OGL 481 Pro-Seminar I:

PCA-Choosing an Organization Worksheet

Worksheet Objectives:
1. Identify an organization and situation you want to study over the remainder of the course.
2. Describe the organization and the situation

Complete the following making sure to support your ideas and cite from the textbook and other
course materials per APA guidelines. After the peer review, you have a chance to update this and
format for your Electronic Portfolio due in Module 6.

Name and describe your organization.

The organization that I would really like to learn more about and study is Amazon.
Amazon is one of the greatest companies I have ever used. On Amazon’s website, you
can basically discover and find anything that you might want to buy and they give you
the best possible prices to choose from. Not only that, but you’ll receive your item
quickly with they’re fast delivery system. The possibilities are endless with Amazon.

Describe your role in the organization (it can be an internal or external role).
My role at this organization is going to be the position of Human Resources. Amazon's
human resources is genuine and reliable. They keep their employees engaged and
satisfied. They make sure their HR leaders are innovative and hardworking. Like the
textbook states, “HR plays a key role in developing, reinforcing and changing the culture
of an organisation. Pay, performance management, training and development, recruitment
and onboarding and reinforcing the values of the business are all essential elements of
business culture covered by HR(Reframing organizations).”
Describe the situation, including information you think the will help the reader
understand the most important elements of the situation. (This will require
selectivity: part of the art of case writing is separating the essential facts from the
mass of information that might be included).

HR can help leaders empower their individual teams by equipping them with processes for
coaching, training and mentoring within teams. This also involves helping leaders learn how to
 identify potential future leaders (Reframing organizations).” I want to show certain situations of
leadership provided by human resources. There’s many of different ways HR provides leadership
and I want to show exactly how and give different examples for each.

References:

Bolman, L. G., & Deal, T. E. (2017). Reframing organizations: Artistry, choice,

and leadership (6th ed.). San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass