The students written Position Paper is designed to invite the student to provide an in-depth and critically reflective written examination of a selected collection of assigned articles that address a specific theme. This paper is a response to the guidelines below: Sources to be used and properly cited for the Week 2 HBR Position Paper: There are three HBR articles that students must use for the Week 2 Signature Assignment: What Leaders Need to Know About Organizational Culture? by D. D. Warrick How Starbucks’s Culture Brings Its Strategy to Life by Leinwand and Davidson Amazon as an Employer By: Jyotsna Bhatnagar, Shweta Jaiswal Additionally, students should include at least two of the articles that address the organizational culture of Amazon. *ALL 3 OF THESE ARTICLES ARE IN THE MyCoursepack TAB ON THE WEBSITE First, students are to read Warricks article (from the HBR Coursepack) to build a baseline understanding of the components that create culture and why leaders should be concerned about culture. Second, students will explore two brief case studies about the Starbucks and Amazon culture based on two additional HBR articles. Third, students will write their papers following the guidelines below: What are the key components of organizational culture as seen through Warricks article and what are the roles of leaders to ensure the development of a functional and healthy culture vs. a dysfunctional and toxic culture. Describe the key components of Amazons culture and its impact on people and processes. What drives Amazons view of people and how people are treated? Describe how Starbucks has worked to create a healthy and positive culture and how Starbucks has used culture to support and energize its strategy its products and the customer experience. What are the primary differences between the cultures of Amazon and Starbucks when it comes to the value, dignity, and purpose of human beings? Explain why these differences exist. How do both cultures incorporate, or fail to incorporate practices of Transformational Leadership based on the reading of Kouzes and Posner to- date? Which practices and how are they demonstrated, or not, in both cultures? Students are to write papers in a narrative flowing format using paragraphs. Do not rewrite the bulleted questions above in the body of the paper. 1. Students must avoid any use of AI generated narrative including the Grammarly paraphrasing tool. Must include cover page, reference page, and 3.5+ pages of written narrative. Note: All submitted student papers will be rigorously examined for any form or expression of plagiarism and AI using the TurnitIn platform. When any student paper has been found to be plagiarized, or, if the paper contains any form of AI generated narrative, either in part or in whole, the student will receive an automatic F (0 points) on the assignment.
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