Organisational Work Culture Management

Running head: MANAGEMENT
MANAGEMENT
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MANAGEMENT
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Part A
It is critical to understand that the board of directors play a critical role in setting the
tone in organisational work culture (Guldiken et al., 2019). Robert Broadway is the
chairperson of Amgen Incorp which is one of the most successful and leading biotechnology
company of the world. The company since its inception in the year of 1980 has been highly
successful in terms of sales and fame, across the globe. The company have aided in
manufacture of medicines that treated heart disease, cancer, osteoporosis, migraine and
different other severe conditions such as autoimmune illnesses and it is critical to understand
these medicines affect the quality of lives of million people across globe in a positive manner
(Bradley & Newberry Jr, 2017). Then, given the scenario, it is crucial also to understand that
being a chairperson of such a biotechnology giant, how Robert manages his managerial style
and supervision over all the processes that make a biotechnology process in pharmaceutical
development and genetic engineering possible (Friedman, 2014). This person was chosen for
the review as because he rose from being an operational team member in 2006 (the year that
he joined the company) to being the chief financial officer in the year of 2007, that too in a
huge biotechnology company that sees a huge turnover and profit every year and then finally,
in the year of 2012, Robert Broadway became the chief executive officer of the company and
in the following year – the chairman of Amgen. Being the chief executive officer of such as
huge company is not easy and more difficult is to maintain the position of chairman and chief
executive officer is more challenging but Mr. Robert has managed to maintain the same. That
is why, it would be interesting to look into his leadership style.
Being an investment banker in Morgan Stanley, Robert has spent almost two decades
of his life and in these long span of years that was spent in London, Robert worked with a lot
of healthcare client from where he gained a lot of experience. When he joined Amgen then,