Executive Leadership, Governance, and Risk Management at Disney

This report provides a detailed analysis of executive leadership and corporate governance at The Walt Disney Company. It explores the organizational culture, emphasizing innovation, decency, quality, storytelling, and optimism, and discusses the role of the board in fostering a positive work environment. The report also examines Disney's corporate governance framework, focusing on the relationship between stakeholders, management, and the board of directors, and highlights the remuneration committee's role in motivating employees. Furthermore, it addresses the regulatory landscape, including product safety and transportation regulations, and identifies key risks faced by Disney, such as increased development, financial risks, and reputational risks, along with the board's role in managing these risks. The report also delves into leadership versus management styles, leadership for performance using the balanced scorecard, financial leadership, and ethical decision-making at Disney, concluding with significant ethical issues the company currently faces.

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.

Story-telling : The company has follows the best story telling concepts in the entertainment
programs and services which leads and also allows employee to put their own experience so that
consumer can be able to courageous and can provide effective result.Optimism :This section reflects the positing ideologies and thinkings which demonstrate the
happiness and hope to the people which helps to approach the people and able to manage the
challenges in this international surrounding.The main duties of the board
The Disney company management or the board directors have the responsibility to provide an
effective work culture from which stakeholder or employee can be able to provide better result.
They have the duty where the directors have to conduct a meeting where they can discuss the
issues and obstacles in the company. In addition, they also had a session where they coordinate
with the team ambers or stakeholder to get feedbacks and suggestions for any specific query and
demands (Martin, Ankel, Hemphill, and et.al., 2018). Following these responsibilities the Disney
company can be able to perform well and grow. They are mainly responsible to the people
working in a company and also their potential consumers. The board of directors annually
reports on the different components which includes corporate culture and its management
process. Here, in the illustration figure 1, the annual financial report of the Disney company has
been displayed where the media segments are the major source of the development of the
company.

Corporate Governance
The corporate governance framework determines the relationship or bond between the
stakeholder, management, board of directors and other driver of a business organization. In
general, it has been already known that an organization or corporate governance has the different
key drivers to run their management and organization effectively. Looking at Disney
organization, the management mainly focus on the stakeholder and their satisfactory activities
from which they can be able to provide more and more outcome. A remuneration committee has
the responsibility or duty to manage the effective work culture which can provide higher profit.
The Disney company mainly focus on their stakeholder as they are the one who puts their best
effort to grow and develop the company (Hunter, 2020). The remuneration committee has
follows the policy in which they serve the incentives and bonus to motivate and encourage the
employee which will leads them to provide better results. Providing them incentive and
beneficial offers which can be in any form which will make them to serve more effectively. The
company has implemented the law or policy where they provide beneficial offers to their
stakeholder and allows them to achieve more growth and higher position.
(Source : Seeking Alpha, 2021)

Regulatory Landscape and Management of Risk
The Board’s responsibility for risk management
The organization named The Walt of Disney has the responsibilities of management the risk
activities. In any organization, identifying the risk is the important factor which helps them to
grow and develop in the effective and definite manner. The management has several and
different responsibilities and duties to overcome the risks as it can be financially, healthcare or
protection from the competitive rivalry company. To evaluate the Boards responsibilities in
relation to risk management they are required to monitor the performances on the internal and
external environment which will leads them to understand the basic objectives (Yeung, and
Lento, 2020). They have a duty to monitor the stakeholder work performance which will makes
them to understand the company outcome and productivity. In addition, the management also
should have required to maintain the past records to acknowledge the injuries and healthcare
substances which needs to be improved in the organization. The board people are also
responsible to conduct the evaluation on the competitive parties so that they can be able to
protect their valued information and data from hacking and can be able to secure the internal
strategies to increase the market positions.
The regulatory landscape for Disney and the impact regulators have on Disney’s success.
The company has follows the different legal policies and laws which effectively improves the
performance of the organization and serve them a better outcome. The Disney company has
practices the regulatory landscape of food protection, export and import regulations, and money
laundering activities (Nugraha, Elmanizar, and et.al., 2019). In any business organization, setting
a definite rule and regulation is importance to increase the productivity and safety measure into
the company. Here, describing the major two legal laws which a company utilized or followed
which is putting the great impact on the development.
Product Safety-related : In a Disney company, they are very much aware of the legal activities
and provide safety measures products to an individual human creature. According to the Food
safety standard act the company follows all the laws and regulations. Accordingly, the products
are tested in the laboratories and then delivered to the consumers by following the equivalent
procedures. Providing the best qualitative products affects the company growth and increases the
consumer scale.

Transportation : Looking at the import and exports activities of the company, they follow all the
applicable laws and restrictions of trading by the government and do not make any false entries
on the documents to brief the upper authorities and officials. This act makes them to win the
trading activity and responsible towards the legal departments and consumers. Disney company
has moving towards the success by following and applying the basic legal rules and regulation in
their organization which leads them to obtain higher revenue and outcome.
The three risks faced by Disney and the role of the Board in managing these risks.
Increase of Development : The company Disney has faced the many challenges and risks in its
journey. It is obvious that being in a business environment a company requires to experience the
risk and threats so that they can be able to make stable position in the market. The company has
to deal with different strategic and financial issues which makes them to decrease their position
in the market and puts down their definite outcome (Engwall, 2017). Basically, in this rapid
growing world, innovation and new technologies plays a very important and vital part in the
society which also impacted the Disney company growth and productivity. With this increase of
technologies and development, many competitive companies has threatened the Disney company
and makes them to stay at lower position. The company has provided the entertainment programs
but lack of concentration makes them to leads at downfall and not be able to determine the taste
of the consumers. The company has also faced a lot of criticism in the market and also loses
many potential consumers at the time. This also puts the great impact on the financial sector of
the company and makes them to gain lower outcome and productivity.
Financial Risk : Looking at the second risk, it demonstrates the risk when the company's first
studio went to bank corrupt. The film studio Laugh-O-gram was created in which the company
has started to make advertising films and cartoons into the theatres. Unfortunately, in 1922
suddenly things went wrong and have seemed the financial issues in organization. After, the
company has taken the loan from his brother and parents to start a new film using a loan money
and created an iconic character Mickey Mouse (Pyun, and Rha, 2018).
Competitive : The third risk refers as strategic issue which was faced by the Disney company.
With the time of the technology and development, the competitive company started to provide
the low prices of the shows and programs which makes the consumer to attract more over there
and reduces the Disney company consumer scale and productivity. The rivalry company focus on
the internal and external environment of the organization and able to identify the issues and its

solutions on the time. The Disney company not be able to balance and maintain the power and
large amount of resources in the company which make them to deal with different obstacles in
day to day journey.
Accordingly, it has been recommended that board of directors has to set the definite
policies and laws related to the organization, work surroundings and even risk management
process. Board directors have responsibility to evaluate and identify the risks form which they
can be able to protect the organization surrounding and productivity(Mănoiu, and Antonescu,
2017). In addition, it has also been recommanded that board of directors should focus on the
competitive strategies and their actions so that Disney can grow and develop itself in the
effective manner.
CONCLUSION
The report has concluded the company organizational culture and the duties of the board of the
directors which helps and supports the organization to lead at successful position. It also
included the corporate governance and remuneration committee role at the company which also
add the effective performance of the stakeholder and management. At last, the report has
demonstrated the legal or regulatory landscape of risk management to secure the organization
from bigger loses and can be able to enhance its position in the market.
PART-B
INTRODUCTION
Executive leadership is also known to be the ability to deal with the employees in the
organisation that are brought about by an influence in order to make sure that a proper guidance
is being portrayed. This particular leadership will help to deal with the typical processes that are
happening in the organisation and also paved way for fulfilling the organisational goals strategic
planning and also decision-making criteria. An effective corporate governance will deal with the
performance of the organisation in which there are certain risks that will be taken. This
governance is required in order to make sure that the right processes are put forth in order to
attain proper output with regard to organisational upliftment. The risk management in the
organisation in this regard will have to be complied upon regulatory framework that are brought
forth in understanding the financial leadership in which the leaders are obviously entitled with

certain rules that would deal with the management of finances (Harris and Jones, 2018). This
financial leadership is also included in terms of maintaining proper resources which are required
to make sure that the organisational culture is maintained at a proper basis. The prominence of
nurturing organisational culture is to make sure that the organisation would follow and outline
that is necessary for the entire corporate governance to move ahead in terms of presenting their
base and loyalty to deal with the spectacular approaches that are pertaining in the world. The
report deals with the prominence of maintaining the organisational management.
TASK-1: LEADERSHIP VERSUS MANAGEMENT
Leadership and management style
Management and leadership are regarded to be one of the finest criteria that will have to be
evaluated at all levels. The management and leadership in an organisation will bring about the
structure of the entire organisation and the effectiveness by maintaining a strategic orientation.
Disney is known to be one of the most entertainment place where people from all over the world
will often come in order to make sure that they visit the structures as well as the functional
elements of the entire place.
Authoritarian leadership style: the authoritarian leadership that is a part of Disney leadership
style as to take control over all the decisions as well as the input that are oriented in bringing
about the choices of judgement. This is also and inculcation of all the ideas as well as acceptable
measures that are under 16 control full stops for this prospective has brought about various
implementation as well as the taking the advice of followers which is one of the important
criteria to be inhibited. The authoritarian leadership style that is being followed by Disney would
eventually lead to a probable decision-making criterion that would help to deal with all the
employees as well as the categories of maintaining consistency (Castillo and Hallinger, 2018).
The skills that are portrayed in this regard would eventually be the one that will control the
wastage of resources as well as the time management will also be fostered.
Strategic management: Coming to the management it is a criteria of the charismatic
personifications that will bring about a sociability and also personal relationships to be
incorporated. There is certain belief that are brought forth with respect to different leadership
styles and that is a segregated based on the intentions that are portrayed. The Disney which is
known to be one of the fields of entertainment as well as many other perception is brought forth
with respect to autocratic style of leadership. This autocratic style of leadership will move ahead

in terms of maintaining a strategic orientation. The participative kind of leadership is necessary
in order to make sure that all the employees of the organisation are particularly involved in this
organisational entity. There are various characters and traits that or put forth with respect to
leadership and that with regard to Disney it is known to be one of the additional quality that will
have to be picturised.
Organisational leadership at Disney: A leader in this particular field will have to be open minded
and will also have to be friendly in day to day existence because it is not until when the leader is
a best suit that they can get ahead with maintaining consistency overgrowth prospect (Delanoy
and Kasztelnik, 2020). The credit which is to be given to people will have to be initiated at all
levels and it is one of the biggest are traits that leaders usually follow. There are certain measures
that are included like that of intimidation version exploitation and exploration which are known
to be the characteristic traits of Disney those are maintained by leadership qualities. Comparison
over the leadership competencies of a Disney would bring about the development strategies that
are creative and are also personalized. The professional plants that are put forth with an idea of
that is suggested based on the categories as well as the components will have to produce the
processes that are necessary for the dream to be incorporated. This is one of the advantage for the
organisation where it can rely over the challenges and can also move ahead and conquering
them.
Comparison of leadership style
A comparison that is brought forth with respect to how far Disney is being able to stand as one of
the best out of lot more teams that are oriented in its field. There are several competitors that are
falling in regard to Disney yet it stands as one of the quality measure in maintaining the field of
entertainment and also the right engagement that is possible with respect to its competitors. The
competitor analysis is as important as dealing with any other spectra in the organisational point
of view because it is not until when the tactics that are oriented in gaining a proper market value
is analysed on a proper basis that the market capitalisation can be maintained on a probable
criterion. In this regard the competitors of Disney and how far it is being able to be compared
with its competitors is as follows:
Time Warner Inc: this is regarded to be one of the entertainment companies and it is also more
towards bringing about the publishing services into existence. It is also known to be one of the
reputed and is standing as a global level company which is the major contributor to be a

competitor for Disney. Although the organisation has attained a proper base in dealing with the
distribution of feature films yet the quality standards were eventually not more than Disney
because of the popularity it has attained (Hallinger, 2020). The consequent changes that are
being made in this organisation were all approximately being tracked by Disney at all levels and
this has been one of the biggest contributors for the organisation.
Fox: this is the second largest competitive for Disney which is moving ahead with the
capitalisation of 10.7 billion dollars and it is also definitely one of the biggest competitor of
Disney. This has reached the capability of acquiring 90 million homes in the United States and is
also one of the best out of lot more competitors that are operating.
Comcast: this cable communication is known to be the best which is operating with a high speed
internet and is also the best competitor for its operational efficiency. The business that are in
regard to the contract services were eventually being put forth with respect to the content that it
has incorporated which is now standing as a competitor for Disney.
Being the best, it will also have to face the negativity over the market risk because it is not until
when these weaknesses are nurtured over bringing about the right possible means that they get to
identify the segments after which they can move ahead. Disney in this regard is at a continuous
phase of dealing with the challenges that are obviously we can get it space. This has led to a rise
in the level of its operations and it is also bringing about authorised means of dealing with
entertainment feasibilities. This is also known to be one of the biggest strengths where its
reputation is standing as an orientation for this need to deal with several subsidiaries.
Ability to handle significant business challenges
There are several challenges that will fall in regard to work place as well as the atmosphere that
everybody usually has to deal with. The ability to deal with circumstances will only be able to
solve all the problems that are following in regard to work place as well as the ethics. Disney is
known to be one of the best for reputed of all types and there will be obviously several
challenges that are falling in regard to its powerful workplace ethics (Gümüş and et.al, 2020).
managing all the perspectives as well as the entities that are falling in communication is a ha to
deal with yet it has moved ahead in terms of attaining it space as well as the efficiency in dealing
with its problems. Its ability is brought forth with respect to certain factors like that of the
following: