GRADING

Your grade will be based on the extent to which you can clearly convey to me and your classmates what organization and the problem you studied, why you studied that, how you studied it, what you found, and how your findings and/or solutions offered match one or more OB concepts learned in class. The best presentations will:

1) Be interesting and actively engage the audience

2) Deliver the key information from your report in a manner and order that is easily understood

3) Enhance your classmates’ learning of organizational behavior theory and concepts

4) Demonstrate professionalism (e.g. don’t go overtime, answer questions thoughtfully, etc.).

Write a speech based on the paper. 210 words

Communication 

Problem: Due to the remote nature of this acquisition, there is an over reliance on email correspondence between ATS and Creation, communication delays are a symptom of Creations highly mechanistic organizational culture with high centralization and a rigid and highly hierarchical chain of command. This organizational structure is necessary because ATS is still transitioning into Creation, as Creation is not entirely on site. Employees’ communication is hampered by timing problems between superiors and the employees. The fact that time is lost when waiting for responses from superiors causes back ups for the employees when attempting to execute their tasks. Since the employees are waiting for confirmation from their superiors, rather than feeling empowered to make decisions themselves we can see the Mechanistic organizational structure at work..

Solution: Currently Creation has a Mechanistic organizational culture with high centralization and a rigid and highly hierarchical chain of command, but if they incorporate pockets of organic organizational culture the communication problem will be reduced.  If groups on site are empowered to make decisions then fewer emails will need to be sent to the off site C suite executives and managers.  Furthermore with reduced centralization and a less hierarchical chain of command then the employees have more people they can reach out reducing the time lost waiting for responses from superiors.