Create a 5-7 page managerial consulting report that evaluates the goals and strategy that your organization has adopted, and evaluate it against its environment (Organizational Design, pages 3-64).

This Minor 1 should be written as the first-part of a three-part report that will come together in Unit 7 as your Major 2 which is an internal organizational design audit of your organization. This assignment presumes you have obtained permission from your organization to examine its interconnected systems. You should narrow your unit of analysis to a substantial team, business unit, firm or larger enterprise. This could be a branch of government, or a department of college, or a large mega church (Organizational Design, pages 14-16). This course will use the generic term “organization” to refer to any of these.

This assignment also presumes you are capable to initiate contact with your sponsoring manager through informal means, email, phone or water cooler chat (not meetings) to provide any input into the sponsoring manager’s strategy and environment, which you cannot find through public sources.

Your Minor 1 should cover this ground in report format (1.5 line spacing, ample margins, with a title page and sections to follow, linked with headers to the “navigation pane” in MS Word).

Executive Summary: The purpose of the executive summary is to summarize the key points of the managerial report for the intended decision-maker(s) which prepares them for the upcoming content. It also entices the leader(s) who makes the decision about the reports content to read the rest of the managerial report. This is why the executive summary is often called the most important part of the managerial report.

Background: Project intent, project sponsor (manager), a short organization description, and the role you will assume to evaluate its organization design.

Assessment: Based on Burton’s diagnostic questions, offer a current assessment of the (1) organizational goals, (2) strategy types and (3) environment. Use the Minor 1 Worksheet for this Minor project to score these three sub-systems. Include three quadrant diagrams and appropriate explanations in this section. Use sub-headers in your report to separate your coverage of these three sub-systems.

Recommendations: Summarize the organization’s current configuration (Table 3.2, page 63, also found in Tables from Organizational Design) and where the organization would like to be. Introduce the concept of organizational fit and acknowledge alignments. Raise any questions about possible misfits and actions for consideration to improve strategic alignment.

Keep in mind this is not an academic but an applied paper. You should write in a concise business report format. You should communicate in language that a manager will understand and can act upon.