Chrysler

After going through the reading this week, I have one specific recommendation that I would give Marchionne in his endeavor with Chrysler. It would be in Marchionne’s best interest to incorporate the clan culture to gain the best cultural change. I have learned that employees can tend to feel more a part of the organization when clan culture is being used. Clan culture can give the feeling of satisfaction and encourage commitment from the workers. This would cause Chrysler to become profitable again and to have employees that put their heart and soul into their job. I have found that if employees’ are not feeling as though the company or management cares about them, it will show through their productivity. This brings us right back to the idea…

“Greatest City in the World”. The limited available land inspired many architects and builders to compete for the title for the world’s tallest building. After the completion of the Chrysler Building, many architects felt inspired to follow in the footsteps of this building. The Chrysler Building became a major reason for tourism in New York City. In 1921, talks began about the development of the Chrysler Building. It wasn 't until 1928 when developer William H. Reynolds, a former New York…

executives to reduce the administration and induce fear into other executives. Mr. Marchionne felt as the company’s values required adjusting. The espoused values of Chrysler included heavy rebates and other incentives to increase sales. He believes when you give…

Sergio Marchionne did a wonderful job, in my opinion, getting Chrysler back to a respectable station. Mr. Marchionne created a functional market culture that created the Fiat Chrysler Automobile company we have today. He created strategies that focused the strengths of the company to become efficient during a terrible time of Chryslers’ history. Having said that, I see Mr. Marchionnes’ lack of focus on clan culture is disappointing. This case study was an interesting read that has to be…

Have you ever wondered how automobile businesses make so much money or how they have been so successful for such a long time? Alfred P. Sloan and Lee Iacocca were a part of this impact on the automobile industry for two of the biggest companies in the world. Alfred P. Sloan was born in 1875 and became a part of the Hyatt Rolling Bearing Company where he became the president and general manager in 1899. After 17 years, the company merged with the United Motors Corporation that soon became General…

The overall purpose of the book End of Detroit by Micheline Maynard is to describe the impact on three major auto industries in the 1990s. The auto industry caused a detrimental fall to occur within America. Detroit at one point in America had three significant benefactors when it comes to producing automobiles which were the companies General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler. For many years being dominant in car market had lead to more competition and challenges these companies would face in the…

automobiles. Following the same year Dodge played a gamble of bringing back its two iconic name plates as the concept designs were shown 3 years prior to 2008. The Dodge Charger returned as a sedan, the Challenger returned as a redesigned, modified, as well as modern version of its iconic 1970 model. This gamble paid off well for Dodge as well as Chrysler. As Dodge focused on less models but becoming the performance option of the company. Chrysler offered the versatile daily, entry Luxury, as…

FIVE DOLLAR DAY Wake up, hope for the best, work nine hour days, and still only make $2.25 per day. People were wrestling the economy, but one day the people woke up, hoping for the best, and continuing the same routine, when the origin of “five dollar day” transpired. On January 5, 1914, it was the rise of Henry Ford, when he announced a change that stunned the world. He revealed that Ford Motor Company was doubling its workers’ wages to five dollars a day. Reducing a workweek from six to…

In reading chapters three and four this week, I would recommend Marchionne embed the organizational culture through mentoring and modeling a leadership program in Chrysler to develop strong leaders to take charge while he is in Canada (Kreitner & Kinicki, 2013, p. 81). The mentoring environment must be fully supported by the leaders to build a solid foundation for an immense relationship and practice trust so the team feels like they could function solely on their own as a self-directed team if…

The reverse is also true especially since the late 1990’s. Increased production, with substantially lower manufacturing costs and improved quality by Japanese car manufactures allowed them to make significant inroads into the American auto market in the late 1908’s and 1990’s. This put significant financial pressure on American automotive manufactures and their related industries. This in turn led to several large manufacture mergers in the late 1990’s. However this was not a phenomenon…