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MAN 432 Final Project

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MAN 432 Final Project: Case Analysis This case study on the Diamond Wipes International Company will use management concepts to answer inquiries about the company. Context from the textbook will be used to support the answers and fully detail the company’s management views. 1. What leadership style did Eve Yen use with her employees? Describe her actions that support your choice. (Chap 19) Eve Yen should have determined what she needed the employees to do before hiring them. Unless a person is trained, they cannot fulfill the requirements of the position in a new company. Her answer to the problem when individuals didn’t follow through as she expected them to do was to fire them and take everything back. Founders often are the …show more content…

4. Eve said, “By 2006 I had started to worry.” (About expansion). What planning should she have been doing in the 11 years since she started her company? Be specific in the actions that were needed. (Chap 19) Eve should have planned for long-term and short-term when she started her company. Long-term planning could have included a better organization of how the business would run, in the instance that it took on the growth that it did when she “started to worry.” Long-term planning would of helped her to see the growth ahead of time and automatically resort to the plan she created, save time and initiate the solution of implementing managers and other such devices to help keep the company just as efficient. Short-term goals could have been dealing with the production overlap issues that she faced with growth from start-up to the 11 years later where she would be a $9 million industry. Setting short-term goals for production, marketing and other areas could have helped her stay on top of the lack of communication issues she later faced, by implementing a universal system when the company was smaller and perhaps didn’t need it as much. This would have helped communication as the company grew to be easier dealt with as it would already be implemented. Setting a budget would have helped in her planning to avoid her woes about expansion as well. Setting budget goals would have help her follow a

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