Deka Guest Lecture

Question 1

Managerial tasks are universal at Deka (5)

Answer 1

• Goal Setting
• Organising
• Decision-Making
• Controlling & Evaluating
• Developing Employees

Question 2

Principals are important at Deka (6)

Answer 2

• Result-orientation
• Focus on strengths
• Loyalty, integrity and trust
• Focus on essentials
• Constructive thinking
• Making contribution to the whole

Question 3

Team composition depending on tasks at Deka (10)

Answer 3

• Heterogeneous vs Homogeneous team
• Ability to deal with conflict
• Clarity of goals
• Trade-off dogma and discretion
• Concept of motivation and employees’ drivers
• Contribution of team members
• Skills and skill levels
• Responsibilities and motivation
• Strengths and weaknesses
• Values

Question 4

The Transformation Process at Deka (8)

Answer 4

• Establishing a sense of urgency
• Forming a powerful guiding coalition
• Creating a vision
• Communicating the vision
• Empowering others to act on the vision
• Planning for and creating short-term wins
• Consolidation improvement and predicting still more change
• Institutionalizing new approaches