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Tucker: a Case Analysis

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I. Background In 1993, Tucker company underwent an extensive reorganization in the company that divided it into 3 major divisions, which represented Tuckers 3 major product lines. These were commercial jet engines, military jet engines and utility turbines. Each of these divisions is to be headed by VP's who will directly report to the company's president, Mr. Harnett. Each of these divisions will have their own engineering, manufacturing, accounting departments etc. Also, it will sometimes be necessary for divisions to utilize the services of other divisions or departments so that no additional staffing and facilities costs would be realized. One example of a shared department is the laboratory. The manager of the laboratory directly …show more content…

330). These team members would still report to their functional departments, but they also report to the team, one member of whom may be the leader. Nowadays, a lot of companies assemble a cross-functional team. One example would be Coca-Cola, who used cross-functional teams to work on policies for vacation and compensation. Hallmark also employs a cross-functional team. It gathered artists, writers, lithographers, designers and photographers to develop new greeting cards for a particular holiday or season. This team approach reduced the time in half to get new greeting cards to market. With this kind of team, horizontal coordination is provided, to complement an existing divisional structure. With this proposed solution, Tucker can get a number of workers from each department that can meet as a team to work out a problem that arises. An equal number of people from would be chosen from the commercial jet engines division, the military jet engines division and utility turbines division. These chosen people would form a team to discuss the problems that they encounter in the workplace, the problems in scheduling and other issue they would want to raise. From this, the people would be able to resolve the scheduling conflict that arose from Mr. Franklin and Ms. Hodge. With this kind of structure, the organization will be able to retain

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