20 Jan 2. Application of Course Concepts

BUS505 Organizational Creativity, Discovery and Innovation

Critical Thinking Assignment Part 1

This assignment is a 2 part assignment. Part 1 will be due this week (week 2), Part 2 will be due next week (week 3).

Overview: You will select an article on creativity/innovation that expresses a point of view. (the myths of creativity articles in this week’s unit are examples). You will ultimately write a 4 page paper on the article that incorporates the double loop analysis. We would expect your paper to have an introduction, information on the article, your point of view, back up for your point of view, the opposing point of view with back up, and ultimately a conclusion.

Part 1 – to make sure you are on the right track we ask that in week 2 you submit a one page paper that describes the article and explains what point of view you will be taking and why. Please see the rubric for specific requirements for this paper. Keep in mind that a page of text for an assignment does not include the cover page or the reference page.

Part 2 – Once you finish the 1 page summary and feel confident you can continue on to complete the 4 page paper. The summary can be a part of the paper, but be sure to incorporate any comments from your professor. Again, please see the rubric for specific requirements for the paper. (The rubric is in unit 3)

BUS505 Organizational Creativity, Discovery and Innovation

Critical Thinking Assignment Part 2

Overview: You will select an article on creativity/innovation that expresses a point of view. (the myths of creativity articles in this week’s unit are examples). You will ultimately write a 4 page paper on the article that incorporates the double loop analysis. We would expect your paper to have an introduction, information on the article, your point of view, back up for your point of view, the opposing point of view with back up, and ultimately a conclusion.

Part 2 – Once you finish the 1 page summary and feel confident you can continue on to complete the 4 page paper. The summary can be a part of the paper, but be sure to incorporate any comments from your professor. Again, please see the rubric for specific requirements for the paper. (The rubric is in unit 3)

BUS505 Organizational Creativity, Discovery and Innovation

Unit 6 Individual Evaluation Assignment

This assignment is an individual assignment. The student will provide a critical analysis of his or her performance on the team project just completed in Weeks 4 and 5. The deliverable is an APA paper which is 3 to 5 pages in length, excluding title page and references. The paper must be in MS Word format uploaded to Blackboard. The paper may be written in the first person voice.

Submissions will be graded against the criteria identified in the rubric below – please note that this is not about the team performance, but about your performance as a team member:

BUS505 Organizational Creativity, Discovery and Innovation

Unit 6 Individual Team Member Assessment
Here is the place to submit your assessments that will be factored in to the grading, as part of your grade for this assignment will be based on the results of the peer evaluations you received.

The form to use is attached – Please rate yourself and each member of your team on a scale of 0 to 10, with 0 being the lowest and 10 being the highest, on each item. Please feel free to add more columns if necessary.

TEAM ASSIGNMENT –CREATIVE EXERCISE: INDIVIDUAL TEAM MEMBER ASSESSMENT FORM

Please use the form attached to rate yourself and each member of your team on a scale of 0 to 10, with 0 being the lowest and 10 being the highest, on each item. Once you have determined a score for each peer, provide details in the comments section to support the score you gave to yourself and each peer.

Description

Yourself

Team Member Names

The team member did fair share of work

The team member was cooperative/did agreed upon task

The team member contributed to ideas/planning

The team member was available for communication

The team member was positive, helpful

The team member contributed to overall project success

One word to describe the team member

Comments to support the score you gave to each peer.

Please evaluate your peers on the following scale:

0- No participation

1-3 Minimal participation

4-6-Average participation

7-8-Above average participation

9-10-Exceptional participation

BUS505 Organizational Creativity, Discovery and Innovation

FINAL ASSIGNMENT

This individual assignment is your opportunity to demonstrate your mastery of the materials studied in this course and apply what you have learned to a specific company or organization. It is essentially your final exam.

You will demonstrate your mastery by analyzing how an organization handles creativity, applying the concepts from the course, and offering suggestions for improvement.

The organization that you choose needs to be one you are intimately familiar with. We want the analysis to go deep, which means that you need to know about the management and operations, not just what you can read in the media about an organization. The papers are kept private, and you can change the name if you must. If you do change the name, please let us know that the name has been changed.

The deliverable can be in any form, just make sure to exercise creativity in whichever form you use and make sure to cover all the required elements.

Some minimum elements are:

1. Organization Selected. Describe the organization that you use as the subject for your project. Explain why you selected the organization. If the organization is large you are free to focus on a department, division, practice or product.

2. Application of Course Concepts. In your analysis of the organization be sure to identify and apply course concepts and principles. Be specific and clear in the linkages.

3. Suggestions and Lessons. Make specific suggestions for improvement based upon the lessons learned. If there are no clear suggestions for improvement, suggest how what this organization does can be transferred to other organizations.

Pay close attention to the rubric for additional items to include: