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FMC Corporation Green River facility is a large organization with many different product
lines that cater to many different customers. The industry it serves is the chemical industry.
With over 1,000 employees, they service over 100 customers with several different product
lines. The Aberdeen facility on the other hand, has only 100 employees who service to
only one customer with a single product. The Aberdeen facility, although small in
numbers, has proven to be successful in growth and organizational effectiveness to the
point that the Green River facility is interested in its organizational behaviors to
incorporate them into their own facility. The Aberdeen facility was founded on the beliefs
of participative management and empowerment (George & Jones, 2005) to its employees.
The basic principle behind the success of this idea is trust. According to Bob Lancaster, the
founder to Aberdeen management system, trust eliminates fear and allows employees to
really focus on what is needed to be done as well as getting it done.
By organizing self managed teams (George & Jones, 2005) along with a team leader,
employees are encouraged to manage many different aspects of their own organizational
behavior. Employee selection is a rigorous process designed to attract people with not only
technical skills, which is minor determining factor based on the philosophy that technical
skills were easily trained, but a range of : personal skills, group skills, communication
skills, problem solving skills, results orientation, and leadership skills (Clawson, 2005).
These employees would have to be able to thrive in the environment were they are not
