TEACHING CASE STUDY: BELMONT ABBEY
Preparation
Prepare a PowerPoint presentation and presentation script.
Read the following teaching case:
Anderson, R., & Roberto, M. A. (2016). Belmont Abbey College: Strategy formulation in turbulent times. Boston, MA: Harvard Business Publishing.
Assignment Scenario
Assume that you are a formal or informal leader in your organization. You, along with your supervisor are engaged in a study of your organization’s challenges and strategic position with the intention of developing and implementing a series of improvement initiatives. You have shared some of the ideas in this course in casual conversation with others on the team and stimulated their interest. As a result, you have been asked to present the course’s concepts to everyone on the team so they, too, can begin to broaden and deepen their thinking organizational learning, change, and improvement.
Instructions
Create a PowerPoint presentation and corresponding script that consists of the following bolded components:
Introduce the case.
Preliminary Introduction of the Case:
Summarize the case for your team. Provide a synopsis of the Belmont Abbey case that enables the intended audience to understand the case, including events, stakeholders, and challenges that will be analyzed.
Use disciplines of learning organizations to analyze problems of practice.
Disciplines:
Apply the lens of the four core disciplines to the case, and provide an analysis of the extent to which the discipline(s) reveals organizational dynamics and contributes either to organizational learning or to the organization’s problems.
Analyze the organizational disabilities and systems archetypes present in the case.
Systems Archetypes:
Explain and map at least one example of a systems archetype can be seen in the case. Include at least one systems map as part of your presentation.
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