Case Study: Political Analysis Assignment Instructions

Case Study: Political Analysis Assignment Instructions

Case Study: Political Analysis Assignment Instructions

Organizational Analysis: Defining Your General Organizational Realities for the Case Study

This portion of the case study assignment will require you to apply the Political Theories lens to your organization. This enables you to make sense of the organization in a general way before turning to the specific problem within the organization which you identified in Case Study: Problem Proposal Assignment.

Lens Four: Reviewing the Political Theories [CONGRESS]

Use the following questions to describe, in a summative-narrative fashion, what the power/influence realities of your organization looks like. Your summary is to be 3–5 pages, include 3–5 references (this can include your textbook), have a title and reference page, and be formatted according to current APA style (first person should not be used).

1.Who has what power in this organization? (Reward, coercive, legitimate, expert, referent)

2.Who has access to agendas, control over information, knowledge of procedures, ability to cope with uncertainty, etc.?

3.Describe the power coalitions and alliances affecting your unit.

4.How does your unit attempt to influence other units and create upward influence in organization?

Requirements: Case Study | 4 pages, Double spaced

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.