Factors for the Growth and Prosper of Lincoln Electric

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1. Factors and components for the growth and prosper of Lincoln electric

Lincoln electric is fast growing industry dealing in different electronic products and services and they also planning to expand their product line by including battery chargers for electronic auto-mobiles and arc wielding equipments. Further, this company also scan all the changes coming in external environment and include all the modification in their organisation structure that help in satisfying the needs and requirement of customers. Company is successful in establishing their brand position and goodwill in US market and now they are planning to expand their services in china where they earn the huge amount of revenues because of getting large customers base (Birkinshaw , Brannen and Tung, R ,2011). This rapid success of Lincoln electronic induced other rivalry like General electric to use such strategies and techniques in their electronic items that allow them to beat all the challenges of rivalry. Following are the factors for the growth of Lincoln electronic which are described below:-

• The core competency of business is basically related to central revenue generator with the duo facility in which first thing they facilitate related to variable, single operator and portable welding machine in all over the world.
• After that the whole team work under the effective leadership that help in maintaining good corporate culture within the organisation.
• Company also provide better incentive facilities to their employees that help in boosting up the morale of employees that allow them to perform best in order to achieve organisational objectives.
• Further, company also provide various incentive facility to their employees that help in boosting up the morale of workforce so that they use their skills and capabilities in order to improve their performance at the time providing services to customers.
• Further company using different types of tools and techniques in the wielding industry by using manual, semi automatic and automatic machine tools and Lincoln having effective leadership in US market for strict electrodes, wielding wires and consumables through which they provide such products services which are cost effective and give profitability to business.

2. Factors used by Lincoln Electric for the globalisation

There are different factors and components used by Lincoln electric in order to expand their business at global level (Cantwell , Dunning and Lundan , 2010). Further globalisation is such process in which all the barrier related to transfer of goods, machinery and labour are removed and they are easily globalised from one pace to another. In 1986 Lincoln electric having five factories operated in different places like US, Canada, Australia and France. Under this operation conducted in Canada, Australia and French is purely similar to Cleveland parent in which policies, strategies and bonus schemes all are similar. Following points that describe regarding all the international business operate globally are described below:-

• Company larger expansion done through acquisitions, merger but they are facing various difficulties in terms of different culture, ethics and practices of business but under these circumstances whole management handle whole situation rationally by understanding the needs and requirement of different workforce which is consider as main key for their success.
• Lincoln electric make an efforts to expand their business operations in Asia and main they run their business in three locations I.e. Indonesia, Philippines and china and various strategy adopt by them which stated below:-

In case of Indonesia they come into joint venture with Lincoln's local distributor and their main focus is on stick electrodes and in case of Philippines operations they focuses on maintaining the quality standards of goods and services according to the requirement of target audience of that country. But their main target is the market of china in which they are using high technology in their wielding through stick electrodes which help in increasing the efficiency and productivity of business.

In china their main expansion is on shanghai in which there are hiring high level of welding engineers and also providing technical training programmes that help in maintaining the quality standard of product services. Further they started advanced manufacturing facility in Shanghai which were consider as main mechanism through which they deliver goods and services in different countries to various customers at stated time period.

Under this there is also free trade zone known as Waigaoqiao free trade zone located at pudong and it is consider as first free trade zone that facilitates easy shipping access and proper generous system.

Further, they also provide better incentive facilities to employees that help in establishing loyalty and trust of china employees on the basis which manager can easily influence them to adopt all the changes coming in organisation structure which lead to grabbing external opportunities and earn huge profit from them.

Therefore these are important factors of success that adopted by Lincoln electric which give better returns and profitability to business at globalised market.

3: Given the great success, why did the internationalization thrust of the late 1980s and early 1990s fail? What do you think of Lincoln’s emerging international strategy by the mid-1990s

The early 1980's was a good example for business like Lincoln where length get assess properly for removing the layoff. But for management such years were define as most inappropriate time in their history. At such course of time, inflation was peaking up to high to the sky as well as energy cost was also tend to rise with every regular day or course. Moreover, there was a national recession as well which used to impacted upon demands of products and services. The sales went to decline around 40% with last 18 month period of time. All such things stated that the great success of business lie Lincoln get impacted very badly which need to assess and understand properly. Thus, better individuals start looking upon whom used to facilitate and enable in enhancing sales of a company better. This result in target such individuals and aspects to increase sales at the moment when recession occur and arise most.

With 1986 time frame, management of Lincoln start operating and open five factories in four major countries of the world which enable them in getting led down from such course of consideration (Carroll and Shabana ,2010). Company start providing jobs to such individuals and executives whom have potential to dig down better things for a company and their productivity. Business start making their global presence through opening two major factories in USA one in France, one in Canada etc. This emerging international strategy enable them to reach wide range of customers so that they could gain better and determined results in frame. Thus, such strategy adopted with a single prospect to gain growth and remove deviation whom already arise during the thrust of 1980 and 1990. Thus, their plan for international expansion would be a good thing so that better and signified outcome could be gain for maximising efficiency.

4: Can Lincoln Electric use all the components of its incentive system in all the other countries in which it operates? What components of the incentive system work in China? Which ones might not work in China, but in the U.S.

Generally company using two modes in their incentive management system I.e wages on piece work basis and year end bonus and both are describe below:-

• Piecework:- This system has been set up in 1914 in which each job has been rated on the basis of skills and capabilities, roles responsibilities of employees and base rate given to employees are done on time basis in which wages has been increased on the time they spend on their work. Under this system employees has to focus on quality and quantity both on the basis of which productivity of business increased.
• Year end bonus:- Under this incentives has been given on the basis of overall performance of employees which has been measured at the end of year. The bonus is generally depend upon output, quality, ideas and cooperation an individual made at the time of performing work in team.

But the employees working in china are not motivated by piece rate system so there is need for management to change their incentive schemes in this sector that allow them to boost up the morale of employees and help in retaining the professional and able employees in company that help in achieving the goals and objective of business (Casadesus-Masanell and Ricart ,2010).

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