The Controlling Management Style Of Bill Gates At Microsoft - Effective Communication PDF

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Topic: Bill Gates Management style Thesis statement: Bill Gates has been successful due his controlling management style.  Introduction Bill Gates is the CEO of Microsoft Corporation; it is the world's top and leading software company of personal computers. Bill Gates dropped out from Harvard University, and uses all his energies for develops for every office desktop and home; they started developing software for personal computers. Gates' foresight regarding personal computer has been lead him to the success of Microsoft enterprise, and the world wide software industry as well. As a leader, Bill Gates actively plays an importing Microsoft during his junior year. He had started Microsoft in 1975, and work with his friend named Paul Allen. He believes that the personal computer will become a very useful and valuable toot role in strategic decisions making and management at Microsoft.

Bill Gates’ leadership analysis Types of Power Possessed by Bill Gates Legitimate Power It is based on his position power given by the organization. Employees agree to comply with management authority in return for the benefit of members. The use of legitimate power is appropriate when asking a person to do something that is within the scope of their job (Cerni, T & Curtis, J 2008).

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Bill Gates Use Rational Persuasion while dealing with higher-level managers, he uses logical arguments with actual evidence to persuade staff to implement his recommended decisions.

 Reward Power It’s the leader’s ability to influence others with providing tangible or intangible reward (Cerni, T & Curtis, J 2008). Microsoft is very famous for giving big remuneration to its staff. Bill Gates has the most control of evaluating employee’s performance, and determining their pay raises, promotions or other rewards. By using this power, staff would have more motivation to work harder and effectively.

 Coercive Power Coercive power involves punishment to influence compliance. Bill Gates was an autocratic leader, but he never made threats and used coercion power to control others to get personal benefits.

 Expert Power It is based on the leader’s skill and knowledge. An expert makes other people dependent on the leader. People often respect an expert, the few the people who possess an expertise, the more power the individual has. Bill Gates is a master of his knowledge and subject, expertise is never questioned him having the expert power.

 Referent Power It is refer to leader’s personal relationships with subordinates or co-worker. At Microsoft Company, bill gates shows interest and concern to the staff, in return, people get along work with him, that’s the loyalty. People work at Microsoft for a longer time period than most of the other companies. 2

 Leadership style One of his leadership style is autocratic style .Control is basic to Gate's nature and his management practice. He is used to focus on detail. He is trying to monopolize the World Wide Web software market and has had legal issue with the department of justice (Thépot, J 2008). Microsoft restricted the ability of its internet partners to deal with its competitors. Also he doesn't like complaints very much.

Another one is delegate style, Bill Gates believes it’s very important to recruit and keep the best gifted people in the software industry. He believed that find and recruit talented software staff is one of the most critical elements to improve competitive power in the software industry. It will improve the productivity and creativity. These advantages included the ability to gain new knowledge more quickly, deep familiarity with programming structures, work more effectively, and the capacity to ask probing question. Though a big number of people asked applied for positions at Microsoft, He thinks that the best gifted people will never apply job directly. So, In Microsoft, The HR managers had to look for the best talent themselves and offer a job .Gives autonomy to his manager, he delegates authority to managers to operate their independent departments.

Disadvantage of Bill Gates’ leader style Some people argued that Microsoft was not creative and innovative company. They thought Bill Gates reformed existing products to satisfy markets needs instead of inventing new ones. Microsoft was not just the market leader, but also the standards provider for the industry, some critics claimed that winning was so important to Gates that he would go to any extent to beat his competitor. With his aggressive business theory, Gates has been in and out of courtrooms to deal with legal problems almost since Microsoft began. 3

Many of the large technology company have been legally against the actions of Microsoft, including Opera, APPLE, NETSCAPE, Etc. He has professional will but there is some doubt about humility, although he is philanthropist, and endowed $28 billion dollar in his own Foundation and even promise to donate his 95% wealth as he will have aged but even after a lot of critics is there that he is doing all of it just because of status symbol, he is too centralize and blamed for curbing innovation.

Conclusion Management is regarded as relating to people working within a structured organization and with prescribed roles. To people outside of the organization the manager might not necessarily be seen in a leadership role Laurie J. Mullins (2005). From that, Gates' forethought and vision related on personal computing have been vital to the success of Microsoft and in the software industry. Gates is aggressively involved in key management and strategic decisions at Microsoft and his play an important role in the technical development of new products Thocp.net (2010). Thus, he have committed in the meeting with customers and staying in contact with Microsoft employees around the world by email. Bill has succeeded to show and always change his company based on in markets which vary and great administration techniques carried out. Microsoft has constantly been rated as one of the most admired companies. The concept of stock options owes a part of its popularity to their successful implementation at Microsoft. His company has enjoyed the current stock market boom thanks partly to his good management.

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References James Wallace and Jim Erickson, Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire (New York: Harper Business, 1993), 44. Wallace and Erickson, Hard Drive, 49‐51. http://www.ukessays.com/essays/management/analysing-management-styles-through-differentleaders-management-essay.php

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