ASSIGNMENT 2 - CASE STUDY High Performance at W L GORE Service/Product: Gore-Tex manufacturer Famous for: Inventing world-renowned high-performance fabrics for leisure‚ industrial‚ electronic and medical purposes The business strategy: Delivering continuous innovation by turning management principles on their head High performance learning points: • Unique form of work organisation designed to support employee collaboration and creativity; • Leaders replace managers to deliver high levels of
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W.L Gore & Associates A CRITICAL ANALYSIS Prepare by: Team Mosaic Date: 22nd March‚ 2013 Course: INBA 6665 – Global Strategic Management & Innovation Lecturer: Dr. Julian Ferdinand Group Members Vimala Balgobin - 811006584 Harrinand Persaud - 811006801 Amanda Persaud - 811006802 Katryn Persaud - 811006745 Kemie Williams - 811006599 Nadira Edwards Lee - 811006603 Table of Contents INTRODUCTION 3 HUMAN RESOURCE PRACTICES ANALYSIS 4 CULTURE 6 ENTRY POLICY/ RECRUITMENT
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Introduction:- W L gore is one of the impressive manufacturer of advanced technological products like fabrics‚ electronics and various industrial and medical products. The company was founded in the year 1958 and today it operates in more than 30 countries having its various offices all over the world. As per the annual report of the company in 2011 it has more than 9000 employee and yearly sales revenue is $2.5 billion. Leadership and management Leadership in an organisation is very tough
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Challenge of Globalization W. L. GORE & ASSOCIATE had been expending their business in more than 30 over country; there are Asia Pacific‚ Europe and the Middle East‚ Central America‚ North America and South America‚ leading manufacturer of thousands of advanced technology products for the electronics‚ industrial‚ fabrics and medical markets. With the employees of 9.500 people around the world‚ managing the people also bring along the trouble as well. With the diversity of culture‚ people‚ background
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UNIVERSITY OF THE INCARNATE WORD ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT How W. L. Gore empowers individuals and teams February 12‚ 2014 N. C. CHANCE How W. L. Gore Empowers Individuals and Teams W. L Gore’s relentless pursuit of continuous innovation‚ in order to keep its products and the company relevant‚ competitive‚ and becoming obsolete; has found success in a lattice management style that has empowered its employees and teams. A style that has worked wonders for the company
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IFSM 302 W. L. Gore Case Study Summer 2009 DE Session UMUC Europe Distance Education 24 August 2009 Since its humble beginning in 1958‚ W. L. Gore and Associates (Gore) fostered a strong working environment by encouraging its staff to become creative thinkers while implementing an employee empowerment approach to management. Gore’s self developing teams have proven to be leaders in creativity‚ design‚ and productivity. The company’s “Superteam” has been the key to their successful
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Human Relations in Management W. L. Gore & Associates The goal of human relations is “to create a win-win situation by satisfying employee needs while achieving organizational objectives.” (Lussier‚ 2013). They do this by not operating the way normal companies do. No one in the company has a title and promotions are given based on who the employees agree thinks they deserve it. While this is something I’ve never heard of I can see it working‚ you have to have a good workplace in order
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Week 3 Assignment 2: Gore Case Analysis Group 3: Stuart Haack‚ Kristy Junio‚ Zeyad Maasarani‚ Kim Tarabetz One can be easily fooled into believing that W.L Gore & Associates has “no organizational structure” (Townsend‚ 2000‚ p.3) as D. Reid Townsend stated in his case titled “W.L. Gore & Associates” (2000)‚ but this is simply not the case. In “Note on Organization Structure” by Nitin Nohria (1995) an organization’s structure is defined as “the pattern of organizational roles‚ relationships and procedures
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Questions 1. Explain what happened to the Gore-Tex brand after the patent expired. What activity can firms use to try to maintain any advantage developed during the patent protection phase? -When the patent to a company expires‚ the company would no longer hold the exclusivity of the item’s format. The creators of it gives up the right to ownership of it and other companies are allow to replicate and compete with them on the same product lines. Firms can stay ahead of the game by trying to
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W. L. Gore Case Study Q1. What theories from this chapter are revealed through the case ? R: Bill Gore the founder implement in W.L. Gore and Associates develop inside a company a orgnizational structure as a “lattice organization” based on the follow feature: - Direct lines of communications – person to person with no intermediary - No fixed or assigned authority - Sponsors‚ not bosses - Natural leadership as evidenced by the willingness of others to follow\
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