Organizational Domain and Strategy paper:

Management-445:  Homework Assignments

Winter 2020

Overview:  The assignments are related to selected chapters in the textbook and give you the opportunity to use selected concepts, themes, and arguments from Jones in an analysis of a situation that you know about based on your experience working in a particular organization (either as an employee or as a volunteer).  This means that someone else’s account of the situation for example, in a magazine, article, blog, or other media source – is not an acceptable source for the assignment.  To receive full credit on the assignments, use appropriate frameworks/themes/vocabulary from the textbook.

Written Reflections:  You must work individually and independently of the other students in preparing the individual reflection.  The reflection should be typed, written in essay form, approximately 1000 words. Submit your typed work to the d2l assignment dropbox by the specified due date and time. Provide a word count on each document you turn in.

Cite Jones for ideas taken directly from the text, providing page-number citations in your text in the following form: (Jones, p. xx).  You may quote Jones, if appropriate, but keep such quotations brief – and provide page-number citation in the same fashion.

Evaluation:  Your written reflections will be scored based on compliance with the instructions; organization and clarity in your writing; the use of concepts, themes, vocabulary, and arguments from Jones, and your ability to link course content to real-world events. 

Refer to the syllabus and/or the calendar on d2l for due dates.

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Assignment 3:  Organizational Domain and Strategy

If you have sufficient work experience to answer these questions, one again, analyze the organization you work for.  If not, analyze Portland State University.

 Answer the following:

• Provide the name and location of the company and a brief description of how the company creates value and a brief explanation (couple of sentences) of the goods and/or services it provides. If you chose the same company as you did for homework 1 or 2, you may cut and paste this, but do not include it in the word count. 

• Briefly describe the organization’s domain.
• What core competencies give the company a competitive advantage?
• Discuss the organization’s functional-level strategies. I.E. What functional-level resources and organizational resources does the company have that give the company competitive advantages?  Make it clear which functions the core competencies come from and the strategies those functions are using.  Refer to power point slides related to FLS.
• Discuss the organization’s business-level strategies used to compete in their domain.  
• In what ways do the company’s structure and culture match its strategies? In other words, how do the company’s structure and culture increase effectiveness?  
• Is the company operating in more than one domain?  If so, discuss the organization’s corporate-level strategies and how they create value for the company.  Refer to power point slides related to CLS.