Case Study/Analysis “A Day in the Life of Alex Sander: Driving in the Fast Lane at Landon Care Products” Situation/Analysis: Alex Sander is the newest and youngest product manager in the Toiletries Division of Landon Care Products‚ Inc.‚ a cosmetics product company located in Connecticut. At 32 years of age‚ Alex is aggressive‚ driven‚ and an extremely hard worker. Alex is educated‚ obtaining his MBA from MIT Sloan‚ as well as an undergraduate BA degree in Economics from Stanford. When he joined
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A Day in the Life of Alex Sander: Driving in the Fast Lane at Landon Care Products. Case Analysis Report Submitted by: OB Group 2 Group Members: 1. Anil Kumar Reddy(2013031) 2. Aneesh Aswal(2013028) 3. Animesh Bajpai (2013032) 4. Ankita Sharma (2013041) 5. Anshul Karn(2013044) 6. Anshul Rajora (2013046) Introduction: The following analysis is based on the attitude and behaviour of Alex Sander - newest and youngest product manager at LANDON. He had been very successful
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Thomas Green: Power‚ Office Politics‚ and a Career in Crisis Individual Case Analysis Kay Saeteurn BUSA 305-01 Dr. Catherine Pratt November 17‚ 2008 Thomas Green: Power‚ Office Politics‚ and a Career in Crisis Individual Case Analysis Power is the capability that A has to influence the behavior of B so that B acts in accordance with A’s wishes‚[1] especially dependency power where a certain individual has something of importance‚ scarcity‚ and non substitutable‚ that another person seeks
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Thomas Green Paper: Power‚ Office Politics‚ and a Career in Crisis Vanessa D. Goins Grand Canyon University LDR-610-0101 Power‚ Politics‚ and Influence Brian Lahargoue July 20‚ 2013 Thomas Green ‘s actions as a senior market specialist was not meeting Frank Davis’s expectations A senior market specialist job is responsible for identifying industry trends‚ evaluating new business opportunities‚ and establishing sales goals(Sasser & Beckham‚ 2008).Shannon McDonald had hired Green because
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY After working for five months as an account executive‚ Thomas Green was directly promoted as the Senior Market Specialist by the vice president of the company‚ Shannon McDonald‚ because of immense potential exhibited by him. However‚ Frank Davis‚ Green’s boss‚ did not intend to choose Green as the new senior market specialist. Green and Davis disagreed on work styles and market projections. Green believed that the sales goals set by Davis are based on "creative accounting" and
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cause job dissatisfaction‚ low work performance‚ unnecessary conflicts‚ and potentially getting fired from one’s job. Thomas Green Case is a great example of how different work styles and office politics can result in a career crisis. After reviewing the following case study‚ I have concluded that both parties are responsible for the lack of synergy between the employee‚ Green‚ and upper-management‚ Davis. The underlying root cause of these problems occurring in the office is from the lack of
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1. Describe the work styles and personalities of Thomas Green and Frank Davis. Thomas Green : He was a man of words‚ who could charm anyone with the way who spoke. Which also meant that he was an excellent salesman who could sell the products well. He was an aggressive and an ambitious person. However when it came to work he didn’t like to provide the clients any data backing his ideas. He just expected the clients to trust him on his word. He felt that preparing presentations‚ charts and any data
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the Life of Alex Sander Case Analysis Alex Sander is a no-nonsense‚ enterprising person who expects everybody in his team to overachieve and be as committed as he is to the project. It seems that he gets frustrated when assignments and when his instructions are not executed to the T. The 360° feedback he received from his boss predicts that Alex will likely not be an effective leader if he continues with his current path of aggressive behavior in the office. Glass mentions that Alex needs to work
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The concept of good and evil has always been debated. The comparison of two people‚ their background and their attitudes to life‚ lead one to determine a villain from a hero. But what makes one a hero? The first text chosen is a book series called ‘Alex Rider’‚ this series follows a 14 year old boy for two years who has been blackmailed into a war as MI9 (British intelligence) secret weapon. He goes on 7 different deadly missions and is forced to grow up and see the reality of things like death
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What does the 360 degree data tell us about Alex’s likely career success? If you were Sam Glass‚ would you invest more time in helping Sander progress at Landon? The 360 degree data draws a “good vs. evil” portrait of Alex. He is a sort of incarnation of House‚ MD‚ a main character of a famous TV series: he is a high performer‚ but he has a lack of ability to work well with others. Narcissism‚ Machiavellianism and arrogance are three important negative traits of his personality emerge from the
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