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Andrea Jung Ceo of Avon

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Andrea Jung CEO of Avon

By: Theresa Bell

Andrea Jung CEO of Avon Abstract Andrea Jung has had many executive positions during her career as a vice president, merchandising manager, general merchandising manager, senior vice president and general merchandising manager, executive vice president and is now Avon 's CEO, a Fortune 500 company, and has been for almost the last decade. She is Avon 's first female CEO since it began in 1886. Andrea Jung has introduced new technology to the company and a new line of make-up. The cosmetics are now being sold in 143 different countries brining its profits up 41%. She gave Avon a revamp when she took over gaining trust, reliability, and gaining a competitive advantage over their …show more content…

The company is in need of a turn around plan to gain the advantage over their competitors. The company is under two different investigations to find out if the company bribed officials overseas from Latin, and China. Jung is working on a long-term plan to fix the problems that the company is suffering from today. Jung is determined to build a plan to help Avon recover from the missteps the company has suffered from by the first quarter. Jung was giving overseas managers too much independence. This caused Jung to lose the organizational structure of the companies overseas. Instead of trying to grow as a company "the managers were designing products that would benefit their own divisions." (Jones, G. R. & George, J. M. (2011). Contemporary Management: A Manager 's Challenge. New York, NY McGraw-Hill/Irwin.) Designing their own product caused more work for the managers and the managers would hire more people not thinking about the outcome of the company paying out more money for the extra managers they hired. The managers were not using the resources the company had and had caused some of the drop in profits. The decisions on hiring management should be a global decision, in which Jung is prepared to change. The company still supports Jung and the decision 's that she is making so she can gain the advantage of their competitors and repair the problems at the Fortune 500 Company. Jung still remains CEO of Avon today.

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