Project: Consulting Report
Project: Consulting Report
An organization’s culture consists of the values, beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors employees have and use on a daily basis in their work. The culture determines how employees describe where they work, how they understand the business, and how they see themselves as part of the organization.
As a consultant, you will often be tasked with assessing organizational cultures and providing advice to organizations regarding ways to change that culture in order to develop and/or enhance organizational creativity, cohesiveness, leadership, and values. To help you gain some experience with this process, this assignment will require you to make contact with a client. (This client organization may be external to or within your current organization). Please note this is a professional document from your consulting firm to your client and must be professionally formatted (please see the DSL writing guidelines in the ‘Start Here’ section of the course).
The organization must be willing to let you consult and have a representative group of people in the organization complete the OCAI (Organizational Culture Assessment Instrument) based on the competing values framework. Using the OCAI results, write a consulting report to the senior leadership of the client organization presenting both the results and your professional recommendations.
Note that this project is scored using the ‘Major Project Rubric (not QEP)’. Please click on the underlined ‘Major Project’ heading above and review the rubric so that you know how the project will be scored.
This project is estimated to take 20 hours. Your reading on values, culture, and OCAI is already done. If you plan on eight hours of interacting with the client collecting data and discussing the results then you have 12 hours to write the consultant’s report. Remember that the report should be in a polished professional format matching the invoice you will present. This type of consulting report could be seven to ten pages in length or about 3000 words. If you type at 35 words a minute you need 1-2 hours to type. But, let’s presume you type at 18 words a minute and plan on 2-4 hours to type. This leaves you with eight hours to process the data, analyze, and think through the report.
Major Project Rubric (not QEP)CriteriaRatingsPts
Content Knowledge
25 to >22 pts
Proficient
Demonstrates proficiency in content knowledge of the subject matter. Shows mastery of the literature on topic.
22 to >19 pts
Sufficient
Demonstrates sufficiency in content knowledge of the subject matter. Shows understanding of the key literature elements.
19 to >0 pts
Insufficient
Demonstrates insufficiency in content knowledge of the topic. Shows weak understanding of the literature.
/ 25 pts
Critical Thinking
25 to >22 pts
Proficient
Demonstrates a high level of insight into the application of content knowledge to the topic of the project. Goes beyond the existing body of literature to show added insights.
22 to >19 pts
Sufficient
Demonstrates sufficient application of the content to the topic of the project. Shows some insights but does not add to the body of knowledge.
19 to >0 pts
Insufficient
Demonstrates insufficiency in applying content knowledge to the topic of the project. Shows little to no insight into the application of the literature.
/ 25 pts
Writing/Flow/Grammar/Styleguide
25 to >22 pts
Proficient
Writing is flawless with excellent ‘flow’, no grammar/spelling/punctuation errors and no style guide errors.
22 to >19 pts
Sufficient
Sufficient in writing with less than five total writing errors. Flow is sufficient, but not demonstrating mastery. Five or fewer total grammar/spelling errors. Five or fewer total style guide errors.
19 to >0 pts
Insufficient
Writing skill is insufficient with more than five errors in flow, five or more in grammar/spelling, and five or more style errors.
/ 25 pts
Research Knowledge
25 to >22 pts
Proficient
Demonstrates proficient understanding of research method/analysis for the topic selected
22 to >19 pts
Sufficient
Demonstrates sufficient understanding of research method/analysis for the topic selected.
19 to >0 pts
Insufficient
Demonstrates insufficient understanding of research method/analysis.
/ 25 pts
Total Points: 0
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