Draft of Group Company Consulting Report-Organizational Behavior

MGT 3332: Organizational Behavior
Group Milestone 5: Draft of Group Company Consulting Report
Guidelines and Rubric
Overview:
For this milestone, your team will begin drafting the company consulting report for your final project. This report should communicate your
findings the way you would present them to the company that hired your team to analyze their organizational dilemma and recommend solutions.
Directions:
Before you begin drafting your team’s report, consider reading the following optional resources about report writing. These are very general
guides, written for a consulting company to use when working with a client. Consider some of these general tips as you prepare to write your
report draft in this hypothetical situation acting as a consulting team for the purpose of the final project.
● Report Writing for Consultants
● 7 Tips for Writing a Client Report
Your group’s report draft will apply the organizational behavior theories and concepts you have explored thus far in the course to the company
dilemma/situation your group has been assigned. Recall that the goal of organizational behavior is to leave the company better than how you
found it. This can mean many different things, but in particular, your consulting team should focus on effectiveness and efficiency.
Specifically, you must include the following critical elements in your team’s draft:
● Summarize the organizational dilemma presented in the company snapshot
● Identify what you think might be going on in your hypothesis statement
● Analyze the employee data provided by the instructor to arrive at a decision at what is happening
Note: For the final project, you will need to expand on this draft by developing a plan for improvement, explaining why you chose that plan, and
explaining the desired outcomes once it has been implemented and the change has gained traction.
Note: You may find it helpful to utilize the group wiki tool available in Blackboard to organize your thoughts, information, and resources for the
group milestones and final group project. You are not required to use this tool, but if your group would like to use it simply ask your instructor to
create a wiki for your group.
Guidelines for Submission: Your milestone must be submitted by one member of your group as a Microsoft Word document, at least three
pages in length, with double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman type, 1-inch margins, and resources cited in APA format.
Instructor Feedback: This activity uses an integrated rubric in Blackboard. Students can view instructor feedback in the Grade Center.
MGT 3332: Organizational Behavior
Rubric
Criteria Exemplary (100%) Needs Improvement (75%) Not Evident (0%) Value
Organizational
Dilemma
Summarizes the organizational
dilemma presented in the company
snapshot.
Summarizes the organizational
dilemma presented in the company
snapshot, but is unclear or inaccurate.
Does not summarize the organizational
dilemma presented in the company
snapshot.
30
Hypothesis Identifies what is going on in a
hypothesis statement.
Identifies what is going on in a
hypothesis statement, but is unclear.
Does not identify what is going on in a
hypothesis statement.
30
Data Analysis Analyzes the employee data
provided by the instructor to arrive
at a decision on what is happening.
Analyzes the employee data provided
by the instructor to arrive at a decision
on what is happening, but lacks in
detail or clarity, or contains
inaccuracies.
Does not analyze the employee data
provided by the instructor to arrive at a
decision on what is happening.
30
Mechanics No grammar or spelling errors that
distract the reader from the content.
All sources used are cited using
APA Style, 6th ed.
Minor errors in grammar or spelling that
distract the reader from the content. All
sources used are cited using APA
Style, 6th ed.
Major errors in grammar or spelling that
distract the reader from the content
and/or errors made in citing sources
using APA Style, 6th ed.
10
Total 100%