Leadership Practices and Associated Issues within the Coke Company

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Leadership Practices and Associated Issues within the Coke Company
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Executive summary
Managers at every level of operation within a company are expected to be capable of
stepping up to be leaders in the range of scenarios. Servant leadership in every company is a
good idea. This research paper examines leadership practices as well as associated issues within
the Coca-Cola Company. The company is known to be an organization that does business
activities with international stakeholders. The study will examine different leadership practices
of working across different customs while outlining what the organization performs efficiently in
this regard and issues that exist for improvement. Leadership can be defined as the trait that aims
to motivate and empower others by taking up the responsibility for the activity and turn the
vision into reality. The report focuses on the analysis of leadership practices and associated
issues in case of Coke Company that is a century old soft drink beverages manufacturing
organization that has been through several phases in its course of advancement.
Introduction
Background of selected company (Coca-Cola Corporations)
Coca-Cola Corporation is known to have a most expensive brand name internationally
along with it is one of the most prominent organizations in the entire globe. Coca-Cola Company
was first established in Georgia (Wang, 2015). The organization rise to become one of the most
successful multinational beverage companies based in the US. The prime product of the
company is carbonated soda that is named Coca-Cola. The product is served throughout the
world except in two regions that include North Korea together with Cuba. The organization has
been able to produce various products that comprise of bottled water, flavored water, sports
drink, and various types of soft drinks that are customized according to different demands of

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local nations (Foster, 2014). Besides, the organization also holds the maximum share of the
market in sales of soft beverages.
Leadership practices and associated issues within the Coca-Cola Company
In the Coca-Cola Company, it is the behaviors of leadership that are essential in
practicing consciously every day. The company considers a great leader to be an individual that
can motivate their team as well as follow different best practices for business management to
ensure that the company becomes successful (Mokhov & Ryabukhin, 2018). The company
operates by employing best leaders that can get workers to produce the best outcomes with the
least amount of effort using the available resources offered to them at any given time. Every
leader employed by this company is needed to possess various qualities for effective operations.
They are needed to posse’s qualities such as being honest, competent, respectful, and caring. The
leaders are also required to e inspiring, forward-looking and trustworthy during the operation
process (Fisher & Robbins, 2014). Additionally, some of the practices of leaders and
implications in Coke Corporation comprise of the idea that leaders challenge the process of
operations, they inspire the shared vision, enables other stakeholders to act, and model the way
of operations while encouraging the people to work hard.
Challenge the operation process
Most leaders in Coke Corporation challenge the process of operations to attain the vision
and company’s mission. The idea allows them to thrive as well as learn from difficult together
with adverse situations during their engagement in the company. In most cases, these leaders are
risk takers that regard failure in operations not to result from the poor performance of their
subjects (Graham, 2015). Therefore, leadership practice of challenging the process of operations

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offers a useful chance for many individuals to learn and to understand the different innovative
process within operations. Most leaders within the company are required to be early adopters of
the innovation in the operations. Leaders need to effectively have the technical know-how on
how to handle various processes in operations (Dingle, Fraser, & Wilder, 2016). Presence of
technological advancements used in operations makes it necessary for each leader within the
company to focus on understanding and adopt the innovation techniques essential in improving
the production of every work and the company at large.
Leaders within the Coca-Cola Corporation seek out different things that appear to work
and then insist that they are enhanced in usage. The leaders in this sector are always challenging
operations within twenty-four hours in seven days (Mokhov & Ryabukhin, 2018). Therefore, this
leadership practice within the Coke Corporation suggests that every stakeholder should not be
content to perform business operations as usual. Besides, every leader of the company needs to
seek challenging opportunities to change, improve, and grow in their operations. Moreover,
every leader is focused on experimenting, taking the risk, as well as learns from the
accompanying mistakes. The leaders are also able to operate by considering what part of their
organization’s work they need to challenge (Altman, 2016). They consider understanding the
number of ideas they need to have to implement in the operation of the Coke Company and to
understand whether stakeholders of the company are prepared to take risks.
Inspiring the shared vision
It is evident from most studies that individuals are motivated most not by fear or reward,
but by ideas that capture their imagination. The idea is so much concern with the need to have
the vision. However, communicating the vision effectively so that others take it on board is