Organizational analysis Assignment | Get Homework Help

Purpose To gain experience doing an organizational analysis (exploring and explaining organization at multiple levels) of an organization facing crisis. The analysis will include the organization’s structure, culture, history, environment, member and constituent demographics/characteristics, the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic , and the steps it is taking (if any) to address those challenges. The analysis will conclude with informed speculation about the organization’s long and short-term viability and success.

Content The organizational analysis will include identification and description of the following

Orienting introduction paragraph with argument (thesis) about how the COVID-19 pandemic has, is, and will affect some specific aspect of the organization (structure, mission, culture, inequality, etc.)
Organizational purpose and goals
Organizational structure
Organizational culture
SWOT Analysis (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats)
Recommendations of how organization should act, drawing on course and other theory
Conclusion that summarizes findings, and makes predictions of organizational future at 1, 5, and 10 years in the future based on findings and course concepts.
Submission A 2000-3500 word (roughly 8-14 page, but use word count) paper (standard typeface, 12 pt type, double spaced, 1” margins all around, page numbers, student author[s] name[s] on first page) uploaded to Canvas as a .doc, .docx, or .pdf.

Expectations for an excellent organizational analysis report

1. Introduction:
(250 words or less)

Orients the reader to the organizational analysis with a thesis statement that makes a compelling argument about how the organization is being affected by the pandemic, why that is the case, and what this means for its future.

2. Literature review:
(250-750 words)

Develops a theoretical framework by thematizing and accurately summarizing the argument and importance of at least two (total) highly appropriate course concepts; and at least two (per student author) concepts and/or items of contextualizing information from highly relevant sociological, managerial, or (with approval) other independently researched scholarly sources).

3. Methods:
(250-500 words)

Summarizes the way data was gathered and over what time period; justifies this form of data and data collection for the purpose of the analysis under current conditions of shelter-at-home orders.

4. Data:
(250-750 words)

Presents just enough but not too much useful, relevant, and accurate qualitative and/or content analysis data to support the team’s thesis, including

organizational purpose and goals
organizational structure (with illustrative org chart)
organizational culture.
5. Analysis:
(500-1000 words)

Uses the thematic framework from the literature review to explain the empirical data without repeating data presentation, including

SWOT Analysis
Recommendations of how organization should act, drawing on course and other theory.
6. Conclusion:
(250 words or less)

Summary of findings and their importance, and prediction of organizational future at 5 and 10 years in the future, drawing on course/other theory. Notes limitations of the current research and recommendations for future research.

Mechanics & format:

Consistently uses APA format for citation (see Canvas: Modules: Course Resources: APA Style); and is well organized, grammatically correct, well written, perfectly spelled, and closely proofread; and is uploaded as a .doc, .docx, .rtf, or .txt document that uses 12-point typeface, has a 1” margin all around, is proofread for spelling errors/typos, has numbered pages, and displays students’ full names on the first page

MUST INCLUDED SOURCE: Avent-Holt, D., & Tomaskovic-Devey, D. (2019). Organizations as the building blocks of social inequalities. Sociology Compass, 13(2), e12655. doi:10.1111/soc4.12655