History Of The Lincoln Electric Company

As a former Union Ironworker, I am extremely familiar with the Lincoln Electric Company and its vast array of products. While Lincoln was originally a company with a much wider scope, in terms of the products it sought to produce, the company ultimately began to reduce the scope of its "core products". These days, if you are a welder, working in North America, it is almost impossible that you are not familiar with the Lincoln line of products. If you have a toolbox attached to the back of your truck, and it doesn 't have the Lincoln logo on it, chances are you don 't work in construction, and you almost certainly aren 't a welder, by trade. In certain areas of the Southeastern United States, lack of this knowledge and the absence of these products, …show more content…
Lincoln was forced out of a company he was invested in, placed a new patent on a revolutionary new product, and founded what would go on to be one of the greatest manufacturing companies in American history. (Unknown, N.D.) Given that the company 's founder, John C. Lincoln, fancied himself more of a "hands on inventor" type of leader, another family member, Mr. James F. Lincoln, brother of the fabled founder, soon joined the company. (Unknown, N. D.) Brother James was to be become the managing partner that burgeoning business needed, in order to flourish. (Unknown, N.D.) Christian principle was apparently of great importance to the Lincoln 's, and was a key ingredient in the creation of their company 's founding principles and resulting corporate culture. (Unknown, N.D.) As one can see from reading the assigned pages, the Lincoln Electric culture was possessed of components of more than one of the well defined types of corporate culture. The Lincoln Electric Company was, without a doubt, an outcome oriented company, in which productivity was rewarded. Having said that, based on the fact that employee 's were treated as the primary factor, before all others were considered, I think the argument could be made that Lincoln corporate culture could also be said to be focused on "stability". This is borne out by the fact that very few employee 's leave the company, prior to retirement. It wouldn 't be entirely fair to say that Lincoln is the only manufacturing company that is possessed of these qualities; but it wouldn 't be far from the truth, either. In an age when people attempt to duplicate the success of almost anything, it is a mystery to me why more business leaders don 't make an effort to emulate this proven pattern for