Analysis of Environmental Constraints, Stakeholders, Organizational Structure, Motivating Employees,

Environmental Constraints

• Analyze your organization’s general (PESTEL) environment.

• Which environmental constraints does your organization face? Justify your responses.

• How is the organization currently addressing these constraints? Which constraints create the biggest challenges for the organization?

• Which elements have created (or will create) opportunities for them? Justify your responses.

• Your personal insights/ideas/perspectives must be evident as will you need to make some of your own inferences and assumptions in this section.

• Identify key stakeholders within the organization’s specific and general environment. Do not simply provide a list; describe the importance of each stakeholder and the impact each of them might have on the organization’s activities.

• Once you have identified the key stakeholders for your organization, identify which stakeholders you feel the organization should manage and give the highest priority to. Be sure to justify your responses.

• Create an organizational chart (e.g. divisions, departments, who reports to who, etc.)

• Describe the organizational structure and design. Do you feel they use more of a mechanistic or an organic structure? Explain. Be sure to justify your response by explaining how your organization addresses relevant elements or organizational structure and design such as: work specialization; departmentalization; chain of command; span of control; centralized/ decentralized decision making; formalization.

• Your personal insights/ideas/perspectives must be evident as will you need to make some of your own inferences and assumptions in this section.

• Which motivation theories and/ or strategies would you consider using for employees within the organization? Choose from the list of motivational theories and strategies in the textbook. Be specific in your responses by explaining a specific action plan (identify motivation theories and/ or strategies you would use along with “how” you would apply them. Be specific and provide examples).

• What process are you going to use to monitor the progress of your businesses plans and activities? How will you correct or deal with any changes from your plans?

• Will you use feedforward, concurrent, or feedback controls in order to monitor activities (you may choose one, two, or all three of these)? Justify your response.

• Once you have identified whether you will use feedforward, concurrent, or feedback controls, identify at least two specific controls you would implement that you feel would be most effective in measuring the effectiveness and progress of your recommendations. For example, if you choose to use concurrent and feedback controls, you must identify "specific” feedback and concurrent controls you would implement (e.g. employee training, employee involvement, management by walking around, management information systems, balanced scorecard, tracking employee performance, market control, bureaucratic control, clan control, etc.). Describe why you have chosen these methods/ why you feel they will be effective.

• How would you know if your goal is being accomplished? Be sure to explain each control method you chose and why you feel they would be effective in measuring your recommendation.

• Your personal insights/ ideas/ perspectives must be is evident throughout as this is where you apply what you have learned thus far in the course.