Leadership at General Dymanamics
Leadership Plan General Dynamics
Leadership
October 21th, 2012
Michael Thompson
General Dynamics (GD0, is a large conglomerate with many companies under their
management, directives, and rules. Based in, West Falls Church, Virginia GD’s CEO Jay L.
Johnson an Ex-Navy Admiral took over as president is the president and CEO of General
Dynamics after leaving Dominion energy, Johnson took over as several years ago replacing the
retiring CEO. GD’s major companies consist of are Bath Iron works, C4 systems, Electric Boat,
and Gulfstream Aerospace in addition they own many other companies mostly in defense. The
Federal government is their major customer. The first step toward establishing management in
which managers take the initiatives and show consideration for employees (Bass, 1990).
General Dynamics
General Dyanmic , CEO Admiral Jay Johnson with his Military Leadership Style leads the entire
company. Johnson, also very much a leader in the civilian world he also works for the U.S.
Government in Washington D.C. He is an advisor and lobbist for defense contracts at the White House. GD has Inconsistent leadership styles and there is too much military focus, and lacking
of is the case, GD is moving from Military to Transformational Leadership and
transactional to transformational leadership (Bass, 1990).
Most of GD’s companies have presidents and managers for most different departments
Such As in many companies, GD’s divisions all have similar leadership structure. Each
company has a president Vice president and so forth. That is how the majors are set-up, in this
case anyway.
Jay L. Johnson
life and accomplishments Not a whole lot of information is out there on Admiral Jay Johnson however we do now that
We worked is way up to rank of Admiral and that shows he is a superior leader in itself. Johnson
would have
Leadership
October 21th, 2012
Michael Thompson
General Dynamics (GD0, is a large conglomerate with many companies under their
management, directives, and rules. Based in, West Falls Church, Virginia GD’s CEO Jay L.
Johnson an Ex-Navy Admiral took over as president is the president and CEO of General
Dynamics after leaving Dominion energy, Johnson took over as several years ago replacing the
retiring CEO. GD’s major companies consist of are Bath Iron works, C4 systems, Electric Boat,
and Gulfstream Aerospace in addition they own many other companies mostly in defense. The
Federal government is their major customer. The first step toward establishing management in
which managers take the initiatives and show consideration for employees (Bass, 1990).
General Dynamics
General Dyanmic , CEO Admiral Jay Johnson with his Military Leadership Style leads the entire
company. Johnson, also very much a leader in the civilian world he also works for the U.S.
Government in Washington D.C. He is an advisor and lobbist for defense contracts at the White House. GD has Inconsistent leadership styles and there is too much military focus, and lacking
of is the case, GD is moving from Military to Transformational Leadership and
transactional to transformational leadership (Bass, 1990).
Most of GD’s companies have presidents and managers for most different departments
Such As in many companies, GD’s divisions all have similar leadership structure. Each
company has a president Vice president and so forth. That is how the majors are set-up, in this
case anyway.
Jay L. Johnson
life and accomplishments Not a whole lot of information is out there on Admiral Jay Johnson however we do now that
We worked is way up to rank of Admiral and that shows he is a superior leader in itself. Johnson
would have
References: Bass Bernard M. (1990) From Transactional to Transformational Leadership Learning to Share The vision moorman/papers/Share%20The%20Vision.pdf BM Bass - Organizational Dynamics, 1990 - cobacourses.creighton.edu Conger Joy. (1991) Inspiring Others: The Language of Leadership. Academy of Management Executive 1991, (5) N0. 1. Retrieved October 20, 2012. Harvard Business Review The Best of Harvard Business articles, (2002). Leading Change: Kotter, John P Machon-Adler, Coit/ Readers 17, pdf, (1992-2003) Retrieved from http: www.HBR.Org, October 20, 2012.