...------------------------------------------------- BMGT 500 – Principles of Management Management styles & Leadership practices at Coca-Cola. Report submitted to Prof. Chepkilot In partial fulfillment for the award of the degree of MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION (MBA) By Jesse G. Munyua GMB/NE/0645/05/14 Kabarak University Nakuru Town Campus Table of Contents 1.0 Introduction 2 2.0 History of the Company 2 3.0 Mission and Vision 3 4.0 Culture and values 5 5.0 Organizational Design 6 6.0 Organization Structure 8 7.0 Organizational goals 9 8.0 Leadership Style 10 8.1 Core Capabilities 11 9.0 Management Styles 12 9.1 Democratic 12 9.2 Autocratic 13 9.3 Laissez-faire management style 14 9.4 Consultative democratic 14 9.5 Team Work 15 9.6 Employee Engagement 16 10.0 Management Functions of Coca-Cola Company 16 10.1 Planning 16 10.1.1 Strategic Goals 17 10.1.2 Tactic Goals 17 10.1.3 Operational Goals 17 10.1.4 Decision Making 18 10.2 Organizing 18 10.2.1 Departmentalization 19 10.2.2 Work Specialization 20 10.2.3 Delegation and Accountability 20 10.2.4 Resource Allocation 20 10.2.5 Organizing the Human Resources 20 10.3 Leading 21 10.3.1 Motivation 21 10.3.2 Communication 22 10.3.3 Corporate Culture 22 10.4 Controlling 22 10.4.1 Sales Person’s Reporting System 22 10.4.2 Sales Person Evaluating System 23 Reference 24 1.0 Introduction The Coca-Cola Company...
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...Heller 1 Greydi Heller Professor Kumar English 101 034 ITIS Monday, October 12, 2015 “ We are One ” Kwame Anthony Appiah was born in London, raised in Ghana and educated at Cambridge University. He became Laurence S. Rockefeller University, Professor of Philosophy and faculty member of the universal central of human values at Princeton, he is currently living in New York City. Appiah’s personal and professional experiences make him highly qualified to talk about Cosmopolitanism in “Making Conversations”, where he gives an interesting twist to the original concept of cosmopolitanism. According to Appiah, we do not have to choose sides between nationalists and hardcore cosmopolitanism. He believes that the position worth defending may be called partial cosmopolitanism. In other words we do not need to go to the right or left, we can stay in between cosmopolitanism and nationalism. Agreeing ,that as citizen of the world we need to develop habits of coexistence,it’s a responsibility that we have to one another even if we are not closely related or similar to each. Appia, makes it very clear saying that cosmopolitanism is not the name of the solution it’s the challenge for every human being to get along with each other .We can better get along with others by getting to know our differences, and our similarities by using a simple tool Heller 2 which is the conversation. I agree with Appiah’s argument, I like the idea of partial cosmopolitanism...
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...January 2012 Why We Hurt the Ones We Love Most Many people have realized we hurt the ones we love the most, and in the story “The Scarlet Ibis”, by James Hurst, it really make you realize why we do such a thing. There are two brothers in the story trying to make it together, and the older brother pushes it to the edge. The older brother, the narrator, is loving, full of pride, cruel, and hopeful all at the same time, towards his little brother Doodle. With all these emotions going on at the same time, the results turn out to be something you would never imagine. In the story Doodle, William Armstrong, was born as a very special young man. He was so special; nobody thought he was going to live when being born. He didn’t get a name till’ he was three months old and had a casket built for him as a sign. With all this being wrong with him, his older brother gave him the nickname Doodle because he felt it wasn’t a name he had to live up to, or be expected of big things, rather than William Armstrong. Though it seems mean everyone agreed, but that’s okay because he was still a loving older brother towards Doodle. He took Doodle everywhere with him as he grew up. He even took him to his favorite place, The Old Woman Swamp. They would go all the time and have lots of fun like normal brothers would. They made crowns, necklaces, and more together out of honeysuckle. So, with Doodle being a little different then normal little brothers he did he did have that one loving spot in...
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...Topic: We don’t sell just one glove When we are going in a department store to buy gloves, you don’t ask for one glove because you lost or just you want to buy one!!! The sales person will look at you and first think she is kidding and second call the police she is crazy… The store offers to you a package that contains the pair. The problem now we are selling one glove, question: what is happening with the rest the package? (It’s not all the time, but it’s happening). Example: I went to TMHS and I had a chance to meet my treatment team, and that day I was very angry. I looked the therapist and asked for her to be brief, and that I didn’t want therapy, care coordinator, no nurse, and just wanted to see my doctor. The therapist looked me, no question and told it was fine. You could come back in one week to sign your IPOS. Red Flag!!!! ONE GLOVE WAS SOLD!!! WHERE’S OTHER PART OF THE TREATMENT PLAN???? Same scenario with realistic and happy ending for everybody, I hope. I went to TMHS and I had a chance to meet my treatment team, and that day I was very angry. I looked the therapist and asked for her to be brief, and that I didn’t want therapy, care coordinator, no nurse, and just wanted to see my doctor. The therapist was surprised, but decides at the moment just listen me and waited for more details. After she ask for my goals I would like to work on and maybe help my with my anger issues. The CPSS asked me why I was so angry, and she shared that for her recovery medication...
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...One out of three children in America are raised with an absent father, and for them, the quixotic hope of a picturesque, ideal home life lies further away than those with a “man of the house” to guide them. While a complicated social issue among children of all race and gender, Wes Moore, in the book "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates," magnifies how being a fatherless black boy in the gritty Baltimore undergrounds is an even higher bump in the road to adulthood. While all children with no father are susceptible to violence and crime, the situation in which they lost their father is directly related to the intensity of their struggles. Thus, the absence of a father can have dissimilar effects on male offspring in cases of death or abandonment....
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...their own distinctive personality and behavior. However, what exactly contributes to the building blocks of who we become and how we act? Due to the complex human structure and development, both psychologists and sociologists have looked to the ideas of nature and nurture for answers, but have grown more puzzled than ever. Often, society chooses to promote the one they may think causes the greater impact, but how do we determine that? In psychology, nature refers to an individual’s innate qualities (or in other terms; genetics) while nurture refers to personal experiences; both of which consists of multiple factors that will soon paint a bigger picture of...
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...Does one believe we were made to be separated? The Civil Rights Movement was about African Americans trying to achieve being equal to the whites. Also, gaining equal opportunities like the right to vote, to get a job, education, and the right to be free of discrimination. Americans believed African Americans weren't good enough to be in the same building as whites. They showed that whites were more superior and that they were better and higher above. It was a struggle for justice and a fight for equality. It was a struggle for equality, but we got through it and fought for our rights. The Civil Rights Movement changed Americans point of view of everything. Plessy v. Ferguson was one case that segregated public facilities. This case began in Louisiana and it was a decision made by the US Supreme Court that it was created to be "separate but equal." Which means that we are all the same, but just different as individuals. It still separated blacks from going to the same bathroom as white people, or riding the same bus, but having blacks sit only in the back and whites in the front. Africans were brutally beaten up by whites if they do not obey the law....
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...The IT Policy - Why do we need one and what should it contain ? Many, many years ago, in fact December 25th 1981, I got my first computer, a joint Christmas present with my Brother. My first computer was a Sinclair ZX81 with 1k ram, we later purchased a 16k expansion pack and a sound-card and spent many long hours programming it, reading the 'full' manual (RTFM;) and if things went wrong or the program we had just spent all day working on crashed we had no IT help line to ring, we just had to sort it out ourselves. My Brother and I have been 'into computers' ever since, but why mention this ? Back then we thought the future held many innovations and a shiney new world where computers are as common as the TV, with functionality to match, you go to a shop, buy a Computer, take it home and plug it in and it just works, like a TV. Sounds great doesn't it. Unfortunately the reality is far from this, there are many inherent problems with computers and many nasty things that want to make your computer life hell. Managing a home computer is hard enough, trying to navigate through a myriad of options all programs have now from writing a letter where the program spell-checks it as you type, offers suggestions and allows to to mail-merge with your database to print the letter or email mail it to far flung corners of the globe, or, which browser / email client / picture editing program / letter writing program etc. to use. On top of all this you have to make sure you don't...
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...Can we know when to trust our emotions in the pursuit of knowledge? Consider history and one other area of knowledge. Candidate Name: Nastassja Isabelle Session Number: 002636-063 School Name: Binus International School Simprug Session: May 2013 Word Count: 1598 “The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason”, American author, Marya Mannes once said. Emotion is defined as a strong feeling deriving from one’s circumstances, mood, or relationships with others. In the pursuit of knowledge, there are times when emotion could be involved in order to gain a better understanding of a certain aspect. However, relying on emotions too much could also cloud our judgment, for it is a very subjective way of knowing. This essay will discuss how reliable our emotion is in the pursuit of knowledge in two areas of knowledge; history and the arts. To start with, emotion plays a big part in judging historical figures and events that were immortalized through history books. The question is, would it be accurate enough to judge them solely based on our emotions? Take Richard III for example. He is known as an evil deformed hunchback in history. Shakespeare had popularized Richard III’s ‘deformed hunchback’ image by his famous historical tragedy titled “Richard III” where he was portrayed as a king who ruthlessly lies, murders, and manipulates, so many people had viewed Richard III like that. Shakespeare’s “Richard III” was one...
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...for every activity under heaven. 2A time to be born and a time to die; a time to plant and a time to harvest. 3A time to kill and a time to heal; A time to tear down and a time to build up.” (Ecclesiastes 3:1-3) Throughout the ages and for the next generation to come, there is only one thing constant in our lives and that binds mankind together, and that is facing the great inevitable, which is death. Death is something we all must face -- no escaping techniques, no meditation rituals, and no amount of money can avoid it. Death is not a right, it is the end of all rights and a fate that none of us can escape. It is the great equalizer. The finality of death and not knowing the inevitable would ultimately give a person a scare for their life. But what happens when death can no longer be a natural occurrence? What happens when we are given the choice to manipulate and control the death of a person? What happens when a person interferes with the laws of nature and decides for himself/herself what time a person may die, but saying he/she had the best interest of the person? What happens to these situations then? Is it justifiable to end the life of a person? i. Background The ultimate right we have as human beings is the right-to-life, an inalienable right that can never be taken away, not even by the person who possesses it. It is similar to the fact that our right to liberty does not give us the freedom to sell ourselves into slavery. Our freedom of speech does not give...
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...The world we live in is ever changing, with technology at everyone’s finger tips how can we keep one step ahead in our classrooms to engage our pupils in development issues that were once only found in print texts. Our pupils live in a media age, where technology is built into their lives, the days of waiting for a weekly magazine for the latest news has all but died with a click of button they have access to a wealth of information from varying sources be it bias or unbiased that is for the reader to decide. As a teacher it is becoming increasingly difficult to distract pupils from the latest celebrity gossip to highlight real world issues of race, poverty, sexuality, exploitation, etc., the pupils of today are uninterested in reading about these issues in text books so a new approach needs to be taken to open their eyes. The use of media texts in delivering development education issues to our cinematographic teenagers is the direction we need to head in. The type of media text used is a choice that has to be made by the teacher when highlighting these issues, the question remains should one use documentaries or blockbuster movies; documentaries by their nature are very factual, complex, have real life images and settings and can be difficult to watch; blockbuster movies on the other hand are produced for entertainment value, they must appeal to the cinema going public, must conform to western norms and expectations, in which direction should one head. As a teacher I am going...
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...Joseph Lanton Adjei Mensah This paper is submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for International Marketing SMC University School of Management Professor (Dr.) Babu P George January 6, 2014 (Submission Date) Unit – 2 What is the role of the creativity in the segmentation process, Why can we say that having an excellent global positioning is one of the principal assets of a brand, What criteria should global marketers consider when making product design decisions, Identify several global brands. What are some of the reasons for the global success of the brands you chose? Abstract The study identifies segmentation processes and how it can be introduced to management to accept them. Often than not if management do not understand the process of segmentation and found out that what has been presented differ from what they know they quickly reject the proposed segmentations (Yankelovich & Meer, 2006). In segmentation, it allows the researcher to knowing how important a product or service is to the customers and this help in deciding what their expectations and are most likely to reveal their willingness to purchase your product. The study further identifies reasons why segmentations fail and steps needed to be taken to correct these errors. The literature elaborate on brand positioning and settling the confusion of brand positioning by managers straight. Consumer culture both local and global is also considered with it effect on brand positioning...
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...MINORITY WELFARE - MERIT CUM MEANS SCHOLARSHIP SYSTEM STUDENT APPLICATION Fresh For official use only Sl No of application Year Course Whether approved Student ID: T2013FkaM09448 Affix a self attested passport size photograph 1.Full name(in block letters) 2.Father's name/Husband's name 3.Mother's name 4. Domicile State/UT (State/UT which the student belongs to) 5. Address for correspondence: House No. & Street Detail City/Town/ Village & P.O. District State Pincode : SHAIK FAIZAL : shaik nawaz : najmunisa : Karnataka c/o S.A basheer manzil, no.105, kaveri road, r.s palya, bangalore-560033 BANGALORE URBAN Karnataka 560033 6. Permanent address(please enclose residential certificate from concerned state government authority): House No. & Street Detail c/o S.A basheer manzil, no.105, kaveri road, City/Town/ Village & P.O. r.s palya, bangalore-560033 District State Pincode BANGALORE URBAN Karnataka 560033 22-Jul-1995 Male Muslim Indian 7. Date of birth (Please enclose certificate) : 8. Whether male or female 9. Religion 10. Nationality 11. Aadhaar Number : : : : Printed Date: 10-Sep-13 Page 1 of 8 12. Details of educational qualifications from matriculation/SSLC/SSC onwards (Please enclose certificates attested by a gazetted officer): Last Qualifying Exam HSC University/Board/Institution/Council of Examination Main Subjects Year of Passing 2013 Division Percenta /Class/ ge marks Grade 83.6666 13. Details of course for which scholarship...
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...A Family of One Sound As we move forward through our lives we begin to see, new bonds created that makes this group a family. We speak together as one mind, one heart, one sound, so that love and support can be found. Our mistakes are learned from and we begin to look back, on the way things used to be before our music was intact. We cannot be a selfish a selfish generation only looking for fame, what we should realize is that at the end of every year we will never be the same. The truth about this group is that we leave no one out, and we all know to leave no doubt. Our parents always talk to us about setting the example for each other, what they don’t realize is that we are setting the example, for music, our other mother. Through the power of music everything is possible to us and we will not be denied, we need to take a stand and show everyone the power of ‘Jaguar Pride’. I am a witness as are you to the effect of one musician can have on us all, his memory reminds us that WE NEED TO STAND TALL. As our lives continue to change daily our bonds grow stronger, our music creates a common goal, to mourn no longer. My message through this spoken word is simple but everlasting; we should band together as one sound and persevere through our tragic passing. We’re the definition of putting up a fight, we have no weakness, and the ability to make our hardest times into positive memories is what will complete us. As we stand here today as witnesses to the power of music in our...
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...Gene One | Options for implementing a Leadership Change | Strategy Change | | [Type the author name] | 5/17/2010 | | Purpose Gene One is a company that invented gene technology to eradicate disease in potatoes and tomatoes. This gene technology eliminates the need for pesticides when growing tomatoes and potatoes. This invention helped Gene One grow from a $2 million to $400 million dollar company in less than eight years. Mr. Ruiz, the CEO of Gene one wanted to increase the company’s revenue by going public by means of Initial Public Offering (IPO) within 3 years. However, Don Ruiz passed away. As a sibling to Mr. Ruiz and a member of the board, my family and I planned a change strategy in order for Mr. Ruiz’s vision to become reality. We will also identify the leadership structure and styles that we will use to carry out Mr. Ruiz’s vision. Vision Our late CEO, Mr. Ruiz was a true visionary and an angel. He was able to implement a new dream in our mind that did not exist. He showed us a picture of the future even though he couldn’t carry it for himself. Our vision is to move this company toward an initial Public offering which will allow us to grow up to 40% in 3 years. This vision should drive each one of us and our goals. In order for this change to happen, we must abide to the rules and regulations of IPO required by the Sarbanes-Oxley act. Sarbanes-Oxley Act requires that an IPO Board to have at least one member with financial experience...
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