2. OVERVIEW SCIENCE CO.
Background
Found 1980, London;
Medium-sized, technology-based consultancy company;
200 employees (85% high educated; muti-skilled; 19 nationalities);
Main Business
Provide inventions and innovative solutions for manufacturing,
engineering and pharmaceutical companies around the world.
Mission Statement
Creating new knowledge and applying exiting knowledge in
new business ways
3. FACTORS TO SCIENCE CO.'S SUCCESSES
Flexibility: Creativity
A fairly flat organisational structure;
Task oriented;
Personalised salary policy and time management;
Transparency: Encourage Performance
Public performance-rank ;
Organisational Culture: Trust
Provide necessary financial supports in professional developing.
4. POTENTIAL HARMFULNESS TO SCIENCE CO.
Organisational Structure:
Limited to smaller companies;
The span of control is wide;
Groupthink based;
IT usage:
E-mail message system;
Groupware: Lotus Notes;
Culture:
Knowledge sharing
Differences across the firm with regard to age, experience and
general attitudes and behavior
5. CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION
For Science Co. For Employees
Strength Creativity; Flexibility(time, functional and
Task-orientated; salary);
Trust (organisational Transparency;
culture). Democratisation.
Weakness Resource wasted; Significant differences in working
Poor knowledge sharing; environment( age, experience and
Lower work effectiveness; gender);
No security protect. High competition organisational
culture.
Solutions To use Lotus Notes more effectively;
To encourage knowledge sharing eg. Knowledge sharing bar and
cocktail party.
Professional human resource and knowledge management strategy.
6. CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION
Group Members and Contribution Percentages
Jie Zhao………………..…………………………………….14%
Liqi Zheng………………………………………...………….14%
Liqun Zhang………………………………………………….14%
Na An…………………………………………………………15%
Xiaotian Huang………..…………………………………….15%
Yanfen Huang………………………………………………..14%
