Mgmt300 Hw1 Essay

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1. How might top management have done a better job changing Elektra Products into a new kind of organization? What might they do now to get the empowerment process back on track? As we learned from the chapter 1, innovation is very important for a business not only to develop but also to survive in a highly competitive market nowadays. Elektra has been in the field for 80 years; they used to dominate the electric devices market in the past. Currently they face problems in market share declining with many competitors, few new product ideas; departments barely communicate each other, employees not working effectively. We can see those problems are cause of lack of innovation. Elektra needs to have innovations in their products, processes ( ways departments and people working together), innovation in way each employee works, then the values of products will be improved. Elektra's top management have done a better job by offering a solution for the issues: empowerment campaign. To get the empowerment process back on track, the top management need to have effective and efficient manner through planning, organizing ( assigning responsibility for task accomplishment), leading(influence and motivate employees), and controlling (monitoring and making corrections). 2. Can you think of ways Barbara could have avoided the problems her team faced in the meeting with department heads? Barbara couldn't have avoided the problems her team faced in the meeting with department heads. Elektra business culture has long been passive and conservative. They need to change the way they do business; Empowerment will help shift the way the company do business to become more productive. As a result, employees can be more creative, exchange ideas as long as create more new better products. They would also change their view from market-oriented to customer-oriented, from “we” to “you.”
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