Back on track! : successful management techniques to get a company out of debt pile / Olga Bieck.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bieck, Olga, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Management--Case studies.

Management.

Leadership--Management.

Leadership.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (74 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Hamburg, Germany : Anchor Academic Publishing, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The present work is analysing the successful turnaround of the Japanese car manufacturer Nissan in 1999 to 2001. Very often transformational change fails due to different factors, in most cases though due to the insufficient employee's motivation or due to cultural problems when two international partners try to gain the competitive advantage through merger or alliance. To analyse the successful turnaround of Nissan after its alliance with Renault, a 'new' model for conducting organizational change was introduced. The provided framework unites both actions and attitudes, necessary for motivati

Contents:

Back on track!; I. Contents; 1. Objectives; 1.1 Structure and methodology; 1.2 Research; 2. The overview of leadership approaches; 2.1 Major characteristics of a leader; 2.2 Leadership styles and roles; 3. Reasons for strategic change; 3.1 Transactional change; 3.2 Transformational change; 4. Different levels of change in organisation; 4.1 Individual change: reasons for resistance; 4.2 Team change: the role of teams in a change management process; 4.3 Organisational change: organisation metaphors; 5. Nissan's U-turn: 1999-2001; 5.1 Overview of Nissan's economic situation in 1999

5.2 Carlos Ghosn: the European leader versus the Japanese tradition5.3 Leading change: the secret of Carlos Ghosn success as a leader; 5.4 Transformational change of Nissan according to 8 Steps to New Organisation Approach; 6. Conclusion; Literature

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 14, 2014).

ISBN:

3-95489-675-3

OCLC:

871779832