Manager Interview Paper
Job satisfaction, Motivation and Leadership in the Workplace

Introduction

As a business major, I surround by numerous success stories from internet, magazines and visiting business professionals in different lectures. They all achieve a certain kind of success although they may have totally different background, organizational culture and management style. Therefore, it is hard for me to find the common point behind their successes. When I start to learn organizational behavior, I begin to understand how their successes connect to each other with the help of various concepts and theories. In order to further understand whether managers implement the concept in to a real work scenario, I interviewed Peng Liu, the vice president of Hisen Pharmaceuticals Co., and write this paper to find out what exactly he did in a daily basis, and how his managing style related to the theories and concepts in organizational behavior. By summering and evaluating the findings, I could possibly understand why organizational behavior deserve to be learned and applied by managers, even it requires extra time, money and efforts beyond their responsibilities.

General background and responsibilities

Peng has been with Hisen for 12 years. He started his current job when he joined Hisen. As a manager of a Chinese manufacturing company, Peng has a pretty large number of subordinates, consisting of product research team, administrative team, sales team, finance team, strategic planning department and approximately 300 factory workers. During his normal weekdays, his most important tasks are checking and supervising the project progress, dealing with various issues occurred during the day-to-day operations, and assessing project manager’s performance while getting feedback from them. When it comes to his favorite part about his job, he told me that he like to