Individual Behavior

One concept I hope my future boss would understand is the 5 different personality traits. As a boss/manager understanding where each employee is on the scale of each trait is important. If they are able to understand the concept of this they can assign work to employees depending on their strengths and help with their weaknesses. For example if a person is too agreeable, a manager can push to ask the employee on his or her opinion. With better understanding of this concept, the manager would give an impression that he actually tries to know each employee and help improve the different traits depending on the person.

Leadership

I believe that it is difficult for a CEO that came from another organization to be successful in the new one. Although I know this isn't true for all cases, a change in organizations for the CEO is mostly tough. This doesn't mean that the new CEO isn't a  outstanding leader but a different company has completely different goals, products, management, etc. Learning all these things take time and effort and even after learning about the company, the CEO might not be successful in leading the company in the direction is needs to go.

Marissa Mayer, an executive from Google, became yahoo's new CEO on July. Recently one of Yahoo's biggest product, the sports section, went down due to "filing issues." There biggest traffic for their sports sections is from fantasy sports. One of the users of their fantasy sports said they have never experienced something like this in the 10 years of using yahoo's fantasy sports.

http://www.businessinsider.com/marissa-mayers-explanation-for-yahoos-first-big-screw-up-under-her-watch-2012-11

This was the first big mistake yahoo has made since Mayer became CEO. This might be due to her inexperience with the company. Although the downtime was due to technical difficulties, the CEO still has to take the blame. All eye's are on her for this mistake since she has just been appointed CEO and if she looks bad, the company looks bad.

Human Resource Management

I don't have a lot of work experience but one summer I worked at a probation office, just doing simple filing work. When I got there I noticed that there were a lot of people there my age. During orientation they didn't really give us specific jobs to do, so basically we had to help people around the office. What end up happening was, there was about ten of us separated into two huge rooms doing simple filing work. In the beginning there were basically mountains of papers to be filed, which makes me think that no one has bothered doing the job. Often I would find the same copy of the paperwork randomly in the pile. Of the people that were hired about three of the ten people actually worked. After about a month we finished filing the pile of paperwork that was there, so we had nothing else left to do. For the remaining month we just sat around the filing rooms doing nothing except filing a small amount of paperwork throughout the day.

I believe that if the process of "Attraction" was done better, this problem could have been avoided. First they hired more employees than needed. Second the people they chose were not serious about their work. They also didn't give us a general idea of what we had to do and seemed like they just thought of it on the spot. There were almost no supervision at the work place which allowed some of the employees to slack off.

All these problems could have been avoided if prior to the hiring process, they did a better job determining the amount of people they needed. The hiring process was also really easy, just a quick simple interview. They should also have had someone supervising us so actual work could be accomplished.

Police Fatally Shoot Knife-Wielding Man in Times Square

On August 11, a man wielding a kitchen knife was fatally shot by police officers in Time Squares. The man was believed to be smoking marijuana when the police officers approached him. He then pulled out a knife and began fleeing until he was cornered and killed by a "fusillade of bullets."

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/12/nyregion/police-fatally-shoot-man-brandishing-knife-in-times-square.html

When the man started to flee the policed called for backup to try and stop him. They continuously sprayed him with pepper spray but the man would not stop. The police also created rode blocks to keep pedestrians away from the scene. They repeatedly shouted at the man to drop his weapon but when he was cornered on 37th street, he lunged at an officer and everyone opened fire.

Given the situation, I think the police officers abided by the six rules of crisis management as best as they could. The man was allowed to flee from 43rd street to 37th street but from reading the article, there was a lot of pedestrians around so the police did the right thing by waiting instead of risking injuring innocent bystanders. They also tried to stop him with force since the man was armed with a knife. There might of been other less severe alternatives, for example they could of used a taser gun, but maybe there was other factors during the situation.

Corruption In India

In a country where natural resources are controlled by the government, those who have close connections with them has a greater chance of obtaining these resources. Manoj Jayaswal is one of those who are in close ties with government officials. In a short amount of time Jayaswal has gained a huge amount of wealth, leaving his rivals confused. On September 15, Jayaswal was accused of being involved in a $34 billion dollar coal mining scandal. He is suspected with working along side Vijay Darda, a member of the parliment, to obtain rights to undeveloped coal fields.

From a ethical view Jayaswal and Darda's incentive is simple, by obtaining the coal fields for a inconsiderable amount of money they can gain significant amounts of profits. While many parts of India are still living without electricity, the undeveloped coal fields could be used to supply power to those parts, but instead they are given to businessmen for profit.

By committing this fraudulent act, the main advantage for Jayaswal is gaining a considerable amount of wealth as well as gaining a distinct advantage over rival companies. Since he has close ties with the government, gaining control of coal fields would not be difficult. The disadvantage for him to do this is exactly what has happened. Now that the public has caught on to his acts, his company will suffer from the news and if enough proof is found against him, there could be even more severe consequences.

Jayaswal most likely looking at the situation from a individualism view because his actions clearly benefits himself. While many parts of India is still without electricity he uses his connections to obtain the coal fields, which could be used to supply more people with energy, to gain profits for himself. His decision also present unfairness to rival companies.

From a negative view corruption will probably not decline. Looking at the amount of political corruption in India, if no significant change occurs corruptions will not decline. In 2008,  former minister Andimuthu Raja mis-sold frequency licenses  causing nearly $40 billion in lost revenue. In November 2010, Ashok Chavan, the chief minister of Maharashtra, was forced out of office due to his role in scamming homes that were meant for war widows. In March 2012, Gen VK Singh was offered $2.7 million by a lobbyist to purchase "sub-standard" trucks for the military. These are just few of many cases that occurred in recent years. If things continue corruption will continue to occur. A solution to this problem could be supporting a new political party by the people. If a new political party takes power, there might be a greater chance of decreasing the amount of corruption that take place. Since the current parties are corrupted, changing the people in power could have a positive effect on the situation.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-12769214
http://india.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/03/corruptions-reach-in-india-spawns-new-political-party/

Zara International

Zara International is one of many clothing retail companies. What makes Zara stand out from other clothing stores is their ease of organizing and adapting to the latest trends, which is made possible by controlling all sections of the supply chain. Many of Zara's recent success could be attributed to CEO of Indetex, Pablo Isla, which is the parent company of Zara. His outstanding foresight can lead Zara to further success.

With one of Zara's main advantage of being able to control the supply chain of their products, the clearest example of classical management that Zara display is Fayol's Administrative Principle. Having strict control of the supply chain would require precise control over every aspect of the process. This can only be achieved by having great leaders and managers who are in control of each part of the process. Indetex's Ceo has the foresight to plan Zara's future considering  his success so far. The company clearly displays organization, command, coordination, and control of their resources. Without exceptional leadership and management controlling the supply chain would be impossible.

Many companies look at how Zara is functioning and managing their products due to their effectiveness. One of the crucial reason for Zara's success is how quick they keep up with fashion. They're constantly replacing old fashion clothings with new ones within weeks. They keep a low supply of inventory to avoid "oversupply" and to create "scarcity" of different designs. Since they have control of their product, when a design doesn't sell well, their designers are notified to immediately create a new design.

Another reason of Zara's success is due to the informality of their organization. All of their departments are "under one roof," meaning different departments has the chance to know the function of other departments. This leads to ease of information to travel around and allows decisions to be made at a faster pace.

Zara's great success so far and their unique way of organization and management will continue to allow them to expand.



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About Me

Hi everyone, my name is Jaron. I was born in New York and lived here my whole life. After I graduate I would really like to move somewhere else for a while just for the change of scenery, but it would probably be easier to find a job here. I'm working for a major in Finance and a Minor in Psychology. I transfered here from John Jay after a year and this is my second year in Baruch. Right now I'm actually really burned out from studying because I spent my summer taking classes to catch up on my credits. I'm really not that a interesting person, which you can probably tell from reading, but hope we have a nice semester together