Great Little Box Company Case Study
Great Little Box Company – Analysis
Problem Statement Idea Points
- The company’s original informal, simple structure has moved on to an organic structure has now outgrown itself. How does GLBC implement a structural revival and still retain and absorb customers in a market that is no longer suffering an economic down turn. How can this new structure be used against the competition in a global market - How do we influence and delegate various levels of Authority and Legitimate power to employees to further organizational efficiency - How do we implement different concepts of power type to our current and future organizational design? - With the acquisition of new companies, interorganizational conflict will arise. Structural and personal factors lead to conflict in organizations. What key factors can we work on to heighten Emotional Intelligence?
Symptoms
- We can see that the company started as a small structure. The power was in the hands of Robert Meggie ” taking orders to making sales calls to running one of the machines and shipping out the completed orders.” - Expert Power has been implemented through the hiring of a recently laid off salesperson from one of its largest companies (supply shipping first). The member of the organization
“Upped our business 80 percent overnight” – and highlighted the importance of a strong sales force - Eventually Meggie required the skills and expertise of another person (for sales and marketing) Meggie was then responsible only for administration and production (we can see a change into a slightly more divisional structure, based on the services)
- * Administration * Production *Marketing *Sales - The Six types of OD structures can fall under two comprehensive categories (Mechanistic and Organic) we can identify GLBC as being closer to the organic side. (No one company can be purely be from one side
Problem Statement Idea Points
- The company’s original informal, simple structure has moved on to an organic structure has now outgrown itself. How does GLBC implement a structural revival and still retain and absorb customers in a market that is no longer suffering an economic down turn. How can this new structure be used against the competition in a global market - How do we influence and delegate various levels of Authority and Legitimate power to employees to further organizational efficiency - How do we implement different concepts of power type to our current and future organizational design? - With the acquisition of new companies, interorganizational conflict will arise. Structural and personal factors lead to conflict in organizations. What key factors can we work on to heighten Emotional Intelligence?
Symptoms
- We can see that the company started as a small structure. The power was in the hands of Robert Meggie ” taking orders to making sales calls to running one of the machines and shipping out the completed orders.” - Expert Power has been implemented through the hiring of a recently laid off salesperson from one of its largest companies (supply shipping first). The member of the organization
“Upped our business 80 percent overnight” – and highlighted the importance of a strong sales force - Eventually Meggie required the skills and expertise of another person (for sales and marketing) Meggie was then responsible only for administration and production (we can see a change into a slightly more divisional structure, based on the services)
- * Administration * Production *Marketing *Sales - The Six types of OD structures can fall under two comprehensive categories (Mechanistic and Organic) we can identify GLBC as being closer to the organic side. (No one company can be purely be from one side