The 21st Century & Managerial Thinking

The methodology will be as follows: a number of current articles from popular business publications will be selected, then briefly described, in order to identify management problems as the participants themselves consider them. The publications used will be top-selling magazines in the country that cater to a broad range of business interests. In keeping with the intent of this study to focus on participant-evaluation of current management problems, entrepreneurial and business-theory publications were not used. Nor were articles related to small-business management; this was a matter of scope consideration, since the management field is rich in resource materials.

After describing each article individually, a summary of the top three management problems of today will be derived. Following that proce

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escribes the managerial decisions Fisher faced - and still foresees necessary - in turning around Kodak, which had been mired in $7.5 billion of debt which he has since slashed to $1.5 billion - in the meanwhile "reinvigorating a bloated, hierarchical management" (Maremont, 1995, p. 63). In contrast to the Paula Dwyer article cited on Page 2 of this paper, Fisher attacks the "matrix management system, which deflected responsibility for poor performance" (Maremont, 1995, p. 63). But, pushing for faster decision-making and more personal get-go among Kodak management, Fisher's description of matrix management is couched in hierarchical terms: "everybody looked to the guy above him for what needed to be done. ... How can you hold a person accountable if you've had three overrides on his decision?" (Maremont, 1995, p. 65). In addition to promoting greater accountability among decision-making management, Fisher has also been refocussing Kodak's business attention upon its core interest - image processing - selling off subsidiaries and acquisitions that do not contribute to that effort, such as health-care businesses. As part of that "core interest" concentration, Fisher is in the process of reorganizing Kodak's international develo
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Approximate Pages = 12 (250 words per page)

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