Management Style of Martha Stewart

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Management is the pursuit of achieving organizational goals and ideals with the work of people with similar ideals. Using this combined effort to plan, organize, lead and use the organizations resources to achieve their goals. Management is also the process of assessing and hiring new employees, while also making sure to keep all the employees in tip top shape. With selective training sessions and motivational tools, management can help the employees to be the best employee they can be. They are also in charge of keeping important records on all the resources the company uses, such as how much stock they buy that year, or the deprecation on the machines or building; and then plan next years goals around what they find. While also being a large part of human resources department that helps employees if they have a problem or need to talk to someone.
Martha Stewart’s style of hiring employees is very similar to micromanaging; like most job offerings employees must go through various levels before being hired such as; application, interview online or phone, in person interview, and sometimes even a walkthrough or test to gauge what the applicant knows about the position they are applying for. While with Stewarts Company there is a more in depth procedure. The applications are looked at more carefully to be able to sift out the best applicants, then the applications are sent to higher management who looks through the application again and sees again if the applicants see fit. Then the applicants are contacted and given an interview, sometimes online for convenience or other the phone; then applicants who seem strong are asked to come in for a personal interview. At the personal interview they go over more in depth the applicant’s app...

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