...Leadership Assessment Professor Woodard BUS302 March 4th 2013 Eastern Builders a construction company, is a task oriented and leadership company. The chief executive officer delegates his powers to different site managers based in different parts of the world. They are given powers to implement the decisions made by the head office and tasked to achieve the target given in a certain period of time. Task-oriented leadership style is one where the team leader is well focused on the major tasks that are required to be performed to achieve a certain set production target. There are other leadership styles and all depend on the circumstances of each particular project that the company is engaged in. Eastern Builders construction has the chief executive officer at the apex followed by close to twenty site managers on the same position. Below the site managers are the site engineers, who are assisted by site supervisors and below them are the casual laborers. The organizational culture and development was initiated by the chief executive officer at Eastern Builders Construction Company. It has promoted growth in terms of team work and employee satisfaction as members of one team. Organization of sports events and organized camp events has led to more integration and effective group work. These have spurred growth in the sector where only one objective reigned supreme, job performance only. Team work leads to better communication and creates favorable working relationships which...
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...Assignment 2: Leadership Assessment BUS302 - Management Concepts When an employee enters for the first time at an early stage company, and this company is growing fast that employee has the opportunity to grow with it. Regularly, starting companies have less position in their organizational chart. Therefore, the owner could play the role of a CEO at the time. This easy structure facilitates the promotion of founder employees. In the early stages of leadership, a leader can be confident of his/her decision-making process, honesty behavior, and energetic attitude. A leader must work proactively to maximize the outcome of his/her leadership style. However, a developing leader might lack of experience, which might decrease his/her effectiveness. It is imperative for a leader to set SMART (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, and Timely) goals to achieve improve the business performance. As a leader, in a fast growing company, job-centered leadership is very important. This behavior can organize his subordinates for better performance and efficiency. With intense work the writer has experienced this kind of behavior. In a Financial/Investment Advisor reports such as cash available and macro-exposure for every Client Accounts are crucial for the decision-making process. These reports can take around 4 hours, and because it takes a lot of time to get this important data, the CEO told the employee that he has to figure out a way to do it in less than an hour. The employee...
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...Google Inc. JT Velasco Dr. Brian Collin BUS302 May 3, 2015 Founded in 1998 by two Stanford University Ph.D. students, the very popular search engine, Google, is a name that plays on the word google- the number represented by a 1 followed by 100 zeroes- a reference to the huge amount of data online. With 200 million daily searches, the company has turned a profit by focusing on searches alone and not adding other services. By focusing on plain text, avoiding ads, and using sophisticated search algorithms, Google provides a fast and reliable service. Perhaps, the ultimate sign of success, the brand is now often used as a verb- “to google” is to search online. Google provides various internet products and services like Gmail, Google Maps, Google Earth, Google News, and Google Books just to name a few. The company’s mission is “to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.” (Google History & Trivia). Today, Google Inc. is awarded as the “Best Company Work For” by Fortune Magazine and the “Great Place to Work Institute” in the year 2014. This certainly describes the importance of Google as the company where people want to work. The company wants it to be a place which brings smart, talented people from diverse background, who could bring whole self to work. There has to be some qualities in the employees that make the company such a success. The qualities are, expertise, taking responsibility for solving complex problems and...
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...Ford Motor Company Terrion McGowan Bus302 Management Strayer University Professor Damita Goods July 26, 2011 Abstract Ford Motor Company started out in 1903 with a vision to change society by making their automobiles affordable to the general public. They also created jobs that paid double the industries standards which in turn allowed employees to afford the same cars they were making. Now more than a century later, the Ford Empire faces new domestic, economic and global challenges. So with changing times and growing competitors they are falling short of their own vision and losing a lot of money in the process. In light of those changes a new Chief Executive Officer was named, Alan Mulally. Mulally quickly identified that the company needed to be restructured, focusing more on manufacturing efficiencies, product design and economic focus. Mulally stated “Ford’s mentality of the bigger is better has to change Less is More” (Strategic Management, fourth ed. Dess, Lumpkin & Eisner). I have identified four options that I believe can get the Ford Motor Company back on the path to becoming an even bigger force than they have been in the past years. The first option would be to close down older plants in an effort to realign production and sale. The second option would be to move the company to produce only smaller cars, eliminating or significantly decreasing the SUV and truck lines. The third option would be to reduce their North American presence and focus on international...
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...A Management Comparison of Kodak and Fujifilm BUS302 A Management Comparison of Kodak and Fujifilm Description of the History and Core Businesses Both Kodak and Fujifilm will be examined to identify the similarities and differences in their business successes and failures. Each business will be analyzed to develop a more complete understanding of how the businesses were formed and the paths each has followed to arrive at their current market positions. Kodak Eastman Kodak was started in 1888 when the first Kodak camera introduced and was available for sale to the public. The company was started by George Eastman in Rochester, NY, when Eastman was in his mid-twenties. George Eastman grew up poor and was a high school dropout, but that did not stop him from making money and supporting his widowed mother and two sisters by the time he was 14 years old (History of, 2013). When Eastman was 24 years old, he had planned a trip to Santo Domingo, and had an idea to record the trip. Eastman purchased a large, heavy camera that was as big as a microwave (History of, 2013). Eastman never made the trip to Santo Domingo, but he did become obsessed with photography, and how he could make it simpler to understand. Before Eastman Kodak was formed, George Eastman had started a company, making dry photographic plates, which later lead to the idea of a convenient, simple to use camera that would become known as the Kodak. After the Kodak camera was introduced...
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...Assignment 1: Kodak and Fujifilm Denise A. Garrett-Cahill Dr. Valery Shumate BUS302 Management Concepts February 1, 2013 Abstract Kodak and Fujifilm shared the market of photographic films, digital cameras, supplying various products for the photography sector, and medical imaging equipment. Over time both companies had to come up with new and improved products that would keep the consumers wants and needs satisfied. Both companies had their very own style of management, which allowed them to advance with the innovation of new and improved technology. Kodak, until recently was the leader in the photographic and film market, with Fujifilm trailing by just a small margin. When it comes to ethics and social responsibility the companies are for the most part on the same level, but have some differences. Adapting to the changing market conditions affected each company’s management differently in many ways, and affected the growth and innovation process for both companies. After researching both companies the determination that all companies should be diversified in some way, in order to keep up in the changing market and economy, is crucial for growth and success. Since 1879 the world of photographic business has been growing and expanding across the world. Some of the most commonly heard photographic industry names include Kodak and Fujifilm. The founder of Kodak, George Eastman, went to England to try to get a patent on his plate-coating machine in order to make the...
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...Assignment 1: Comparing Two Similar Businesses Bus302: Management Concepts Border Books and Amazon.com both started out selling books. So, why is Amazon.com one of the largest retailers in the world and Borders Books is out of business? There are many things that go into making a business a success. It is not enough to have a product to sell and a location to sell that product. In order to understand the difference between Amazon.com and Borders Books, it is important to look at the history and core business of each company, the management approach each company took to Internet marketing and sales, the reasons for Amazon’s success despite not turning a profit for the first five to six years, the reasons Borders Books, although they were initially successful ended up in bankruptcy, the extent to which the management of each company adapted to changing market conditions, and ways a company should build flexibility to back up its decision making process so to adapt to changing market conditions. In order to understand the difference between Amazon.com and Border Books, it is important to understand the history and core business of each company. Looking at Amazon.com first, Amazon.com opened for business on July, 16 1995. “The company was nothing more than a few people packing and shipping boxes of books from a two-car garage” (Webley, 2010). The company was using a desk made out of an old door to pack the books. When Amazon.com first started selling...
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...A Management Comparison of Kodak and Fujifilm Name: Aileen Pena-Valentin BUS302 Date: 07/21/2014 A Management Comparison of Kodak and Fujifilm The purpose of this paper is to examine compare and contrast the history, management and leadership skills of both companies, Kodak & Fujifilm. Description of the History and Core Businesses Both Kodak and Fujifilm will be examined to identify the similarities and differences in their business successes and failures. Each business will be analyzed to develop a more complete understanding of how the businesses were formed and the paths each as followed to arrive at their current market positions. Kodak Kodak began as Eastman Kodak in 1880 founded by George Eastman. He was known for his pioneering technology and innovative marketing. When George was 24 years of age he wanted to take a vacation and one of his coworkers asked him to record his trip. He bought a photographic outfit with all its paraphernalia and wet plates. The outfit was so big and cumbersome that he thought he could simplify the process. He read British magazines that explained how they were making their own gelatin emulsions to coat the plates so that they would not be wet plates. He perfected the process and began making his own gelatin emulsions and coated plates. By 1880 he invented a dry plate formula and patented a machine for preparing a large number of plates and that is how Eastman Kodak began. His company began to grow but faced collapse...
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...Free eChapters (FALL 2012) eChapters offer students immediate access to the first few chapters of their textbooks while they are waiting for the print book to arrive. eChapters help students to keep up with required reading and assignments until they receive their course material, without having to pay expedited shipping costs. eChapters that are available from the publisher are attainable free of charge. How do students gain access to free eChapters? Not all courses or textbooks have eChapters available. For all courses where eChapters are available, the files are located in the student’s Blackboard course shell under the Student Center. Below is a list of courses with eChapters loaded into the course shells, giving students free access as of the first day of classes. * = eChapters are forthcoming Course ID ACC100 ACC206 ACC303 ACC304 ACC305 ACC306 Text Title Accounting Principles – 9th edition Accounting Principles – 9th edition Intermediate Accounting 14e Intermediate Accounting 14e Intermediate Accounting 14e Microcomputer Applications for Accounting Excel 2010 Microsoft® Excel 2010: A Case Approach, Complete, 1st Edition, copyright 2011 SOUTH WESTERN FEDERAL TAXATION 2012: COMPREHENSIVE, 36th ed. South-Western Federal Taxation 2013: Corporations, Partnerships, Estates and Trusts, 36th Edition Cost Accounting 13th 09 ed. Advanced Accounting 4th 10th ed. Auditing & Assurance Services 13th 10 ed. Core Concepts of Government and Not for Profit Accounting 2nd ed., 2011 ed ACC...
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