Marissa Mayer

the loss of unity in an organization. When the work environment becomes hostile, then the company’s productivity is affected. An example is Marissa Mayer's performance-management ranking system for employees that led to a hostile environment between departments in the business as each executive wanted to protect his employees. Change of Leadership Style Marissa should change her leadership style from one that seems autocratic and transactional to one that is more transformational with elements…

The purpose of this case study is to discuss Marissa Mayer’s, chief executive officer (CEO) of Yahoo! Inc. (Yahoo), strengths and challenges around rebuilding Yahoo’s brand (Subramanian, 2015). In 1994, two students, David Filo and Jerry Yang, became overwhelmed with trying to keep track of their favorite websites, so they developed a website that allowed them to “capture their categorization method and called it Yahoo!” (Subramanian, 2015, p. 398). Later, their friends also wanted to use their…

In February of 2013, Marissa Mayer, the President and CEO of Yahoo, Inc., made a major change to the work setting of Yahoo employees. Mayer removed the ability of Yahoo employees to work remotely from home. Mayer’s reason for this decision was that speed and quality would be lost by allowing employees to work from home. According to the findings of the authors of Influencer, this reasoning is true. The findings show that those who work closer together with the most interaction have better…

Leadership Styles: Reflection 1. Charismatic Leadership a. a. Martin Luther King Jr. is a prime example of charismatic leadership. b. Martin Luther King Jr. was a Baptist minister and civil-rights activist who led the Civil Rights Movement until his assassination in 1968. He continues to be remembered as one of the most lauded African-American leaders in history, often referred by his prominent 1963 speech, “I Have a Dream.” c. Martin Luther was a dynamic, charismatic,…

Getting into an elite college is harder now than it has ever been before. As the competition grows, we start to wonder, does it really matter where you go to college? Many would argue that it does not matter because it is what we make the college experience to be that affects our lives in the long run and makes us who we are; however, it really does matter if we go to an elite college because it has a large impact on our future careers. People are more likely to have successful careers if they…

In todays world, people are copying each other, rather than standing out. People are afraid to lead because being a leader is never easy. As John C.Maxwell once said “A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” Having the qualification and experience only are not enough to become a great leader, according to Sylvia Ann Hewlett, the author of the book Executive Presence. A leader needs to be bold, confident and credible to do something extraordinary in their lives. In her…

a worldwide auto organization, was given a compensation that was not as much as half of what was paid to the man before her for her first year and short of what he made as an outside consultant. Not as much as half. In the same business as Su, Marissa Mayer, the female President of Yippee!, was paid not exactly an official beneath. Despite the fact that they are playing out the same go about as the general population before them, these effective ladies gets paid less, indicating how out of line…

Competing Through Globalization The Han Hoi riot took place in a manufacturing company in China where employees work long hours for noncompetitive wages doing repetitive tasks making iPods and iPads. In this particular instance, two employees who were overly worked got into a pushing match, where security got involved, beating the two employees, which caused other employees watching to become upset and retaliate against security. Unfortunately, this is not the only time of people…

Feminist When I log onto my Twitter account, my timeline is quickly plagued with quotes such as “Twitter feminist are just bitter lonely women, who loathe life and men”. Statements like these led me to believe that people are confused on what feminism is, and what feminism does for our culture. A feminist is a person, male or female, who believes in the political, social, and economic equality of the sexes. I assume that the hatred displayed for women, who believes in equality of the sexes, is…

The elevation of women into the key sectors of power however is a growing attitude in feminist thought. The popularity of “Lean In”, a philosophy coined by Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook, in her work “Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead”, promotes a trickle down theory of equality for women whereby women in power, by nature of having direct experience of gender inequality, particularly inequality in labour, both paid and unpaid, will naturally seek to end these inequalities when given…