Berian Stephen Martin
Berian’s style of leadership is sort of democratic, this allows team participation, and increases the team’s motivation, gives them responsibility over the task, and helps them share ideas to get to the best conclusion, while still giving him some authorization over the task or situation, mistakes and errors may happen, but they will mostly be used as a learning experience and to develop new skills. Stephen prefers the democratic style of leadership. This style of leadership can be beneficial if employees have a good idea that can improve the performance of business. If an error or mistake occurs, or if a task is important to the business and needs a response as soon as possible, he has to adapt a more autocratic style
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This theory has been practically seen in Google which keeps on prospering the company’s current dominant position is attributable to the synergistic benefits of its organizational structure and organizational culture.
Google’s organizational structure is always in the support of Google organizational culture which leads to a high success and innovation.
Google has a cross-functional organizational structure, organizational structure has three main characteristics:
1. Function-based definition
2. Product-based definition
3. Flatness
Google uses some functions for basing their employees in groups.
For example the Google has its own sales team and a team for sales promotion they have their own engineering department and designing team.
Google also has a firm to employee people for fiber business. The organization has considerable flatness. A flat organizational structure means that Google’s team and employees can always by pass middle management and can always report to the CEO, Directly.
Google’s organizational culture
The culture at the Google is not very typical. Because of the effects of the firm, organizational structure. In essence, structure and culture interact to influence the capabilities of the
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Google has taken care of everything an individual need, the Google has everything planned at their main offices like providing them food, Gym facilities, a trainer for those who want to build Abs’. Sleeping pods and many others like growing their own food. so as an employee no one can ask for anything else and this has brought positive changes in the employees performance because they have everything inside the campus. For example if I am working in a company that doesn’t have any single quality of what the Google offers and it will affect my performance. 1: because I will have to think about where can I find the closest gym to work out? So I don’t get into a bad shape 2: I will have to think about my transport 3: when should I take rest 4: what should I eat and where should I eat. Can I find any restaurant somewhere close that can have the food which I can like? Having all these things in mind will definitely lead into a bad performance. But what Google has done is that they have provided everything the employees need in their campus which is leading towards the most successful company of the
Wherever human beings are accumulated together in large numbers, they need leadership. Even a school needs a principle to mentor and escalate the school’s rank. Armies need generals to lead them to a courageous victory. Civilians need governments, captains of industry and intellectual leaders of thought as well. However, There are characteristics common to most great leaders that can be picked out.
Introduction A company’s success is measured by how well it is structured and organized in order to adapt to the changes in environment as well as the changes within itself such as the company’s scale, employees, product scope, etc. Having a suitable, well-structured organizational frame will not only increase the chance of being success but also prolong the company’s lifespan compared to an un-structured one. It is important to note that an organization’s structure needs to fit in with the current situation and does not necessarily required remain unchanged over time. Taking Dynacorp as an example, even though its functional structure contributed to the vast growth of the company at the start, its limitation in dealing with the changes within
When changing a company’s organizational culture may goes well Changes in technology, the markets, societal values, workplace dynamics and the global economy have all contributed to creating an external environment that is constantly on the move, unpredictable and often devastating for companies that are unprepared or unable to respond accordingly. Many companies today are thus forced to either change or adapt their organisational culture to keep up. (Burnes, 2004) Furthermore, with global mergers and acquisitions at a seven-year high in 2014 (Roumeliotis, 2014) and set to increase further due to companies’ desire to outdo rivals and widespread investor support for such deals, knowing how to manage changes in organisational culture has become
This is an example of flat organisational structure as there is no middle management. The organisational structure of Macmillan Is split up into 6 different sections. The first and most important sector is the chief executive whose job it is to make the big decisions and to manage the major operations and resources of the company and finally acting as the main communicating point between board of directors and corporate operations, and then there is a board of trustees that the chief executive rely on to help them with the important decisions.
Free equipment to try out sports- The employees get free scooter and skateboards using which they can go for sport or even surfing whenever they feel like. This keeps them motivated as they get some time to relax. g. Equal Benefits to all- The company provides benefits to the entire community and not only to the high performing employees.
Google employs a Functional Operational Structure. Google is managed from the top down and divided into different divisions by each Google product that is offered. Each separate product division is itself divided into functional units for managing project development. The structure of Google is not much different from the traditional organizational structure of most large organizations other than the fact that they have defined a few unique executive positions within the company such as Chief Internet Evangelist and Chief Culture Officer. The oversight of the company is carried out by a board of directors that passes down orders to employees through a group of executive managers.
The effects of leadership throughout our timeline in this world have had a major toll on how we shape our lives today. We have many types of leadership like democracy, theocracy, and many more. We see these types of leadership in the poem Beowulf translated by Seamus Heaney. In the epic the main kings are Hrothgar who is a generous and a natural leader of the Danes, and Beowulf who is known as a noble and loyal king of the Geats. Both of these kings went through many events that had many different impacts on them and they succeeded.
It markets itself as a “fast-paced, innovative and collaborative environment.” This environment aims to do things the right way and ensures secrecy. The organizational culture that Steve Jobs created helped the employees and encouraged them to debate and to give different ideas in order to contribute and be a part of the firm’s success. Moreover, the culture motivated all the employees to believe in the vision set in the beginning. The core values found in the culture of Apple are the reason behind their successful products.
The corporate culture also has an impact of the company's reputation and public
Another type of leadership style is a democratic leader. Two books that have very prominent leadership themes are “Animal Farm” by George Orwell and “Lord of
1.1 ELON BACKGROUND OF MUSK Elon Reeve Musk is a Canadian American businessman, engineer, and innovator born in South Africa, June 28th 1971. Elon Musk is one of the most notable innovators of the 21st century. Elon’s academic achievements in regards to higher studies began with 2 Bachelor’s Degrees, 1 in physics and the other in economics, and he would, soon after, enroll in Stanford university to begin a PhD. However, Elon dropped out of the course after a mere 2 days in order to pursue entrepreneurial activities in the fields of sustainable improvements in standards of living, space exploration and much more. 1.2 MUSK AT TESLA
Leadership Analysis Introduction One of the popular definitions of a leader is, "The only definition of a leader is someone who has followers." ( ) A more comprehensive definition that highlights striking features of a leader is, "A simple definition of leadership is that leadership is the art of motivating a group of people to act towards achieving a common goal.” ( ) A closer scrutiny of the characteristics of an influential leader would many ways assist one, in recognizing those attributes in an attempt to assimilate the best in others.
Introduction The two most important components of societies are the social structure and culture. Culture deeply influences an individual 's beliefs, values, goals as well as his identity. Cultural goals are developed in accordance with the existing social structure of the society. The social structure of a society must provide the 'means ' for an individual to achieve his cultural goals.
According to Blake and Mouton (1964), this is the best leadership style to be adopted. Team leaders pay high and equal attention towards the production needs and people relations. This method relies heavily on making employees feel themselves to be constructive parts of the company (Blake and
ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE Apple Inc. has followed different organizational structures and the changes that came depending upon the time frame and when situations called for it. Our objective is to find out the advantages and disadvantages of different organization structure that Apple Inc. has implemented till now. Apple Inc. has followed a flat structure of organization. Basically this flat structure has encouraged employees to contribute to the decision making process by directly participating in it.