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Small Bioscience company with 100 employees located in San Francisco’s Bay area, state of
California. Total annual receipts $24M. Net: $15M/Annual. Your recommendation to the CEO of the small company where you have been hired as an
organizational development expert is the key to the success of the future of the company.
Current guidelines for the restructuring/re-organization are ambiguous at best. You must rely
on your expertise as well as creativity to meet the demands of the project.
The company, a bioscience organization in the Bay area, was a startup by the CEO, the sole
financial contributor and an expert in the field of biosciences. The company product is biological
kits that are necessary for the vaccine and serum producing firms. The company is a significant
contributor to the field of biosciences gaining a reputation for quality products that it generates
for its consumers in the United States. The company has slowly grown from five employees to
one hundred employees who serve in different capacities and roles at the company. All
employees report to the CEO. The majority of the employee population is in the science lab
division. Approximately ten percent of the employees are in the administrative areas such as
domestic and international marketing, accounting and finance department, IT, and an HR
division. Over the past 18-months of operation, the products of the company produced and
distributed in the United States, have become much sought after by the domestic and
international markets. Managing the day-to-day operation of the company has become
burdensome to the CEO preventing him from attending to his best work which is innovation in
kit production necessary for the bioscience industry.
The CEO in his 70s takes pride in operating a business that has never exercised a lay-off in its
20-year life span. He genuinely believes that the company’s success has been due to the quality
of the work by his growing and satisfied employee population. The CEO, a PhD, desires to hire
PhD holders in all segments of his organization. He firmly believes that employees must all work
together under the same roof with set work hours each day. The only workforce members he
agrees to work remotely are the two new international sales operatives living in China.
The company is encountering a significant demand by domestic consumers for its products well
beyond its current capacity to produce. Global organizations have also been attracted to the
company in large numbers in the past few months. The company has ample customer orders in
production for the next two years, through December 2023.The company’s success may
become its downfall if it fails to meet the demands of its market, domestic or international.
You have been hired as an organizational development expert to help the company design and
develop a strategy to meet the demands of its customers, domestic and global. Your
recommendations must be designed to cover the production side as well as organizational
changes that may or may not be in correlation with the current practices of the CEO.
Scenario company background:
The domestic marketing division working remotely during the pandemic is unwilling to return to
the physical environment. This group has become a silo taking little direction from the CEO. The
working relationship has since become tense and toxic as a result.
The International marketing division work is smooth with amicable working relationship among
the team members.
Science lab: Two of the newly promoted employees to management positions are having
employee relations issues. Both excellent scientists, but not skilled in leadership.
Accounting and Finance: The Accounting Associate has been making significant errors in
judgement in the past few months, leaving accounts receivables unattended. Accounts payable
delays have nearly caused termination of services by several providers.