Your essay should answer the following prompt: What are the strengths and the weaknesses of the organization in its approach to realizing its mission of
serving “young people of limited options”? How can SMdP create and maintain an appropriate and effective organizational culture?
Specifically, the following critical elements must be included:
Evaluate the organizational culture
o To what extent is the mission statement transparent to internal and external stakeholders? To what extent is the mission statement cogent,
meaningful, and “customer-oriented” (in this case, think of the students and larger community as the customers)?
o What are the strengths and weaknesses of the culture? Assess the specific issues around each of the following: team performance,
empowerment, and autonomy.
o What are the essential management and operational approaches? What are some of the basic organizational assumptions around morale and
motivation?
o How is the organizational culture misaligned to the mission statement? To what extent are students, teachers, and administrators being held
accountable to the mission statement?
o To what extent are there signs of a toxic culture at SMdP?
o To what extent are there ethical issues facing administration, teachers, and students at SMdP?
Propose solutions for the organization
o What should be the major objectives of the remediation plan? (Note: The overarching goal of the plan must be to address the misalignment of
the organizational culture to the mission statement.)
o What should be the specific tactics employed to create an appropriate and effective organizational culture? These could include organizational
restructuring efforts, replacing individuals, revisiting the mission statement of the organization, and so forth.
o Provide example artifacts of organizational culture that would promote the actualization of the mission statement.
Propose change management strategies for the organization
o What are the potential challenges of implementing the solutions? These could include the mindsets of the stakeholders and their willingness to
take part in the change. How can these challenges be addressed?
o What should the communication and training plans be for effectively supporting and empowering administration, teachers, and students
through the transition?
o How can one ensure that the solutions are implemented in an ethical manner?
o What are some key factors, both internal and external, that could be used to determine whether the solutions are effective? How can the
organization’s performance against the objectives be measured and verified?
o Works cited should be in APA format.