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GENERAL MANAGEMENT
1. What makes George David such a highly regarded manager?
2. How does David get things done through people?
3. What evidence can you see of David’s planning and strategizing, organizing, controlling, leading, and developing?
4. Which managerial competencies does David seem to posses? Does he seem to lack any?
5. Why did the strategic plans adopted by companies like level 3, Global crossing, and 360 Network fail?
6. The managers who ran these companies were smart, successful individuals, as were many of the investors who put money into their businesses. How could so many smart people have been so wrong?
7. What specific decision-making biases do you think were at work in this industry during the late 1990s and early 2000s?
8. What could the managers running these companies done differently that might have led to a different
9. 1. Why did Dow Chemical first adopt a matrix structure? What benefits did it hope to derive from his structure?
10. 2. What problems emerged with this structure? How did Dow try to deal with them? In retrospect, do you think those solutions were effective?
11. Why did Dow change its structure again in the mid-1990s? What was Dow trying to achieve this time? Do you think the current structure makes sense given the industry in which Dow operates and the strategy of the firm? Why?
12. Discuss McDonald's current situation from a human resource planning perspective
13. Is McDonald's taking the best approach to improving its employer brand? Why or why not? If you were in charge of developing the McDonald's employer brand, what would you do differently?
14. Would “guerrilla” recruiting tactics help McDonald's attract more applicants? Why or why not? If so, what tactics might be effective?
15. What technological paradigm shift did Reuters face in the 1990s? How did that paradigm shift change the competitive playing field?
16. Why Reuters was slow to adopt internet-based technology?
17. Why do you think Tom Glocer was picked as CEO? What assets did he bring to the leadership job?
18. What do you think of Glocer’s attempts to change the strategy and organizational culture at Reuters? Was he on the right track? Would you do things differently?
GENERAL MANAGEMENT
1.What makes George David such a highly regarded manager?
2.How does David get things done through people?
3.What evidence can you see of David’s planning and strategizing, organizing, controlling, leading, and developing?
4.Which managerial competencies does David seem to posses? Does he seem to lack any
1.Why did the strategic plans adopted by companies like Level 3, Global Crossing, and 360 Networks fail?
2.The managers who ran these companies were smart, successful individuals, as were many of the investors who put money into these businesses. How could so many smart people have been so wrong?
3.What specific decision-making biases do you think were at work in this industry during the late 1990s and early 2000s?
4.What could the managers running these companies done differently that might have led to a different outcome?
1.Why did Dow Chemical first adopt a matrix structure? What benefits did it hope to derive from this structure?
2.What problems emerged with this structure? How did Dow try to deal with them? In retrospect, do you think those solutions were effective?
3.Why did Dow change its structure again in the mid-1990s? What was Dow trying to achieve this time? Do you think the current structure makes sense given the industry in which Dow operates and the strategy of the firm? Why?
1.Discuss McDonald's current situation from a human resource planning perspective.
2.Is McDonald's taking the best approach to improving its employer brand? Why or why not? If you were in charge of developing the McDonald's employer brand, what would you do differently?
3.Would “guerrilla” recruiting tactics help McDonald's attract more applicants? Why or why not? If so, what tactics might be effective?
1.What technological paradigm shift did Reuters face in the 1990s? How did that paradigm shift change the competitive playing field?
2.Why was Reuters slow to adopt Internet-based technology?
3.Why do you think Tom Glocer was picked as CEO? What assets did he bring to the leadership job?
4.What do you think of Glocer’s attempts to change the strategy and organizational culture at Reuters? Was he on the right track? Would you do things differently?
GENERAL MANAGEMENT
1. What are the barriers to entry into the pharmaceutical industry? To what extent do you think these entries barriers protect established pharmaceutical companies from new competitors?
2. The pharmaceutical industry has long been one of the most profitable in the United States. Why do you think this is the case?
3. What forces in the general environment influence the nature of competition in the task environment facing pharmaceutical firms?
1. How have lower development and tooling costs given Japanese auto manufacturers an advantage in the marketplace?
2. What steps are the Detroit automobile makers taking to reduce product development time and tooling costs? If they are successful, what are the implications of these initiatives for the number of car models they can sell and breakeven volumes for individual models? Will these initiatives benefit Detroit’s customers? How?
3. The Japanese producers have for years used many of the methodologies now being introduced in Detroit. Why do you think it has taken the Detroit automakers so long to respond to their foreign competitors?
1. What kind of control system does Lincoln Electric rely on to generate high employee productivity?
2. Can you think of any possible unintended consequences of an incentive pay system based on piecework? How does Lincoln guard against these unintended consequences?
3. Do Lincoln’s control systems match the strategy of the enterprise? How?
1. From a power perspective, what do you think explains the rise of Mike Sears to the CEO position at Boeing? What were the sources of his power?
2. Once he became CFO, what did Mike Sears do to consolidate his power base at Boeing? What sources of power was he trying to accumulate? What was he trying to do with this power
3. What do you think about the ethics of Sear’s actions? Does the fall of Mike Sears prove that power tends to corrupt?
4. What does the case tell you about the nature of internal organizational politics at Boeing during this period? As incoming CEO, would you see this as a problem? If so, how would you deal with it?
5. Do you think that power is more important in an organization like Boeing than in one that has less politics? Why?
1. Use your knowledge of emotions and attitudes to explain why the LINK650 employees were dissatisfied with their work.
2. Identify the various ways in which employees expressed their job dissatisfaction on the LINK650.
3. Shaun O’Neill commitment to the LINK organization dwindled over his two years of employment. Discuss the factors that affected his organizational commitment.
GENERAL MANAGEMENT
1. What is spirituality?
2. Is this topic appropriate for businesses?
3. What are the arguments for and against its inclusion in business?
1. What are the management issues in this case?
2. What did Coke do and what could have been done differently?
3. What are the key factors that were or should have been considered by
Management?
1. What is your assessment of Barrett’s performance and his vision for Intel? Is he
the right person for the job at Intel?
2. What are some problems associated with frequent reorganization?
3. What are the pros and cons for focusing on the distant futures and the heavy
investments in new technologies?
1. Compare and contrast the careers of Bill Gates and Steve Jobs.
2. Compare and contrast the leadership styles and managerial practices of Gates
and Jobs.
3. What do you think about the future of Microsoft and Apple Computers?
4. What is the outlook on life of the two computer nerds?
1. Discuss the evolving use of information technology at American Airlines?
2. Should American Airlines expand its position in Europe? What are the arguments
for and against this expansion?
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