Kerrie Peterson Summary

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This story is about a young woman named Kerrie Peterson. Kerrie is a general manager for the corporate lending business unit and has been for two years now. She has been in all for ten years now. She is great at what she do but lacks leadership. Getting this position made her step up and have to learn more. Her position as general manager had a lot of responsibilities that comes with it. She has the power to hire deserving people for the positions under her.
Kerrie had to get a senior management team meeting together. In that meeting she had to discuss with her team that Tom Wilkes (who is over her) wants them to take action now with a lot of things. In that meeting of course it did not go as smoothly as she would have wanted it to go. Her team did not exactly agree with her and what she had to say. She had to deal with bitter Sam who is still bitter because he felt as if he should …show more content…

Fayol have different principals dealing with management. “Most contemporary management writers refer to Fayol’s fourteen general principles of management, treating them as his major contribution and as the basis for their classifying him as a fellow traveler of the scientific management school, and founder of the classical management movement” (Parker, 175). I feel as a lot of them was violating Fayol’s subordination of individual interests to the general interest”. They all feel as if they know what would be best and think their decision is better than the other. Even though a lot of them did not agree with Kerrie she made decisions that she thought would be good for the company. Her and David got everyone on one accord. “. Managers are tasked with the responsibility of ensuring that human resources are recruited and deployed throughout the organization, in the right place at the right time. In addition, they are expected to allocate, utilize and control material and financial resources in cost effective ways” (McLean,

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