Describe the Management Style and Culture of Coca Cola

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Describe the Management Style and Culture of Coca Cola

Coca cola have a democratic leadership style meaning that the mangers of coca cola share some of the decision that they make with their staff and other subordinates. There are two types of leadership which Coca Cola may use, as they have a democratic leadership ship style. Leadership is about the quality that the manager of Coca Cola has.

          One of them is being persuasive leaders, meaning that the managers of Coca Cola make decisions on their own, but then try and persuade their staff to believe that the decision is right and you should accept the decision instead of giving direct orders where the staff would feel that the managers are not trustworthy as they don’t inform their staff of any decisions. They persuade the Coca Cola staff members by holding meetings and holding discussion where they can have their view on the decisions and whether they agree with the managers or not. For example, the Coca Cola manager may decide to increase the number of rest days which can be taken during a year for each member of staff. This is when the manager will then try and encourage the staff that the decision is right and a good idea, the matter then would be discussed with all the Coca Cola staff in a meeting with all advantages pointed out. This then makes the managers of Coca Cola wish that the decision has been taken by the workers and not the mangers, so this encourages the workers to believe the company makes right decisions. As Coca Cola have a persuasive leadership style this is motivates their staff because they would feel more involved in decision making. However it would take Coca Cola managers a long time to make decisions as the leader will take time to persuade all the staff the decision is right.    

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          Another type of democratic leadership which Coca Cola can use is being Consultative. This means that Coca Cola mangers would ask for their staff opinions on how the business can improve in many ways before making the final decisions. The team is encouraged to say what ever they want about the business improving which is taken in mind to the final decision. After Coca Cola have taken in their staff points, the leaders would than make up a final decision which would involve what the staff had to say, their views. However, being consultative would ...

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