Reading Response - 2
I am writing in response to the email in which the CEO chewed out his employees in an email and then his stock plummeted by more than thirty-three percent. First of all, I would like to comment on his style of management. He quoted in an interview that “he attributed his blunt management style to growing up on a farm in Oklahoma. He told the New York Times: "You can take the boy off the farm, but you can't take the farm out of the boy,” (www.commondreams.org). I disagree with this statement because even though working on a farm requires tons of hard work, this style of management does not exist on every farm, and most decisions should not be made with an attitude like this. Also, this style management is more of a dictatorship, and most adults do not respond well to this style of management. If the CEO wanted to get through to his employees, he would of tried to form a more personal bond with his employees and worked with them to create a plan for improvement.
Secondly, the CEO of this company needs to realize the advances in technology and the precautions necessary to write a professional email. Since emails have become such a popular and widely used method of communication, one must exercise extreme caution when writing an email. Before writing an email, one must fully understand email etiquette so that they do not accidentally offend someone. One must also realize that due to the popularity of emails, they can now be used in court as a credible source of evidence. This being said, this CEO should of thought about the repercussions of his actions before he pressed the send button on his browser. I feel that the CEO got what was coming to him for this intimidating and unprofessional email that he composed.