Your consulting firm has been hired by a small company to prepare a research paper aligned with their plans for a global expansion.

Your consulting firm has been hired by a small company to prepare a research paper aligned with their plans for a global expansion.

The business has been successful for the past ten years with steady growth. However, the company believes that creating additional layers of management would increase performance. The company’s idea is to create an upper-management team to focus more on the strategic initiatives of the business going global and a lower-level management team to focus more on the day-to-day operations. The company has realized that there may be a few challenges to this reorganizational structure and have asked you to research the situation and advise the executive team. Several of the immediate concerns include:

The morale of the employees--half the current employees are very satisfied with their current job and responsibility and the other half of employees are eager to move into higher management position or into management position.
The budget--budget does not allow everyone to be promoted.
Performance issues—some individuals are lacking on their performance and are not going to be a good fit as a manager based on their past performance.
Identification of high performers.
Alternatives for moving forward with the new organizational structure that will not cause unnecessary chaos in the workplace.
Evaluation of the importance of the leadership dynamics when it comes to prior knowledge and skills.
1-2 pages report in a Word document fRegards




You have been the manager of human resources for a firm headquartered in the United States for many years. The firm has divisions all over the United States, as well as overseas. A new chief executive officer (CEO) has just come onboard after receiving his master's degree in business from an ivy-league institution. He has great academic credentials but little work experience. The management model that the former CEO preferred was more formal and autocratic, with most decision making being centralized to a great degree. Some of the firm's challenges include the following:

The firm expects to be in a much more competitive environment in the future.
To add to this, there has been talk about the possibility of employees forming a union because of the way they were treated under the former CEO.
The overseas divisions, where a much higher growth potential is expected, have repeatedly complained about the time it takes to have decisions made by the staff that is headquartered in the United States. On the other hand, there have been times where the international divisions have made decisions that are at odds with the company's overall strategy.
The new CEO has asked you to give him guidance on possibly changing the existing culture to better meet these challenges.

Individual Portion

Management models to discuss are as follows:
The use of an autocratic versus a participative management style toward decision making
Having a more centralized versus a more decentralized decision making
Adopting a more informal versus a more formal management style
Search for articles that deal with actual examples of each of the 3 management models regarding the management of the employees in this firm. Write a 500–750-word paper explaining why that particular model of management was chosen by the senior management in the article that you researched. In your opinion, was this approach toward management a success? Why or why not