REQUIRED BOOKS AND RESOURCES FOR COURSE #11: Organizational Assessment Report

Required Course Textbooks:

  • Kegan, R., & Lahey, L. L. (2016). An everyone culture: Becoming a deliberately developmental organization. Harvard Business Review Press. (ISBN 9781625278623)
  • Werner, J. (2022). Human resource development: Talent development (8th ed.). Cengage Learning. (ISBN 9780357512524)
  • Schein, E., & Schein, P. (2017). Organizational culture and leadership (5th ed.). Wiley. ISBN 13: 9781119212058
  • Swanson, R. A. (2022). Foundations of human resource development (3rd ed.). Berrett-Koehler Publishers. ISBN: 9781523092093  

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Recommended Course Textbooks: 

  • Armstrong, S. (2010). The essential performance review handbook: A quick and handy resource for any manager or HR professional. The Career Press. (ISBN 9781632651396)
  • Kaye, B., & Giulioni, J. W. (2012). Help them grow or watch them go: Career conversations employees want. Berrett-Koehler Publishers. (ISBN 9781523097524)

REQUIRED READINGS FOR WEEK 3

Required Readings:

•  An Everyone Culture: Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organization, text  

  • Chapter 5: But is this any way to Run a Business? (pp. 163-200)
  • Chapter 6: Uncovering your biggest blind spot: What you’d be working on in a DDO (pp. 201-232)

•  Organizational Culture and Leadership, text  

  • Chapter 17: The Change Leader as Learner (pp. 343-354)

•  Deci, E. L., Olafsen, A. H., & Ryan, R. M. (2017). Self-determination theory in work organizations: The state of a science. Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior, 4, 19-43. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-orgpsych-032516-113108 

•  Manganelli, L., Thibault-Landry, A., Forest, J., & Carpentier, J. (2018). Self-determination theory can help you generate performance and well-being in the workplace: A review of the literature. Advances in Developing Human Resources, 20(2), 227–240. https://doi.org/10.1177/1523422318757210 

•  Shuck, B., Kim, W., & Chai, D. S. (2021). The chicken and egg conundrum: Job satisfaction or employee engagement and implications for human resources. New Horizons in Adult Education & Human Resource Development, 33(1), 4–24. https://doi.org/10.1002/nha3.20302 

•  Tao, W., Lee, Y., Sun, R., Li, J.-Y., & He, M. (2022). Enhancing Employee Engagement via Leaders’ Motivational Language in times of crisis: Perspectives. Public Relations Review, 48(1), 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pubrev.2021.102133


Required Resources:

Recommended Readings:

•  Human Resource Development: Talent Development, text  

  • Chapter 4: Assessing Workplace Learning Needs (Review)

•  Organizational Culture and Leadership (5th ed.), text  

  • Chapter 15: The Dialogic Qualitative Culture Assessment Process
  • Chapter 16: A Model of Change Management and the Change Leader

•  Akdere, M., & Egan, T. (2020). Transformational leadership and human resource development: Linking employee learning, job satisfaction, and organizational performance. Human Resource Development Quarterly, 31(4), 393–421. https://doi.org/10.1002/hrdq.21404 

•  Bailey, C., Madden, A., Alfes, K., & Fletcher, L. (2017). The meaning, antecedents and outcomes of employee engagement: A narrative synthesis. International Journal of Management Reviews, 19(1), 31–53. https://doi.org/10.1111/ijmr.12077 

•  Durksen, T. L., Klassen, R. M., & Daniels, L. M. (2017). Motivation and collaboration: The keys to a developmental framework for teachers’ professional learning. Teaching and Teacher Education, 67, 53–66. https:doi.org/10.1016/j.tate.2017.05.011 

•  Lee, J., Rocco, T., & Shuck, B., (2020). What is a resource: Toward a taxonomy of resources for employee engagement. Human Resource Development Review, 19(1), 5–38. https://doi.org/10.1177/1534484319853100 

•  Lumpkin, A., & Achen, R. (2018). Explicating the synergies of self-determination theory, ethical leadership, servant leadership, and emotional intelligence. Journal of Leadership Studies, 12(1), 6-20. https://doi.org/10.1002/jls.21554 

•  Olafsen, A. H., Halvari, H., Forest, J., & Deci, E. L. (2015). Show them the money? The role of pay, managerial need support, and justice in a self-determination theory model of intrinsic work motivation. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 56(4), 447-457. https://doi.org/10.1111/sjop.12211 

•  Saks, A. M. (2019). Antecedents and consequences of employee engagement revisited. Journal of Organizational Effectiveness, 6(1), 19-38–38. https://doi.org/10.1108/JOEPP-06-2018-0034 

•  Shuck, B., & Rose, K. (2013). Reframing employee engagement within the context of meaning and purpose: Implications for HRD. Advances in Developing Human Resources, 15(4), 341-355. https://doi.org/10.1177/1523422313503235 

•  Shuck, B., Twyford, D., Reio, T. G., & Shuck, A. (2014), Human resource development practices and employee engagement: Examining the connection with employee turnover intentions. Human Resource Development Quarterly, 25(2), 239–270. https://doi.org/10.1002/hrdq.21190 

•  Van den Broeck, A., Howard, J. L., Van Vaerenbergh, Y., Leroy, H., & Gagné, M. (2021). Beyond intrinsic and extrinsic motivation: A meta-analysis on self-determination theory’s multidimensional conceptualization of work motivation Links to an external site.. Organizational Psychology Review, 11(3), 240–273. https://doi.org/10.1177/20413866211006173 

Recommended Resources:

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W3 Assignment 1: Organizational Assessment Report 

Overview: Assessing the needs of your organization carefully and systematically is important to accurately identify the problem to be addressed. For this assignment, you will write the report based upon your assessment of your own and your organization’s current status related to

  1. A culture that supports continued growth and development,
  2. Specific HRD practices and processes that exist, and
  3. Based upon the status, you will identify a situation that needs attention — a problem of practice. 
  • It is this problem of practice that you will address in the Course Project Action Plan due in week 6. As such, review the Course Project overview [Note to Writer: Course Project Overview is attached] carefully. It is essential that you identify a problem that can be addressed by implementing HRD related processes and practices(interventions).

Instructions: In the assessment phase of this project, you will use your data collection and analysis skills to assess need(s) and create a needs assessment report. Include in your needs assessment report:

  • Context Setting of Organization
  • Data Collection and Analysis Methods
  • Key Findings
    • Identify the key findings based upon your interpretation of the data framed with the following information:
      • Describe the existing cultural values and practices related to learning that help all identify and work on their weaknesses. 
      • Summarize key findings in terms of the data you have collected with connections to relevant theories related to the organization’s current status of culture and values related to learning. 
      • Organize your findings based on these categories:
        • Current status of the culture (Kegan’s “home”)
        • Current status of practices (Kegan’s “groove”)
        • Current status of weaknesses that can be learning opportunities (Kegan’s “edge”)
  • Identified Problem of Practice
    • The problem must be related to employee learning, HRD functions, employee engagement, or a closely related issue. 
    • The problem should be based on the collective perspectives noted from the data collection you have conducted thus far and should not be merely what you believe the problem should be.

Formatting Requirements:

  • The body of this paper should be at least 5 pages (not including the title page, references, or appendices). 
  • Thoroughly review the Assignment Guidelines [Note to writer: Assignment Guidelines is attached] for detailed instructions and criteria for each of the items listed above. 
  • This report should not include suggested solutions. Refer to Week 2’s Recommended Resources [Note to writer: Week 2’s Recommended Resources is attached] for help with data analysis.
  • Use sub-headings for each section, and format your sub-headings according to the APA format and college’s Writing Standards. Use the following structure as you create your report. Incorporate other organizing subheadings as necessary:
    • Context Setting
    • Data Collection and Analysis Methods
    • Findings
    • Identified Problem of Practice

Notes: You will need permission from a leader and willing collaboration of peers for this assignment. 

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