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Supporting Document 1: Memorandum to the CEO
Due Week 4 and worth 100 points

Using the same scenario from Assignment 1, as the Vice President of Human Resources, you must create a memorandum to the CEO on the issues you discovered from the research. This memorandum serves as your communication to share the discovered problems and request permission to continue researching future solutions.

Write a one to two (1-2) page memorandum in which you:

1. Identify the issue(s) you discovered in the organization’s mystification from individual learning to the organizational learning using the examples that you provided in Assignment 1.
2. Elaborate on the significant barriers that you discovered impact the process of learning within the organization’s culture. Provide a brief description of the selected OLM (e.g., Off-line/Internal, On-line/Internal, Off-line/External or On-line/External) that will be most suitable for this transition. Justify the selection.
3. Suggest two (2) actions that management can take in order to raise the level of trust as part of their strategy to create psychological safety. Justify your suggestions.
4. Use Microsoft Word or other equivalent software to select a memorandum template for this supporting document, or use the template located .

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
• Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Examine the processes of how organizations learn and organizational barriers that impact the process.
• Examine the concepts of personal mastery and mental models and their related importance in a learning organization.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in developing a learning organization.
• Write clearly and concisely about developing a learning organization using proper writing mechanic.

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 1. Identify the issue(s) you discovered in the organization’s mystification from individual learning to the organizational learning using the examples that you provided in Assignment 1.

Points Range:0 (0%) – 17.25 (17.25%)

Did not submit or incompletely identified the issue(s) you discovered in the organization’s mystification from individual learning to the organizational learning using the examples that you provided in Assignment 1.

Points Range:17.5 (17.5%) – 19.75 (19.75%)

Partially identified the issue(s) you discovered in the organization’s mystification from individual learning to the organizational learning using the examples that you provided in Assignment 1.

Points Range:20 (20%) – 22.25 (22.25%)

Satisfactorily identified the issue(s) you discovered in the organization’s mystification from individual learning to the organizational learning using the examples that you provided in Assignment 1.

Points Range:22.5 (22.5%) – 25 (25%)

Thoroughly identified the issue(s) you discovered in the organization’s mystification from individual learning to the organizational learning using the examples that you provided in Assignment 1.

2. Elaborate on the significant barriers that you discovered impact the process of learning within the organization’s culture. Provide a brief description of the selected OLM (e.g., Off-line/Internal, On-line/Internal, Off-line/External or On-line/External) that will be most suitable for this transition. Justify the selection.

Points Range:0 (0%) – 20.7 (20.7%)

Did not submit or incompletely elaborated on the significant barriers that you discovered impact the process of learning within the organization’s culture. Did not submit or incompletely provided a brief description of the selected OLM (e.g., Off-line/Internal, On-line/Internal, Off-line/External or On-line/External) that will be most suitable for this transition. Did not submit or incompletely justified the selection.

Points Range:21 (21%) – 23.7 (23.7%)

Partially elaborated on the significant barriers that you discovered impact the process of learning within the organization’s culture. Partially provided a brief description of the selected OLM (e.g., Off-line/Internal, On-line/Internal, Off-line/External or On-line/External) that will be most suitable for this transition. Partially justified the selection.

Points Range:24 (24%) – 26.7 (26.7%)

Satisfactorily elaborated on the significant barriers that you discovered impact the process of learning within the organization’s culture. Satisfactorily provided a brief description of the selected OLM (e.g., Off-line/Internal, On-line/Internal, Off-line/External or On-line/External) that will be most suitable for this transition. Satisfactorily justified the selection.

Points Range:27 (27%) – 30 (30%)

Thoroughly elaborated on the significant barriers that you discovered impact the process of learning within the organization’s culture. Thoroughly provided a brief description of the selected OLM (e.g., Off-line/Internal, On-line/Internal, Off-line/External or On-line/External) that will be most suitable for this transition. Thoroughly justified the selection.

3. Suggest two (2) actions that management can take in order to raise the level of trust as part of their strategy to create psychological safety. Justify your suggestions.

Points Range:0 (0%) – 20.7 (20.7%)

Did not submit or incompletely suggested two (2) actions that management can take in order to raise the level of trust as part of their strategy to create psychological safety. Did not submit or incompletely justified your suggestions.

Points Range:21 (21%) – 23.7 (23.7%)

Partially suggested two (2) actions that management can take in order to raise the level of trust as part of their strategy to create psychological safety. Partially justified your suggestions.

Points Range:24 (24%) – 26.7 (26.7%)

Satisfactorily suggested two (2) actions that management can take in order to raise the level of trust as part of their strategy to create psychological safety. Satisfactorily justified your suggestions.

Points Range:27 (27%) – 30 (30%)

Thoroughly suggested two (2) actions that management can take in order to raise the level of trust as part of their strategy to create psychological safety. Thoroughly justified your suggestions.

4. Writing Mechanics, Grammar, and Memo Formatting

Points Range:0 (0%) – 6.9 (6.9%)

Serious and persistent errors in grammar, spelling, punctuation, or memo formatting.

Points Range:7 (7%) – 7.9 (7.9%)

Partially free of errors in grammar, spelling, punctuation, or memo formatting.

Points Range:8 (8%) – 8.9 (8.9%)

Mostly free of errors in grammar, spelling, punctuation, or memo formatting.

Points Range:9 (9%) – 10 (10%)

Error free or almost error free grammar, spelling, punctuation, or memo formatting.

5. Clarity and Coherence of Writing

Points Range:0 (0%) – 3.45 (3.45%)

Information is confusing to the reader and fails to include reasons and evidence that logically support ideas.

Points Range:3.5 (3.5%) – 3.95 (3.95%)

Information is partially clear with minimal reasons and evidence that logically support ideas.

Points Range:4 (4%) – 4.45 (4.45%)

Information is mostly clear and generally supported with reasons and evidence that logically support ideas.

Points Range:4.5 (4.5%) – 5 (5%)

Information is provided in a clear, coherent, and consistent manner with reasons and evidence that logically support ideas.