analyze Cardinal Health’s organizational culture and approach to strategic management.

Short Paper Overview

• • You will write three short papers covering the company that you are assigned. The due dates for each paper will be posted in Canvas.
  • Each of these papers will be graded for comprehension, clarity, and thoroughness. The papers will also be graded for grammar, spelling and professional writing requirements. 
  • Each paper will be worth 35 points each. Late papers will not be accepted, but you will have the opportunity to make up a missed paper or improve a paper at the end of the semester.  

• • Requirements
    • Between 700-800 words (works cited page is not included in total required word count)
    • Double-spaced
    • 12-point Times New Roman font
    • 1-inch margins
    • Name located in the header
    • Proper APA in-paper citations and works cited page required.  You do not need to follow APA guidelines for a title page or abstract.  You MUST use APA for the body of your paper and works cited page.  
    • Use at least 4 sources. You may use the company’s website and filings as a source.  Wikipedia is not an acceptable source.  

• Paper #2
• For Paper #2, you will analyze your company’s organizational culture and approach to strategic management. 
• Strategic Management
  • What is the company’s corporate-level strategy?
    • Identify the company’s corporate strategy and provide supporting evidence.
  • Complete a SWOT analysis for your company. 
  • Complete a VRIO analysis.  Provide specific examples for each component to justify your analysis.
  • Leveraging Porter’s five competitive forces, using three of the five competitive forces, provide examples of how the competitive forces affect your company.
• Organizational Culture
• Describe the culture of your company.  Identify values, norms, rituals, slogans, etc. 
• What is the company’s culture as described by the competing values framework?  Justify you analysis with specific examples.  
• Using the basic types of organizational structures, identify your company’s organizational structure and explain the benefits and drawbacks of the structure.