Question Details

MGT 585 Week 3 Assignment: Decision Making Assignment
Instructions

John, President of Plastic Packaging (a small bottle manufacturing company located in western Massachusetts), has decided that downsizing is the solution to the recent financial struggles that the company is experiencing as a result of a decrease in customer demand. Last Friday afternoon, John sent a mass e-mail to all of the employees at the facility to explain some of the disappointing financials and his decision to use a downsizing strategy to deal with the situation. The 75 employees of Plastic Packaging start to panic. During the afternoon break, the rumor mill is on overdrive in the breakroom. People are anxious, confused, surprised, and upset with this executive decision. Many of them wonder if there are better alternatives to the financial problems the company has recently experienced and they know that their president could have handled the situation at hand in a much more effective manner. Please respond to the following questions in four distinct and labeled sections: (1) Identification: What are some of the main problems and related issues that you see within this scenario/case? (2) Analysis: What are the root causes and relevant factors contributing to the main problems that you identified? (3) Alternatives and Recommendations: What could John have done differently? (4) Action Plan: How should John carry out these alternatives that you recommended? Use references from books and journal articles to support all of the sections of your discussion. Cite your references within your discussion and include the full citations for your references on your Reference page at the end of your document, following the APA Guidelines that I provided you in Doc Sharing. Submit your completed assignment to the appropriate dropbox. The following rubric will be used to grade your assignment.

	Exceeds Standards	Meets 
Standards	Fails to Meet Standards
Depth and Quality of Discussion

I will consider how detailed your discussion is and how far into depth you go. 
	Thoroughly discusses and evaluates the issues related to the decision at hand, providing convincing and supported arguments.	Discusses and evaluates the issues related to the decision at hand, providing supported arguments, but could have gone into much more depth.	Fails to discuss and evaluate valid issues related to the decision at hand, does not provide convincing or supported arguments, and lacks a significant degree of depth.
Score: 	(40-36)	(35-28)	(27 or below)
Reference Support

The more reference support you use, the better. The quality of the journals is also important.
	Research from multiple journal articles provided strong support for the discussion. Several of the journal articles used came from top-tier journals.	Research from journal articles provided support for most of the discussion. More references could have been used.

	Several parts of the discussion lacked strong support from the research presented in journal articles.

Score: 	(40-36)	(35-28) 	(27 or below)
Overall Quality of Written Communication

Paper Formatting Turnitin Similarity Rating
Grammar	Student presented a well-written, coherent analysis that was free from any grammar and/or spelling errors.	Student presented a well-written, coherent analysis that contained a few minor errors.	Student presented an incoherent analysis that contained several errors.

Score: 	(20-18)	(17-14)	(13 or below)
Total Score (Grade):