Christmas for Sale - HRM

Part I. Cirque du Soleil

Questions for Discussion

1. Why is Cirque du Soleil successful throughout the world? Why does the product transcend culture differences between countries?

Answer: Cirque du Soleil successful throughout the World because have talent like stilt-walking, juggling, music, and fire breathing through that talent they quickly found that their entertainment form without words. and they did not envision the scope to succeed because of that the company’s diversity assures that every show reflects many different cultural influences.
They believed language and culture is not a barriers to perform and to understand that an entertainer could bring the exotic to every corner of the world and transcends cultural differences and the limits of many modern media.

2. How do the cultural influences discussed in Figure 4–1 influence organizational behavior at Cirque du Soleil?

Answer: Through the influence of the cirque du Soleil,they influence the all nation like New York,Tokyo,London and also Asian countries to unite to built the organization has learned the art of sensitivity and compromise in its recruiting considering the influences of organizational Behavior at Cirque du Soleil is how to help the Coaches and Team athletes considering career with their competitive talent away from countries,that have made huge investments in athletes and to huge advantage in the athletic community, a source of great talent from all over the globe.

3. Why is it important for Cirque du Soleil to be a good corporate citizen? How does ethnocentrism relate to fulfilling this role?

Answer: The important for Cirque du Soleil to be a good Corporate Citizen is to achieved an international presence and incredible success and they has chosen to help at-risk youth, especially street kids and they participate to create outreach program target the difficulties Global brands often face when spanning cultures.
The Enthnocentrism belief in or assumption of the superiority of your own social or cultural group like Cirque du Soleil to fulfill they success to perform all over the world and to help all coaches and athletes.



Part II. Generation Next Changes the Face of the Workplace

Questions for Discussion

1. Why is addressing this issue so important? Shouldn’t workers adjust to meet the needs of their employers?

Answer: I think this addressing is important to us because they told us how are smart, different and special and they bring these attitude, along with their technology skills to the workplace.
Maybe can adjust the worker to meet the needs of their employers by using computer or high-tech tools like the Initiatives program at Deloitte provides young workers with confidential career counselling as well as online tools that allow them to learn about their strengths and weaknesses. Through the efforts or initiative of the employees and the worker.

2. What can employers who can’t afford such extensive programs as the Deloitte organization do to address the changing preferences of their younger workers? What would you like to see your employer or prospective employer do to address your wants and needs to retain you?

Answer: They have had up to now be “microwaveable” instantaneous and they expect this with their careers as well. They can also apply the Generation Y on their work preference. Those who are well-organized workers will be retained. Ambitious group who expect and the strives for financial success according to one of Muse’s Generation Y worker.
I choice to see my employees to do more productive product to our customer to retain our good and excellent product promoting the initiative of your employees gathering the cost of saving worker trend.



Part III. Destination CEO: Clarence Otis: Darden Restaurants

Questions for Discussion

1.What prepared Clarence Otis for his position as CEO of Darden?

Answer: Clarence Otis returned to the east coast where practiced corporate law in NYC with a focus in mergers and acquisitions and changed his career to that of an investment banker. Clarence Otis moved to Darden in 1995 as treasurer eventually, he became the CFO and advanced to the role of CEO.

2.According to Otis, what is the key area for success for employees at the Darden company?

Answer: According to Clarence Otis the key to success have Both restaurants continue to evolve in concert with the guests’ expectations. People who work for the Darden chains must be inspired and understand the corporate philosophy and its goals.



Part IV. One Smooth Stone

Questions for Discussion

1. How much of a part can values truly play in the success of a company like One Smooth Stone?

Answer: The Values is the main reason how they became a successful in company like One Smooth Stone because of they have a good customer services in their client’s.

2. What characteristics of One Smooth Stone make it necessary to have a flat and decentralized structure as opposed to a rigid, command and control hierarchical structure?

Answer: The characteristics of One Smooth Stone to make it necessary environment such as this with well EDUCATED KNOWLEDGE BASED WORKERS,WORK EXPERIENCED, and an organization must be able to adapt and respond quickly to changes in market conditions. and they hires highly skilled and empowered workers to work in teams on customized client projects. The employee of One Smooth Stone in a decentralized and relatively flat organizational structure and this is necessary to fulfill the frequently changing and adapting needs of their clients.



Part V. Leadership: Making Decisions during Hurricane Katrina

Questions for Discussion

1. What model of decision making did the Sisters of Holy Angels have to rely on to guide them through thee hurricane tragedy?

Answer: Sister of Holy Angels or the Nun's of Holy Angels they became a GOOD LEADER to lead the extremely difficult as most of what they learned was essential for leadership was no longer available.The ultimately be life and death decisions concerning evacuating and who would go where were made by their leadership team in a matter of five minutes. They also had no facilities for communication, no time to gather necessary resources such as books, records, or financial records, but were forced to lead with what they had – “the resources within” and overcome our situations or crack under pressure.

2. What part do you think intuition and creativity played in each of the Sisters’ stories? Explain how.

Answer: I think the part of the stories that intuition and played the creativity of the nun's is when they overcome the situation happen when Hurricane Katrina disaster came in New Orleans. They creativity remark when they decide under critical conditions through the devastating disaster Hurricane Katrina came although we know they are nun always prayed for they safety of thousand people suffered in Devastating disaster Hurricane Katrina