Essays on Ceos

The growth of Amazon to a global retail company is basically due in part to the management practices by its Chief Executive Office and how such practices affect the planning, control, and management of a company. Most CEOs embrace unique Organizational structures towards the operations of their companies. The organizational structure of a company is important since it outlines how various activities such as supervision, work coordination, and allocation are handled by an organization to achieve the set aims and goals. A good organizational structure creates opportunities for business growth. The Chief Executive Officer(CEO) of a company has ...

Question 1: Jeans Inc.

Comparison and Contrast Job evaluation entails the assessment of the worthiness of a job based on personal and employment factors such as the required skills and qualifications. Various methods can be utilized to carry out job evaluation. They include ranking, factor comparison, point method, and classification (Dubey, 14). Ranking is the simplest approach whereby the administer compares different tasks to one another to assess their worthiness to the firm. Classification involves a system that evaluates and defines the authority, duties, tasks, and responsibilities of the job holder. Factor comparison, on the other hand, is a scientific technique that ranks ...

Literature Review

Overview The research question is essential for any study; as it will enable the researcher to focus on a particular subject to do research. The research question for this study is the effect of direct communication between the CEO and the employees when it comes to Job satisfaction. The question allows the researcher to focus on the concept of job satisfaction, internal communication the roles of both the CEO and the employees, and the factors that influence communication enhancement. Internal communication is the frequency of interaction between the upper level of management and the lower level of management (Bloom, ...

Introduction

The present report comprises of three sections. The first section discusses the recent trends in the business environment, which call for the attention of the Board of Directors as well as the Chief Executive Officer. The next section discusses Porter’s generic strategies including overall cost leadership, product differentiation, and focus strategies and demonstrates the way their implementation will help Partical, Inc. stay ahead of the competition in the global environment. The last section discusses and evaluates both the value chain analysis and Porter’s Five Forces, and indicates how the firms can gain competitive advantage through their effective ...

1. Key Elements of Branson’s Leadership Style In his autobiography, The Virgin Way: If It’s Not Fun, It’s Not Worth Doing, Richard Branson identifies and explains important aspects of his leadership philosophy and style: There are ten of them: (1) “Follow your passion, but protect the downside”; (2) “Do some good”; (3) “Believe in your business”; (4) “Have fun”; (5) “Don’t give up”; (6) “Listen more and talk less”; (7) “Make room for personal time through delegation”; (8) “Go out and meet people”; (9) “Communicate among all levels of your company”; and, (10) “Be happy”. ...

Executive summary

This report is an analysis of the performance of Kodak over time since its inception. The report finds that the dismal performance of Kodak is largely as a result of the poor leadership elected to lead the company. The report traces the failures of the company to the hierarchical and toxic leadership styles that saw the company lag behind in joining the competitors in the migration to digital photography. The report concludes by highlighting the specific failures of leadership that cost the company a fortune had it transformed into digital promptly. The report recommends a series of actions to ...

BUSINESS: UNETHICAL BUSINESS PRACTICES

L. Dennis Kozlowski, CEO of Tyco International Scandal A fish rots from the top down. This phrase sums up the scandal of Tyco International when its CEO, Dennis Kozlowski, was found guilty on many fraudulent accounts. His actions were in direct violation of the accounting ethics. Kozlowski was arrested along with many of his company officials as partners in crime. When the CEO of a company is involved in violating code of ethics and professionalism, the employees and subordinates find it convenient to follow suit. Former chief executive and chairman of Tyco International, Dennis Kozlowski and firm’s CFO ...

Statement of Understanding of Executive Coaching

A statement of understanding of executive coaching concerns the clauses and informational handbook that will be presented by the executive coach to the client. By this statement the client will agree to abide by the policies that have been established by the executive coach. The statement of understanding should be submitted with the organization’s signed original application ("Statement of Understanding Law & Legal Definition", 2016). It is now time to examine what executive coaching is and who needs executive coaching.

What is Executive Coaching?

Executive coaching is defined as a professional relationship that is built between a trained coach and a client. The ...

Strategic Messages to Different Stakeholders

Key message to executive: Introducing a new CEO Objectives: Issues: According to Koyne & Koyne (2007), the executive should know that the new CEO and managing partners are likely to reorganize the company through layoffs and dismiss top management. However, the top management can tell the new leaders that they want to help them achieve implement the changes. Porter, Lorsch &Nohria (2004) established that CEOs should focus on managing the organizational structure and not on daily operations. Additionally, the CEO at BrightStar should understand that his position does not give him the right to lead or a guarantee that the ...

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The Coca-Cola Company has a long history of innovation and development. The company was founded in 1886 by a recipe concoction created by pharmacist John S. Pemberton (Coca-Cola, n.d.). The beverage enjoyed moderate success until Pemberton passed away, and several businessmen worked to ensure the trademark drink would become a world famous flavor. In the early 1900s the product expanded rapidly from its roots in the southeastern United States across the country, and the cause of all of this growth can be traced back to successful leadership in terms of management and innovation. The purpose ...

Feminism encompasses a range of social movements, political ideologies, and perspectives that focus on defining, establishing, and achieving personal, economic, social, and political and personal women’s rights. Ideally, feminists are fighting for a society that provides equal opportunities for women in employment and education. The feminist movements in contemporary societies continue to champion for women’s rights, including the right to hold public office, vote, own property, work, receive education, and enjoy equal rights within marriage. Particularly, they support or advocate for women’s rights and equality. The second-wave feminism is women’s movement that occurred in the ...

Abstract

The given case study discusses the rise and fall of Nortel Networks Corporation, which was one of the world’s largest telecommunication corporation. Nortel was a Canadian global organization that was at its peak in the early 2000s and apparently, it botched due to inefficient echelon management, inflated earnings and costs, dysfunctional directors’ board, as well as, illusion of constancy and stability. Although there were numerous possibilities that could have been adopted to prevent the fall and demise of the company; however, those roads were unfortunately not traveled. Nortel’s downfall began when it fails to live up to ...

Business Ethics

Business Ethics

The managers are responsible to the prevalence of ethical misconducts due to their extent of authority. Managers ensure that employees do not incorporate any unethical practices and understand the organization’s ethical conducts. The prevalence of ethical misconducts among the employees is observed by the managers due to which the managers take necessary actions in order to ensure that the occurrence of such misconducts is hindered. The employees are observed in accordance with the organization’s ethical standards and these standards help in the shaping the organizational behavior and hence, ethical conducts are set (Crane & Matten, 2007). ...

MGM- Management

As far as the research methodology is concerned, it is reasonable to conclude that in this particular case, it exactly corresponds to the case scenario at issue. The practice demonstrates that low levels of employee engagement are one of the most popular causes of inadequate professional productiveness of the organization. Thus, the authors of this research strategy correctly assumed that in order to increase individual and overall effectiveness of the company employees, understanding the causes of their low engagement is necessary. At the same time, the way the research team outlined the continuous variables is hardly consistent with the ...

Can every business have a sustainable future, and does it matter?

Can everyone be successful? Yes. But has everyone become successful then? No. Business entities have similar philosophical baseline. Updated history of business shows many failures and success of business entities. The companies once successful later vanished in the womb of time, whereas businesses who have failed successive times have become successful in the later. In all of such scenario of business turbulence, one thing is pretty clear that the business having strategic fit with the environment and sustainable salient features have actually survived over decades (some even over centuries) and with healthy returns. So, yes, it is possible that ...

Narcissistic leaders are known for displaying impeccable self-confidence, dominance, sense of power, and, of course, low empathy (O’Reilly et al., 2013). Hostility and arrogance are two essential characters that drive such individuals. As narcissistic leaders are always motivated by their need to control others and get their approval and admiration, their leadership style mostly tends to go destructive. On the other hand, certain other qualities like leading with a vision and consistently following their cherished path make them great leaders. Even as certain characters like ruthlessness and uncompromising nature help them to move forward as a visionary, narcissistic ...

Introduction

The CFOs have a lot to deal with as their strategic responsibility in business continues to grow and become more complex. Owing to their extensive duties, the cash compensation of the financial officers continues to increase with each passing year so much that the officials are starting to bridge the gap between CEOs and them. The financial market appears to be more inclined towards a skill-driven workforce as compared to the traditional approach of leadership provided by the CEOs. This essay attempts to develop an understanding concerning the issue of the rising salary of CFOs by using three primary ...

Individual Strategy Paper

Introduction The paper is aimed to apply the strategic management approach to the personal life. For this purpose, the paper is going to use Me Inc. approach to conduct vision, mission, and strategy analysis to apply to my personal career. It is considered as very important to develop the strategies for the personal career goals and objectives so that the organizations one need to join can easily look at the career view of the organization. The paper includes a personal vision statement, personal mission statement, goals, personal values, contributors and strategies that are applied to my personal career.

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Business and Society

Business and Society

The American Red Cross was established in 1881 by Clara Barton as an independent organization supported by public donations and volunteerism. The organization’s primary mission is the provision of relief to disaster victims and help people to prepare for, prevent and respond to emergencies and disasters (ARC, 2012). According to the article, the organization has been criticized in the recent past because of critical and key ethical issues surrounding its operations. The organization, a non-profit humanitarian initiative, has been widely criticized for the way it handled two disasters in the American history (Gilliard & Khandekar, 2011). ...

Chief executive officers (CEOs) are among the most important members of any business organization. CEOs plan and direct company policies to make a company more profitable for its shareholders. Their personality traits can directly influence the potential of the business, and affect how people working for the CEO interact with him/her to complete their jobs. Indeed, the leadership attributes of those at the top set the business culture that is projected to the world. Therefore, it is the duty of the CEO to maintain high standards of ethics, thought, and leadership; Wal-Mart’s CEO, Douglas McMillon, has done just ...

Starbucks is one of the most world renowned coffee shop brands in the entire world. The chain has operations from Guam to Saudi Arabia, with a huge supply chain network of coffee growers from around the world providing the beans necessary to continue production on such a large scale. Its first store was opened in Pike’s Place market, which is one of the largest fish markets in the US. Company sales rapidly expanded, and the owners of the Starbucks Corporation were able to go on and make a substantial profit through efficient organization and competitive pricing; most importantly, ...

Business Case Study: Yahoo. Inc!

Background This paper seeks to examine Yahoo Inc. and give an in-depth analysis into the business financial, market, and general performances on the years 2010 and 2011. It further identifies the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats facing the business in its operations and finally gives recommendations that could induce improvement of the business processes and approaches in a bid to increase its competitiveness, performance and stability in the market. It’s purely an objective compilation based on factual information derived from the company’s annual reports and an analysis of the same in the global market context.

Stakeholders and customer need

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Leadership Ethical Analysis

Introduction Analysis of leadership and leadership styles of different leaders have been a common phenomenon, but in current arena, ethical leadership has gained the spotlight of professionals and researchers. Good leadership style is the one that encourages ethical behavior. Ethics are important in practicing good values at the workplace and for serving the society with maximum utility and benefits. Businesses are run with the aim of benefiting the organization that comes at the expense of the health of society often. The aim of the leader is to maximize the benefit of organizations and without having ethical characteristics, leaders maintain ...

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Apple Inc. was founded in the year 1976 and was incorporated under the name of Apple Computer Inc. in the year 1977. By now, the company is 40 years old and it is headquartered in California in the middle of Silicon Valley. According to the Store list from the official website, Apple Inc. has 479 retail stores in 18 countries, many of them are located inside shopping malls, but Apple has also built several “flagship” stores that stand alone mainly in big cities of Europe and the United States. Since the company’s formation, it has been ...

All people worldwide watch TV, but not everyone enjoys watching regular TV with channels that offer programs at specific time on non-portable screens with old fashioned remote controls. Nowadays Internet TV, which is personalized and available at any time of the day, is replacing regular TV experience. The new era of Internet TV looks very perspective, flexible and big around the world. People's tastes are broad and the Internet provides a wide variety of interests today and is even able to meet everybody’s needs based upon individual users' tastes. Today being one of the leading firms of the ...

Apple Inc was founded in 1976 and incorporated under the name of Apple Computer Inc the next year. By now, the company is 40 years old. Its headquarter is located in California in the middle of Silicon Valley. According to the Store list from the official website, Apple Inc has 479 retail stores in 18 countries, many of them are located inside shopping malls but also Apple built several “flagship” stores that stand alone mainly in big cities both Europe and the US. Being an unusual man, Steve Jobs did not tolerate ordinary worldview in the office. Therefore, he ...

The pay ratio of an average CEO to that of an average worker in America has been on the rise since 1980. The disparity was not so much in the 1980s and ‘90s since the ratio stood at 47 and 107, respectively. However, between 1980 and 2000, the ratio sharply increased, hitting its peak at US$ 525 in the year 2000. From 2000, the ratio has reduced but with a smaller margin, standing at US$ 311 in the year 2013. The situation, however, hasn’t changed significantly for average factory workers, especially men, whose pay per hour has almost ...

The purpose of having a functional supply chain is maximizing profits. As such, the supply chain network will strive to strike a balance between productivity (Efficiency) and profitability (Effectiveness) (Manuj & Mentzer, 2008). Therefore, when the basic operational management techniques are applied in the supply chain network management, they are meant to boost profit maximization objective of the firm. Creating process visibility in the supply chain is one of the operational techniques that are applicable in supply chain management (Boyer & Verma, 2010). It is not always that everyone in the supply chain will adopt the guidelines in the blueprint and ...

How to Reform Corporate Ethics in American Business Today

Corporate ethics is an important sphere of American business the regulation of which is of utter importance. It comprises the rules how the company operates: its management, control and responsibility for improper actions. The regulations of corporate governance and implementation of effective corporate ethical standards affect the situation of the economy of the state. Inefficient regulations may lead to huge problems, such as the Great Depression of 1933, ENRON case of 2007, global financial crisis of 2008, because of which the whole world economy was negatively affected, a lot of investors were defrauded, money stolen and etc. Scholars believed ...

High-risk investments mean volatility associated with the returns on investments and stock prices change. Any investment transaction has a risk element. Moreover, the major proportion of the investment theory states that the potential profitability is inversely proportional to the risk level . At this, it is not important whether it goes about the passive investment, active stock transactions or new business projects. Risk allows earning much and provokes losing much because associated with potential losses even in the case of success. It is extremely important to understand quantitative and qualitative characteristics of risks, which affect the amount of the invested ...

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Income Inequality in America

Introduction Income inequality is one of the most observable trends in the American society today. There are, for instance, super rich Americans with the resources that are exceedingly high compared to the average American wage earner. Over the years, the disparity between the rich and the poor in terms of income has been widening and it is widening rapidly. Income inequalities have become exceedingly unacceptable that it has become one of the most controversial and talked about topic in contemporary American society. In fact, this coming 2016 United States presidential election, one of the key issues is ...

Business Case Study: Yahoo. Inc!

Stakeholders and customer need Yahoo is a top player in online marketing through advertisement space and portals among other online marketing tools. Later, the company diversified its activities to include music, photo sharing, and blogging. Diversified activities aim at serving the customers' needs. Indeed, in the year, 2012Yahoo was ranked at position three regarding market share and some online visits as illustrated in the figure below. Figure 1: Internet use traffic data The company has faced serious management investment challenges that might jeopardize its return of investments and attractiveness to global investors. The dire blunt was felt in 2008 ...

Introduction

Leadership styles of executives define organizational culture and thus determine the health and profitability of business operations. Leadership is a process through which an individual guides, controls and influences the thinking pattern, feeling and behavior of fellow employees in an organization (Haiman, 1951). Organizations are positively influenced by leaders who have the ability to plan and act through their own unique styles towards achieving their long-term visions. Analyzing the styles of leaders of business organizations reveals why certain organizations keep on breaking sales records whereas others fail to create a significant impact in the consumer market. Broadly, today’s ...

Ethics in accounting is a high profile issue due to the numerous corporate scandals that have taken place in many organizations resulting to massive damages to the economy. In particular, these scandals question the morality of accountants. Many reports have argued that accountants have the main responsibility for ensuring continued ethical standards in business. The state of ethics of accountants today is in a critical position because of the numerous audit failures that have been there in various organizations. Recently, there have been a number of financial scandals facing organizations from all over the world. Among the most recent ...

Analysis of an Article about Compensation

Business Analysis of an Article about Compensation Davis, DeBode, and Ketchen (2013) have articulated various management theories that have a bearing on CEO compensation. How much and in what manner to pay a CEO is arguably one of the most important decisions a Board of Directors has to make. The decision would convey strong signals to the external as well as internal environment. Competing firms and the industry would be likely to benchmark the CEO’s compensation to their own. Shareholders would be keen to assess how the CEO compensation translates to a return on their investment in the ...

QI: Comparing Opinions of CEOs and the CIO

Technology contributes to improvement in hierarchical, a functional structure. It also can significantly improve internal and external processes of a company. In many situations, the goals and objectives of a commercial organization are different from the ones that Chief Information Officer (CIO) sets for the technical side of the business. The reality shows, however, that the only effective way to build on the sustainable growth of a company is to ensure that collaboration and transparent communication process define the way CIO and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) work together. With that in mind, setting the budget and defining strategic goals ...

Introduction

The primary purpose of this paper is threefold: First, is to provide a clear picture of Foreign Investment in Japan. Second, based on the investigation of available literature present an analysis of the performance of foreign firms in the country with a particular emphasis on the possible measures to protect foreign investment, challenges, and investment opportunities. Thirdly, is to assess the future of foreign firms currently operational in the country and the likelihood of other businesses entering Japan in the future. To answer these questions, the discussion presented herein examines the economic situation in the country and the place ...

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Introduction

2.1. Prophet Muhammad 2.2. Self evaluation 2.3. My attitudes toward different challenges 2.4. FEWA’s desired future leadership competencies 3. Task 2 3.1. Jack Welch/former CEO of GE Company 3.1.1. Jack Welch leadership strategy 3.1.2. Jack Welch leadership style 3.1.3. Jack Welch strengths and areas of development 3.2. “Change plan” 3.2.1. Implementation plan for the change plan 3.2.2. Stakeholders’ involvement in the change. 3.2.3. Strategy for managing resistance to change 4.1. SWOT analysis. 4.2. Individual Development Plan (IDP) 5. Conclusion 6. References 7. Appendix

Introduction

Leadership is one of the significant factors ...

Apple Inc. was founded in 1976 and for many years its development depended on the business strategy that effectively addressed the so-called Porter’s Five Forces. However not always the company was able to take the correct steps in order to stay at the top of the competition. There were several troublesome periods and changes of the CEOs and other top managers in order to respond to the crisis or bad financial performance. Nevertheless, Apple was able to create several competitive advantages that later helped the company to become one of the most respected companies in the computer industry. ...

Abstract

This study looks at the glass ceiling by examining three specific research questions. The questions look at the definition of the glass ceiling, its effects as well as how it can be broken. This part of the research contains a comprehensive literature review of some of the sources to be used. The literature review only includes sources from current peer-reviewed journal articles. The literature review reveals the fact that the glass ceiling is still in place in the current workplace and has various effects. The effects stem from factors such as unequal pay for the same job and lack ...

Introduction

Carvajal, S.A is a family-owned holding company that provides printing-related and other products and services to both the Latin America and outside markets. The company had seven other subsidiary companies.It had grown into a leading company in sectors that included yellow pages, notebooks and textbooks, and office furniture. It also funded the family’s efforts of helping the needy in the community. Alberto Carvajal and Mary Alice Crump were worried about the financial returns and the growth of the company. Alberto, 49 years old, was chairman of Carvajal’s board. Mary, 56, was a member of the holding company ...

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Study Overview Dissertation title: Managing Safety from the Top: The Influence of Senior Managers’ Characteristics Purpose: Thesis presented for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen The description of senior managers by literature manager is that they are crucially influencing the safety of organization. Yet it has not been completely understood, their influence is contributed by. Thus, the thought was to investigating characteristics of senior managers with respect to their impact toward safety in management organizations in the air traffic. A safety literature review indicated that research in the area would gain from introduction of ...

The accounting scandal Toshiba faces spanned over seven years, involved millions of dollars, and resulted in resignation of several top level management officers. The CEOs appeared to be directly related to scandal. While they did not implicitly instruct anyone in accounting to “cook the books” they placed pressure on the accounting unit and subordinate staff to produce the desired numbers (Carpenter, 2015). The corporate culture of obedience to high level management played a large factor in the subordinate staff to obey the directives regardless of the incorrect nature of the reporting. The scandal was a result of over-inflated profits ...

Racial profiling is still rife in the great United States of America despite decades of campaigns to eradicate profiling of individuals based on their skin color, their religion, and place of origin. Cases of racial profiling have been reported in airports, bus and train terminus among other places in the United States (Onwudiwe 6). Schools are not left behind in reporting the numbers of racial profiling incidences. One of the most prominent cases of school racial profiling is the story of Ahmed Mohammed, a story that caused a storm in the United States and around the globe. In its ...

Analysis of Mark Parker's Career

Ups In 2006, Mark Parker became the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Nike, Inc. and since then Nike's annual revenue increased up to 60 percent. In addition, Nike's profit of 57 percent is another visible achievement of Parker. Parker became a prime wheel that helped the Nike, Inc. to double its market cap. Moreover, Parker has embraced innovation as well as prioritizing designs, which became the success of Nike. He is one of three-person design collaboration, alongside Japanese style-maker Hiroshi Fujiwara, designer Tinker Hatfield, and Nike spokes-icon Michael Jordan to form HTM team, which acts as Nike's core Research ...

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Introduction

Generating profits from products made through the use of asbestos is unethical. Organizations have a responsibility to guarantee the safety of employees. Secondly, it is unethical to knowingly expose an employee to a harmful chemical. Employees have a right to a workplace environment that does not lead to safety issues. Recklessness and disregard for the safety of employees mean that corporations are only interested in profits but not the life and safety of employees. Furthermore, Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) engage in unethical practice by trying to stop victims from being compensated. My argument is ...

Social media is an awesome way to market any business online. There are various social media methods and instruments that one can choose. They include Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and twitter. There are many reasons why using social media as a marketing platform is a great idea. First, one gets to know their target group up close and personal. Interacting with the customer base on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter helps a company know its target group. Reading the potential customers posts on Facebook and tweets helps the company strategize on ways to attract such potential customer. Secondly, a company can ...

Introduction

The report presents discussion and analysis of compensation strategies of Nucor Corporation. The organizational structure significantly impacts the compensation system of an organization that affects its ability to attain strategic goals. If the compensation to executives is not aligned with the organizational culture then it may lead to adverse impact on the firm’s performance and lead to other consequences. Several studies indicate that the organizational culture has a significant impact on compensation as well as the firm’s performance. The firms offer different types of compensation to their executives that may affect the compensation structure. However, they are ...

Introduction

The corporate governance is the mechanisms that involve the rules, processes and the practices to which an organization is directed and controlled. Therefore, it is a process of balancing the interests of many stakeholders in an organization, which mainly includes the customers, financers, management, suppliers and the community. It provides the foundation and framework for achieving the company goals and objectives, and it looks at every part of the management including their actions, performance measure and corporate disclosure. It is a field in economics that investigates on how to motivate and secure the efficient administration of the corporations by ...

Article Review

Heidrick & Struggles International is an incorporated global executive search firm for management at the senior level. The firm is also the first leadership advisory in the world. The firm’s main focus is on quality service and building of strong leadership teams. This is achieved through its relationship with its clients worldwide. The firm offers services that include executive assessment and professional development.

The company conducted research on ethics and corporate governance. Other research partners included Neisendorf & Associates, which is a human resource risk management and consulting firm, and Lore International Institute, a talent management and professional development firm. The report ...

Executive Summary

This dissertation deals with the disclosure obligations of the Charities in the UK in regards to the executive remuneration to the public and stakeholders. One of the means of disclosure is the annual report of the Charities also known as the Trustees’ Annual Report to be submitted to the Charities Commission which is the authority charged with the oversight of the charities in regard to their compliance with what is known as SORP. There were criticisms in the media about the excessive remuneration being paid to the CEOs of the leading charities in the UK. Therefore, this study gains ...

Question 1: Eric Ries’ metaphor “diversity is the coal mine of meritocracy”

Meritocracy is term that implies a social system that gives the greatest power and highest social positions to people with the most ability. Entrepreneurs are more in the business of meritocracy than other industries. Decisions made on the basis of merit are executed faster than those based on hierarchy, politics, and titles. When a company fails to have diversity, it is a sign of dysfunction. Diversity is a source of strength for any company or team that boasts of it. Essentially, diverse teams are in a better position to make good decisions than the less diverse teams. It broadens the base of experience and ...

Discussion 1

According to FDU Magazine (1999), three out of every four American workers report stress associated with their employment with the United Nations’ International Labor Organization stating the epidemic is global. The effect in the United States is approximately $200 billion annually. A Wall Street Journal(Mantell 1999) survey reported one third of employees consider quitting their jobs due to stress and 14% actually did.

The major medical, behavioral, and psychological consequences of distress are:

- workplace violence - an estimated 60% of lost work days are related to stree - increased health care costs of approximately 75% to 90% - mistakes in production - employees ...

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In my opinion, composition of workforce is a major factor in determining the company’s ability to produce future leaders. There are several reasons for this point of view. Firstly, management consulting firms or other companies with similar composition of workforce have a larger portion of employees that are already close to the CEO position. Holding managerial positions, they have abilities, skills, knowledge, and situation-specific experience that are directly related to leadership functions required to run a company successfully. Secondly, managers have a much better professional network within an industry than lower-level workers. As a result, they are well informed about job opportunities that ...

- Productivity in the workplace is affected by the level of motivation given to the employees. Employees expect to be motivated through monetary and non-monetary incentives that make them feel appreciated at the workplace. From the video ‘A motivation convention in Chicago’ mike and other people he managed to interview present different views on the use of cash and non-cash incentives in motivating the employees. Motivating employees requires giving them more than cash as a way of appreciating their jobs. This means that employees prefer appreciation and recognition of their efforts through being given non-cash tangible materials such as a ...

When it comes to overcoming obstacles, no one has mastered this feat more than Amazon CEO has, Jeff Bezos has. He is an entrepreneurial visionary, who started Amazon.com when the dot.com bubble was growing at 2,400% each year (Carlson, 2011). When this bubble burst in 1997, Bezos did not let this short-term obstacle affect him nor his company. He always thought long-term and knew that short-term obstacles could be overcome when couched in well thought out long-term goals. This long-term thinking paid off. Amazon.com emerged from the dot.com crash and now sells everything – including the kitchen sink. Three ...

According to the case study, Navistar is on a brink of bankruptcy as it failed to sell its truck and engine products due to the failed emission strategy. The failed emission strategy may have risen from quality issues inside the company, which will have ripple effects such as loss of market share and product recall. But the root cause of the problem is found to be the communication gap between the management and its employees. Accordingly, employees’ concerns are not heard, leaving most employees demotivated. As a result, the quality of the company’s products suffers.

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Introduction

This paper is an analysis of a statement “Male risk-taking tends to increase under stress, while female risk-taking tends to decrease under stress” that is included in an article Do women take as many risks as men? by Doug Sundheim. This paper includes different explanations, which are made by researchers to define how this statement is true. Why males take more risks and why females take fewer risks, is the main theme of this paper. Social, cultural, psychological, professional and personal aspects are described regarding the argument made against the statement. It is also described that what risks and harms ...

Introduction It has been our objective, in the previous research and surveys we conducted, to find out if there is a significant difference between the performance of an externally recruited CEO and an internally appointed one. A CEO or Chief Executive Officer of a company plays a very significant role in the success of the organization and, therefore, it is key to assess and discover which formula would work best for a company. Studies had been initiated to determine which will be the better choice between an internally appointed CEO who has grown within the company and expected to be very familiar and ...

There are six main categories of corporate failure causes: poor strategic decisions, overexpansion, dominance of CEOs, greed, pride and power, failure of internal controls, and ineffective board of directors (Hamilton and Micklethwait, 2006). Business collapse can happen in cases where companies do not fully comprehend the relevant business drivers when they decide to expand to new lines of products and services, or meet the demands of additional geographic markets. These lead to poor strategic decisions because they fail to recognize the importance of risk management in their respective industries. They should be able to determine the overall impact ...