Assignment Content
- Step 1) Review the following resources before creating the memo:
- Week 3 Grading Rubric-Learning Team
- Memo Template & Format Guidelines
- Guide to Peer-Reviewed References & APA Formatting
- Case Study 2: Food Banks Canada: Revisiting Strategy 2012 in Organizational Change
- Step 2) Read the Food Banks Canada case located on page 416 of Chapter 11 in Organizational Change. Food Banks Canada is a very interesting turnaround story about a not-for-profit national organization that was created by its affiliated members to better address hunger issues and get needed food to the poor. In response to declining relevance and poor performance, it altered its governance process, opted for a federated structure, renewed its leadership and staff, and put a renewed vision and strategy to work. Five years have passed and the CEO is considering what they should do next.
Step 3) Prepare a memo of at least 150 words written in third person voice and address the following issues. Use organizational change terminology consistent with what is used in your text to formulate your response. You must address the following topics below using the section headers (labels) in bold: - Section 5- How to Generate Support and Approvals (<– this is a section header) – In this section, explain Schmidt should generate needed support and approvals from the National Board, her Staff, the Member Council, and affiliated food banks.
- Section 7- References (<– this is a section header) – have at least 1 peer-reviewed sources in addition to the Organizational Change text, for a total of 1 peer-reviewed/scholarly references in APA format (with authors and dates). The references are incorporated throughout the memo with correct APA in-text citations.
- Section 8- Post your assignment as a Microsoft® Word document.
Resources: - Center for Writing Excellence
- Reference and Citation Generator
- Grammar and Writing Guides
- Learning Team Toolkit
