Executive Summary Presentation With Speaker Notes
Overview
For the final project in this course, you will develop an\u00a0 executive summary presentation\u00a0with speaker notes. Imagine that you are a human resource professional in an organization that is struggling with a conflict regarding a critical strategic project. Leaders in the organization are looking to you to assess the conflict, determine what the key issues are, and recommend an action plan to resolve it.
Organizational managers, and especially human resource professionals, need to develop a mindset that sees organizational conflict as a naturally occurring, expected event in any organization. Conflict brings attention to \u201cpinch points\u201d in organizations and needs to be perceived as an opportunity for improvement, not as a distraction to the job at hand. This course introduces key concepts of organizational conflict in this context, and provides you with some common industry tools and templates you will use as you seek to understand the root causes of a conflict and develop action plans to address them.
In this project, you will use organizational tools associated with the define, measure, analyze, improve, and control (DMAIC) process, a Six Sigma problem-solving methodology that many organizations use to solve a variety of issues. By following the rudimentary elements of the DMAIC process, you will define the problem, measure its impact on the organization, analyze the issue in order to assess how best to resolve it, develop recommendations to improve the situation (propose a solution), and suggest an ongoing process to ensure the proposed solution controls the issue, preventing a flare-up or reoccurrence of the original issue.
The project is divided into\u00a0 three milestones, which will be submitted at various points throughout the course to scaffold learning and ensure quality final submissions. These milestones will be submitted in\u00a0 Modules Three,\u00a0 Five, and\u00a0 Seven.\u00a0The final product will be submitted in\u00a0 Module Nine.
In this assignment, you will demonstrate your mastery of the following course outcomes:
\u00b7 Analyze conflicts involving organizational culture for determining the root causes of dissonance between organizational values and the individual values of its members
\u00b7 Propose data-driven processes that determine critical variables present in conflicts between employees for addressing organizational conflict situations
\u00b7 Develop evidence-based strategies for addressing future conflicts involving organizational culture
\u00b7 Assess the effectiveness of organizational leadership for informing organizational leaders on how to increase employee engagement, foster collaboration, and build effective teams
\u00b7 Develop appropriate gap-analysis strategies for assessing the congruence of ethical, moral, and legal variables present in conflict situations between employees and organizational values
Prompt
For your project, you selected\u00a0 Final Project Case Study Two \u2014and develop an executive summary presentation with speaker notes and citations based on the case study. In your presentation, you will analyze the case study, determine the cause of the conflict, recommend corrective actions to resolve the conflict, and make recommendations to avoid similar conflicts in the future.
Specifically, the following\u00a0 critical elements\u00a0must be addressed:
I. Defining Goals:\u00a0In this section, you will summarize the desired resolution to the conflict in the case study based on your knowledge of the organization\u2019s business goals, customer needs, and the process that needs to improve.
A. Construct a\u00a0 problem statement\u00a0that clearly articulates the personnel conflict that has arisen. Be sure to consider the project scope and future-state goal in contextualizing the conflict.
B. Complete a\u00a0 stakeholder analysis, identifying the key stakeholders that are involved in or affected by the current situation and future-state goal as articulated in the problem statement.
C. Develop a high-level suppliers, inputs, process, outputs, and customers (SIPOC)\u00a0 process map,\u00a0identifying the quantitative and qualitative variables that are likely to contribute to the conflict.
II. Measuring Performance:\u00a0In this section, you will create a process to gather data on the current situation.
A. Propose a process to effectively collect data on the\u00a0 identified variables\u00a0(from the SIPOC analysis) and appropriately evaluate it.
B. Construct an\u00a0 Ishikawa diagram\u00a0(fishbone diagram) of the variables that contribute to the conflict, selecting the critical variables that require further analysis.
C. Describe the role of these\u00a0 critical variables\u00a0in developing corrective changes to address the conflict in the problem statement.
III. Analysis:\u00a0In this section, you will begin to create a picture of what the future state will look like, focusing on the proposed solution.
A. Determine the\u00a0 root causes of the conflict\u00a0by assessing the variables you identified and the information provided in the case study.
B. Construct\u00a0 questions\u00a0you would ask\u00a0 of the stakeholders\u00a0(voice of customer) if this were a live situation to pressure test your initial assessment of the probable root causes.
C. Using the \u201cFive Whys\u201d process, construct\u00a0 additional questions\u00a0you anticipate needing to ask as stakeholders answer your initial question.
IV. Improve:\u00a0The goal of this section is to demonstrate that the solutions you propose should resolve the organizational conflict in the case study, leading to an improved future state.
A. Recommend appropriate\u00a0 corrective actions\u00a0to address the previously determined root causes of the conflict.
B. Propose\u00a0 quantifiable metrics\u00a0that could measure progress in implementing the recommended corrective actions.
C. Identify potential\u00a0 areas of resistance\u00a0to the recommended corrective actions, providing recommendations to reduce such resistance.
D. Assess the effectiveness of various\u00a0 leadership styles\u00a0on employee engagement and employee empowerment in the case study.
E. Determine how an effective\u00a0 team-building process\u00a0could have prevented some of the issues with the dysfunctional team in the case study. You might consider team-building models like Drexler\/Sibbet or Tuckman.
F. Recommend\u00a0 effective leadership\u00a0styles and\u00a0 team-building\u00a0processes that organizational leadership could use to promote increased employee engagement and foster collaboration moving forward.
V. Controls:\u00a0This section will recommend methods that should help ensure the proposed solution resolves the defined problem now and in the future.
A. Describe how you would address\u00a0 ethical, cultural, and legal variables\u00a0that present challenges when working with team members from different backgrounds and different geographic regions. Support your response with relevant examples.
B. Explain how\u00a0 organizational values\u00a0can be identified, validated, and codified to reduce the potential for organizational dissonance.
C. Develop an appropriate\u00a0 gap-analysis strategy\u00a0to periodically assess the congruence, or lack thereof, between an organization\u2019s espoused values and its enacted values. Be sure to consider the ethical, cultural, and legal variables in the development of your gap-analysis strategy.
What to Submit
Your executive summary presentation should be 11 to 13 slides in length, accompanied by speaker notes. It should be of professional quality. Use APA formatting and citations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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