Executive Leadership and Governance in The Walt Disney Company

Executive Leadership and
Governance

Table of Contents
PART-A...........................................................................................................................................3
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3
Part A...............................................................................................................................................3
Organizational Culture and the Role of the Board......................................................................3
Corporate Governance.................................................................................................................6
Regulatory Landscape and Management of Risk........................................................................7
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9
PART-B...........................................................................................................................................9
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................9
TASK-1: LEADERSHIP VERSUS MANAGEMENT.................................................................10
Leadership and management style.............................................................................................10
Comparison of leadership style.................................................................................................11
Ability to handle significant business challenges......................................................................12
TASK-2: LEADERSHIP FOR PERFORMANCE........................................................................13
Balanced Scorecard for Disney with a range of Strategic Objectives and Key Performance
Indicators...................................................................................................................................13
Leadership for Performance......................................................................................................14
TASK-3: FINANCIAL LEADERSHIP........................................................................................14
Key sources of financial and non-financial information...........................................................14
Factors that led to loss of revenue.............................................................................................15
TASK-4: ETHICAL LEADERSHIP.............................................................................................15
Ethical Decision Making at Disney...........................................................................................15
Most significant ethical issues that Disney now faces...............................................................16
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................17
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................1

PART-A
INTRODUCTION
Management consultant helps and supports an organization to resolve their obstacles, issues and
improve their growth and development by their different strategies and concepts. In other terms,
they are the helping hand of a company which enhance their performance the growth. This
management team is important nowadays in every business platform to increase their business
surroundings (Kerzner, 2019). Leadership is a key of enhancing the business occupation at
higher level. Accordingly, the report is illustrating the concept of leadership and corporate
governance of a mentioned company named The Walt of Disney Company to improve their
business performance. It also includes the different sectors such as organization culture and roles
of the board director and risk management which can help company to grow and develop more
and can be able to lead them at a successful position. In addition, the report will also demonstrate
the effective risk solution which board directors can implement in their organization.
MAIN BODY
Part A
Organizational Culture and the Role of the Board
In an organization, it is necessary to understand the management of the company and practice on
improving the performance of the organization at higher level. Disney's organization is an
American international entertainment platform located in United States. Management means to
conduct an effective surrounding of all departments which helps a company to grow and
develop. In this order, a company follows different leadership style to balance their productivity
and growth. The Disney company practises the paternalistic leadership style which makes them
to develop and grow in the definite position. This leadership styles involves their employee in the
decision-making procedure of the company and treated them as an important part of the business
family.
The company mainly focus on their stakeholders and expect loyalty and trust in return
from them. Following this leadership style makes the management and organization to become
an effective team and employee can be able to feel motivated and valued part of the Disney.
Including their stakeholder as employee makes the management to enhance their productivity as
various people have different ideologies and decisions which can actually put the better impact

on the organization and lead them to grow and develop (Kwantes, and Glazer, 2017). It is known
that an effective leadership style can provide a better organizational culture at the workplace or
in a company. In the Disney organization, the corporate culture has been followed and their
vision and mission is to provide effective work environment and better leadership quality in the
company. The Disney company has different characteristics in order to follow and practice the
corporate culture such as innovational, decency, quality, story-telling and optimism. Let's
elaborate these factors in detailed manner.
Edgar Schein organizational Culture Model
Arte-facts : The Disney company utilize this model where first factor demonstrate to understand
the employee satisfaction by providing them the best facilities in the company which can include
dress codes, furnitures and more which can make a positive work culture.
Values : The second factor refers to understand and value the employee efforts and provide them
appreciation for their excellent work. Disney company focus ion their employee and value their
stakeholder.
Assumed Values : Monitor the obstacles and negative activities in the organization. Most of the
time female are targeted in the business occupation and male worker dominate them which
makes uncomfortable to work in such environment. The Disney company has assumed the value
of their employ either male or female as well.
Here, are some more points which demonstrate the company organization culture.
Innovation : In the first factor, innovation has implemented in the Disney organization which
leads them to maintain the organization culture (Wu, Kuehn, and Shao, 2021). For example : a
company utilizes the different and various new technologies in the company which directly
affects the performance and able to provide the trends to the consumers.
Decency : This term refers the human resource department to provide an effective training and
envelopment session to their employee so that hey can be able to learn and grow personally and
also will enhance the company growth. This organizational culture also helps to increase the
motivation of the employee ensure them to deal with competitive advantages.
Quality : The company provides the quality products and service to their target consumers where
they include the employee skills in the effective manner.