Essays on Management Styles

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 ...

Clearly, Zappos is an innovative online retailer with an ambitious and effective strategy. Apparently, Zappos is well positioned to have a competitive advantage due to the tactics and techniques it has employed. The company has employed steps to ensure that its employs are always motivated, engaged and enthusiastic, which are aspects required to make the company highly productive. However, the company could have its apparent competitive advantage curtailed due to the various negative forces. The company could lose its competitive advantage if it fails to maintain the levels of investment it has put into developing its current culture. Additionally, ...

Introduction

The changes occurring in the health sector has been one of the main concerns of health professionals and researchers. Due to the changes of the demographics and health status of patients along with the current technological advances, it has been assumed that the old strategies used could no longer suffice for the current global health concerns. Thus, it is necessary to consider revisions and improvements when it comes to the advancements of medical technology along with the other issues related to the implementation of certain interventions and promotion of the fundamental goals of health development (United Nations Development Program, ...

Abstract

This research study looked at the concept of effective communication in an organization. The major aim of this study is to enable the researcher convince his audience beyond every reasonable doubt about the extent to which communication can greatly influence the performances of a company over the course of time. In this research study, the factors that could influence the extent to which communication can be effective are greatly considered with a view to helping managers to pinpointing how they can always communicate with their subordinates effectively every time. These factors range from: Choice of management styles, ability of ...

Goal of the Session

The development of goals and sessions is a crucial process that involves intact group set-up to ensure that the patterns and trends are effectively developed. Therefore, the session is critical in the goal development for a number of reasons. According to the argument presented by Lofstrand and Zakrisson (2014), the first step of the plenary session is identifying the various stages of the session that are involved. From Lofstrand and Zakrisson (2014), it is recommended that the strengths and weaknesses of the current team should be explored to determine areas of improvements. The cross-functional team should identify the patterns ...

Introduction

The paper is intended to develop a report about different management styles in the context of industrial or employment relations to compare it with the sophisticated paternalist/ HRM (Human Resource Management) approach. The management styles in employment relations may be different from how it is taken or considered. The preferences and choices of the organization directly impact on its strategies to develop a relationship with its employees (Miller, 1987). The preferences are usually aligned with the dominants of the organization that is directly involved in decision making process of the organization. These preferences of the dominants directly result in ...

Introduction To Graduate Studies

Introduction To Graduate Studies

Part A

1a. Raj, R. (2009). A study in business ethics. Mumbai. Himalaya Publishing House. Retrieved from http://site.ebrary.com

1b. Relationship between ethics & corporate excellence

1c. Inspite of Indian having an ancient culture and philosophy about worklife, we in India have not yet managed to develop our own management styles in consonance with our own cultural ethos and have been systematically importing management systems and styles from foreign countries. Raj (2009) states: Inspite of Indian having an ancient culture and philosophy about worklife, we in India have not yet managed to develop our own management styles in consonance with our own cultural ethos and ...

Personal Leadership Philosophy

Leadership evolves. Philosophies developed a priori and applied to a given organizational context are apt to fail. By definition, a leadership philosophy, let alone a personal one, emerges in response to variables making up a specific organizational behavior. Accordingly, in order to develop a personal leadership philosophy one should, above anything else, cater for organizational needs both at corporate and individual levels. Personally, I aspire for a leadership philosophy based on strict definition of raison d'être. By identifying core purpose for which an organization exists, I would be able to develop a sustainable leadership philosophy. Indeed, companies, successful ...

Introduction

Critical organizational evaluation is paramount. Focus is on development, reviews and personnel performance. Notably, the organizational analysis includes examining the organization environment both external and internal environment. The external environment refers to the forces that are without the organization. Often they affect the organizational performance. On the other hand, internal environment concerns the forces within the organization, for example, the strengths and the weakness of the organization. This paper will focus on analyzing higher learning institution elements. Namely, organizational structure, organizational environment, culture, size, structure and management styles

Organizational Structure

The organizational structure of an institution has a significant impact on ...

Service Management Report 3

Introduction 3 McDonald’s Service Management 3 Motivation 3 Leadership 5 Learning and leadership management 5 Human resource management 6 Culture and diversity 7 Information technology 7 Communication 8 Apple’ Service Management 9 Agility to allow innovation into completely new areas 10 Build and enforce a performance culture... 12

Conclusions and recommendations 14

Service Management Report Introduction This report aims at demonstrating the manner in which organizations provide services to their clients and how their approaches differ with each other. For purposes of this paper, two business organizations will be analyzed. These are the McDonalds Corporation, a fast food restaurant and Apple, a ...

Organization of Focus

The organization that will be reviewed in this case is ECOBANK. For two years, I served as an employee in this firm where I worked in the organization’s risk management department which was mandated in guiding the firm through all manner of risks. Having served in this organization for two years, I am confident that I adequately understood its function and operations as well as employee culture and organization structure. The organization is one of the largest African multinational banks. The bank’s key operations are in West Africa. However, the bank has made great strides in penetrating ...

Introduction

Management style is defined as the ways in which a firm manages the pertinent work activities, as well as, employees. An effective management style is one which enables a manager to manage employees and the working environment in the direction to achieve organizational goals (Robbins, 2005). Organizational successes and failures are utterly depended on applied management style. There are different types of management styles that lead businesses to either grow or fail. This study compares and contrasts the two business tycoons’ management styles, i.e., Google and Yahoo.

Compare and Contrast of Google & Yahoo Management Styles

Google was formed in 1998 by Larry Paige and Sergey Brin. Its ...