Human resources management / organizational behaviour

Deliverable 5 - Organizational Cultural Artifact

Competency

Evaluate the relationship among individuals, teams, and the organization and its impact on organizational performance.

Scenario

You are the VP of HR at a start-up technology organization. The CEO believes it is critical to create the appropriate organizational culture rather than let it grow organically. He has provided you with the mission, vision, and values of the organization. He wants these components translated into tangible representations or artifacts; to be distributed around the work environment. He believes that these artifacts reflect the values and behaviors, which are required to promote effectiveness and successful performance. The CEO has requested that you create an organizational cultural artifact that represents the components and values of the organization. A cultural artifact represents a unique perspective or view into the organization and requires creative innovation to present a more abstract representation of the values, culture, and strategy of an organization.

Instructions

Prepare a design plan for a cultural artifact that:

• Describes an actual cultural artifact that could be created. The artifact can be any tangible medium you choose: a curio or art object, a toy, a video, a poster or infographic, or another medium. It is NOT a policy document or operating manual.


• Explains the design process by answering these questions:
  
  
  
  • How would relationships in an organization be evaluated to determine the need for a cultural artifact?
  
  
  • How would this cultural artifact improve relationships?
  
  
  • What would be the expected impact to performance from the use of the cultural artifact?
  
  
  
  


• Communicates key elements that the cultural artifact must demonstrate:
  
  
  
  • Organization’s mission and value statements.
  
  
  • Organization’s strategic focus.
  
  
  • Key descriptors of the organization’s culture.
  
  
  
  


• Provides attribution for credible sources used in the design plan.

Resources

Article Databases:

• Business Source Complete via EBSCO


• Business via ProQuest


• ASP: Human Resource Management Online

Guides & FAQs:

• APA Guide


• Rasmussen’s Answers/FAQs

Grading Rubric

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Did not Submit

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Competence

Proficiency

Mastery

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Used unclear verbiage for an actual cultural artifact that could be created.

Described an actual cultural artifact that could be created, no examples provided.

Described an actual cultural artifact that could be created using some clear examples.

Clearly and strongly described an actual cultural artifact that could be created using clear examples in a well-written cultural artifact design plan.

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Used unclear verbiage about how relationships in an organization would be evaluated to determine the need for a cultural artifact.

Explained how relationships in an organization would be evaluated to determine the need for a cultural artifact, no examples provided.

Explained how relationships in an organization would be evaluated to determine the need for a cultural artifact using some clear examples.

Clearly and strongly explained how relationships in an organization would be evaluated to determine the need for a cultural artifact using clear examples in a well-written cultural artifact design plan.

Not Submitted

Used unclear verbiage about how this cultural artifact improve relationships.

Explained how this cultural artifact improve relationships, no examples provided.

Explained how this cultural artifact improve relationships using some clear examples.

Clearly and strongly explained how this cultural artifact improve relationships using clear examples in a well-written cultural artifact design plan.

Not submitted

Used unclear verbiage about the expected impact to performance from the use of the cultural artifact.

Explained the expected impact to performance from the use of the cultural artifact, no examples provided.

Explained the expected impact to performance from the use of the cultural artifact using some clear examples.

Clearly and strongly explained the expected impact to performance from the use of the cultural artifact using clear examples in a well-written cultural artifact design plan.

Not submitted

Used unclear verbiage of how the cultural artifact aligns to the organization’s mission and value statements.

Demonstrated how the cultural artifact aligns to the organization’s mission and value statements, no examples provided.

Demonstrated how the cultural artifact aligns to the organization’s mission and value statements using some clear examples.

Clearly and strongly demonstrated how the cultural artifact aligns to the organization’s mission and value statements using clear examples in a well-written cultural artifact design plan.

Not submitted

Used unclear verbiage of how the cultural artifact aligns to the organization’s strategic focus.

Demonstrated how the cultural artifact aligns to the organization’s strategic focus, no examples provided.

Demonstrated how the cultural artifact aligns to the organization’s strategic focus using some examples.

Clearly and strongly demonstrated how the cultural artifact aligns to the organization’s strategic focus using clear examples in a well-written cultural artifact design plan.

Not submitted

Used unclear verbiage of how the cultural artifact aligns to key descriptors of the organization’s culture.

Demonstrated how the cultural artifact aligns to key descriptors of the organization’s culture, no examples provided.

Demonstrated how the cultural artifact aligns to key descriptors of the organization’s culture using some examples.

Clearly and strongly demonstrated how the cultural artifact aligns to key descriptors of the organization’s culture using clear examples in a well-written cultural artifact design plan.

Not Submitted

Failed to use or identify credible sources in the cultural artifact design plan.

Used and attributed some credible sources in the cultural artifact design plan.

Used and relied on mostly credible sources in the cultural artifact design plan.

Used and relied on all credible sources in a well-written cultural artifact design plan.