Management Challenges with Ms. Yiling Ge of Donghua University Cip

Management Challenges

With Ms. Yiling Ge of Donghua University CIP

Team members:

Ingrid Chan

Yasmine Bifout

Cem Sen

Sven Stanko

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Contents page

Abstract……………………………………………………………………………….3

Introduction…………………………………………………………………………..4

Background………………………………………………………………………..4-5

Literature Review………………………………………………………………….5-7

Aims…………………………………………………………………………………..7

Methodology…………………………………………………………………………7

Discussion and conclusion……………………………………………………….7-8

Findings………………………………………………………………………………9

Recommendations..…………………………………………………………………9

References………………………………………………………………………....10

Appendices…………………………………………………………………………10

Abstract

Although management is a core part of any modern business, it would seem as if it is a concept that is easier to say than do. It requires developing a perfect formula of experience, expertise and leadership. Due to its importance to company’s effectiveness and efficiency, researchers have developed theories regarding different types of management style. Nowadays, as globalization rises, managers are challenged with management challenges. Therefore, managers should adjust their management style with the current challenges they are facing. This report will look through the real case of a manager of an education organization in facing the management challenges. In addition, the report will also cover the approach she uses to overcome these challenges in today’s globalized and diverse world.

Introduction

Ever since the rise of the First Industrial Revolution, which created a need for employee guidance and supervision in business environments, corporate management has proven itself to be an instrumental tool for achieving long-term goals. Continuously evolving, it contributed to a substantial increase in the productivity of workers and in turn affected the well being of citizens in first-world countries. (Denning, 2011)

Management in businesses and organizations is the function that coordinates the efforts of people to accomplish goals and objectives using available resources efficiently and effectively. Management includes planning, organizing, staffing, leading or directing, and controlling an organization to accomplish the goal. Management is also an academic discipline, a social science whose objective is to study social organization. (Wikipedia, 2015)

The following report will focus on the challenges modern managers face and will try to discover possible solutions for them, to be more specific; it will highlight on the challenges related to managing academic staff.

Background

The Manager

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   Ms. Yiling Ge        

Is the director of Center of International Programs, International Cultural Exchange School of Donghua University. She studied Management in the United States and used to work as the assistant professor in the university in US. Her studying and working experience in USA and China gave her own understanding about university education. With the dream to introduce the western education methods to China, Yiling chose to work for her mother school, Donghua University, when she decided to be back to mother country. She recruited and works with a group of foreign teachers from around 10 countries on integrating education methods of the East and the West. After 5 years operation, CIP is now having about 300 students from over 70 countries. Diversity has become the uniqueness of the program. Recently, Yiling and her team is working on the projects to help international students fulfil their “Chinese dream” while support corporations with resources and knowledge they need for globalization, which is part of the plan to build CIP into one of the best English-taught programs in China in the near future.

Industry

Educational – Higher Education (University)

The Company

Center of International Programs （CIP） was founded in 2009, which is offering English taught bachelor’s program in business majors to foreign students. The program introduces Chinese economics and business environments to international students through specially designed courses, such as Chinese Language, Chinese Culture, Chinese economics, Chinese Culture & Etiquette, and etc., with required knowledge on business. Variety of academic activities, such as seminars, workshops, fieldtrips, research projects and competitions have been offered to widen students’ horizon, help them connect theory with reality, and prepare them for their future development. Based on the needs of the students and the market, CIP concentrates on developing in three directions: innovation and entrepreneurship, service learning and familiarity of Chinese society and economy.

Literature Review

Leaders and leadership have been a topic of many discussions and research ever since people started to get together to tackle different tasks and achieve their goals. Since being a good leader is a vital trait of any successful manager, a vast number of theories about determining what type of leadership is most effective have been created. At first, the aim of these theories was to differentiate leaders from non-leaders by looking at different traits a leader should posses. However, later theories concentrated on the preferred behavioral styles that leaders demonstrated, as researchers eventually realized that traits alone were not sufficient for identifying effective leaders. (Robbins & Coulter, 2013) As a result Kurt Lewin broke down these behavioral styles into three core groups regarding decision-making: