line. What is it significance to Xerox‚ or to any organization? When facing business threats from competition‚ Xerox ‘s president David Kearns becomes convinced that Xerox needed a long-range‚ comprehensive quality strategy as well as a change in its traditional management culture. As a result ‚ Xerox implement the quality management practices and was approached by several Xerox employees about instituting total quality management. Kearns determined that Xerox would initiate a totally quality
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Case 2 Xerox Review Questions 1 How would Xerox define diversity? How has its definition changed over the years? It’s their key to success and they provide many opportunities to different people. Xerox provides a very good environment to their employees to work at its full potential. Diversity has a power to influence other people that no matter what is your gender‚ age‚ culture or etc will never be a hindrance to your work. Xerox have a strong workforce because of the creativity that the employees
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Case Analysis for Xerox Ajoy Singh Discussed Question 2. What is your opinion of the original vision of Xerox Technology Ventures (XTV)? What would you have done differently? Xerox’s interest in XTV came with the realization that the Xerox PARC’s technology was leaking out of the company. Industry rumor suggests that the Macintosh‚ Ethernet‚ laser printers‚ and mouse pointers were all invented by Xerox PARC and leaked out to various start-ups. The company
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Its clear to see that succession planning and development of future leaders does not exist in isolation - it needs to reflect the company’s strategic objective and strategic goals. For any organization to implement an effective succession plan there are a number of key issues that need to be considered: • The succession planning program must have the support and backing of the company’s senior level management • Succession planning must be part of an integrated HR process that includes training
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CASE STUDY Xerox Corporation Question 1 Outline the management control system at Xerox. What are the key elements that make the system work? During 1970s‚ the management system of the company was rigid and accuracy was emphasized‚ which compromised the management control quality and also lead to unnecessary bureaucracies. In addition‚ customers’ satisfactions were also neglected due to the bureaucracy occurred. Then‚ the company’s targets were set unrealistically by the numbers people i.e.
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achieved swift advancement in a relatively short amount of time at Xerox‚ he is now faced with role options that appear‚ prima facie‚ to be lateral in nature. Clendenin’s boss‚ Fred Hewitt has made two clear offers to Clendenin: remain as head of Xerox’s Multinational Development Center (MDC) with a two-year commitment‚ or transition to a staff support position on Hewitt’s staff. While Clendenin’s success and ascension at Xerox is attributed to his role at the MDC‚ an additional two-year commitment
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discussed about the employee turnover. The PQR Company want to improve their existing succession planning system because their best and brightest employees are leaving the company so the PQR Company were having problems with retention. They want to retain their talent employee’s trough improving their existing succession planning. The PQR Company can follow some suggestion that their staffing‚ training‚ and succession planning report up trough a new position- a new head of talent management to improve
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1. In what ways can (a) flattening the hierarchy and (b) centralizing/decentralizing authority help an organization like Xerox to improve its performance? Flattening the hierarchy can help employees working closely‚ like those in R&D or strategic planning‚ work smoothly without having to wait for approvals or clearances. This may enable them to come up with innovative product line-ups quicker. It also helps cut down on bureaucratic costs. Centralizing an organization is useful when a large
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Melodia Ferraris left properties in Cebu City consisting of 1/3 share in the estate of her aunt Rosa Ferraris. Ten years have elapsed since the last time she was known to be alive‚ she was declared presumptively dead for purposes of opening her succession and distribute her estate among heirs. Hence‚ a petition for the summary settlement of her estate was filed. Melodia left no surviving descendant‚ ascendant or spouse‚ but was survived only by collateral relatives: 1) an aunt and half-sister of
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DIVERSE SUCCESSION PLANNING (DSP) INTRODUCTION “The future of many organizations is likely to depend on their mastery of diverse succession planning given that building bench strength among women and minorities will be critical in the competitive war for talent”. (Charles R. Greer and Meghna Virick‚ 2008.) They stressed further: “Aside from the leadership provided by CEOs and diversity officers‚ management of diversity should be embraced by the entire leadership team and not perceived as the
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