minority president of a division. In the 1990s sexual orientation was included in the company’s Equal Opportunity policy. Xerox has 50% of its workforce made up by women and minorities. Of that 50%‚ 48.2% are Xerox’s senior executives. In 2007‚ Ursula Burns was named the first African American female president of Xerox Corporation. The definition of diversity was changed by Anne M. Mulcahy. She said Diversity was the key to success. Diversity breeds creativity. Companies ruled by a hierarchy of imagination
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Background of CEO According to Xerox.com (2013) Ursula Burns joined Xerox in 1980 as a Mechanical Engineering summer intern. In the company pivotal point‚ Burns led several business teams to include the color and office network printing business. In 2000‚ Burns was named senior vice president corporate strategic Services heading up manufacturing and supply chain operations. And in 2009‚ Burns was named the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) in July 2009 and made the largest acquisition
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2013 Abstract This paper examines the leadership style of Ursula Burns and it describes what influences‚ values and behavior leadership has on an organization. Leadership has been defined as the processof of influencing others and of facilitating individual and collective efforts to accomplish shared objectives. 1. Provide a brief (one paragraph) background of the CEO. Born September 20‚ 1958 in New York City‚ New York Ursula Burns has been married to Lloyd Bean since 1988. She attended
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Behind the scenes of a great turnaround In Dean’s Innovative Leader Series presentation‚ Xerox Chairman and CEO Anne Mulcahy reveals leadership strategies that helped resuscitate the historic company As the chairman and CEO of Xerox‚ Anne Mulcahy was largely responsible for orchestrating what Money magazine called “the great turnaround story of the post-crash era.” By keeping the company steadfastly focused on customers and employees‚ she was able to lead Xerox away from the brink of collapse
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Summary of the case study In the early 2000s Xerox was facing stiff competition from its aggressive Japanese competitors selling low-priced digital copiers that made Xerox’s products obsolete. It was at this time that Anne Mulcahy became their CEO and had to contend with
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rectify the problems. Another way the company could have motivated the employees is by allowing them to voice their concerns as well as offer suggestions. CEO with such a large number of employees communicates priorities to a worldwide workforce? The CEO of a company must be able to effectively communicate priorities to its employees. The CEO could also have posters created and place them on bulletin boards in the employee cafeteria or other places where they socialize. Motivation in the Workforce
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in 2008. Mulcahy was dubbed “The Accidental CEO” by Fortune in 2003 because of their unlikely rise to the top of the organization. Under similar circumstances‚ most CEOs brought in to turn around a failing company come from outside the organization. In Mulcahy’s case‚ she had worked at Xerox for 24 years‚ had no CEO experience‚ and did not have a seat on the company’s board of directors. “I never expected to be CEO of Xerox. I was never groomed to be CEO of Xerox. It was a total surprise to everyone
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women who may have thought the technology industry was no place for them to make it big. The eight women that are listed on this year ’s Forbes ’ list are as follows: • Ursula Burns - Chairman and CEO of Xerox - she is both the first black woman to head an S&P 100 company and the first woman to succeed another female CEO of an S&P 100 company. She is ranked number 20 on the Forbes list. • Arianne Huffington - Editor and cofounder of The Huffington Post. She cofounded The Huffington Post in
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An employee handbook will layout the foundation of the company‚ but leaders will act in a de facto one-sided manner. Between 2010-2012‚ CEO Burns received a $13 million annual raise along with executive bonuses‚ despite massive layoffs for the company’s poor performance (Fitzgerald‚ 2016). The root causes of dysfunction within the organization stems from the executives’ lack of confidence
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President and Chief Operating Officer in 2000 And President of Xerox’s General Markets Operations She thought she had already reached her goal‚ seeing as there didn’t look like much opportunity for her to become the CEO‚ when at the end of 2001 she was surprised to be rewarded with the CEO of Xerox offer. First Female Chairman in 2002 Main Accomplishment: Restructured Xerox finances by cutting annual expenses by over 1.7 billion dollars‚ removed over 25‚000 unnecessary jobs‚ and sold more than
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