Corporation Application of Machiavelli's Theory

Corporation Application of Machiavelli's Theory

Introduction

Niccolo Machiavelli was born in Florence 1469 some of his childhood and adolescence is known and there is no accurate data on his life until 1498, at twenty years old Machiavelli in a position of little importance in a Florentine military political organization. Before long his reputation grew and were entrusted certain diplomatic missions, traveled to France where he met King Louis XII, his stay in this country was represented a great political experience as I get to know the structure and the political organization of France. According to Belschak et al. (2013), his thinking has important applications to modern management, the management thought of Machiavelli are primarily direct; advise those persons who were granted an authority to guide the work of many men. The Prince can be helpful for people whose business requires address whether officers, directors, employers, supervisors, etc. out of many aspects give by Machiavelli the aspects are extremely important to understand the implications of his studies with the working of the organization. This paper tends to discuss the relevance and application of Machiavelli's thoughts on the administrative functionality of the Microsoft.

Overview of Microsoft Corporation

Microsoft Corporation is a U.S. based multinational company that has its headquarter in Washington and it deals with manufacturers, licenses, support programs and sells a variety of computers along with the provision of the needed services. Bill Gates and Paul Allen are the prime founder of the company that was established in 1975. However, they are symbolically known for their software applications and operating systems. They have come up with Xbox and series of tablets. In 2011, they obtained Skype technologies that stand the one the largest acquisition till to date. Their successful journey has not stopped since then.

Machiavelli Views about Organizational Practices

Political virtue is one of the fundamental notions of Prince. Accurate, however, will not find anywhere in the definition of virtue. We could understand this idea as the personal quality of the prince that allows it to withstand the blows of fortune and anticipate their turns. Machiavelli continues in this way with the idea that the central quality policy. The Florentine separates the meaning of the quality of all traditional morality. Virtuoso is that behavior that is dictated by the need to enable and worthy ends meet. According to Collins et al. (2012), to maintain the state, Prince, Machiavelli judgment has to learn how not to be good. Leo Strauss rightly says that virtue for Machiavelli is the judicious alternation between virtue and vice.

For Machiavelli political virtue is memorials but imaginative. In the hazardous terrain of history, the prince must have the intelligence and ability to act in accordance with the rules of the political extreme conservation. The question of political duty to abide by the rules of social morality becomes irrelevant questions: when to obey and when to depart from them. To be virtuous is to be able to adjust to the times and ally with ...