BUSI 1215 - Learning Group Assignment #1 As a group, submit your response to the questions below. The answer should be detailed (approx. 5 pages) and researched (at least one source of research per question, in addition to the textbook). Submit your assignment as a Word document (12-point double spaced) to "Learning Group Assignment #1" in Week 10. Include an introduction, conclusion and reference section (APA Style citations) Use in-text citations to indicate where you used your external resources. Only one person per group needs to post the assignment. In your Learning Groups, answer the following questions: 1. What challenges has the COVID19 crisis created in relation to some of the topics we have covered so far in our course? (describe 3 or 4) 2. To what extent are organizations responsible help make this situation better? That is, in our society, how much do you think organizations are responsible to help with these challenges? Explain. (you may consider issues such as sustainability, social responsibility, responsibility to employees) 3. Study a specific organization's response to the COVID19 crisis. If you have access to an organization, you may use them. Interview a manager (someone in a position of authority who has decision making powers) to find out what they have been doing. Otherwise find news stories about what a company is doing. Stay focused on OB issues, not marketing, operations, strategy, etc. 4. How well did this organization adapt to the crisis? Why do you think they did what they did? What positive effects did their actions have? 5. What else could they do (or should they have done)? Why? (be realistic, some options could cost a lot of money and jeopardize the long term viability of the organization) Remember to focus on OB issues on this assignment. Use your answer to Question #1 above to keep you on track with the remaining questions. (hint, if you start talking about how organizations react to customers, or talk only about health and safety issues, you are getting off track or being too narrow focused.) BUSI 1215 - Learning Group Assignment #1 As a group, submit your response to the questions below. The answer should be detailed (approx. 5 pages) and researched (at least one source of research per question, in addition to the textbook). Submit your assignment as a Word document (12-point double spaced) to "Learning Group Assignment #1" in Week 10. Include an introduction, conclusion and reference section (APA Style citations) Use in-text citations to indicate where you used your external resources. Only one person per group needs to post the assignment. In your Learning Groups, answer the following questions: 1. What challenges has the COVID19 crisis created in relation to some of the topics we have covered so far in our course? (describe 3 or 4) 2. To what extent are organizations responsible help make this situation better? That is, in our society, how much do you think organizations are responsible to help with these challenges? Explain. (you may consider issues such as sustainability, social responsibility, responsibility to employees) 3. Study a specific organization's response to the COVID19 crisis. If you have access to an organization, you may use them. Interview a manager (someone in a position of authority who has decision making powers) to find out what they have been doing. Otherwise find news stories about what a company is doing. Stay focused on OB issues, not marketing, operations, strategy, etc. 4. How well did this organization adapt to the crisis? Why do you think they did what they did? What positive effects did their actions have? 5. What else could they do (or should they have done)? Why? (be realistic, some options could cost a lot of money and jeopardize the long term viability of the organization) Remember to focus on OB issues on this assignment. Use your answer to Question #1 above to keep you on track with the remaining questions. (hint, if you start talking about how organizations react to customers, or talk only about health and safety issues, you are getting off track or being too narrow focused.)
