Company: FedEx
The MBA 600 course includes a Final Paper that covers the cumulative course content throughout our term. In your Final Paper, you will identify a large company to analyze in each of the areas of organizational leadership and management that we have discussed in this course. Your assignment is a formal research paper analyzing the company for its efforts in creating a positive organizational culture and a successful managerial strategy.
The scholarly paper should analyze your selected company in regard to its efforts over various areas of managerial oversight. Considering each of the topics that we have learned about in class, your analysis of the company’s leadership and managerial initiatives will result in a scorecard of sorts, measuring how the company’s efforts are succeeding, or where the company could focus to improve.
Your paper should address how the company’s leaders and managers are performing in these strategic managerial focus areas:
Major focus areas to include: (each worth 15% of earned grade)
Motivating employees for performance through work environment, job design, and/or collaborative team environment (SLO 1.2)
Exemplifying traditional and contemporary leadership styles and ethical leadership practices (SLO 1.2, SLO 3.3)
Managing organizational change, organizational communication, and conflict management (SLO 1.1)
Influencing organizational culture including values, mission, and vision (SLO 1.1, SLO 1.2)
Minor focus areas to include: (each worth 5% of earned grade)
Strategic organizational initiatives in innovation or value creation (SLO 1.3)
Responsible decision making and problem solving (SLO 2.2)
Writing proficiency: (worth 30% of earned grade)
Demonstrate proficiency in business writing, including APA 6th standards and citations, references, grammar, punctuation, headings, title page, and quality of sources with emphasis on scholarly references within the most recent two years (SLO 4.1).
A suggested order of the paper, to submit the examination of a company in a logical order, should consider this sequence of sections for the paper, identified by letter from above:
D – to include org culture and values, mission, vision
B – to include leadership styles & ethical leadership
F – to include responsible decision making & problem solving
A – to include employee motivation & performance methods as indicated above
C – to include org change, org communication, conflict mgmt
E – to include strategic initiatives in innovation and/or value creation
A suggested order of the paper, to submit the examination of a company in a logical order, should consider this sequence of sections for the paper, identified by letter from above:
D – to include org culture and values, mission, vision
B – to include leadership styles & ethical leadership
F – to include responsible decision making & problem solving
A – to include employee motivation & performance methods as indicated above
C – to include org change, org communication, conflict mgmt
E – to include strategic initiatives in innovation and/or value creation
