actively engaged in working together” • Social Support – “My teammates enjoyed working together” Attachments Online MBA 506 Virtual Group Case 2022.docx (31.54 KB) ________________________________________