This case study on the Diamond Wipes International Company will use management concepts to answer inquiries about the company. Context from the textbook will be used to support the answers and fully detail the company’s management views.
1. What leadership style did Eve Yen use with her employees? Describe her actions that support your choice. (Chap 19)
The leadership style that Eve Yen displays is as a pacesetter leader. She throughout the case study set expectations for her team that they were not read and able to meet. As the company started to grow those challenges of her leadership style took tolls on the workers in the form of them being overworked and badly organized. She also displays this pacesetter style in the way she hires a new
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The diamond disposable wipes company is a product industry. Because of this there are many factors to be taken into consideration that Eve could use to have developed a more effective production process. Outsourcing is one option. Her operation had grown and creating all the products from her own warehouse, could have been narrowed down had she outsourced some of the production responsibilities on another company that specialized in a small part of her production process. Keeping a close eye on quality and communication between departments would have been the most important recommendation. Starting this process would be to hire quality employees and a management staff that could effectively handle and hire new employees to take on the growing business. Going over the operations processes and carefully detailing it and refining it from input to output. This in direct result would have helped reduce the errors and keep track of the customer satisfaction in the good received. Another more effective way to help out with the crisis she faced during her production woes would have been to plan and schedule that way the rate at which she would output would be matched with the input of materials. A combination of all these suggestions would help to deter all the issues she had face in the production process, it would all start with quality employees on staff and a
Keita Powell is a pint-sized powerhouse. She is energetic, result oriented, focused, and driven. Ms. Powell is one of many women in the Mary Kay Cosmetics sales force. She rose through the ranks from Independent Beauty Consultant to Independent Elite Executive Senior Sales Director rather quickly because of her charisma, ability to build a sales team of energetic men and women, and sheer enthusiasm to succeed. One would think that she was an amazing leader to get so many women to follow her in teaching skin care, beauty techniques, increasing and maintaining sells goals and to rise from a very junior consultant to one who is an executive in the business. However, she has made mistakes along the way and continues to feign focus on her sales force and customers but the true focus is on her needs, wants, and desires as well as keeping the use of her free pink Cadillac. This paper will evaluate Ms. Powell's leadership approach through four leadership models discovered through the Unit 3 readings.
This case study will examine the key management practices that make Trader Joe’s successful. Sound management practices have been a catalyst for the long-term financial success of Trader Joe’s. The literature review examines Trader Joe’s approach to management practices. The research will analyze the: employee job satisfaction, management practices, importance of human capital, and contingency planning.
Cate Reavis prepared the case study, which this review is based, under the supervision of Professor David McAdams. It was published in MITSloan management review in January 2008. The article looks at how DeBeers became a superpower in the diamond trade in the 1900’s. How this position as challenged in the late 1990’s and how DeBeers used key strategic management tools to overcome these challenges to become the superpower it once was.
Management is a process that enables organizations to achieve objectives through the functions of planning, organizing, staffing, and controlling of their resources (Cole, 1996). In Summary, Tim’s coffee Shoppe has a simple structure of management where overall authority rests with the owner Tim, who is assisted by a Manager and an assistant. Tim’s mai...
You can lead a horse to water, but you cannot make him drink is a proverb I have heard since I was young. Leadership is the skill of influencing people to accomplish goals (Huber, 2014). In today’s world with policy and technological changes the leaders must use their leadership skills to not only get the horse to the water, have him drink, but also do it with a smile an invite others to join him. Leaders use a variety of styles to accomplish their goals. I will discuss the leadership style that I utilize most often, how my style relates to leadership theories and the work type environment it is most useful in.
The purpose of this study was to summarize the key issues faced by the Treadway Tire Company and to analyze any mistakes made by Ashley in the identification of the problem. There is a sense of urgency in understanding the problem from the different viewpoints of leadership and the line foremen position under study. The data collection will be the key to understanding the problem and will uncover reoccurring themes that can be addressed immediately. When the leadership of companies fails to look beyond what is to what could be, the company as a whole suffers and is not living up to its full potential. At Treadway, its leadership will have to look beyond where they currently are to see what a great company they can be by acknowledging its problems and taking steps to correct them.
Edwin T. Cornelius III defined leadership style as the broad, characteristic way in which a leader interacts with others across in various situations and occasions. (Cornelius, 2006) However, many researchers would agree that leadership style is merely traits and they can change within an organization or between different situations. Annick M. Brennen in an article stated: A study of leadership styles therefore deals mainly with the manner in which the leader carries out his/her leadership functions or roles–the use of authority and power and the approach to the decision-maki...
The Consumer and Industrial Products, Inc a company where their headquarters is based in the United States , also doing business internationally with facilities in Europe, Asia and South America. They are a manufacturing company what produced well known products to individuals and industries. This company is experiencing a great deal of trouble with their internal Payable Audit System (PAS) and how it would purchase goods; receive goods and pays for them. They are challenged with the redundancy and the lack of productivity to their system. They were finding ways to lower costs and eliminating steps in how these processes are getting accomplished. They decided that they needed to change their system and the way they did things at their business. There are some people, their roles and departments that will be closely involved with the process of this project. Some of these important roles will come from Ted Anderson director of disbursements, Peter Shaw the user project manager and Linda Watkins project director for the Payable Audit System (PAS). In addition, the Steering Group and the IS management department will have some important roles to the project too. Finally, there will be several major problems with the development of the project and how the one person would deal with these issues.
In order to investigate how a company’s can maneuver though present situations it is important to map critical incidents in its past. Historically, the country in which Footwear International resides, Bangladesh, has seen major political upheaval in a short period of time. In the 1940s the government transitioned to British-ruled to that of a providence of Pakistan called East Pakistan. Due to political unrest, in the early 1970s power transferred again, thanks to the help of India, where they gained independence and became known as the country of Bangladesh (Lane, Distaefano, & Maznevski, 2006).
The major issues facing the company comprises of there being multiple businesses with different demands. There are separate levels of performance and success as well as growth chances for each of the sector and the firm needs to tackle with issues in each of these divisions (Dube, J.P., 2004).
Contemporary management of the business. 7 ed. of the book. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill. McComb, S., Schroeder, A., Kennedy, D., & Vozdolska, R. (2012).
We will only be examining the functions of management where the basics of planning, organizing, leading, and controlling apply to The Body Shop. In 1976 an inexperienced Anita Roddick got tired of unsubstantiated Management and The Body Shop claims of the cosmetics industry that their products couldn't deliver. She decided to make a decision that would change her life forever. Anita became a manager of her own small business in Brighton England. Selling the natural secrets found throughout the world; learned from extensive travel while employed as a teacher with the U.N., she created a cottage industry of exotic personal body care products.
Ngirwa, C. C., Euwema, M., Babyegeya, E., & Stouten, J. (2013). Leaders styles of managing
The leadership style that was possessed here was autocratic leadership. Autocratic leadership involves the leader making decisions and using power to control the situation and others Kelly, P.,
What is strategic management? In this study we will view what a manager’s role is and the development of strategic management has an affect on their companies performance. We will examine strategic management, what the benefits and problems are when utilizing strategic management, and how to implement strategic management in the company.