CASE: ACER, INC.: TAIWAN ‘S RAMPAGING DRAGON

As her company grew and she hired employees her leadership began displaying “supportive behavior” as well. She was a compassionate leader who would “show concern for the well being and needs of her employees”.2. When describing her leader ship style Wang stated “I try to share a tremendous amount with my staffers. I feel everything: the tribulations of business, the responsibility to people who depend on me to feed their families. Those things are always in my decision-making processes.”

In the seven years (since 1994), that Lou Gerstner reigned over IBM, the company’s earnings per

Star River Electronics Ltd. is a large manufacturer and supplier of CD-ROMS based in Singapore. It was founded as a joint venture between an Asian venture capital firm, New Era Partners and Starlight Electronics Ltd, UK. It has enjoyed a great deal of success in the past, due in large part to their excellent reputation for producing high-quality discs.

Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd which trades as Foxconn Technology group or as the media calls it Foxconn has been in media limelight recently due to labor problems that have surfaced from the organization. Foxconn is a major equipment manufacturer supplier to electronics giants like Blackberry, Apple, Microsoft Xbox, Sony PlayStation and the Nintendo Wii. The internet has several articles and controversies regarding the deplorable worker conditions and cases of suicides by the workers.

The identification with Christ as his child and the utilization of the Holy Spirit that indwells the believer following salvation is the only conclusive way we can obtain a semblance of being truly humble while serving and leading others before advancing ourselves. We are subjected to many weaknesses in this fallen world that prevent us from become completely humble. Our selfish pride can be a stumbling block in being humble. “Pride will not easily let go of its prisoners” (Wong & Davey, 2007). Identifying ourselves with

1) Evaluate HTC’s performance as described in the case. What are its competitive assets and liabilities?

Chinese mangers are inclined toward authoritarian leadership styles, tending to reject employee participation in day-to-day operations. For a long time now,

Simply, company started to sell everything that is commercially profitable, which is big mistake in the long term.

2. Lincoln needed continued organizational development just as Lincoln’s equipment needed continued maintenance to remain viable. James Lincoln was a principled visionary and an organizational development innovator[d]. However, he did not prepare successors for assuming the critical role that continued organizational development. Neither of his successors, first William Irrgang and later Georges Willis, had contributed anything of note in developing the organization to meet Lincoln’s changing environmental demands. In particular, during Willis’s tenure, Lincoln did not even practice organizational maintenance: “By 1992, nearly all of the newly acquired plants, plus France, were operating in the red [and corporate executives] paid little attention [p 7].”Lincoln needed to develop the Asian organization and to develop the entirety ofLincoln as a wholly integrated organization in order to meet the demands of its expansion effort.

Leadership is the process of inspiring others to work hard and accomplish important goals, (Schermerhorn, 258). When we refer to a leader, we do not only look at the aspects in which he inspires others. We also focus on the capacity of the leader to have a vision. This concept is better known as visionary leadership. Visionary leadership is what brings to any situation a clear sense of the future and an understanding of how to get there, (Schermerhorn, 262). Leaders who possess this vision usually have other attributes which aid for the implementation of well-structured and finalized

Whether Indivers would still hold some stakes in Qi-tech for two years' time. If Indivers withdrew immediately, Brown & Sharpe may find it risky and difficult to collaborate with QQMF.

Zong Qing Hou is not like other businessman and entrepreneur, he prefers to a simple life, although he earns a lot, he just spends $20 a day. Instead of large banquets and expensive meals, he prefer to have lunch with his employees and spend a lot of time with them. He developed a good relationship with his employees until they tend to call him ‘big brother’. Furthermore, he never fired a worker for the entire course of his career. (“Zong Qinghou – TheXtraordinary,”n.d.)He sends ice cream and cold drinks to his employees at Wahaha headquarters every summer and visits the production lines every Spring Festival. He also will toast them and give them ‘ang pau’ as holiday gifts.(“Zong Qinghou: The Old School

Apple Inc. is a globally recognised pioneer in the tech industry. It is a corporation that designs, develops and sells electronic products such as tablets, computers and phones. Founded by Ronald Wayne, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak in 1976, it is a multinational corporation with headquarters in Cupertino, California. Tim Cook has been CEO since Jobs’ passing in 2011.

Acer's dominance as a global manufacturer of IT hardware products can be attributed to the company's extensive electronics component expertise, depth of experience managing global electronics component supply chains, and well-planned acquisitions. Through a series of successful acquisitions, the company has four successful brands including Acer, eMachines, Gateway and Packard-Bell (DiDominico, Kartika, Sibeck, 1996). Of these three strategic areas that Acer excels in, their logistics and supply chain expertise across each of the geographies they compete in continue to deliver the greatest time-to-market and cost gains (Honi, Taring, Po-Young, 2000). Acer is organized into two segments, the device business group and consolidated products and services or other business group. This second group continues to be instrumental in the success of the "divide and conquer" strategies that Acer is successfully using relative to Lenovo. It is also a critical success factors in their success with global markets and local market competitive strategy. The combination of their depth of expertise with electronic components and supply chain prowess in the high technology industry also give the company a formidable competitive advantage against Dell and the troubled PC marker Hewlett-Packard (Honi, Taring, Po-Young, 2000). Despite all these strengths however, Acer continues to struggle with the areas of consumer branding and consumer awareness

This paper presents a case study of Apple Inc. Apple Inc. is a technology based corporation with emphasis on computer software and hardware (MAC and Apps), tablets (IPad), smart phones (IPhone), and mp3 plays, (ITouch). Apple Inc. has grown tremendously over the years and ever since 2001 has expanded its brand and retail stores to over 375 stores/outlets globally. The business has seventy two thousand eight hundred employees in thirty eight countries. Apple Inc. has truly become one of the most efficacious corporations within its field behind or competing with Microsoft and Google Inc.