AboutErnesto Gomes Expertise I can answer questions to Corporate Governance, General Management, Budgeting, Human Resource, People Management, Sales, Competition, Change & Transformation, Strategy and other. Specifics in Accounting and/or Legal are not my strength.
Experience I'm an experienced Business Manager and was a GM of a unit within a large IT Company. Leading over 250 Employees and multy million business. International Roles and Responsibilities. Worked and lead in Service Delivery, Sales, Portfolio Management and General Business.
Education/Credentials Project Management, 12 years of work experience
Q. 1: In what way does Neelman demonstrate an understanding of human resource approach to management?
Q. 2: To reduce the trade deficit, and to slow the outsourcing (or offshoring) of U.S. jobs, many people encourage Americans to insist on purchasing consumer goods made in the United States. What are the advantage and disadvantage of a buy American policy?
Q. 3: Small and medium-sized companies are often eager to hire people with about five years of experience working in a large, successful bureaucratic firm such as IBM or general Electric. What might be the reason behind the demand for these workers with experience in a bureaucracy?
Q. 4: A manufacturing supervisor changed his sex from male to female, and took a medical leave of absence during the final stages of the transformation. Upon her return, she wanted her old job back. The company offered her a technician’s job but refused to reappoint her as supervisor, saying she would create too many distractions. Describe whether you think this situation is a question of job discrimination?
Q. 5: For what type of leadership situation might a transformational leader be inappropriate?
Q .6: Think back to the executive who recognized employees with motivational stickers, such as “Dynamite.” What impact might such a sticker have on your job performance and satisfaction?
Q. 7: How might understanding the steps in the communication process help managers and staff professionals do a better job?
Q. 8: In what way is participating on a spots team, in a musical band, or in an orchestra good participation for being a member of a work group on the job?
Q. 9: Why don’t managers who are great controllers generally receive as much publicity as managers who are great leaders?
Q. 10: Why should management be willing to rehabilitate employees through an employee assistance program when so many workers have been downsized in recent years?
Thank You
Answer Puru, here my thoughts..................................................................
Q1: sorry I don't know Diana Neelman's work
Q2 advantage: keep jobs, speed up local economy, national regulation, national monopoly
Q2 disadvantage: missing international competition due to monopoly (motor for quality and price), export => due to stronger $, other countries will buy less from the US
import => international partners will be unhappy of this rules, therefore export less to US and also invest less in US market
Q3: IBM and GE, train there people well and want to be 100% in line with regulations: therefore those people will have practical understanding of regulations, know rules %26 regulations plus both companies are best at processes and value chain management
Q4: yes. discrimination happens when you are best qualified for a job (which this person most probably is) but don't get it due to your e.g. gender, religion, race, etc.
Q5: generally speaking I would say that every business area needs to change in order to adapt to everyday challenges. At best I'd say that business which is being discontinued doesn't need a transformational leader.
Q6: this seems to be a personal example, you should answer it directly for yourself.
Q7: communication is what should assure formal and informal everyday guidance, consistency in activities and clarity throughout the organization. The challenge lies in the right quantity and the right content of information (especially in todays overkill of data/information). Understanding the process might help to assure that.
Q8: all of this are normally team activities, where your individual contribution needs to benefit the greater purpose of the team. Same is true at work.
Q9: Leaders inspire and motivate people. While controllers are felt to hinder and supervise people... that's not inspiring and seen as negative. So both might get publicity but the great leader will eventually be used as a role model.
Q10: not sure if rehabilitation is the right word here. Anyway looking after your employees, even when downsizing it's always the right thing to do. Your actions in hard times will be remembered in good times. And you will need good people in good times, so you don't want to be remembered as the company who just got rid of people and/or treated them bad.
