Harvard Case Study On The Lincoln Electric Company Organizational Culture

1046 Words5 Pages

Lincoln Electric Company Organizational Culture While reading the Harvard Case Study on the Lincoln Electric Company, I am strongly reminded of an organization that I worked for as a young man called Home Depot. Each morning the Store Manager would gather all of the staff in front of the store and the manager would start off clapping his hands and shortly thereafter, each employee would also start clapping their hands in unison. The Manager would then ask if anyone had any concerns or suggestions and then he would discuss the previous week’s performance as well as the objectives for the days to come. I was so enthralled by the store managers likeability as well as his seemingly innate ability to get everyone to be productive and efficient that I made it …show more content…

When a company understands this highly regarded yet obvious “secret ingredient” they will then increase revenue exponentially. Take for example Lincoln Electrics view on how it serves its clients both internal and external, as well as ”the importance that it assigns the groups it serves” which is, customers, employees, and stockholders in that particular order. Let us pause here for a moment and give this idea thought. After all we all know that this is not the typical order of importance with regard to how a corporation serves its groups. So why then, are the stockholders at Lincoln Electric relegated to the last in order of importance and the employees first? According to the Lincoln Electric Harvard Case Study by Arthur Sharplin, This is a continuation of James Lincoln's philosophy: "The last group to be considered is the stockholders who own stock because they think it will be more profitable than investing money in any other way." Sharplin, A. (n.d.). Lincoln Electric Company Harvard Case Study by Arthur

More about Harvard Case Study On The Lincoln Electric Company Organizational Culture

Open Document