Combine paper final

Professor Guillory

Leading In An Organization

Southern New Hampshire University

October 5, 2017

Leadership and Team Building in Organizations

Introduction

Every company usually has a goal and a vision to accomplish. The buck stops with the leader and how the workers are coordinated determine how far the organization will go. The PepsiCo has grown to be the second largest food and Beverage Company in the world. This has been possible because the management has been able to bring together the workers. Motivated them and made them feel part of the organization and as a result of this, they always give the company their best. Indra Nooyi, the company CEO has been able to bring together the workers and management hence making PepsiCo growth rate to be unimaginably high (Useem, 2008). Her character, personality and political power have helped her in her management. These characteristics made it able for her to manage the implement some of the toughest strategies ever known to the company.

Strategic plan development by the PepsiCo

The strategic plan developed by PepsiCo through the CEO was to ensure that the sales improve greatly and hence the completive advantage of the business keeps on rising. Some of the strategic plans developed by the company were:

Give more priority to innovations; a lot of funds were used to empower the research department to improve every part of the company. Equal treatment of employees is one of the best ways to improve sales and eventually improve business culture. Through this, it was very possible to make the company shine. Her competency and readiness to learn stirred her to empower the research team and hence making some things come true.

Producing new products was another strategy that would make the business grows even bigger. By so doing, the customers would be attracted by what is available and obviously the sales would improve. However, the strategy was not well accomplished (Dove, 2016).

Mergers and acquisitions was one of the strategies, which made the company grow even better and bigger. By merging with Lebedyansky and wimm-bill-Dann, it was able to acquire new market conditions as all the other companies’ customers automatically became loyal to PepsiCo. It is through her communication skills and the political goodwill she had that made it possible for her to manage the organization and even sweet-talked a different company to join efforts with Pepsi (Useem,2008).

Strategic alliances are always good strategies that can make a business benefit from the partners regardless of the economic status surrounding them. The alliance with Tinyi in china to help grow and become the world-class business is very clear evidence. It is through her courage, confidence and consistency of character she has, which made it possible for her to reach out to the other organizations that were able to provide support to the business.

Focusing on emerging markets is another strategy employed by PepsiCo. Focusing on the future is very important for any business and as time folds. This strategy proved to be very useful. The markets are dynamic and therefore businesses should be dynamic too. Listening to Indra Nooyi speech can make a person believe in the impossibilities, the 5Cs she emphasizes are so evident in how she discharges her duties to the organization. These 5cs represents competency, courage and confidence, consistency, compass and communication gives her the political and personal power to influence so many things in the organization.

Other strategies that would have been employed

Building a strong and positive business culture helps the business to serve the customers with diligence and dignity. In the long run, more customers would be encouraged to shop the company’s product. The organizational culture can give an organization the best return that no other strategy can give. In a comprehensive strategy to control politics, organizational leaders must be aware of its causes and techniques (DuBrin, 2015, p. 7-5).

Innovations in marketing initiatives should have been made possible through the deliberation of all the parties. This gives the organization a general overview in making it grow even better.

Strategy planning methods and tools used by Indra Nooyi

To make effective use of organizational politics, leaders must be aware of specific political tactics and strategies (DuBrin, 2015, p. 7-4). In order to come up with the best strategy, it is good for a business to understand what it can do best. The weaknesses should be understood before being able to give a good strategy. For example, it is not healthy to set a goal from the weak side of the organization. For example, the first method used was the SWOT analysis. All the strength of the business like the business culture, the size and the market base were used as the bargaining points to ensure that all the mergers became successful because of the size and market influence of PepsiCo. The weaknesses were also analyzed and through them, certain things avoided to give room for the vulnerabilities not to affect the business.

The other method used was the VMOST, the vision, mission, objectives, strategy and tactics were used by the management to ensure that they are well known to the workers and that the management communicate effectively to workers (Goodwin, 2009). Once workers have been made aware of what is expected of them, then they will be given the tactics as to how each objective could be well achieved. Example specialization and division of labor becomes useful when the workers are aware of what is expected of them.

References

DuBrin, A. (2015). Leadership: Research findings, practice, and skills (8th ed.). Boston, MA: Cengage Learning.

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Useem, M. (2008). America's Best Leaders: Indra Nooyi, PepsiCo CEO. US News.