Lincoln Electric is the largest manufacturer of welding equipment in the world. Founded in 1895, Lincoln Electric leads the world in design, manufacture and development of arc welding products, robotic welding systems, and oxyfuel cutting equipment. Lincols’s mission is to retain the global leadership as a total quality supplier of superior products and services. The vision for Lincoln Electric is to be the international leader in quality welding and cutting products with new products and services, shareholder value, and global sales volume.
One of the external opportunities Lincoln has is investing in a factory in the country of Indonesia. This Indonesia investment would open up a lot of opportunities for Lincoln to reach their goals. Indonesia has a very large population of two hundred-fourteen million, which means a lot of consumers. Indonesia is also a large market of welding products, the demand is high and the country is growing fast and would need much more developed machines in the future. The threats that Lincoln Electric faces is the international competition and the technology that is used for the welding products.
The core competencies of Lincoln Electric is the incentive system which consists of four key components. The first one I got is piecework, which is paid employees on the number of pieces and the quality that they produced. Annual bonus would be another one. Annual bonus awards the employees according to their contribution to the company performance in terms of output, ideas, cooperation, dependability and quality. Lincoln gives limited benefits by giving workers more cash wages and bonuses than fixed benefits. The last one would be guaranteed employment. Guaranteed employment allows a worker to work more efficiently, if that worker is assured of his job. Lincoln Electric also wants to be known as a family oriented company that way it’s a better work environment and can relate to consumers better. All these core