Nissan Motor Co

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In the following essay, I’m going to use the case of Nissan Motor Co., case to discuss the planning, organizing, leading and controlling and using the example to analyze the management inside Nissan Motor Co., The Frist thing I would like to explain about is the basic definition of planning, leading, organizing and controlling. The definition of “planning” is define the goal for the company and forecast the result and benefit after succeed, thus the company can keep in a positive direction to keep bring benefits to the company. Planning also included introduces different path to accomplish their goal with minimized risk. One of the example in the Nissan’s case is when Yukata Kume in early 1992, he create the first three restructuring plan to try to save the company ( Page 2, Nissan’s Lost Decade, paragraph 4, line 2) Secondly, Organizing is a function of creating a structure of relationships that define the work task, and also responsibilities of the people in the organization to carry out management’s plans, in the other words, good organizing structure is essential for expanding business activity. One of the other example in Nissan’s case is, when Chosen formed nine cross-functional teams (CFT) in key areas. Each CFT was to consist 10 members with different functional expertise and a proven track record drawn from the ranks of middle managers. Subgroups were assigned to specific issues.(Page 4, Forming Cross-functional teams, 3rd Paragraph, line1) When we talk about leading, Leading is means company communicating and motivating the employees to perform the work necessary to accomplish the goals. Leading also means set of direction for the employees and influence them to follow the same direction. The other example from Nissan’s case is when Ghosn had the meeting with the CFT members, one of the members said “I had never been motivated and challenged as strongly

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