Netflix Executive Leadership

| 1. Complete the Teamwork section of the course of study. 2. Schedule and conduct first team meeting (Note: Detailed instructions for scheduling the first team meeting can be found in the course of study.) 3. Complete the Team Contract and have team leader submit to

In the changing business environment, leaders of all organisations may face unprecedented uncertainty, especially the technology advancement and changes among the employees. To survive and succeed, leaders should have some necessary attributes. Meanwhile, some changes for leadership skills have to be made to confront the challenges.

On November 24 2014, Netflix filed a lawsuit against its former vice president of IT operations, Michael Kail (accountingintheheadlines.com), alleging breach of fiduciary duty and duty of loyalty, conversion, fraudulent concealment, unjust enrichment, violation of California Business & Professions Code § 17200, constructive fraud and fraud (scribd.com). Mr. Kail was in charge of entering into and authorizing contracts for Netflix’s tech vendors (accountingintheheadlines.com). Kail would recommend that Netflix enters into agreements and contracts with third party companies that would later pay Kail 12-15% commission on his consulting company, Unix Mercenary (scribd.com). Netflix had no knowledge of this company (accountingintheheadlines.com).

He has 25 employees, which he would like to keep employed. He has a home/investment property that he would like to hold onto until the housing market rebounds.

This article resonated with me because, as a user of Netflix, I am interested in how the company is run, and how it became so popular. It is also interesting because last term I took a microeconomics course, and wrote an essay about the economics of Netflix. Since I have a fairly good idea about Netflix from an economic perspective, it is thought-provoking to view the same company from a leadership perspective and consider how the leadership influenced economics and vice versa.

Negotiation is one of the most common approaches used to make decisions and manage disputes. It is also the major building block for many other alternative dispute resolution procedures. According to Christopher W (2012), negotiation is the principal way that people redefine an old relationship that is not working to their satisfaction or establish a new relationship where none existed before. Because negotiation is such a common problem-solving process, it is in everyone 's interest to become familiar with negotiating dynamics and skills. This section is designed to identify what worked well and not well in the negotiation. In addition, to present strategies that generally makes the negotiation more efficient and improvement in the next

As CEO of Netflix I would identify Amazon and Hulu. Amazon and Hulu are the two companies that are identified with consumers to create the greatest challenge against Netflix. Both companies offer similar services with a similar pricing structure. An article dated 2010, states that Hulu represents a new direction for internet video viewing (Pruitt, 2010). Amazon web is also identified as a challenge in that Amazon is well-known and is constantly improving and catering to their customers.

In today’s competitive world, leadership skills are crucial for both personal and professional development. Leadership is an important function of management which helps an individual or a business to maximize efficiency and to achieve goals. Leadership has different meanings to various authors.Most commonly, leadership is defined as influence, that is, the art of influencing people so that they will strive willingly and enthusiastically toward the achievement of group goals. (Koontz). Leadership is the process of influencing the activities of either formal or informal group in the task of goal setting and goal achievement. A leader is one whose magnetic personality innervates people for some cause. Not by words, but by their actions is

The following is a case study of Netflix, Inc. an American-based company that provides the streaming of online media to consumers in North America, South America, and parts of Europe. This case study will provide a brief overview of the company’s history along with four present-day challenges that the company will face as it tries to stay ahead of the competition. In its discussion of the present-day challenges that Netflix, Inc. faces the discussion will also relate the proposed challenges to the managerial challenges of globalization, diversity, and ethics. After each of the four anticipated challenges have been addressed then this paper will provide an analysis of the steps that Netflix, Inc. has already taken to keep the

A leader has a role that can impact others to be more operative in functioning to attain a common goal and maintain effective working relationships amongst group members (Johnson & Johnson 2012). This makes leaders in groups considerably important in shaping individuals (Johnson & Johnson 2012). However, conflict arises in groups and becomes difficult to manage when a leader and the followers lack the skills to manage conflict as a team (Johnson & Johnson 2012). Leadership and conflict resolution skills must exists between leaders and followers in order to manage conflict (Johnson & Johnson 2012). Also, it is possible for followers to teach leaders how to lead and resolve problems since followers can play an active role in building relationships amongst group members (Howell & Shamir cited in Johnson & Johnson 2012). Since followers and leaders both have significant roles in accomplishing the group goals, they both have a role to manage conflict effectively as a group (Johnson & Johnson 2012). This essay will discuss how leaders have an important role in managing conflict and likewise with followers having important roles in managing conflict. Conflicts, the various types of conflicts that happen in groups and the reasons behind the conflicts will be mentioned followed by approaches that can be taken to help manage struggles within groups. The methods can be used by leaders and followers in order to manage

Conflict or disagreement over the range of issues has become inherent aspect of modern organisational life. People from different cultural and education background work in an organisation. People working in an organisation may possess different goal and interest. People working in organisation may tend to different over a range of issues including organisational politics, organisational procedure, personal preference or political preference. It is also argued that conflict is essential characteristics of organisational life. Role of manager is paramount with regard to negotiating the conflict that arises in organisational life (http://www.sagepub.com/). Often lack of

Netflix was founded in 1997 by Reed Hastings who is the current CEO of the company. He noticed that there was a demand for the

Promote the Netflix’s value position with regards (or is it in regards)? to newly acquired content through public relations.

Reed and his executive team should focus on their growth strategy. By focusing on this strategy, Netflix can improve the way in which they get an increase of profit by convincing other studios to let them license their content. This way Netflix will have more content from studios and HBO will not see them as a competitor anymore. In result, HBO will end up giving Netflix what they want but in reality, Netflix would be gaining much more subscribers because of their wide selection of

Generally, the human resource management practices and policies that are applied by Netflix have been