Nissan Motor Company Ltd (Nissan) is Japanese Company engaged in the automotive industry worldwide. The Company‚ including its associated brands‚ designs‚ produces and sells more than 3.7 million passenger cars and commercial vehicles in more than 190 countries. The Company is engaged in manufacture and sale of passenger automobiles‚ as well as the supply of automobile parts. Major overseas market for Nissan included Europe‚ North America‚ Africa‚ New Zealand and China. The Company’s major production
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MBA ROUTE - ALEXANDRIA Developing Strategic Management and Leadership Skills Strategic Management & Leadership Skills Assignment “Leaders Redesigning - Nissan” Assignment Date: 28th March 2015 Prepared By : Ragy Abdel Alim Ahmed Ahmed Student No. : EGY0514 Task 1 Acting as a new management and leadership consultant for Nissan the following tasks have to be finalized: Section 1.1: Discuss and explain the link between strategic management and leadership
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someone that portrays characteristics of ‘ matrix management‚ totally quality management and new methods of strategic alliances and globalisation’. A technocrat is predefined in appendix 1 as ‘controlled‚ methodical and determined’. When analysing Ghosn he ultimately portrays more of these qualities than an ‘Artist’ who presents aspects of ‘volatility ‚ unpredictability and funny’. This is shown through actions such as restructuring company management through cross-functional teams (CFTs) and successfully
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Introduction In 1999 Carlos Ghosn was elected as the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Nissan‚ which had recently formed an alliance with Renault‚ another large global motor company (Yoshino and Egawa‚ 2003). It was evident that the organization was experiencing financial‚ strategic and operational difficulties attributed to a lack of profit orientation‚ cross-functional coordination and cooperation‚ customer focus‚ a sense of urgency‚ a shared vision and strategy. Ghosn and his team later proposed
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turnaround of the Japanese auto assembling organization Nissan. In 1999 Nissan was bringing about misfortunes in seven of the former eight years‚ which prompted a collusion with the French auto producer Renault‚ and the procuring of another CEO. Carlos Ghosn‚ being the first non-Japanese CEO‚ needed to face an enormous society conflict (French-Japanese) so that he might rethink the organization’s structure to eventually upgrade its execution in a greatest time of two years. Despite the fact that he seriously
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VEHICLE STRATEGY IN 2011: LEADING THE WAY TOWARD ZERO-EMISSION You can’t ignore that zero-emission vehicles are the wave of the future. Carlos Ghosn‚ president and CEO of Renault-Nissan Alliance‚ January 12‚ 2010 INTRODUCTION It had been five months since Nissan sold its first all-electric vehicle‚ the Nissan LEAF‚ in Redwood City‚ California. Carlos Ghosn‚ president and CEO of both Nissan and its Alliance partner Renault‚ was betting big on zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs)‚ to the tune of $5 billion
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with competitors and lost its own identity. Nissan signed a global alliance agreement with Renault and Carlos Ghosn 1999 with the alliance came as the visionary to bring about the famous turnover in the company. The changes Carlos Ghosn brought about in the present problematic environment were: 1933 - 1937 1959 1960sEarly1970s Problems Unclear profit orientation Changes brought forward by Ghosn He brought financial discipline and couples goals and targets with financial definitions and not just in sales
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of an individual directing the activities of a group toward a shared goal.” The following paragraphs would elaborate on one major approach of studying leadership‚ its strengths and weakness‚ and an example in which it was used in an organization. (Yukl‚ 2010) Participative Leadership style Participative Leadership is the most common leadership style in business settings such as hospitality. Participative Leadership “involves all members of a team in identifying
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facing. By staying employee and customer focused‚ James Parker‚ was able to be successful through the difficult situation. The author of Leadership in Organizations‚ Gary Yukl‚ mentions that a leader’s influence and effectiveness can be altered by aspects of the leadership situation‚ which is described in contingency theories (Yukl‚ 2013‚ p. 163). James Parker was effective and successful in the leadership situation that he found himself in. Southwest Airlines was greatly influenced by Parker’s leadership
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(Education‚ 2010)‚ by monitoring and controlling followers through forced compliance. This may not seem like the most effective way to lead people. However‚ in the scenario it mentions that “Alan had everybody’s attention‚ but nobody seemed to be moving” (Yukl‚ 2013‚ p. 183)‚ Kirk even strolled over to him with a smile on his face like nothing was wrong. So by using this type of leadership style Alan was able to reduce any uncertainties his employees may have had in knowing their task at the time‚ and also
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