Leadership Management Assessment Answer

Key Topics

• Q.1 what should be done by Jake to manage the board?
• Q.2 resignation should be given by Jake or not? If not then what he must do?
• Q.3 why do you feel forcing for a fake resignation could make things worse for the company?

Q.1 

Ans)

Jake was forced to leave the company and give a resignation to the company after the incident that happened in the past days. The case included a hacking done by the hackers to their client’s data and gets all the personal information. They were unable to get access to all data provided but somehow the hackers managed to know the information related to clients’ email addresses. This affected Jake’s position and disturbed him too. Jake Santini was CEO of the company and he had to deal with a situation of resignation from company after the hacking incidence happened. Here the point of discussion is when things are going in wrong direction then the board should act wisely. They must be up to date about all the risks and situations that can happen in their institution. And in case a problem occurs, the board should take responsibility of the following. The board wasn’t prepared for the risk and then because of pressure of media and people, Jake was forced by them to leave the office. Jake must assure the board members for a fast recovery. All he can do is to check all the security processes of the company and the board could be made silent by assuring the public and the clients of no loss in this incident and by making commitment for no risk to their property further. 

Q.2

Ans)

I would suggest Jake, not to leave the job or give a resignation to the company. This is because he had decided for the resignation due to pressure of the board members. Board members were also responsible for the loss and risk which happened to the company in the past days. This risk was due the carelessness of all the people who were involved with the company or institution. And Jake worked hard to rescue the problem and work on the issue and resolve it. He was friendly mate to all his office members and was dedicated to his work. Jake being a responsible CEO, ordered all the members immediately to work on the issue of hacking. The process that was passed by him was slow but authentic too. The hackers were unable to get access to further private data of the people because of the working and security settings arranged by Jake and his team. And the board members had no other reason to force Jake for resignation except the pressure from the side of media and people. All the things were set and the problems were solved inside the company. There was no threat further to the data, all security issues were solved but this couldn’t be explained to the media and outside people easily, so the resignation part was decided so as to answer the outside public and to ensure good public image of the company and its security issues in long run.

Q.3 

Ans)

The Company and its board members forced Jake to leave the job and his post for the sake of answering public and the media men. They wanted to keep the image of their company and its security safe and sound. After the hacking case, all were questioning the security of company. Although the problem was solved and security issues were improved but the board members wanted to bring the reason behind all this problem and remove it in front of public and the media men. This was done by forcing the CEO of the company to accept that the entire problem happened in front of him so he should resign from his job. And this was done by Jake finally. The question arises that, Jake wasn’t responsible for whatever happened to the company and he was dedicated to his job as well. It might be possible that the hacker was an insider. This fake resign letter could help him grow stronger. Instead of catching the real culprit, they made one. In case, media men or the people come to know about this fake resign forced by the company, it could ruin all the empire and trust that was built in so many years. This was highly disappointing and bad decision taken by the board members just as to save and over the case for the present time.