Long‚ He‚ Stephanie Rivera ACCT 521: Case Analysis Chapter 12: Case 12-1 Lincoln Electric The Lincoln Electric Company‚ the largest manufacturer of arc welding products and a leading producer of industrial electric motors‚ employs about 2‚400 workers in the US and more worldwide. The firm is known for its incentive management plan. Despite the death of James Lincoln and the recession of 1982-1983‚ the management system prevailed with high profits and bonuses‚ high productivity‚ good employee morale
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cultural differences between countries. For example‚ European managers and workers were philosophically opposed to piecework and seemed to value vacation time more highly than extra income from bonuses. I think that for implementing new incentive scheme Lincoln also chose wrong mode of entry into European market. Afterwards European plants went into troubles. Another mistake was that corporative executives paid little attention to their subsidiaries; the whole company became very decentralized. HQ didn’t
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Case Study Lincoln Electric Company Case Study January 17th‚ 2008 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Lincol Electric Company is a very successful company on the market. It has a good market share due to its productivity. Productivity is the key element of a firm to be successful. Lincoln Electric created a system to pressure employees for a higher productivity. The pressure that this company uses is not psychological‚ it is the motivational one. The management motivates its workers with several bonus
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The Lincoln Electric Company‚ 1996 Background The Lincoln Electric Company is a leading manufacturer of arc-welding and cutting products. Founded by John C. Lincoln in 1895‚ Lincoln Electric began its business with the design of electric motors. John’s younger brother‚ James‚ joined the company in 1909 as a salesman. Almost twenty years after founding the company‚ John C. Lincoln decided to concentrate on being an engineer and inventor‚ and turned the duties of running the company to his brother
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The Lincoln Electric Company Case Analysis Introduction Lincoln Electric Company is a manufacturing company‚ which has been focusing on welding products for the recent 30 years. The company had outstanding brothers leading the company to success. John was a technical genius and he brought the best skills in production and James was good at management and he was working on the employees ’ incentives. The company gained its reputation through the world war till present as the welding equipment
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Lincoln Electric-Analysis Submitted by: Rahul Agarwal 1. Put yourself in CEO John Stropki’s shoes. Should Lincoln Electric expand into India by investing in a major production facility there? Ans. An Indian expansion through an investment in the major production facility is the most logical step for Lincoln Electric in pursuance of its long term strategic goals. The company needs to be free from its dependence on North American sales; the sales in the North American markets are stagnant
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The key element to Lincoln Electric’s success was its employees. They could not have achieved such a level of success without its incentives system. The system had four key components; wages for most factory jobs based solely on piecework output‚ a year-end bonus that could equal or exceed an individuals regular pay‚ guaranteed employment and limited benefits. James Lincoln strove to erase hierarchical distinctions and managements approachable style- all of these measures built a sense of ownership
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Lincoln Electric Company What is the right culture to choose for your business? Do you want to be team oriented‚ innovative‚ aggressive or outcome oriented? For a business‚ this decision‚ of choosing a work culture often dictates unforeseen outcomes. But why choose one? The Lincoln Electric Company decided to use many of the of the seven work culture profiles to create their own unique business culture. It will be the goal of this essay to understand the seven different work cultures and discover
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Lincoln Electric (LE) has been a producer of electrical and welding technology products since the late 1800’s. The company remained primarily a family and employee held company until 1995‚ then approximately 40% of its equity went to the public. James Lincoln‚ one of the founders‚ developed unique management techniques that effectively motivated the employees. These management techniques were implemented as an unusual (for the era) structure of compensation and benefits called "incentive management"
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Keys to High Performance In the assigned case study we see the history of Lincoln Electric and the success it has had with innovative leadership techniques found in companywide quality management‚ or Theory Z (Houser‚ 1995). Through the use of well executed human resource management practices (Schuler & MacMillan‚ 1984)‚ Lincoln Electric has created a competitive advantage through the use of its people (Summers‚ 1994)‚ which accounts for its high performance over the years. The way a company organizes
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