Fmc Aberdeen
Which forces in the environment are most difficult for FMC Green River to manage? Why? In what way does the need to manage these forces influence the organization's structure and culture?
Change is at the Heart of Management
The need for change is felt by internal and external forces pressuring the organization to redirect its behavior. Balancing the forces affecting the change and resistance to change can be extremely challenging for the organizational entities (George & Jones, 2005). This requires a continuous effort toward removing the current level and status, reshaping it and molding it to prevent retroversion of previous patterns of behavior (George & Jones, 2005).
Internal forces include the organizational environment, its technology, human resources, demographics, social and ethical workforce relationships (George & Jones, 2005). The design of the organization is dependent upon these forces. In addition, the external forces that are difficult to manage are competition, economics, political and global forces (George & Jones, 2005).
If we consider for a few moments the current forces that are affecting Aberdeen and Green River plants they are the same as listed above but the effects and behavioral reaction to them are not similar because of their organizational structure and design are different. Aberdeen's organizational structure has been built on flexibility and change and input from everyone from its infancy so it has acquired adaptive skills and can innovate easily (Clawson, 2005). Problems are resolved immediately and the members move on (Clawson, 2005). Even though the Aberdeen plant has one customer and small capacity they employ a continuous process of technology. Their human resources are skilled, flexible, decentralized and have the freedom to make important decisions (George &...
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