"How might a company's goals for employee development be related to its goals for innovation and change? To goals for productivity? Can you discuss how these types of goals might conflict in an organization?"

"Do you believe mission statements and official goal statements provide an organization with genu-ine legitimacy in the external environment? When a company such as CVS makes a decision to stop selling cigarettes because that action conflicts with its mission statement, what do you see as the impact on public opinion? On future business? Discuss."