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.