eBay's Management Team - Radical Actions For Turnaround

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Title: eBay's Management Team - Radical But Necessary Actions eBay has created a solid internal framework, which puts the user first and creates a unique community for the user to interact. Evidence from the case study: … Using the Timmon’s model to analyse this case, Pierre Omidyar was wise and willing to recruit a team members beyond his own skill, and thus position eBay for continued growth. This can be seen from the case when he teamed up with this friend, Jeff Skoll, a Stanford MBA graduate. (It may be pertinent to note that Pierre did not have an MBA degree at the time, but that did not deter him from signing up people with MBAs). It is also interesting to note that the eBay management mainly consists of people with top MBA degrees, and this is indicative of the management skill (and ‘hopefully’, talent). Whitman Whitman changed the organisational structure of engineering …discuss (to formalize the network of existing patterns of relationships within the team). It is pertinent to note that prior to May 1998 the engineering team had operated with virtually no specialisation. This is a pointer to the notion that there was a very strong informal structure within the engineering team (of 9 people). Thus there was an implicit system of multiple backups, and fluidity of work flow. Wilson, who had run the engineering group from the beginning, referred to this as “…part of the magic of what I’ve [he had] created here”. A close look at the episode when Wilson and Whitman spend several hours in an attempted to create a new structure without success, shows the importance of understanding the work content but also keen appreciation of the informal structure before making alterations by formalising the structure. Eventually, it took Wilson one lone night to create an acceptable org structure. Evidence from the case: Whitman described it as “better than Pierre and I

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