Adapting to Industry Changes
Your organization seeks a competitive advantage in their field, and they’re turning to you for answers. Specifically, they want your analysis and recommendations on ways to bring the company culture, demographics, and technologies up to current industry practices and beyond.
Start by outlining the company’s current demographics and technologies. Then, you’ll use your outline to create a presentation showing your analysis and recommendations.
Step 1: Outline
Demographics
- What are the current demographics (e.g., age, gender, ethnicity, etc.)?
- What was a recent change in demographics or the organizational structure?
- Did the company handle the change ethically?, If not how should they have handled it? If yes what stands out as something to emulate going forward?,
Technology
- How does the company use technology in day-to-day business?,
- What types of technology are used?,
- How does a change of technology affect the organization?,
Step 2: Presentation
Create a 10- to 12-slide presentation. Do the following in your presentation:
- Analyze the organization’s current culture (e.g., beliefs, expectations, values, and norms). Address how managers influence the organizational culture.
- Evaluate the impact of demographic forces in your organization (e.g., age, ethnic origin, race, social class, gender, and sexual orientation). Consult your outline from Step 1.
- Examine the impact of technological forces (e.g., changes in the technology managers use to design, produce, or distribute goods and services). Consider how this can contribute to innovation within the industry.
- Examine how the organization has complied with ethics and social responsibility behavior.
- Recommend ways to innovate based on your analysis.
- Summarize your analysis and recommendations.
- Cite references.
Cite your sources.
- Make sure to give credit to any sources you use by including both in-text citations and a list of references. You can see how to do this in the APA 7 manual or in the University Library. Here’s a quick example:
- In-text citation example: According to Hubbart (2023), resistance to change is . . .
- Reference example: Hubbart, J. A. (2023). Organizational change: The challenge of change aversion. Administrative Sciences, 13(7), 162. https://doi.org/10.3390/admsci13070162
- You don’t have to follow this citation style perfectly, but it’s important to show which ideas are yours and which come from other places when you’re doing your assignments.