MOLC
Management of Organisations and Leading for Change
All questions are based on the article “Renovating Home Depot” (pp. 2 – 6).
In your answers, you should support your assertions with examples or evidence from the article. Although I have attempted to minimize the content overlap among the questions, you may, if necessary, cite the same example in more than one answer.
You are allowed to make assumptions and speculations as long as you provide a reasonable basis for them and weave them cogently into the argumentation.
There is no word count constraint, but please write in a structured, preferably bullet-point style.
This is an individual open-book/open-notes take-home exam. Please do not use the internet for this purpose.
Your answers are due back via email to Yedu Rajeev. Your email time-stamp should be at or before 8 PM on
Sunday, October 20, 2013.
1. Based on the reading “Do you have a well-designed organization” assess Home Depot’s organizational design under Mr. Nardelli (i.e., how good a job does Home Depot’s design do) along any five of the nine design tests discussed in the reading. For each test, name the test and then assess how well Home Depot’s organizational design under Mr. Nardelli meets the test. (25 points)
2. Please assess the approach to motivation taken by Mr. Nardelli and his senior management team using 5 motivation theories (NOTE: You may not use more than one needs theory). For each of the theories, please state the name of the theory, discuss how its application is illustrated in Home Depot’s practices under Mr.
Nardelli, and provide one example of practices/actions to support your assessment. (25 points)
3. In what ways has Mr. Nardelli attempted to change the following elements of the Home Depot’s culture: enacted core values, behavioural norms, type of people, socialization activities, and reinforcement/maintenance activities? (25 points)
4. Based on the class sessions on Developing and Utilizing Power and
All questions are based on the article “Renovating Home Depot” (pp. 2 – 6).
In your answers, you should support your assertions with examples or evidence from the article. Although I have attempted to minimize the content overlap among the questions, you may, if necessary, cite the same example in more than one answer.
You are allowed to make assumptions and speculations as long as you provide a reasonable basis for them and weave them cogently into the argumentation.
There is no word count constraint, but please write in a structured, preferably bullet-point style.
This is an individual open-book/open-notes take-home exam. Please do not use the internet for this purpose.
Your answers are due back via email to Yedu Rajeev. Your email time-stamp should be at or before 8 PM on
Sunday, October 20, 2013.
1. Based on the reading “Do you have a well-designed organization” assess Home Depot’s organizational design under Mr. Nardelli (i.e., how good a job does Home Depot’s design do) along any five of the nine design tests discussed in the reading. For each test, name the test and then assess how well Home Depot’s organizational design under Mr. Nardelli meets the test. (25 points)
2. Please assess the approach to motivation taken by Mr. Nardelli and his senior management team using 5 motivation theories (NOTE: You may not use more than one needs theory). For each of the theories, please state the name of the theory, discuss how its application is illustrated in Home Depot’s practices under Mr.
Nardelli, and provide one example of practices/actions to support your assessment. (25 points)
3. In what ways has Mr. Nardelli attempted to change the following elements of the Home Depot’s culture: enacted core values, behavioural norms, type of people, socialization activities, and reinforcement/maintenance activities? (25 points)
4. Based on the class sessions on Developing and Utilizing Power and