CASE STUDY SYMENTAC CORPORATION

Dated: Sunday,October03,2010 Prepared by:Dr. Mahwish ( )

Mr. Shahrukh (13534)
Mr. Jahanzaib ( 12192)
Mr. Shiraz ( )

Questionno: 4 What could other managers learn from Vincent Weafer and Symantec's Approach?

Ans: A manager can learn the following from the said case study.

1) MOTIVATION
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Managers should motivate

employees towards
organization goals All team members share
something in common: They all
are motivated by solving problems
2) SYSTEM OF MERIT
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Employees and job applicants

should be selected, trained,
and promoted without
discrimination to race, gender, If you find them in any part of
sexual orientation, age or world, you just go after them.
disability.
3) JOBS ROTATION
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In order to prevent doing

Monotonous work in an
organization managers should Manager in Symantec can
allow job rotations. rotate people from the front
lines, where they are
responsible for responding to
new security threats that crop
up, in to groups where they
can help with new-product
development
4) CO-ORDINATION AND CO-OPERATION

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To create healthy environment When Saint Monica team

with in an organization,
managers should promote co-
ordination and co-operation
among members
finishes it day, colleagues in
Tokyo take over. When the
Japanese team finishes it day,
it hands off to Dublin, who then
hands back to Saint Monica for
the new day
5) PREDICTABILITY
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To prevent any mishap and

minimize panic managers The goal of Weafer is to have a
should arrange predictable predictable and well-defined
responses and must have process for dealing with the
solutions in hand for future. virus threats.
6) EVEN DISTRIBUTION OF WORK
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Even distribution of work by

managers would create
fairness in organization and Wafer believe on spreading
would promote healthy work evenly around the world
competition among employees