1. What resources does actor Keanu Reeves bring to the company as a manager?
2. Describe some ways that Keanu Reeves controls organizational resources to obtain objectives.
3. Using Mintzberg’s ten management roles, what kind of roles do you think Keanu Reeves takes on in his management of Arch Motorcycle?
4. What type of management skills does Keanu Reeves bring to the organization?
5. What type of management skills does Gard Hollinger bring to the organization?
6. Describe the organizational culture of Arch Motorcycle Company.
1. Are Peter Drucker’s insights based more upon a scientific approach to management or a behavioral approach?
2. After watching this video, describe why you think Peter Drucker has been called “the founder of 21st century management”.
3. Why did Drucker believe it was important to incorporate liberal arts such as psychology into management thinking?
4. Based upon this video, why did he feel unified employees that had a common purpose would help firms thrive?
5. Describe Drucker’s thoughts regarding business ethics and values.
6. Do you agree with Drucker’s assessment that businesses should develop their employees both intellectually and morally? Why or why not?
7. What were four values that Drucker believed were important to successful management?
1. What did founder Prudencio Unanue Ortiz recognize about the environment that supermarkets did not?
2. How does the external environment impact Goya Foods today?
3. There was a family conflict about taking the company public. If this conflict contributed to a negative internal environment, how could this have impacted the long-term well-being of the firm?
4. What aspects of the sociocultural dimension of the general environment do you believe contribute to Goya’s success?
5. How much power do you believe the customer has in Goya’s operations?
6. How readily available are substitutes for Goya’s products?
7. What has Goya done to differentiate its products from those of competitors?
8. How will keeping the company private impact future managerial decisions?
9. Describe the chain stores and mom-and-pop supermarkets to which Goya delivers products. What type of stakeholder are they? How does Goya take their interests into account?
10. What is the external environment like for Goya products? Is the environment stable or changing? Simple or complex?
1. Are these allegations more of an ethics issue, a legal issue, or both?
2. Describe the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Why was it passed?
3. According to allegations, why did Walmart Mexico pay bribes?
4. How does Joseph Hoffman describe whether a payment to a government official is a bribe?
5. How does Joseph Hoffman describe facilitating payments? What is the difference between facilitating payments and bribes?
6. Why is the line between bribes and facilitating payments not always clear?
7. Why would the payments allegedly made by Walmart Mexico not be considered facilitating payments?
8. How might the Justice Department get around the statute of limitations if they find that Walmart Mexico engaged in bribery?
9. Why do you think criminal charges against Walmart could result in the company having to pay twice the amount of profits it initially gained from the alleged bribery?
