Cultural and Organizational Change Assessment

Assessment Overview
This assessment aligns with the competency for this module: Students will demonstrate their
ability to develop and lead impactful cultural and organizational change within an organization
through the understanding and application of leadership and change management research.
This assessment will review organizational culture and how it propagates throughout the
organization.

In this Assessment, you will continue to analyze the organization selected in your Formative
Assessment by developing a presentation to express the complexity of culture within your
organization. Now that you have developed your organization’s cultural map, think about how
the culture is presented and upheld throughout the organization. To build your presentation, you
can use applications like Microsoft PowerPoint, Google Slides, Prezi, Keynote, and Canva to
name a few.

Think forward to your overall Final Assessment – the virtual town hall meeting. How are you
going to represent your organization and how does the culture of the organization come through
the message presented?

Items for Submission
1. Presentation

Deliverables

Deliverable #1

Presentation Overview of Deliverable
You will develop a presentation explaining the
culture inside your organization. This will
build on the organization’s cultural map you
developed for your formative assessment.
Use the same organization that you used to
develop the map.

Specific Assignment Details
Your presentation will include:

1. Overview of your selected
organization

2. Who sets this culture?
3. How is it propagated throughout the

organization?

Cultural and Organizational Change Assessment
Rubric

Criterion NOT EVIDENT EMERGING DEVELOPING PROFICIENT EXEMPLARY
Overview Overview of

the
organization
was not
provided
and/or not in
the form of a
presentation.

Name of the
organization
was provided,
and the
presentation
was hard to
understand.

Overview was
provided in the
form of a
presentation,
but with little
information on
the
organization.

Overview was
provided on the
organization in
the form of a
presentation
with a good
flow.

Overview of the
organization was
provided with
the structure of
the organization
and how
information
flowed through
the org. The
presentation
was clean,
visually
appealing, and
easy to follow.

Cultural
Influence

No information
on
organizational
culture was
provided.

Organizational
culture was
mentioned with
very little
information
provided.

Organizational
culture was
provided with
no mention of
who the
influencers
were.

Organizational
culture was
provided with
reference to who
are the people
who set the
culture
throughout the
organization.

Organizational
culture was well
developed in the
presentation by
reference types
of culture and
who set the tone
throughout the
organization.

Propagation
of Culture

No information
on how the
culture of the
organization
propagated
throughout the
organization.

Information on
how culture is
propagated
throughout the
organization
was mentioned
but was
incoherent.

Information on
how culture is
propagated
throughout the
organization
was provided
within the
presentation
with some
reference to
flow, but
needed more
detail.

The propagation
of how culture is
expressed is
defined and
shows how it
occurs within
the messaging,
policies,
procedures, and
structure of the
organization.

The presentation
demonstrates
how
organizational
culture lives in
all messaging,
policies,
procedures,
structure,
meeting,
reviews, and
values of the
organization and
how it flows
through the
organization.

Writing
Mechanics

Significant
spelling,

Multiple spelling
grammar and/or

Minimal spelling,
grammar, and/or

Minor spelling,
grammar, and/or

Only minimal
spelling, grammar,

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grammar, and/or
punctuation
errors present,
and/or
sentence
structure does
not meet
professional
writing
standards,
and/or
paragraphs are
poorly
developed. (10 or
more errors)

punctuation
errors present
and/or sentence
structure does
not meet
professional
writing standards,
and/or
paragraphs are
minimally
developed. (more
than 7-9 errors)

punctuation
errors present,
and/or sentence
structure lacks
elements of
professional
writing, and/or
paragraphs are
not consistently
developed. (5-7
errors)

punctuation errors
present, and/or
sentence structure
lacks minor
elements of
professional
writing, and/or
paragraphs are
consistently
developed. (3-4
errors)

and/or
punctuation errors
present (1-2
errors). The
overall sentence
structure is well
developed
throughout, and
paragraphs are
fully developed
with consistent
style and clear
communication.

Sources Sources were not
used to support
major statements
and/or claims,
where needed in
the artifact.

Minimal usage of
sources present in
the artifact,
and/or the overall
communication
lacked
appropriate
research support.

Sources were
occasionally used
to support some
claims and/or
statements in the
artifact, but
statements were
not consistently
supported with
sources
throughout.

In most areas,
sources were
consistently used
throughout the
submission to
support claims
and/or statements
in the artifact.

The use of sources
was consistent
throughout the
document in all
areas to support
claims and/or
statements in the
artifact.

APA formatting Formatting,
citations, and
references are
not included, or
do not follow
appropriate APA
style guide.

Formatting,
citations, and/or
references, are
attempted, but do
not follow APA
style guidelines
consistently.

APA style is
demonstrated
with some
consistency, but
the majority of
the citation,
references,
and/or formatting
is not correct.

Citations,
references, and
formatting follow
APA style guide,
with more than 2
errors, but they
are minor.

Citations,
references, and
formatting follow
APA style guide,
with only one or
two minor errors.