[SOLVED] Analyzing Acme

PSY 612 Milestone Three Guidelines and Rubric Analyzing Acme
(Draft of Recommendations)
For Milestone Three you will submit a draft of the recommendations of your case study analysis (Section III), including all the critical elements as listed below.
Analyzing Acme from a perspective of motivation, productivity, and morale, describe the specific changes you would recommend to the company. Be sure to address the following questions:
x How will your recommendations directly address the key issues surrounding morale, motivation, and productivity that you identified in the overview?
Justify your claims with rationale. You may also wish to consider how you might use applicable real-world examples to illustrate your recommendations.
x What tactics might you recommend that would efficiently address common sources of employee resistance to change in this scenario? Justify your claims with rationale. You may also wish to consider how you might use applicable real-world examples to illustrate your recommendations. For
example, is the method you are recommending cost effective? Is there support that this is a proven method?
x How would these tactics impact current organizational strategies and techniques? Justify your claims with rationale. You may also wish to consider how
you might use applicable real-world examples to illustrate your recommendations.
Your draft will incorporate the course readings and be informed by at least four scholarly journal articles.
Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed in Milestone Three:
III. Recommendations
Remember that your recommendations should be as authentic to a real-world situation as possible. If you are going to be asking your organization to
spend money on training, for example, your justification might include that the organization will be realizing a return on the investment. Consider
carefully whether you can justify these recommendations before making them.
x How will your recommendations directly address the key issues surrounding morale, motivation, and productivity that you identified in the
overview? Justify your claims with an evidence-based rationale consistent with your selected motivational theories. You may also wish to
consider how you might use applicable real-world examples to illustrate your recommendations.
x What tactics might you recommend that would efficiently address common sources of employee resistance to change in this scenario? Justify
your claims with an evidence-based rationale consistent with your selected motivational theories. You may also wish to consider how you might
use applicable real-world examples to illustrate your recommendations. For example, is the method you are recommending cost effective? Is
there support that this is a proven method?
x How would these tactics impact current organizational strategies and techniques? Justify your claims with an evidence-based rationale
consistent with your selected motivational theories. You may also wish to consider how you might use applicable real-world examples to
illustrate your recommendations.
Rubric
Guidelines for Submission: Milestone Three must be submitted as a three- to four-page Microsoft Word document (page count includes only the body of your
paper and excludes cover/title pages, abstracts, figures, tables, and references) with double-spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, one-inch margins, and at
least four sources cited in APA format. Analyzing Acme

Critical Elements	Proficient (100%)	Needs Improvement (70%)	Not Evident (0%)	Value
Recommendations	Accurately justifies how recommendations directly address key issues surrounding morale, motivation, and productivity specific to the scenario	Describes recommendations that are applicable in addressing key issues surrounding morale, motivation, and productivity specific to the scenario but justification is cursory or inaccurate	Does not justify recommendations that are applicable in addressing key issues surrounding morale, motivation, and productivity	30
Tactics	Accurately justifies how tactics would efficiently address common sources of employee resistance to change specific to the scenario	Describes tactics that would address common sources of employee resistance to change specific to the scenario but justification is cursory or inaccurate	Does not justify how tactics would efficiently address common sources of employee resistance to change specific to the scenario	30
Impact	Accurately justifies how tactics would impact current organizational strategies and techniques specific to the scenario	Describes how tactics would impact organizational strategies and techniques specific to the scenario but justification is cursory or inaccurate	Does not justify how tactics would impact current organizational strategies and techniques specific to the scenario	30
Articulation of Response	Submission has no major errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization	Submission has major errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization that negatively impact readability and articulation of main ideas	Submission has critical errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization that prevent understanding of ideas	10
Earned Total	100%