Submitted By:

Group: 4, Section: C Nikhil Kr. Beriwal 2010133

Nishith Agrawal 2010139

Pallavi Agarwal 2010142

Pankaj Bhutoria 2010144

Raman Yadav 2010152

A Day in the Life of Alex Sander:Driving in the Fast Lane at Landon Care Products

Introduction

Alex Sander is a Product Manager at Landon Care Product Inc. He is self-driven, confident, committed, quick learner, multi-tasker and hard-worker.

360˚ feedback- Newly introduced performance review at Landon Care Product.

This feedback is provided by peers, customers, direct reports and supervisors.

Personality Type Of Alex Sander

Myers Briggs Type Indicator(MBTI)

Extrovert- outgoing, sociable, assertive.Sensing- practical, meticulous.Thinking- logical thinker, not concerned with feelings

of others.Judging- likes to have control, decisive.ESTJ- realistic, logical, decisive and likes to organize

and run activities.

Personality Traits

Low on Emotional Stability- Short tempered

Doesn’t care about the feelings of Co-workers

High on Machiavellianism- Interested in results not on the means Pragmatic, Aggressive Maintains emotional distance Likes to control things

Cont.

Personality TraitsNarcissism- Self-

centered Arrogant

He is not a good team player as he undermines his direct reports and takes decision by himself without consulting anyone thus causing distress to his peers and direct reports.

Cont.

Personality Traits

Proactive Personality

He is quick to identify an opportunity, show initiative and take action to get the new opportunity.

He is always on a lookout to do new things and can adjust easily to the new work and the environment.

He is high on risk taking as he likes to plan new strategy and implement them effectively and successfully.

He is innovative and creative and comes with the new ideas and is quick on decision making when the situation requires.

Cont.

Personality Traits

Though, he is effective and efficient he creates an environment which is not conducive for others to work in.

He is successful but not an effective leader as he doesn’t motivates his juniors and is often very dominating.

He doesn’t trust anyone and underestimates his co-worker’s ability and prefers to do everything by himself.

His style of work creates work-life imbalance as he expects everyone to work round the clock like him.

Solution Sam Glass, Alex’s supervisor needs to make sure that he reads and

studies feedback given to him. Alex have disregard for the review but he can be made to analyze it by

telling that this review would help him to evaluate his strength and weakness and prepare him for the next level.

Alex has to improve his interpersonal skills so that he can have healthy relation with his co-workers and his colleagues and this would even help him motivate them.

The leadership training would help him to better understand his co-workers and realize their problems to create a positive work environment.

The training would also help him to trust others and delegate work which in turn would help his co-workers to perform to the best of their capabilities.

Learning

Along with technical skills, interpersonal skills should be given equal importance for the managers to be effective.

Feedback and assessment should be given importance by the managers as it helps them to analyze and know where to improve.

Team should be included in the decision making instead of managers taking every decision on its own.