Prepare a four to five-page paper in which you explain your chosen job design and organizational design as the new District Manager for Dunkin’ Donuts.

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Case Study: Opening Your New Dunkin’ Donuts Locations

Class,

TIPS:

Heads-up… I see a lot of misinterpretations in the Week 2 assignment. I
hope this helps clarify.
The assignment this week asks you to explain the job design and
organizational design you would choose for your district of Dunkin’ Donuts.
Please apply the three tips below for a better grade. 
Tip 1: Address ALL of the following
Job Design
Your job design should be for at least three (3) different
positions reporting to you (directly or indirectly).
For example, you might choose three of the following:

• store managers
• assistant store managers
• shift managers
• trainers
• crewmembers

For each of the positions you choose to include, explain how you would
design their jobs in each of the following areas:

• Job analysis: Conduct a job analysis for each position
• Job description: Craft a job description for each position
• Job specification: Complete a job specification for each position

Organizational Design
What would the authority-responsibility relationships look like? (section 3.4)
Which organizational structure would you use for your district? (section 3.5)
We’ll discuss organizational structure in our discussion forum this week, so
keep this in mind. The following structures are:

• Simple
• Machine Bureaucracy
• Professional Bureaucracy
• Divisional
• Adhocracy

Case Study: Opening Your New Dunkin’ Donuts Locations

Prior to completing this assignment, review the pertinent
sections of Chapter 3. You have been the manager of a
Dunkin’ Donuts store in the Midwest for the past two years.
The store is owned by a Dunkin’ Donuts franchisee who owns
20 other Dunkin’ Donuts locations. Your employer took an
employee inventory and examined all current employees. It
has been noted by the owner that you have a highly successful
track record. You have been recognized for doing an
exceptional job staffing, leading, training, coaching, and
managing people. You have been recognized for successfully
managing all key components of your store and have
successfully managed key business drivers such as cash,
profits, growth, asset utilization, and people. In regards to the
metrics that are used to measure their stores for sales, quality,
and customer service, your store is the top performing store in
their system.

Congratulations! You have just been promoted to district
manager! The Dunkin’ Donuts franchisee sees your growth
potential and the growth potential in your geographic area. The
owner now has committed significant capital and plans to open
five new locations over the next two years. You will be given
complete autonomy, authority, and responsibility to structure,
staff, and operate these five new locations. You will be playing
a key role in this expansion for growth.
For this assignment, you will prepare a four to five-page paper
in which you explain your chosen job design and
organizational design as the new District Manager for Dunkin’
Donuts.

You must organize your paper using the following section
headings and include additional section headings as needed:

• Introduction—Provide a well-organized introduction to the
paper.

• Job Design—Explain your chosen job design including job
analysis, job description and job specification.

• Organizational Design—Explain why the chosen
organizational design was chosen.

• Conclusion
Your paper must include at least three scholarly sources in
addition to the textbook and be formatted according to APA
style guidelines as outlined in the Writing Center.
The Case Study: Opening Your New Dunkin’ Donuts Locations
paper

• Must be four to five double-spaced pages in length (not
including title and references pages) and formatted
according to APA style as outlined in the Writing Center’s
APA Style (Links to an external site.)

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• Must include a separate title page with the following:
◦ Title of paper
◦ Student’s name
◦ Course name and number
◦ Instructor’s name
◦ Date submitted

• Must use at least three scholarly, peer-reviewed, and/or
credible sources in addition to the course text.
◦ The Scholarly, Peer Reviewed, and Other Credible

Sources (Links to an external site.)

table offers additional guidance on appropriate
source types. If you have questions about whether a

specific source is appropriate for this assignment,
please contact your instructor. Your instructor has the
final say about the appropriateness of a specific
source for a particular assignment.

• Must document any information used from sources in APA
style as outlined in the Writing Center’s Citing Within Your
Paper (Links to an external site.)

guide.

• Must include a separate references page that is formatted
according to APA style as outlined in the Writing Center.
See the Formatting Your References List (Links to an
external site.)

resource in the Writing Center for specifications.

Carefully review the Grading Rubric
 (Links to an external site.)
for the criteria that will be used to evaluate your assignment.