What Are Kerrie's Challenges

resolved; personalities, protectionism, and the reluctance of leadership (Bethel University, 2014-A). They believed that Kerrie’s task was an exercise in futility because they had been through it many times before, everyone had ideas, but no one presented a solution that was acceptable to the entire group (Bethel University, 2014-A). This caused some in-fighting or bickering about what and how things should be done. After the senior management team compiled and submitted their reports on how to achieve

developed a team of her choice that was “diverse in age education & experience”. Diversity can also be a challenge when you have a group of individuals who may be young but have multiple degrees stating that they can do the job and then you have the more seasoned individual who’s been doing the job for a long time therefore they feel that they know it all there is to know about their job. Kerrie’s team could be classified as a matrix organization that consists of many different projects that is subject

Getting a business to be in agreement can sometimes be a challenge. There should always be open communication with the leadership teams to create an ethical leadership environment (Schwepker, 2015). Kerrie Peterson in conjunction with other GM’s of Access met with their CEO and was informed that they had to cut operational expenses in order to generate profit and recuperate from low revenues in June of 2000 (Lester & Parnell, 2006). Kerrie Peterson agreed to cut operational expenses by a 15%. Kerrie

In this case Kerrie has been charged with reducing the operating cost of her department. She must reduce the expenses of the department by 15% or 75 million dollars. Kerrie uses her other department senior managers to come up with ideas for this down size. Kerrie decides to cut spending on travel and other nonessential business purchases while also putting a hiring freeze in place. The came as a short-term fix from Sam the Account Manager who stands the most to lose in this budget cut. I personally

goal, but the challenge was getting her senior manager on board with the ideal. Kerrie called a meeting for her senior management team, to inform them of the changes. Kerrie stressed the fact that by their department being the largest department they must join this effort, in order to meet the goal for the greater good of the company, (Lester & Parnell, 2007, Case E). As general manager, Kerrie