Downey Contracting, LLC

Christie Anderson BUS/210

11-15-2012

After interviewing several businesses, the one that stuck out the most to me was Downey Contracting. The other two businesses that I interviewed could not even begin to tell me the answers to the questions that I was asking. When I asked the questions they looked dumb founded, I was astonished. I even ask the company I work for and my boss had no idea what I was talking about, it is really sad. People that own or have a business have no idea what is going on and what their structure is, all they could say is that they are there to make money. I do have to agree with them about making money, but they at least should have a structure that they follow. It actually just amazed me that none of them could answer my questions. Downey Contracting is a company that everyone should work for just because of their work ethic and how they treat their employees.
The business structure that Downey Contracting uses is a simple business structure. Larry Downey one of the owners of Downey Contracting says, “the business structure we use is simple, we are here to bid jobs and make money.” When we hire people they are all treated as an equal in our company and we strive to make sure that everyone gets their part of the job done. No matter if you are on top of the job or at the bottom of the job, we treat each other with respect. When he says, “bid jobs he means they actually put a bid in on a million dollar job to see if we are able to get it, the lowest price actually gets the job.” “We try and place the lowest bid on the job and still make a profit, but in order to do this we have to have the best superintendents there is to make this happen.” They have utility and a construction side of the company and when they are able to get jobs they have the utility and the construction part of the job in their pockets. Larry Downey says, “the company does have to hire outside of the company to get other things on the job taken care of, but this is all in the bid that actually gets placed on the job in the first place.”
The authority in the company comes from Larry Downey or Brandon Downey. Larry Downey is Brandon Downey father, they work together to make the company strive at what they do best, this is to get the job done. “We have several ladies in the front office that take care of the phone calls and see that the people talk to who they need to talk to and we also do payroll at our office” says Larry Downey. We coordinate with each other every morning to make sure we are not missing anything that needs to be done. When the employees are out on a job site they have meetings once a week to make sure everyone is on the same page about how things are going within the job, then the superintendent lets Brandon and I know if anything needs to be done differently.
The company’s values and norms are really simple. This company is down to earth and everyone is treated the same, no matter what you do for the company or how long you have been with the company. Talking with this company, they are just average every day people trying to make a living for themselves and for their employees. They want the employees to go out there and do their job and if they do not, they will find someone else that can do the job.
The way I would characterize the company’s culture is to be simple, down to earth people, friendly, and out to make a living for themselves and their employees. The culture fits into the business structure they have because they are out there to make a living a treat everyone as equal in their company. No one is better than anyone else everyone at the company is treated as an equal. The way I take it is that they all have one thing on their mind and this is getting the job done and doing the job right, so they can make a profit for the company. Larry Downey says, “when the company makes a profit the employees get a share of that profit at the end of the year at Christmas time.”
I have to say the company that I chose to write about would be a company that I would love to work for just because of the work ethics they have and the atmosphere that they have when you walk in the company. Everyone is so friendly and each one of them, know and realize what is expected of them when they go to work. Downey Contracting is a place of business that knows what their business structure is and what they want out of their business. Some business owners do not even know or realize what the company is there for but to make money.

Reference Page:
Anderson, Christie
Downey, Larry