Leadership



Leadership

Introduction

The given case is regarding the Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. and Carlos Ghosn. As highlighted in the case the Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. was facing huge losses due to the runaway inflation and Ghosn being the COO on the company managed the operations' turnaround through his leadership skills. Ghosn discovered a number of issues through his management and communication skills, which are discussed briefly within this paper. In addition to this, for solving the issues of the company Ghosn took few initiatives and initiated changed in Nissan, but this was not just any other change rather a drastic one. As the case suggests that Ghosn placed everything on the line even declared that he would resign if the change is unsuccessful. This paper provides a WHW WDS analysis of the case in discussion.

Discussion

Most important issues in the case

The key symptom that is analyzed from the case study is that Nissan did not experience a profitable result in a long time. There were various issues behind this that included the operations of the company facing losses, mo common long-term plan or shared vision , the company was lacking the sense of urgency, inadequate cross-border, cross-functional and intra-hierarchical lines of work in the company, too much focus on chasing competitors and insufficient focus on their own customers. In addition to this, the company even lacked a profit orientation.

Relation between the issues

These issues were interrelated to each other in a sense that Nissan had attempted to bring change within the organization and had failed each time due to inadequate leadership, planning and implementation, because what Ghosn did on his arrival to Tokyo was that he went out of the way to look for causes and issues. Although, he never promoted standing out of the crowd as according to his beliefs this only invited much trouble and did less for solving the prevailing issues. In order to find if and how the issues were related to each other, Ghosn rather than sitting within his office began to talk to people at different levels from different domains of the company. Ghosn realized that the employees were both dedicated and talented; the company was in a strong position due to its alliance with Renault; the company possessed a dominant edge in selective, crucial technological fields, and its main strength was considerable global reach and international presence. It was discovered that employees had lost hope because of the company's persistent failures in bringing change and not producing results, which got depicted in its profitability. The company did not have a particular strategy that aligned the mission and vision in a way that each employee's performance shoulders the organizational credo and objective of the company (Gold, Hirano & Yokoyama, 2001).

Theoretical explanation

The reason behind this was culture. Due to its enormous size and global presence the company had to face cultural variations because of its employees from diverse backgrounds. As coordination between employees and within the lines of work demanded cultural stability and a clear ...