The Merger of Fairbanks Engineering and Westmont Corporation

1) How do you evaluate Jack Welch’s leadership effectiveness? What criteria do you use? Why? Discuss.</p>

<p>Jack Welch is known as a leader who has established a new and better practices in business by implementing various innovative management strategies. His leadership effectiveness is a phenomenal success in establishing a new culture at a work place. He is setting directions and inspire people to follow them, influence people to achieve goals by creating environment that is inspiring, motivating, ,energising. He involved everyone and created an open collaborative workplace where everyone&apos;s opinion is welcome. So that, he has achieved maximum product output by using minimum resources and involving maximum employee. He focused on locating and developing leadership at all levels of the company. GE employees were being developed, evaluated and compensated based on a demanding evaluation process called “Session C ”. He has a open and clear communication, inspiring, forward looking vision. These criterias explains how he is effective in leadership.</p>

<p></p>

<p class="text_body_p_unindent">2) How do you describe his style according to</p>

<p class="text_body_p_unindent">a) Behavioral theories?</p>

<p class="text_body_p_unindent">Team management (Task -High , People- High): People are committed to task and leader is commited to people as well as task. </p>

<p class="text_body_p_unindent">Team members are motivated and engaged with new ideas; it is the culture that Jack was trying to create in GE. </p>

</div>