用7S框架构建塔海尔中国（英文）

　　Tuthill Corporation is a multinational company with over one hundred years’ history. The headquarter is located in Chicago USA and there are about 40 plants all over the world. The annual turnover of Tuthill Corporation is USD1billion. The products were classified to 9 major business units: vacuum and blower systems, pump group, coupling group, controls group, energy system, linkage group, transfer systems, plastic group and transportation technologies. The brands such as Kinney Vacuum, M-D pneumatics blower, Coppus and Murray turbine, GlobalGear pump, Reyco Granning air suspension system, Fill-Rite fuel pump, FPP flow meter, Hansen and Gromelle coupling are all under the same flag of Tuthill.　

　　As regional director of a new established organization, I am facing many challenges:

　　1. Tuthill is not a well known company. As you may see, there are so many different business units in Tuthill Corporation, and the customers and products of Tuthill are quite persified. However, each business unit of Tuthill Corporation is only middle size operation with annual turnover about USD100 million, and they are not No. 1 player in the served market, the position in the market is No. 3 or No. 4 or even No. 5 worldwide. Normally No. 1 and No.2 players in the industrial field get much more profit and market share than the others and customer normally only knows the No.1 supplier and sometimes customer will ask our sales people: who is Tuthill? At the same time, all the business units would like to promote their products with their previous company name such as Kinney, MD, Coppus and Murray etc. because all these companies were acquired by Tuthill in the past 20 years. It makes Tuthill name very weak in China although the total sales of Tuthill Corp. in China is around USD18 .5 million in 2004, the customer probably knows Kinney vacuum or Coppus turbine, but they don’t know Tuthill.

　　2. The different goals of Tuthill subsidiaries and complicated Tuthill organization structure in China.. Now there are two joint ventures of Tuthill Vacuum & Blower Systems in east China, one wholly owned company of Tuthill Suspension Technology business unit located in Beijing, and one global sourcing office just located as the neighbor of Tuthill Shanghai office and operated under the legal entity of Tuthill Shanghai office. The sales team of Tuthill Shanghai will have some conflict in targeted customers and sales channel with the people from Tuthill joint ventures and Tuthill Beijing company due to different report systems and business goal, the general managers of two joint ventures and Tuthill Beijing Suspension Technology all report to the president of business units in USA while Tuthill Shanghai report to managing director of Tuthill Asia Pacific.

　　3. Different strategy in China between each business unit and Tuthill Corporation. Each president of Tuthill Corporation would like to set up its own subsidiaries in China and control the daily operation. If all these subsidiaries are integrated in China, the presidents of each business units will lose the power and control for these subsidiaries and probably they even have to cut their manpower in USA due to the high cost in USA when Tuthill China expands and grows. However, to do business in China, all the subsidiaries under one roof is better choice for a middle size company as Tuthill Corporation.

　　4. Different style among American, British and Chinese. The managing director of Tuthill Asia Pacific is a British while many line of business of Tuthill Corporation are located in USA. The working style of American is quite different from that of British and Chinese. British manager is more kind than American, he balances among task, inpidual and team while American people is more task oriented. Chinese guy is quite flexible, his style varies depending on the boss.

　　5. Different systems among the several subsidiaries of Tuthill Corporation in China. Obviously the joint venture with SEC is more like state owned company with lowest efficiency and lowest remuneration, the joint venture with Japanese has much more strict systems and customer oriented systems in daily operation while the WOFE of Tuthill Beijing stated that they want to focus on future, so Tuthill Beijing Suspension has more flexible and generous training systems, expense budgeting systems and lower sales budget. All the staff in Tuthill Shanghai office would like to adopt to the system of Tuthill Beijing for training system, expense budget and sales budget systems while the management would like to maximize the profit and get cash inflow through Tuthill Shanghai office.　

　　6. Difficult to attract talented people with good skills because of the not well known company name. In China, people always prefer to work for famous Fortune 500 companies instead of middle size multinational company. However, Tuthill Corp. Shanghai office is responsible for the business of Tuthill in China and Korea, it is a kind of international business and has high requirement in engineering background, language skill, communication skill and sales & marketing skill for the sales manager.

　　I was really quite confused by these problems under the complicated environments. After I attended the “Management Introduction” course of Professor Keith Goodall, I found that the 7S frameworks should be a good tool to help me solve the above issues.　

7S theory told us effective organizational change is really the relationship between structure, strategy, systems, style, skill, staff and superordinate goals. 7S theories regards the shared value as the core of other 6S and requires the balance of all the 7S factors.　

　　The followings are my recommendation for action to solve the above problems:

　　1st.　Make the superordinate goals and shared value for Tuthill China by top management of Tuthill Corporation. To do the business is just like to fight with the adversary in the war. To win the war, you need to have unique philosophy and intelligence. Team members should have same goal and shared value and the leader should have exquisite percipience and sophisticated foresight. The CEO of Tuthill Corporation should coordinate with all presidents of business units and all the manager of Tuthill Subsidiaries in China for the shared value for Tuthill China development. The vision of Tuthill China should involve the delicate balance of three “stakeholders”, the customer, the employee, and the shareholder. These shared values should been cascaded down throughout Tuthill China to ensure our efforts are focused and aligned to increase our likelihood of success. All the relevant people should understand the employee can grow and only can grow with our company and customers.

　　2nd. Make clear strategy of Tuthill China. The strategy of Tuthill Corp. could be “ integrate all the present subsidiaries in China and set up a wholly owned Tuthill China within 2 years to contribute USD100 million to Tuthill’s revenue within 5 years”. Given Tuthill present understanding of the market potential, the emphasis should be placed in three areas:

 Selling Tuthill’s global portfolio of products within China;

 Harvesting Chinese sourcing opportunities for Tuthill’s factories worldwide;

 Producing selected Tuthill products within China for Chinese market initially and global consumption eventually.

  To reach this target, Tuthill Corp. should acquire the share of two joint ventures in the name of Tuthill China Corp.. Meanwhile, Tuthill should promote the company name “Tuthill” strongly instead of promoting the various brand names by each business unit because Tuthill can not afford to promote all these brand names in China at present stage based on the company size and business revenue.　

　　3rd. Set up the new structure of Tuthill China. According to 7S theory: the central problem in structuring today… is not the one on which most organization designers spend their time-that is how to pide up the tasks. It is one of emphasis and coordination-how to make the whole thing work. All the subsidiaries of Tuthill should be operated under “ONE ROOF” in China under the name of “Tuthill China”, and Tuthill Corporation should seek for a new Tuthill China president from present managers of Tuthill subsidiaries in China or Tuthill USA or even outside company, the new Tuthill president should be a seasoned on-site leader who will make things work, all the present managers of Tuthill subsidiaries in China should report to a new Tuthill China president. The Tuthill China president should report to CEO of Ttuhill Corporation and have effective peer-to-peer communication with Tuthill’s business units leaders for related support and product development. Only through this way, the business of Tuthill in China could be coordinate all the business of Tuthill China systematically and no conflict between Tuthill Shanghai office sales team and the sales team of our joint ventures and Tuthill Beijing Suspension, it will decrease the cost by sharing service and maximize the profit. Sense and Simplicity are the key to success!

　　4th. To make things really done, we need good systems. Systems means all the procedures, formal and informal, that make the organization go, day by day, year by year: capital budgeting systems, training systems, cost accounting procedure, budgeting systems. During the fierce competition environment of China, Tuthill China should be a company which is market and customer orientation, all the systems should be specially designed to reach this target. For example:

 Tuthill China should meet the needs of customer, and delight the customer by our quality system and training system,etc.;

 Tuthill China should supply cost effective products to our customers by our engineering system and production system etc.;

 Tuthill China should communicate with customer by our customer service system;

 Tuthill China should give the convenience to our customer by IT system and logistic system, quotation system;

 The performance appraisal systems should encourage our staff to give the best service to our valued customer;

　　5th. Staff is also a very important source to the development of company. Considering people as a pool of resources to be nurtured, developed, guarded, and allocated is one of the many ways to turn the “staff dimension of our 7-S framework into something not only amenable to, but worthy of practical control by senior management. Blake and Mouton’s Management Grids Theory also focuses on the integrated coordination between the task and people’s needs. Tuthill should adopt the Y theory: company should promote the improvement of Human Resources system actively; company should believe in that each employee has the strong desire to be successful and wish to take more responsibilities; people has interest in work; and people will work effectively under suitable training and recognized working condition. Meanwhile, as Mayo’s research revealed: the production efficiency can be improved if the company respects the people and increases the employee’s satisfaction.　

Through the above ways, Tuthill can attract more talented people and improve the employee capabilities and utilize the resources to meet customer needs.

　　6th. Increase the skill of staff. Skill enables us to capture a company’s crucial attributes. Tuthill China should have wide understanding of the requirements for doing business in China, only though localization, Tuthill China can grow from a good company to a great company. Tuthill China should have the ability to think about business at the mechanical level…how things flow within the business, the strategic level…where do we need to go, and the cultural level…make sure people are aligned around common goals and values.　

　　7th. Make sure that the style of the manager in Tuthill China is lead by example and take initiative to make things better. The manager of Tuthill should be willing to participate at different levels within the organizations…from the customer site, manufacturing floor to the board room…whatever the situation demands. It is much better that Tuthill China to adopt the working style which can well balance the relationship of task, inpidual and team.

　　However, 7S framework theory does not mention environment while environment is a very important factor to the success of company. Under the persified and uncertain environment, we should take effective and initiative action to make things better..　

Based on 7S theory, I am sure that Tuthill China could be a high efficiency organization if we take the above actions.　

　　We welcome challenge and expect the difficulties appear. We enjoy in solving the problems because it will make us stronger!

Reference:

1. Introduction to Management---Keith Goodall;

2. The 7-S Framework, by Robert H.Waterman, Jr. Thomas J. Peters, and Julien R. Philips　

　　　江浩，生于1972年，1996年4月毕业于华东理工大学并获得硕士学位，历任德国KSB泵上海公司项目经理、西门子中国有限公司市场经理、英国斯特林流体系统（亚洲）有限公司中国区销售总监, 现为美国塔海尔集团(Tuthill Corp.)上海代表处首席代表、中国韩国区域总监。欢迎与作者探讨您的观点和看法，欢迎与作者探讨您的观点和看法，联系电话：13311838757，电子邮件：JHao@tuthill.com.cn

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