Description
This assignment seeks to examine the impact of environmental change on management practices. This project is created to encourage good research and writing skills that are needed for assignments and to identify the environmental impacts that influence organizational structure and management. Consider a focus on your education focus such as HRM, PM, CJ, etc.
Your manager overheard you telling a colleague that you are taking a graduate-level organizational theory class at UMGC. He remembers his college course on organizational theory and realizes that he found the knowledge he learned extremely useful over the years. Lately, he has felt that he has been overwhelmed with changes that require him and his employees to quickly respond to situations that he cannot always solve effectively. Experience has taught him that organizations need to adapt to influences in the environment, including customer wants and needs. To that end, he would like you to select some articles for him to read on the following topics: external/economic impacts to organizations, internal/structure impacts to organizations, and/or management skills needed in a changing environment.
Instructions for this assignment:
Step 1: Using OneSearch in the UMGC online library, conduct a search for at least 3 scholarly articles that address how organizations can respond to unplanned change (whether internal or external). The articles need to be current – published within the past five years.
· Article selection should consider management skills and practices, external/economic impacts to organizations, internal/structure impacts to organizations, and/or management skills needed in a changing environment.
· Articles should focus on current research in management studies; less than 5 years since publication.
Step 2: Create an annotated bibliography for each article. Guidance on writing an annotated bibliography can be found here. The articles should be summarized in 2-3 paragraphs as the format suggests.
Step 3: Then aggregately analyze and explain the articles for the way in which they influence the organization. This section should comprise 2 paragraphs using course readings and research to support how external/economic factors impact organizations, internal/structure impacts to organizations, and/or management skills needed in a changing environment.
Step 4: Conclude the paper with a two to three-paragraph examination of the selected articles and their impact on managing effectively. Be sure to clearly explain your reasoning for the selection and provide supporting examples and rationale from class readings related to the modern organization.
