Glenn Highlight Assessment No. 3 Assessment Title The Firestone Tire Company Case Study. Students will be required to read the case study (as published on Moodle) and make learned and judgement calls...

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Glenn Highlight Assessment No. 3 Assessment Title The Firestone Tire Company Case Study. Students will be required to read the case study (as published on Moodle) and make learned and judgement calls based upon their thoughts, learnings and considerations from the information they have come to understand during the Semester and relate these back to the historical case study from a series of activities. Task Topics to be covered: This Assessment task covers the entire Semester to date of study with particular reference to Leadership, Politics and Power. Aside from the ethics of this case study, Firestone, The Tyre Company appears to have many problems within their leadership. It appears they have been aware of many issues regarding the safety and production problems of their tyres for a long time. However, in reading the paper, it can be argued several points of view may be apparent. Of these differing perspectives, it can be argued they either chose to ignore the issues or they did admit some potential problems and attempted to very loosely manage them with little regard to user/consumer ethics (CSR) or damage to their brand. Owing to the fact that their CEO resigned, it shows that ultimately somebody realised large problems existed. The student is required to comment upon several areas with regard to Leadership Behaviour that was displayed through the behaviour of Firestone and its relations with Stakeholders and business trade partners. Please answer the following questions:- 1. If you were leading Firestone, how could Firestone have avoided turmoil during this safety and recall problem? Comment with regard to the structure of the business? 2. Communications or lack of it !! Without stating so, it appears that Firestone had several leadership and communication problems. Comment on these and discuss how you as a leader at Firestone would attempt to improve the intra company communications and the external communications. 3. On the surface Power and Politics may have been in play during this case study. Were inter-company politics being practised by Ford and Firestone? How could the leaders of Ford and Firestone have showed better conflict resolution skills to their workers? Explain your thoughts using “Pluralist” and Utilitarian theories. Description and Purpose Description: The Firestone Tire Company case study is a real life case study that came to a head in 2000 - 2002. It is held out as being a benchmark in human and organisational understanding and is also reflected upon as essential learning for tertiary students The purpose of this assessment is to bring together the last 11 weeks of learning and studying TMGT 603 and give consideration to a “real life” scenario. Length The word count on this essay/assessment task is 1,500 words (+/-10%) This means a minimum of 1,350 words and a maximum of 1,650 words. This does not include the Bibliography, or any Harvard referencing included within the essay. The major reason for the restrictive word count is to help you, the student, to practice word efficiency and precision of how you use your words in order to quickly state your point and case and move towards satisfying your argument. Please note – I want your words and understanding and not somebody else’s words and thoughts. There are many papers published about this case study. Hence, no quotes from outside sources or other authors. This paper will be submitted for checking against plagiarism and marks deducted should the libraries used for comparison prove other people’s work has been proven. Criteria to grade quality The following criteria will be used to assess the project: · Demonstrated links to appropriate topics covered during the semester. · The scope and depth of analysis and links to theory · Presentation of a convincing argument. Clear recommendations based on the analysis or argument and clarity of expression are essential