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Part 1
Choose an organization either real or fictitious and write a 2000-word essay that analyzes the
organization’s structure.
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Give a little background on the organization including its name, type of business, primary products
and/or services, location(s), how long it has been in business, names of the key managers and
number of employees.
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Classify the organizational structure used. Justify your classification with examples. Provide
rationale for this type of structure for this organization. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages
of this type of structure.
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Point out at least one modern and one historical theory applied to the organization and provide
evidence with examples.
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Assess the types of power found within the organization and justify this assessment with
examples. In addition, determine who makes decisions and who has control and how decisionmaking and control function in the exercise of power.
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Make at least two recommendations for changes in the organization based upon your knowledge
of theory, structure, power, and decision making.
PART2
Select, from the following short list, one former business giant for which you will create a change
model that would have worked better than the company’s actual change plan did:
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Sears, Roebuck, & Co.
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Blockbuster
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Eastman Kodak
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Motorola
Once you have selected your corporation, please complete the following tasks. The assignment should
be 1000-1,500 words:
1. In one page or less, summarize the make-or-break market decision that the company faced, what the
company decided to do, and the result of that decision in terms of marketplace and business viability.
2. Using Kotter’s 8-step approach, create a change model that reflects your recommended approach to
the business model change that the company should have used to implement the necessary change.
3. In no more than one page, summarize your rationale as to why your proposed change model would
have worked better than the approach that the company actually used.
4. In no more than one page, summarize the potential danger points to your recommended approach,
and how your recommendations help to reduce the danger that the company will not be able to survive
the changing market dynamics.