CHOOSE ONE COMPANY TO WRITE ABOUT:
·
APPLE
·
GOOGLE
·
ZAPPOS
·
SOUTHWEST
AIRLINE
Submit a one-page (maximum) document that will identify your chosen
successful company from the suggested list. You are expected to provide a brief
overview of the successful company that you have chosen to benchmark for
management best practices. You should also include specific examples relating
to the fundamental principles of management and the company’s mission and
vision statement.
PLEASE INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING
I. Introduction
Provide a brief overview of the successful company that you have chosen to
benchmark for management best practices. Consider including specific examples
relating to the fundamental principles of management and the company’s mission
and vision statement.
II. Profile of a Successful Company
a. Explain how the company has communicated its mission and vision within
the organization. In other words, explain how the company demonstrates the
importance of the mission and vision to employees and other stakeholders.
b. Identify the role management played in helping this company execute its
strategic management plan. Justify your response. You could consider including
a specific example of a time when this management plan led the company to
success.
c. Describe how management has helped to positively influence the
organizational culture within this company. You could consider using some
specific examples, actions, or strategies that show how management has
positively influenced organizational culture.
d. Explain management’s pivotal role in the decision-making process within
this company. Be sure to include specific decisions made by management based on
principles of ethics. You could discuss specific decision-making models used by
the company that may have helped the company be successful.
e. Evaluate how the use of the functions of management within this company
has adhered to the principles of ethics. You could consider how using the
functions of management while adhering to the principles of ethics may have
impacted the employees of the company.
f. Explain how this company strategically uses human resources to develop
its personnel. You could consider how this use of human resources has enhanced
the company’s business processes.
III. Conclusion
a. Summarize how the company utilizes the fundamental principles of
management to ensure optimal performance. You could consider the actions taken
by this company if optimal performance is not met.
b. Analyze the decision-making strategies of the company for how they
consider all the parts of the company as an interrelated system. You could
consider how the decision-making strategies of the company align with a systems
thinking approach.
