OL 215 Final Project One Guidelines and Rubric

Description

Directions

Your employer recently conducted an employee survey, and the greatest area of concern was related to management. The survey revealed that many employees are not satisfied with management’s performance, and the employees feel like the company’s poor performance is directly related to a lack of effective management. The general manager has learned that you are currently pursuing a business degree and would like you to champion a team to help improve management’s effectiveness. The general manager would first like to understand some of the best management practices from successful companies.

First, you will identify a successful company. You must select a company from the list of suggested companies provided in the Final Project One Successful Companies and Search Terms document.

Once you have selected a successful company, you will then analyze its application of the fundamental principles of management. Search terms are provided. These will help you to conduct research to learn more about how your chosen company applies the fundamental principles of management.

Specifically, the following rubric criteria must be addressed:

1. Introduction. Provide a brief overview of the successful company that you have chosen to benchmark for management best practices. Consider including specific examples relating to the fundamental principles of management and the company’s mission and vision statement.
2. Profile of a Successful Company
   1. Explain how the company has communicated its mission and vision within the organization. In other words, explain how the company demonstrates the importance of the mission and vision to employees and other stakeholders.
   2. Identify how the company has successfully executed its strategic management plan. Justify your response. Include a specific example of a time when this management plan led the company to success.
   3. Describe how management has helped to positively influence the organizational culture within this company. Use some specific examples, actions, or strategies that show how management has positively influenced organizational culture.
   4. Explain management’s pivotal role in the decision-making process within this company. Be sure to include specific decisions made by management based on principles of ethics. Discuss specific decision-making models used by the company that may have helped the company be successful.
   5. Evaluate how the use of the functions of management within this company has adhered to the principles of ethics. Include how using the functions of management while adhering to the principles of ethics may have impacted the employees of the company.
   6. Explain how this company strategically uses human resources to develop its personnel. Provide insight into how this use of human resources has enhanced the company’s business processes.
3. Conclusion
   1. Summarize how the company utilizes the fundamental principles of management to ensure optimal performance. Include insight into actions taken by this company if optimal performance is not met.
   2. Analyze the decision-making strategies of the company for how they consider all the parts of the company as an interrelated system. Include how the decision-making strategies of the company align with a systems thinking approach.

Milestones

Milestone One: Introduction of a Successful Company
In Module Two, you will submit a 1- to 2-page document that will identify your chosen successful company from the suggested list. You are expected to provide a brief overview of the successful company that you have chosen to benchmark for management best practices. You should also include specific examples related to the fundamental principles of management and the company’s mission and vision statement. This milestone will be graded with the Final Project One Milestone One Rubric.

Milestone Two: Profile of a Successful Company
In Module Three, you will submit a 1-to 2-page document that will provide a profile of your chosen successful company. This milestone will serve as a rough draft and must cover the six critical elements described in Part II of Final Project One. You are expected to provide a minimum of two to three sentences for each of the six critical elements: mission and vision, strategic management plan, organizational culture, decision making, principle of ethics, and human resources. This milestone will be graded with the Final Project One Milestone Two Rubric.

Final Submission: Application of the Fundamental Principles of Management for a Successful Company
In Module Five, you will submit Final Project One. It should be a complete, polished artifact containing all of the critical elements of the final product. It should reflect the incorporation of feedback gained throughout the course. This assignment will be graded using the Final Project One Rubric.

What to Submit

Final Project One must be 3 to 4 pages in length (plus a cover page and references) with double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, one-inch margins, and APA formatting. Include at least two references cited in APA format.

Final Project One Rubric

Criteria	Exemplary (100%)	Proficient (85%)	Needs Improvement (55%)	Not Evident (0%)	Value
Introduction	Meets “Proficient” criteria and includes examples relating to the fundamental principles of management (P-O-L-C) and the company’s mission and vision statement	Provides an overview of the company that was chosen to benchmark for management best practices	Provides an overview of the company that was chosen to benchmark for management best practices but details lack relevance or are cursory	Does not provide an overview of the company that was chosen to benchmark for management best practices	7
Successful Company: Mission and Vision	Meets “Proficient” criteria and details chosen demonstrate insight into how the company crafts its communication for differing audiences	Explains how the company has communicated its mission and vision within the organization	Explains how the company has communicated its mission and vision within the organization but details are either inaccurate or cursory	Does not explain how the company has communicated its mission and vision within the organization	11
Successful Company: Strategic Management Plan	Meets “Proficient” criteria and justification includes an example of a time when this management plan led the company to success	Identifies how the company has successfully executed its strategic management plan, justifying response	Identifies how the company has successfully executed its strategic management plan but does not justify response or details are inaccurate or cursory	Does not identify how the company has successfully executed its strategic management plan	11
Successful Company: Organizational Culture	Meets “Proficient” criteria and includes specific examples, actions, or strategies that show how management has positively influenced the culture	Describes how management has helped to positively influence the organizational culture within this company	Describes how management has helped to positively influence the organizational culture within this company but details are irrelevant or cursory	Does not describe how management has helped to positively influence the organizational culture within this company	11
Successful Company: Decision Making	Meets “Proficient” criteria and details discuss decision-making models that have helped the company be successful	Explains management’s pivotal role in the decision-making process within this company, citing specific decisions made by management based on principles of ethics	Explains management’s pivotal role in the decision-making process within this company, citing decisions made by management based on principles of ethics but details lack relevance or are cursory or examples lack specificity	Does not explain management’s pivotal role in the decision-making process within this company or cite decisions made by management based on principles of ethics	11
Successful Company: Principles of Ethics	Meets “Proficient” criteria and details include how using the functions of management while adhering to principles of ethics may have impacted the employees of the company	Evaluates how the use of the functions of management within the company has adhered to principles of ethics	Evaluates how the use of the functions of management within the company has adhered to principles of ethics but details are irrelevant or cursory	Does not evaluate how the use of the functions of management within the company has adhered to principles of ethics	11
Successful Company: Human Resources	Meets “Proficient” criteria and details show insight into how the strategic use of human resources can lead to a company’s success	Explains how this company strategically uses human resources to develop its personnel	Explains how this company strategically uses human resources to develop its personnel but details are inaccurate or cursory	Does not explain how this company strategically uses human resources to develop its personnel	11
Conclusion: Principles of Management	Meets “Proficient” criteria and details include insight into actions taken by the company if optimal performance is not met	Summarizes how the company utilizes the fundamental principles of management to ensure optimal performance	Summarizes how the company utilizes the fundamental principles of management to ensure optimal performance but details are inaccurate or cursory	Does not summarize how the company utilizes the fundamental principles of management to ensure optimal performance	11
Conclusion: Interrelated System	Meets “Proficient” criteria and details include how the decision-making strategies of the company align with a systems thinking approach	Analyzes the decision-making strategies of the company for how they consider all parts of the company as an interrelated system	Analyzes the decision-making strategies of the company for how they consider all parts of the company as an interrelated system but details are cursory	Does not analyze the decision-making strategies of the company for how they consider all parts of the company as an interrelated system	11
Articulation of Response	Submission is free of errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, and organization and is presented in a professional and easy-to-read format	Submission has no major errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization	Submission has major errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization that negatively impact readability and articulation of main ideas	Submission has critical errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization that prevent understanding of ideas	5
Total:					100%