Assignment Task: Assume that this organization has a long-term vision of becoming a global market leader. It wants to bring organizational change in its current business, expand its operations internationally, and set up manufacturing operations in several countries. To start with, the organization has identified a foreign country which has tremendous business potential. Mention the foreign country. The organization is planning to go through the following growth stages in this country, eventually forming a JV with a local foreign partner, manufacturing and offering a wide product mix accompanied by a range of pre, during and after sales services:
Branch Office in foreign country --> National Distributor --> Sales, Service & Warehousing --> Dealership Network --> Assembly Operations --> Manufacturing in the foreign country --> Joint Venture with foreign local partner.
1. Design the organization structure for the company when it becomes a foreign JV.
2. What type of structure have you proposed and why?
3. List the functions of the Core Departments and the Non-Core Departments of the JV.
4. Apply Kotters 8 Step Plan for implementing the change from a local manufacturing organization to an international JV company.