Walmart – Business Organization
Order Instructions
Students will select a business organization and write a research paper: 10-12 pages, double-spaced,
size 12-point Times New Roman font, with 1″ margins. Students must reference all of their research in
the text of the paper. The papers must be APA style and be proof read before final submission. The
paper must be free of spelling and grammar mistakes, logically written, and coherent. It should include at
least 10 references. The objective of the paper is for you to use learned theories and concepts to analyze
your chosen organization. As such, you paper must have in-depth analysis and discussion in each of the
10 below areas. Finally in your recommendation section you will use your analysis throughout the paper,
and learned theories throughout the course, to make sound and realistic recommendations, with in-text
citations.
(Suggestion: Select an organization that has a lot of information available and/or where you have access
to the management personnel). The students are required to research the selected organization and
address the following areas:
1. Organizational Context
• include the history, organizational image, size, locations of operation, type of products,
and/or services offered
2. Environment in which the Organization Operates (Chapter 3)
Task Environment
• customers
• suppliers
• competitors
• regulatory group
General Environment
• economic environment
• social/cultural environment
• political environment
• legal environment
• technological environment
3. Organizational Form (Chapter 9)
• identify organizational form (mechanistic or organic), and analyzes its appropriateness
for the environment of the organization.
4. Organization’s Mission and Goals (Chapter 5)
• state the mission and major/strategic goals
• its appropriateness and relevance to organizational history and environment
5. Organization’s Strategy (Chapter 6)
• identify all of the different level strategies the company has adopted
• its relationship with the environment in which organization exists
6. Organizational Structure (Chapter 9)
• identify the structure the company has adopted, including the flowchart
• appropriateness of structure to the environment, objectives, and strategy
7. Control Features used by the Organization (Chapter 16)
• identify all three types of organizational controls (pre-control, con-current control, &
feedback control) and discusses where each is used, or should be used, in the
organization, with examples.
8. Organizational Culture* (Chapter 3)
“Personality” of each organization, which includes:
• important rituals
• important symbols and artifacts
• relationship with employees
• its appropriateness and relevance to organizational history and the culture
* This is one of the more difficult analysis of your project. You will rarely find an article describing
the culture of an organization. You will need to read and analyze many articles about the
organization, analyze their messages to their various constituencies (e.g., customers, stockholders,
etc.), and identify and interpret the symbols that are important to them. This will help you identify
their espoused values and basic assumptions of operation.
9. Leadership (Chapter 14)
10. SWOT Analysis (Chapter 6)
• provide a table listing all of the strength (S), weakness (W), opportunities (O), and threats
(T).
• identify between 3 to 5 each of the internal strength (S), and weakness (W), and match
them with between 3 to 5 of the external opportunities (O), and threats (T). A sentence
should be provided for each point explaining their inclusion.
11. Your Recommendations
The project will be graded by the following criteria:
80% content of the paper including references
10% organization
10% language and grammar
Book reference: Williams MGMT12 Principles of management
D&B Hoovers website under business organization
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