Trw Systems Group
Central Michgan | TRW Systems Group (A and B Condensed) | History of TRW INC. and TRW Systems Group | | Rhonda Moore | 9/18/2011 |
TRW Inc. was formed in 1957 by the merger of Thompson Products, Inc, and the Ramo-Wooldridge Corporation. Thompson Products, a Cleveland-based manufacturer of auto and aircraft parts, had provided $500,000 to help Simon Ramo and Dean Wooldridge get started in 1953. |
Different styles of matrix management can exist within an organization. The overall objective is to satisfy divisional or departmental functional requirements by pooling workers with similar skills. The major organizational matrix types consist of either weak, strong, or balanced matrix structures. When these departments were logical partitions of the company, any given groups of employees are too reported to the head of the department. After this point, companies began to restructure its employees into a matrix organization, mainly with the intent of developing project-managing units. While reading the article of TRW we will find how they have set up the organizational matrix. Some of the questions that will be answered is this structure working properly? I will talk about how we take different approaches to motivation employees and how the relationship is within the project/functional manager. How the employees are dealing with the different sources of power? If at the end of this paper you should feel free in discussing about the history of TRW. 1. What kinds of organizational design choices has TRW made about the five design challenges discussed in Chapter 4; vertical differentiation, horizontal differentiation, integration mechanism, standardization vs mutual adjustment and informal vs formal organization. Now when we look at the organizational design of TRW one of the challenges it faces is Vertical differentiation. It is a hierarchy with reporting relationships to link roles and sub-units: it defines who reports to whom
TRW Inc. was formed in 1957 by the merger of Thompson Products, Inc, and the Ramo-Wooldridge Corporation. Thompson Products, a Cleveland-based manufacturer of auto and aircraft parts, had provided $500,000 to help Simon Ramo and Dean Wooldridge get started in 1953. |
Different styles of matrix management can exist within an organization. The overall objective is to satisfy divisional or departmental functional requirements by pooling workers with similar skills. The major organizational matrix types consist of either weak, strong, or balanced matrix structures. When these departments were logical partitions of the company, any given groups of employees are too reported to the head of the department. After this point, companies began to restructure its employees into a matrix organization, mainly with the intent of developing project-managing units. While reading the article of TRW we will find how they have set up the organizational matrix. Some of the questions that will be answered is this structure working properly? I will talk about how we take different approaches to motivation employees and how the relationship is within the project/functional manager. How the employees are dealing with the different sources of power? If at the end of this paper you should feel free in discussing about the history of TRW. 1. What kinds of organizational design choices has TRW made about the five design challenges discussed in Chapter 4; vertical differentiation, horizontal differentiation, integration mechanism, standardization vs mutual adjustment and informal vs formal organization. Now when we look at the organizational design of TRW one of the challenges it faces is Vertical differentiation. It is a hierarchy with reporting relationships to link roles and sub-units: it defines who reports to whom
References: By Patricia Lotich February 19, 2010 Pg 09 Influence without authority and power in a matrix organization, Oct 10, 2008 Hodgetts, R.M., Management: Theory, Process and Practice, W.B. Saunders Co., Philadelphia, PA, 1979. Pg 07 Matrix Organization Structure Prentice Hall, 2010