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¶ … Oconomo without changing the culture? Does the plant need a new set of workers and a new culture?
The short answer here is: the plant doesn't need a new set of employees; it just needs the existing employee culture to adjust its attitude towards change. A change in attitude is in a round-about way also a change of culture.
Clearly there is a drastic need for change at the Oconomo plant, and the union must step up and convince its members that it is literally do or die; that is, if they don't accept a deal for lower compensation, the plan it going under -- or, it will move to Mexico. When Jim Malesckowski was sent to Mexico to find out how this manufacturing plant could benefit the owners financially, he realized very quickly that moving the plant would mean that management would be "…ushering in a blizzard of pink slips," and those pink slips would be given to employees that "he had come to appreciate," so he did not look forward to such a grim task.
But on the other hand if the union won't budge, and other plants are producing...
The chapter goes on the state that organizations "…must be designed to respond to the environment" because businesses must adjust to the market, which is constantly being altered or changed in some way; Daft also says that "large culture change is not easy" (Daft). Companies must be "ambidextrous" and be willing to embrace "innovation" in order to "remain competitive" (Daft).
Moreover, in terms of the need for a cultural adjustment -- the union accepting a lower form of compensation -- there are local economic situations to take into consideration. To wit, the town has only 9,000 people and there are 520 employees who would not be earning any salary; hence, the community could become…
Works Cited
Bloomberg. "Boeing Union Accepts Concessions to Keep 777X in Seattle." Retrieved March
30, 2014, from http://www.bloomberg.com. 2014.
Daft, R., and Marcic, D. Understanding Management. Stamford, CT: Cengage Learning, 2012
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