HBR - GE ’s Two-Decade Transformation: Jack Welch ’s Leadership Dawn Davis California Baptist University Professor Putulowski 18 October 2014 Summary of Backgrounds and Facts Jack Welch introduced transformational leadership at General Electric (GE) with the aim of stretching the organization towards achieving global objectives. Welch took the helm of the organization in 1981‚ at a time when the US economy was overwhelmed by recession. In addition‚ his predecessor‚ Jones‚ had introduced a highly
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Corporate Social Responsibility Leslie Jackson OMM640 Business Ethics and Social Responsibility Instructor: Dr. Alan Swank October 7‚ 2012 Corporate Social Responsibility in Business Today Boatright (2009‚ pp 349) relates that Feuerstein’s pledge to continue paying his workers eventually cost them their jobs‚ and cost Feuerstein his company. Feuerstein’s commitment personifies a company’s responsibility to a community and workers. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) influences the local
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Question #1 How difficult a challenge did Welch face in 1981? How effectively did he take charge? When Jack Welch took over as CEO of GE in April 1981‚ the world was in a recession. GE needed to be restructured‚ and this involved restructuring‚ reduction of its payroll and modernization. Jack Welch adopted a strategy of “Fix‚ Sell or Close”. This strategy enabled GE to exit unprofitable businesses and restructure loss-making businesses into profitable businesses. Jack Welch’s management
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When Jack Welch was named CEO of General Electric‚ Welch saw a company in trouble even though the business world saw GE as an intrinsically healthy corporation‚ secure in its position as a world industrial leader. Welch knew that the company was too large to fail yet GE was too unwieldy to adapt for further growth. The changes he instituted restructured and revolutionized GE and made Welch the most respected CEO in business today. After reading the book there were three parts that really stood
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Corporate social responsibility is becoming a key initiative and an essential tool in the growth of multinational corporations and the development of third world countries throughout the globe. The two concepts can work hand in hand to provide benefits for all; however difficulties in regulating and implementing corporate social responsibility need to be overcome before effective changes can be made. Definitions of corporate social responsibility can be somewhat varied depending on the perception
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throughout its internal & external environment is meant to succeed. Corporate Social Responsibility is one paradigm that is the first to get affected with any kind of change in the organization. This study will relate whether strategic changes in an organization with respect to Corporate Social Responsibility activities are easily taken by the internal and external environment of an organization just because it is a Corporate Social Responsibility activity or it has to face challenges while implementations
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| |“RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILTY” | [pic] TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER NO. SUBJECT Chapter 1 Executive Summary Chapter 2 Introduction to CSR Chapter 3 Model of Social Responsibility Chapter 4 Social Responsibility and Business Ethics Chapter 5 Concept of Corporate Citizenship Chapter 6
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............................................................................................2 2. The stance of Pfizer ............................................................................................3 2.1 Theories of corporate social responsibility and ethics ...................................3 2.2 Pfizer ’s stance on CSR and ethics ..................................................................4 Bribery of Big Pharma ’s .................................................
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performance from them through effective and efficient management (1997). On the 1920’s a man named Frederick Taylor known as the father of scientific management who described management as a science with employees having specific but different responsibilities; encourage the scientific selection‚ training and development of workers and equal division of work between workers and management thus sparking an important evolution to the business world making a dramatic increase in productivity (Estrada)
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Corporate Social Responsibility CSR is a win- win opportunity for companies‚ financial investors and society at large * Corporate Social Responsibility * “CSR is about how companies manage the business processes to produce an overall positive impact on society.” Business has a responsibility to give it back to society * Corporate Social Responsibility Corporate social responsibility (CSR): * An obligation‚ beyond that required by the law and economics‚ for a firm to pursue
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