Introduction on the “The Paradoxical Twins”
The Paradoxical twins case study tells about two companies Acme & Omega who were part of the same firm i.e. Technological Products of Erie, Pennsylvania” before being sold by the Cleveland manufacture to two different investors. Since two different individuals bought the firm and renamed them to Acme and Omega. Acme retained its original management & upgraded the factory’s general manager to the president who would handle its day-to-day operations. While on the other hand Omega hired a new president who had been a director of a large electronic research company. Since both the companies were into chips and circuit boards, they competed for the same kind of contracts. Since the electrical boom and …show more content…
The photocopier manufacturer explicitly made it clear that speed was critical due to the fact that they had promised a finished product by Christmas and expected 100 photocopies from each firm. Each organization was pressured due to the short amount of only two weeks to produce a prototype of approval of contract. Since there were different objectives used by both companies to achieve the same goal, the end goal was the same for both ACME & OMEGA. Acme wanted to focus solely on high volume manufacturing and beating out competitors; OMEGA cared more about promoting employee satisfaction/cooperation and producing the product as a team. John Tyler the president of ACME had a major influence on the team. Top managers implemented organizational charts and sketched out detailed job descriptions, which clearly stated the responsibilities for each department and their tasks. While on the other hand Mr Rawls of Omega wanted to coordinate a more informal atmosphere allowing cross functional communication by allowing each department to understand the needs of others. He also wanted his managers at omega to buy into doing it as a team hence promoting team culture. We will be doing analysis of this case study & focusing on emphasizing and applying relevant theories to identifying problems in the aspects like Organizational Structure & Management …show more content…
Also we can propose the concept of the overlapping group membership structure. This involves a linking pin process in which the superior member of one group was subordinate member of group above. Overall I think Acme got the contract due to many reasons, for example Acme had a structure therefore made it look like Acme has good control. Acme also may have been given the final contract because of there past, as they achieved grater net profit than Omega, Acme was consistently more effective than Omega and regularly achieved greater net profit. Acme 's annual sales were also higher than Omegas & Acme 's president was also a very confident and demanding man therefore it makes the firm look strong, As Tyler was very confident that if the demand not been so great, its competitor would not have survived. In the end Acme reduced there costs by 20% therefore the photocopier manufacture gave them the contact as it would have been more cheaper to buy units. Omega could have used the same tactics/methods but this may not have been the only thing that could have given them the
The Paradoxical twins case study tells about two companies Acme & Omega who were part of the same firm i.e. Technological Products of Erie, Pennsylvania” before being sold by the Cleveland manufacture to two different investors. Since two different individuals bought the firm and renamed them to Acme and Omega. Acme retained its original management & upgraded the factory’s general manager to the president who would handle its day-to-day operations. While on the other hand Omega hired a new president who had been a director of a large electronic research company. Since both the companies were into chips and circuit boards, they competed for the same kind of contracts. Since the electrical boom and …show more content…
The photocopier manufacturer explicitly made it clear that speed was critical due to the fact that they had promised a finished product by Christmas and expected 100 photocopies from each firm. Each organization was pressured due to the short amount of only two weeks to produce a prototype of approval of contract. Since there were different objectives used by both companies to achieve the same goal, the end goal was the same for both ACME & OMEGA. Acme wanted to focus solely on high volume manufacturing and beating out competitors; OMEGA cared more about promoting employee satisfaction/cooperation and producing the product as a team. John Tyler the president of ACME had a major influence on the team. Top managers implemented organizational charts and sketched out detailed job descriptions, which clearly stated the responsibilities for each department and their tasks. While on the other hand Mr Rawls of Omega wanted to coordinate a more informal atmosphere allowing cross functional communication by allowing each department to understand the needs of others. He also wanted his managers at omega to buy into doing it as a team hence promoting team culture. We will be doing analysis of this case study & focusing on emphasizing and applying relevant theories to identifying problems in the aspects like Organizational Structure & Management …show more content…
Also we can propose the concept of the overlapping group membership structure. This involves a linking pin process in which the superior member of one group was subordinate member of group above. Overall I think Acme got the contract due to many reasons, for example Acme had a structure therefore made it look like Acme has good control. Acme also may have been given the final contract because of there past, as they achieved grater net profit than Omega, Acme was consistently more effective than Omega and regularly achieved greater net profit. Acme 's annual sales were also higher than Omegas & Acme 's president was also a very confident and demanding man therefore it makes the firm look strong, As Tyler was very confident that if the demand not been so great, its competitor would not have survived. In the end Acme reduced there costs by 20% therefore the photocopier manufacture gave them the contact as it would have been more cheaper to buy units. Omega could have used the same tactics/methods but this may not have been the only thing that could have given them the