Book Review/Analysis from a manager’s perspective

Instruction:

1. Movie Analysis: Read the following movie analysis direction, general requirements, and grading rubric carefully and write your analysis in a word program.

2. Points: This paper assignment is worth 80 points.

3. Note: Your paper should be no more than 10 pages (double spaced). Please note that paper length is not directly correlated with paper quality. Quality is much more important than quantity!

Analysis Direction:

Your paper project is to choose a book or movie and analyze it according to the organizational themes that you have learned in this course. You may select any book or movie that you wish, but choose carefully, as you will want your book or movie to contain examples of a variety of organizational problems and examples. Those books or movies that have worked the best in the past have been those that concern some aspect of team or organizational life such as sports or military themes. You may want to check your choice of book or movie with me before starting to work on the project if you have any doubts.
In your paper, you should briefly summarize key problems and incidents in the book/movie using

at least 5 of the theories covered in class. Each report should do three things:

1. Identify appropriate organizational problems in the movie. Is the problem relevant to at least five of the topics discussed in class?

2. Analysis of the problems. Demonstrate a clear understanding of the manner in which organizational theories apply to the selected problems.

3. Recommendations. Clearly describe how looking at these problems from an organizational lens can provide insight to their resolution. 

General Requirements:

· Completion of all parts of the assignment

· Evidence of understanding and ability to apply relevant course concepts

· Quality (depth, creativity, clarity) of analysis and expression

· Professional presentation of assignment (written)

Grading Rubric:

Specifically, points will be awarded as follows:

GRADE

CRITERIA

Superior (94% – 100%) 

· Addressed all question(s) fully and explored the issues thoughtfully\

· Provided specific and relevant information to support opinions

· Showed substantial depth, fullness and complexity of thought

· Demonstrated clear, focused and coherent organization

· Exhibited superior control of language and transition 

Strong (87% – 93%) 

· Addressed all question(s) and explored the issues

· Provided information to support opinions

· Showed some depth and complexity of thought

· Demonstrated effective organization

· Exhibited control of language and transition 

Competent in Some – But Not Enough – of the Areas (80% – 86%)

· Partially addressed all question(s) and explored the issues

· Provided information to support opinions

· Showed clarity but may lack depth and complexity of thought

· Organized but has distracting flaws such as poor transition

· Exhibited competent writing but with flaws that negatively impact interpretation 

Weak 
(70% – 79%)

· Distorted or neglected parts of the question(s)

· Generalized without supporting details – no support for opinions

· Simplistic or stereotyped in thought

· Demonstrated problems with organization

· Exhibited competent writing but with flaws that negatively impact interpretation 

Inadequate (below 70%) 

· Demonstrated major inadequacy in one or more of the areas noted in the performance levels detailed above