2. Role of CEO
• Power & influence through personal action
• Handling Organizational Politics
• Role as a negotiator
• Role as a communicator
• Role as a role model
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3. Personal Action
• Ordering the employees
• Making subtle cultural changes
• Persuading the employees
• Inducing the employees
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4. Organizational Politics
• One-upmanship
• Clash of interests between employees
• Putting down others to gain prominence in the
eyes of the CEO
• Competition
• Importance of functions
• Finance – What can anyone do without funds
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5. • Marketing – Bread and butter. Without us the
company shuts down
• Production – Unless products are produced, the
marketing man would be idle
• HR – Who releases the salaries of the employees and
manages your careers.
• The CEO has to take along with him all these kinds of
employees by channeling them into the creative side
of the company’s activities.
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6. CEO as a negotiator
• Use negotiations to effect increase in
productivity, reduction in absenteeism.
• Do not let personal prejudices to creep in
while negotiating
• Both the sides to be given a patient hearing
during negotiations.
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7. CEO as communicator
• Communicates firm’s vision, mission, goals and
objectives
• Also he may have to listen to the employees
complaints/problems etc
• CEO’s must first try and understand the problem
and then give a solution.
• Right communication given at the right time can
motivate the employees
• Need to be good orators
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8. CEO as a role model
• CEO looked upon as a role model whom
employees try to emulate
• Catalyst for transformation
• Reaching Out
• Planning of Strategies
• Problem Solver
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9. Time Management for CEOs
• Categorize tasks into ABC
• A = Most Urgent and important tasks needing
personal attention of CEO
• B = Not so important tasks which could be
handled by others also
• C = Not important now but may become A or
B category tasks later
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10. CEO’s Time Management
Tasks Preferred
Time %
Actual Time
%
Strategy
Monitoring
Performance
Leadership
Stake Holders
People
Development
35
15
30
10
10
10
45
15
35
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