Also will need to establish the productivity measures and compare those with the company or organization figures. Lastly, the manager will need to have a team meeting; take contribution on achieving the goals set by the manager, and institute a common goal for the teams. The transformational leadership style will work for the restructuring strategy with the new management practices, because the teams are mature and under the strong leadership of new management. In order to allow the new transformational leadership to be effective, one will have to recognize critical competencies, educate their employees, and motivate, empower, and encourage the teams to facilitate them to focus on accomplishing their goals effectively. It is important to engage the employees in the critical thinking process, decision making process and setting a common subsidiary goal that will be able to help the specialists to merge well with the existing teams.
Leadership in Business Bert Lawson MGT/521 Management 1/20/2014 Les Colegrove Leadership in Business Leadership in business is a must for a business to flourish in today’s economy. Companies need to keep up with the changing times to keep their product marketable, to do this leadership has to find new ways and find ways to keep their ear to the ground to ensure their product is meeting consumer needs. This paper will discuss the role of managers in a leadership role. When you think of a manager most would think of someone who is keeping the day to day operations moving and that is true but a manager is so much more. When you break down what a manager means to a business.
TLIP4001A ASSESSMENT ACTIVITY 1: How can examining future opportunities and directions help towards the contribution of a shared vision and values for the workplace, and the shaping of business goals and objectives? A customer service delivery plan is a strategic and tactical plan for achieving marketing objectives. It is a detailed document that determines how new business will be acquired and how the existing customer base will be maintained and strengthened. Customer service delivery plans are not just about targets and how to achieve/exceed these targets. ASSESSMENT ACTIVITY 2: Why is it necessary, as part of the planning process for customer service teams, to review previous performance and successful approaches and to identify factors affecting performance?
Research competitors and industry trends to create new ideas and incentives. Compete with competitors – Price matching. With accurate information and efficient communication within the business will ensure business continuance despite possible problems. 4.0 Reports: Identify the types of reports you would be required to review regularly in order to monitor business performance, why is it important to create and use this report and who would the report be written for. 4.1: Performance Report: This report shows how well/poorly a business is doing based on a current revenue, and can identify performance areas that may need improvement.
They also ask customers about what they would like to see in their stores or any other items that the company can improve on to make their business more enjoyable. In order for Kudler Fine Foods to keep a competitive edge they need to strengthen their marketing research. The company knows what consumers want know and what they like about their company at the current moment, but the company needs to do some research on business trends and forecasting. Kudler Fine Foods need to use secondary data in order to find this information out. The company needs to see how other companies similar to Kudler Fine Foods did throughout the years.
Changes in services that are offered to the residents have been the driving force towards the growth and setting BKD apart from the others. One can clearly see how the change managers have applied the vision in the changes. Other departments or communities can take a look at the vision and use that as a guide to changes they want to implement or in the process of implementing to be sure that what they are doing will grow the company, will enrich the lives of our residents. With BKD’s vision in mind, one must be sure that they do not try to grow too fast. Set a pace of growth that will be sustainable, that will not rock the company to the core and in process set it back.
Elizabeth has the team meet and they discuss an overall agenda, but never discuss a concrete plan on how to achieve their goals. By the end of the meeting the only real goal is that Warren will make a preliminary marketing plan, but there is no mention of other employees doing anything else. When Ethel expresses concerns, Andrew is not concerned with how to achieve the goals; just that he is more concerned with making something fun. Issue 5: No Market Study. Warren states to Nick “we don’t want to overestimate our customers on this”.
After the market research has been measured over time the business should be able to use the information to improve the business and assist customer’s needs. Market research also gives the business an idea for how much customers would pay for the product. Primary Research is new data that has not been collected before. It allows business to focus on customer’s needs and interests. The advantages of primary research are that the information is up to date and it helps answer businesses questions.
To achieve this, the management needs to make viable and reliable business decisions regarding the operations of the entity on continuous basis (Taparia, 2004). The information contained in the four financial statements put the management in a better position of realizing this objective considering that it assists in the identification of the weaknesses and strengths of different organizations on top of showing important trends in their performance during different financial periods (Alvarez & Fridson, 2011). The comparative information provided in the financial statements assist the management to compare its past performances as well as its current one with those of its competitors in order to come up with efficient strategies to better a firm’s performance (Taparia, 2004). Calculation of different financial ratios from these statements specifically yields the information to be used by the management while undertaking all decision making exercises (Alvarez & Fridson,
Assignment 1 “The American Red Cross (ARC)” 1. Determine the impact of this even on ARC’s “benefits of business ethics” (employee commitment, investor loyalty, customer satisfaction, and bottom line). “Business ethics relates to rules, standards, and moral principles regarding what is right or wrong in specific situations. Business ethics comprises values, and standards that guide behavior in the world of business.” (Ferrell and Fraedrich 2011 page 7). Creating dependable leaders should always be a part of business education, but it seems over time it has become more of incident by result than by vital content.