Instruction
Prompt: Leadership changes can have significant impacts on an organizations behavior and performance, especially if the change is unexpected or due to a controversial issue(s).
Task:
Research and find five companies whose CEOs have left in the past 12 months. Three of the five CEO’s must have left for reasons other than normal retirement.
Assess each company’s earnings and profit performance against the average for their industry group. To find the stock price performance, you can then use any of a number of credible online services.
Using APA standards and formatting, prepare an 8-10 page paper research paper outlining the following:
Provide a brief overview of each company and the reason for the CEO’s departure.
Outline the most significant impacts the departure has had on the organization (top 2-3 impacts, positive and/or negative).
Address any other high level departures within the organization before, during, or after the CEO’s departure.
Provide the results of your research of assessing each company’s earning and profit performance as outlined above.
Provide your own analysis of each situation.
What have you learned about these scenarios based on the your newly obtained knowledge from your references.
Essay/Report should be ~ 2,000 words 8 Pages in length - Double Spaced with a clear introduction, thesis statement and conclusion, written in APA format (APAstyle.org, and must include 2 Cited Sources (APA style)