3/25/2011 Ge Making Of Ceo Management of Organizations Case Write-up 1 – GE’s Talent Machine: The Making of a CEO http://www.papercamp.com/print/GeMaking-Of-Ceo/10993 1.What philosophy‚ policies‚ and practices have made GE a “CEO factory” as Fortune called it? General Electric (GE) has traditionally had a hands-on approach to talent management. There is a high degree of involvement of the top management in its people policies. There is a top-down approach to human resource policy. Also‚ GE recognized
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GE’s Jeff Immelt: The Voyage from MBA to CEO Jeff Immelt graduated from Harvard MBA and had been recruited to GE on 1982. Immelt greatly impressed Dennis Dammerman‚ the executive overseeing GE’s MBA recruitment. Then‚ Immelt entered on a commercial leadership track that included real work assignments in different GE businesses. After completing the training program‚ Immelt become regional sales manager for GE Plastic in Dallas and responsible for 15 direct reports. In 1987‚ Immelt was tapped
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It has been no doubts that Immelt has been successful in fostering innovation by challenging the usual management-discipline business model that Jack Welch had created. From my analysis‚ I would like to analyze 2 major transformations that Immelt had implemented; Heavy acquisitions and Imagination Breakthrough. Although he brought remarkable achievements to GE through the above-mentioned transformations using his innovative management style‚ there are reasons why I did not choose Immelt as my role
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CEO Jeffrey Immelt and the reinvention of GE 8 July‚ 2014 It has been 13 years since Jeffrey Immelt took the reins of American colossus General Electric from the legendary Jack Welch. Having weathered the early years‚ besieged by a storm of economic and business challenges‚ Immelt is at last taking steps to realise his own vision for GE – which includes moving away from finance‚ and becoming a more agile and globalised company‚ focused on its core identity as a maker of industrial equipment
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General Electric 1. Why do you think GE invested so aggressively in foreign expansion? Because GE tries to achieve its main goal: To be number 1 or 2 globally in every business in which it participates. Nowadays GE is not just an American company doing business abroad‚ but it had become a true global company. The revenues from international sales are growing significantly. This expansion is being powered by growing economies of Asia (particularly China and India). GE can achieve its goal through:
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Case Study: GE: Jeffrey Immelt – Change in Strategy‚ Style and Culture Sandra Armenta South University Online Dr. Patrick Udeh January 30‚ 2012 Case Study: GE: Jeffrey Immelt – Change in Strategy‚ Style and Culture In all companies changes in strategies‚ style and culture are experienced when management changes occur. This was no different with GE. As Jack Welch stepped down as CEO after 20 years‚ Jeffrey Immelt was chosen as his successor. He had some big shoes to fill. “Immelt became the
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IN YOUR OPINION DYOU THINK SHAREHOLDER ACTIVISM WORKS‚ WHY OR WHY NOT Shareholder Activism refers to a range of actions taken by a shareholder to influence corporate management and board. Actions range from threatening the sale of shares (“exit”)‚ letter writing‚ meetings management‚ to asking questions at shareholders meetings and the use of corporate voting rights. The common definition of a shareholder activist is a shareholder “who tries to change the status quo through the “voice”‚ without
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leadership into account by comparing and contrasting two well-known leaders in General Electric (GE). The paper first introduces two leaders with some brief biographies‚ characteristics and their contribution to the GE. It then looks at who would be the more effective leader by providing with some aspects of leadership. It then comes up with some skills these people employed in their leadership to help GE growth rapidly during 1990s till now. The next part will put a conclusion and some recommendations
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analysis Jack Welch 1. He has adopted 3 D’s (Downsizing‚ destaffing and delayering). He has made hierarchical changes across the organization by reducing hierarchy level from 9 to 4. 2. Fix‚ Sell or close the business in which GE is not either No.1 or No.2. Between 1981 to 1990 they had sold more than 200 businesses which has accounted for 25% of 1980 sales. 3. Restructuring the organization - Jack Welch stated the above objective into a 3 circle concept. Business were categorized as
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with Jeffrey R. Immelt May 21st‚ 2015 Henry Bösken-Diebels‚ Veronika Larina & Philipp Vinzenz 1 Agenda 1 2 3 4 Changes in GE’s corporate strategy brought by Jeffrey Immelt and the reasons behind them New set of management tools to pursue ambitious organic growth goals Key lessons and managerial implications Q&A May 21st‚ 2015 Henry Bösken-Diebels‚ Veronika Larina & Philipp Vinzenz 2 Agenda 1 2 3 4 Changes in GE’s corporate strategy brought by Jeffrey Immelt and the reasons
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