Case Study: Topic and Outline Assignment Instructions

Overview

For this assignment, you will be writing an outline for the case study that you will write later in the course. Before you can do the outline, you need to know what a case study is and the requirements for the case study.

Case studies are an important part of most graduate programs as they reveal more readily the concept or theory discussed in a real-world context. Consider the chapters you have read from the Hill text that present a case study of an organization. In each of these chapters, the way organizations incorporate various values (ex. love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness) is described in real-world scenarios. This helps us see how the value, reactions to the value, and outcomes from demonstrating the value might be displayed—and thus, presents a rich case for learning best practices and enables us to take God with us to work and everywhere.

Case Studies are stories that develop a person, or a group of people, or an organization over a specific time period (ex. day, week, month, year). A case study analyzes what occurred during this time period. Choosing an organization to do this case study can sometimes be the most difficult part. Choose an organization that has information available that can help you determine a value that is displayed. Choose an organization that does not already say what their Biblical value is. Choose an organization where you have to decide what the Biblical value is based on the organization’s actions. Choose an organization that is not faith based. You would not use Chick-Fil-A or Hobby Lobby because they already display their Christian values. You would choose another organization and decide for yourself what value they demonstrate. Sometimes these values are not written but you may have to determine for yourself if an action that this organization does is a Biblical value.

For your Case Study Paper, you will select an organization and review a Biblical value that the organization has displayed by writing a story and developing a person or a group of people at this organization. Remember you have to write a story that shows the example of this organization displaying this Biblical value. You will not be writing just about the organization. Write a case study where a person or group of people displayed a Biblical value. Tell the story. Back up the actions of the people or group in the organization with scholarly references, the text, and with the Bible (this is the most important part).

Choose an organization not in your text and not one that you have used in a previous course. Identify a Biblical value exhibited by the organization. Discuss and expand on this discussion as to how this Biblical value connects to the organization and the story. The purpose of this is for you to be able to identify Biblical values in organizations. Remember, Biblical values can certainly be displayed in secular workplaces; after all, all truth is God’s truth!

Choose 1 of these values: Galatians 5:22 NIV. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness. If you have another Biblical value that you would like to use, please get this approved by the professor prior to submitting your outline.

Above is information about the case study to help you plan your outline. This outline will detail how you will write your case study. You will also be doing a training presentation based on this case study. This outline, the case study, and the training presentation should all be on the same organization.

Instructions

For this topic and outline assignment, please have a title page that first has the title that includes the organization’s name and the Biblical value that you will be presenting. The title page should also include your name, date that this is submitted, your professor’s name, and the course number and name.

On the next page after the title page, write one paragraph explaining why you chose this organization. Be sure to include why this organization is important to you, why this is a good organization to research, what the Biblical value is, and why this value is important to the business and to people and to you?

Following the topic paragraph and on the next page, type an outline that demonstrates how you will write this case study. Below is how this outline should be typed and organized. The content of this outline may change but this should be the start of your planning for this case study paper assignment.

This assignment must include at least 5 scholarly resources in addition to the course textbook and the Bible (King James Version or New Internationl Verson). These references should be used in the topic paragraph (one paragraph) and in the outline.

Your outline should include the following:

· Title Page

· Topic Paragraph (This should be 1 paragraph and should come on the next page after the title page for the outline. This paragraph will not be in your case study. This paragraph will only be in your outline. This should be page 2 of your outline.)

The format for the outline is the following:

I. Introduction (Just put this word for the outline. You will write this in paragraph(s) in the case study.)

II. Background of the [organization selected]