Organizational Problem and Solution

Organizational Problem and Solution

Organizational Problem and Solution

What are the goals of the company/division/workgroup?

AT&T, which up until 1899 ran Bell's long-distance services, bought out its parent company and moved company headquarters from Boston to New York. This location change was critical for two reasons. The first, and perhaps most obvious reason, was the close proximity to key capital markets that New York offered, which would enable AT&T to further increase its distance between its competitors.

In considering the goals, where does progress halt? • Is there data to substantiate this or is it a perception of the manager?

The institutional relationship between government and business can be best defined as a marriage of convenience. That is, the amount of regulation, control, and attention paid to business by the federal government has historically depended on both the political climate and the amount of impact the business has on the public good, as well as the national economy. Since the advent of the railroads as the first "big business" in the early 1900s.

Who is involved…the manager, the employees, stakeholders?

First, the success and longevity of the Bell System as a privately owned, profit-seeking organization, partially controlled and regulated by the federal government, is the seminal example of the ways in which some regulation by another body can yield both a successful and lucrative corporation while at the same time provide a fair, widespread, and essential "service" to the populace. Secondly, the success of the Bell System when compared to those other telephone companies that were completely run by the federal government also speaks to some advantages to this give and take relationship.

How long has this problem existed? • What and how are expectations and requirements communicated?

In essence, then, the relationship between AT&T and the federal government was one of balance ...