Prizes & Awards
2024 The Case Centre Best-selling Case in the Category 'Human Resource Management / Organisational Behaviour'
2024 The Case Centre Best-selling Classic Case in the Category 'Human Resource Management / Organisational Behaviour'
2020 The Case Centre Best-selling Case in the Category 'Human Resource Management / Organisational Behaviour'
2019 The Case Centre Best-selling Case in the Category 'Human Resource Management / Organisational Behaviour'
2018 The Case Centre Best-selling Case in the Category 'Human Resource Management / Organisational Behaviour'
2017 The Case Centre Best-selling Case in the Category 'Human Resource Management / Organisational Behaviour'
2016 The Case Centre Best-selling Case in the Category 'Human Resource Management / Organisational Behaviour'
Winner of the Case Centre Awards and Competitions 2016 in the Category 'Human Resource Management/Organisational Behaviour'
The case follows the story of Brazilian business leader, Ricardo Semler, who took the family marine-pump business, Semco, to multi-national, multi-sector success. To do so, Ricardo Semler dramatically changed his own leadership style by relinquishing control and working less hard, and subsequently transformed the culture at Semco via a radical process of workplace democratisation. Finally, he applied the same leadership principles successfully to other industries: hotels, education, and banking.
Highlight the effects of different leadership styles in different situations; the organizational consequences of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation and different types incentive systems; the self-fulfilling effects of leadership behavior; and how leaders can use the change process to transform an organisation's culture
- Leadership
- Motivation
- Organisational Change
- Incentive Systems
- Organizational Culture
- Transformational Leadership
- IAF
- WICFE
- Education, entrepreneurship, leadership
