Assignment

Use the completed assessment attached, and compare it to the Academy, Baseball Team, Fortress, and Club cultures described by McNamara. The link is below.

McNamara, C. (2000) Organizational Culture. Adapted from the Fieldguide to Organizational Leadership and Supervision. Free Management Library. http://managementhelp.org/organizations/culture.htm

Then prepare a 2- to 3-page paper not including the cover page and references addressing:

•Your scores on the McGinty/Moss assessment and whether or not they fit your general expectations or constitute a surprise in some ways. Interpret the results of the assessment in terms of your own experience, either to confirm or to question the results. Compare your findings with the McNamara categories.

•The degree to which the McGinty/Moss assessment and the McNamara information tell you similar or dissimilar things about your organization (military).

•Do the assessment and the McNamara categories help improve your managerial understanding and/or skills? What can you infer from the assessment results about how your organization’s culture fits or doesn’t fit with you? What (if anything) can you do to make your interaction with the culture more effective?

•Provide your opinion on whether or not the questions asked help you understand the organization and how you cope with it. Do they accurately assess what is needed to analyze a company’s culture?

•Include the actual results to the survey in an Appendix section in your paper.

The organization is this case in the US Army.