PMGT 576 Week 1 Assignment Help

PMGT 576 Week 1 Assignment Help | Harrisburg University 

Unit 1 – Assignment

You are the newly appointed director of the Agile County Airport System. The characteristics of your organization include:

• It is a Local Government Department

• Consists of 4 Airports – International, Mather, Executive, Franklin Field

• There are 400 employees at all four airports

• The airport board of directors has decided to move to an Agile Lean process for all projects.

You quickly recognize that you need to undertake a cultural transformation in order for the Agile Lean process to take hold.  The current organization has the following culture characteristics:

• No Mission Statement

• No Sense of Direction

• Militaristic/Top-Down Leadership Model

• No Accountability

• No Communication

• Staff focused on Empire Building

• Organization Viewed Itself as Regulators

• Focused on catching people doing something wrong

• Publicly Belittled

• Focus on “Turf”

• Process Oriented

• Problem Oriented

• Growth Without a Long-Term Plan

• Employees Not Engaged

• Staff consists mostly of generalists

The board of directors has asked you to prepare an overview presentation for their next meeting on your ideas for a organizational culture transformation plan.  To complete this assignment you are to design a 5 to 10 slide PowerPoint presentation with notes, that addresses the following key elements:

• What makes up organizational culture?

• What do you see as the benefits of a culture transformation

• What would your Culture Transformation Plan consist of? Describe the high level steps you would take to accomplish this transformation.

• What questions would you ask to help in defining a new culture?

• What characteristics would you envision the “new” organizational culture to exhibit? Develop a list based upon the current organizational culture