Unit 5 Assignment 1: Intercultural Conflict Analysis What I believe the sources of conflict are poor communication, differing values, differing interests, scarce resources, personality clashes, and poor performance. These can ultimately lead to a lot of things depending on the setting. In a work environment, it can lead to someone losing their job. Between individuals, it can lead to a fight or loss of a relationship. If nations are involved, it can lead to imminent war.
Welch Vison for GE Cassandra Brown MGT/312 – Organizational Behavior for Managers 9/21/2014 Francis Fletcher Abstract In 1981 when Reginald Jones promoted Jack Welch to take over the GE (General Electric) little did the business world know that a once prosperous company would turn in to one of the largest companies in the world today. Welch’s three step process; his vision, increased the company profits from 26.8 billion dollars in revenues to 130 billion dollars in revenues in his 20 years at GE. With his primary focus on control, Welch took on quality, performance, productivity, cost control and enhanced GE’s technology which increased the overall profits in a depressing economic condition. Welch Vison for GE Jack Welch started working for GE (General Electric) in 1960 as a chemical engineer, and in was GE’s youngest VP in 1972; until Reginald Jones saw Welch’s potential and his drive in 1981, when Jones promoted him to run GE. Welch had a vision to create the largest company in the world to transform it into the greatest company in the world.
After two straight years of financial losses in 1994, CEO Ron Allen rolled out a new strategy called “Leadership 7.5.” Allen targeted to reduce Delta’s cost per each available seat mile from more than 10 cents to 7.5 cents, which would match that of major competitor Southwest Airlines (Bryant, 1997). Along with a new company strategy a change followed with Delta’s human resource strategy. This changing policy devastated employee morale and resulted in a decline of customer service, efforts to unionize, and dissatisfaction among personnel. Delta couldn’t keep the past primary policy about human resources so there were several significant changes in Delta’s organization and corporate culture. There are many programs that Delta has built after passing through the cost-cutting reformation in 1997 for getting back its capabilities on customer relationships like rewards and recognition program above and beyond and more.
Romney lost as freshman as unknown Politian, but that defeat experience made him better and stronger Politian to lead him to become the 70th Republican Governor of Massachusetts (2003-2007) the State always has been Democratic State. During his tenure as the Governor he accomplished economy revenue to its State by raising special gasoline retailer fee by two cents per gallon lead to $60 million, raising various fees by more than $300 million, including those for driver’s licenses, marriage licenses, and gun licenses. The most significant notable accomplishment as Governor the “Romneycare” one of kind the nation has now the health care requiring nearly all Massachusetts residents to buy health insurance coverage or face escalate tax penalties such as the loss of their personal income tax
CULTURAL After its beginnings in the domestic market of Austria and maintaining a very conservative growth strategy, the Maculan Group experienced two decades of growth that turned them into a major construction player in Eastern Europe. In the 70’s and 80’s the company took on construction projects in Saudi Arabia and Hungary. They were small projects but successful, leading to takeovers of Bavarian companies and partnerships with Polish firms. The fall of East Germany and communism presented an opportunity for expansion that seemed too good to be true. In fact, Maculan nearly bought the entire region, surpassing the buying of West German companies.
By 2005 Mountain Man was generating over $50 million in revenue with over 520,000 barrels of Mountain Man Lager sold. However, Mountain Man has been facing serious challenges. Its revenue was encountering a 2% yearly decrease in 2005 as it faces fierce competition. Light beer is sweeping the beer market and gained 50.4% of volume sales in market share in 2005. Thus, the objective of Mountain man in this case study is to increase sales revenue by moving into the light beer market.
B. Micro 1. There is a large amount of inter-departmental conflict taking place all across the organizational structure. 2. The company is having difficulties in producing a team concept within the departments. I.
2) Almin group is the most successful business families in Saudi Arabia. 3) All shaves was the leading company in its brand in Saudi Arabia up to the buyout three years ago. 4) The Middle Eastern culture has a major role in the loss of business in all shave company. B. Financials: 1) Despite the change of business methods the company was still making and reporting profits. 2) More profit could have been made if Almin did not cut down on promotion.
The more an article becomes subject to rapid changes of fashion, the greater the demand for cheap products of its kind. — Georg Simmel, “Fashion” (1904) Inditex (Industria de Diseño Textil) of Spain, the owner of Zara and five other apparel retailing chains, continued a trajectory of rapid, profitable growth by posting net income of € 340 million on € revenues of € 3,250 million in its fiscal year 2001 (ending January 31, 2002). Inditex had had a heavily € oversubscribed Initial Public Offering in May 2001. Over the next 12 months, its stock price increased by nearly 50%—despite bearish stock market conditions—to push its market valuation to € 13.4 € billion. The high stock price made Inditex’s founder, Amancio Ortega, who had begun to work in the apparel trade as an errand boy half a century earlier, Spain’s richest man.
Conflict frequently occurs in the business and academic worlds due to group dynamics. Conflict resolution strategies vary because individual personalities and different ways of processing information. The reasons why conflict occurs in the first place is highly dependent on the individuals in the group. The following will attempt to explain how individual differences affect group dynamics and conflict resolution in the business and academic worlds. When a situation occurs that interferes with an individual’s goals, emotions, interests, perceptions, and/or values it is considered a conflict.