CASE STUDY

Case Study: How Roche Diagnostics Develops Global Managers



Case Study: How Roche Diagnostics Develops Global Managers

Discuss who is responsible for producing global leaders.

Being a global leader can be great and hard thing, as well. You have the control to modify things, but you do not have the control to modify people. Global leaders are responsible for making their employees feel supported. They have an enormous impact, be it positive or negative, in the entire industry. Initially, the responsibility of developing and producing global leaders is for the educational institutions (Gupta & Govindarajan, 2002). The educational systems should develop and polish the leadership qualities in the students in various different ways. For example, assigning group assignments to the students and assigning a leader in each group. The role of the leader can be rotated among the students so that each one of them gets the chance of becoming a leader. Such type of activities will enhance and polish the leadership qualities of students from a young age. These children will grow up and step into the professional field with strong leadership qualities, which will help them in their careers and becoming global leaders.

Furthermore, the companies and organizations are also responsible for producing global leaders. They ought to give proper training to their employees and assign tasks which help the employees to grow their leadership qualities. The global leaders can take the companies towards success as they will manage their teams effectively and produce leaders among their teams (Gupta & Govindarajan, 2002). If a company or organization has a number of potential global leaders then that company or organization can become global leaders in their industries, as well.

In your professional field, explain the possible ramifications of not having global leaders.

For the organizations, it is vital to have or develop global leaders. It is essential for the prosperity of the organization. The lack of global leadership in an organization can cause a lot of problems. Some of them are listed below.

Middle managers do not take responsibility as leaders and take the side of underlings,

The senior officers unable to drive people

People are discouraged and do not know what to do, despite paying in a timely manner

The incentives of any kind are insufficient, always ask for more

Unions take over, and decisions are made through them

Employees do not value the customer relationship

People complain constantly

People do not feel that their efforts are being recognized

The answer to all of the above is to have or produce a strong leader. There is a great need to develop global leaders to run the process of a company smoothly. The strong leaders know the development of each team member (detection of skills and talents) and what thing drives the group. If there are no global leaders, then there will be no competition. The global leaders set a benchmark for the rest of the competition (Dalton et al, 2002). The others strive hard to reach that benchmark and become the global leaders ...