Team fitness
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A fictional case is used to explore the issue of successor selection. A company chairman and CEO is faced with the dilemma of choosing between two candidates who appear equally suited to succeed him. One of these candidates is a 30-year old member of the board while the other is recommended by a headhunting firm. The CEO favors the board member's strategic plan for the company but doubts the young man's ability to get the support of the board. The headhunted candidate also has ideas worthy of consideration which are in agreement with those of the CEO's deputy and the firm's marketing director. The CEO cannot decide between the two and is thinking of looking for other candidates. However, he is advised against doing this since both the board member and the headhunted candidate appear qualified for the job. Instead, he should facilitate a debate between the two to gain better insights into their personal qualities and failings.
Publication Name: International Management
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0020-7888
Year: 1992
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Informed choice
Article Abstract:
A management case is discussed wherein the chairman must decide whether or not to allow one division to develop its own management information system (MIS) in opposition to a company-wide MIS commissioned by the chairman himself. The manager in opposition, the chairman's appointee to head a troubled division, had proven himself justified in his autonomy. The chairman's final decision involved his allowing the manager to go on with the development of an independent system. The underlying rationale is that the autonomy and creativity of each division should not be sacrificed, especially if individual divisions' innovations may benefit the whole company. Thus, the chairman authorized the manager to proceed under the condition that if the his project is found more efficient, it must be implemented in the other divisions. Otherwise, he must adopt the company-wide system.
Publication Name: International Management
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0020-7888
Year: 1992
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Sime Darby gropes for new mountains to conquer
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Sime Darby Berhad, a Malaysian conglomerate, has relied on revenues from the palm oil trade, generated by its 200,000 acres of plantations farmed in traditional Malaysian ways, but the company is preparing to implement more modern harvesting techniques slowly but surely. The changes in its palm oil operations are being accompanied by dramatic changes in its management and planning at the very highest levels of the corporation, changes that are likely to affect the operation of its more than 100 subsidiaries throughout Southeast Asia, which combined have close to $1 billion in annual sales. The financial history of the company and how the changes in its operations are being planned and implemented by its CEO, Tunku Ahmed, are described.
Publication Name: International Management
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0020-7888
Year: 1984
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