...surrounding Western flight center involved various administrative situations. The problems started from the time of the acquisition of Pacific Industries based in San Diego by Atlantica Inc. based in Boston. Pacific Industries was a high-tech company. This seemed to be a great fit for both Atlantica Inc. and Pacific Industries. As a result of this acquisition, Atlantica developed a powerful position in the marketplace. However, the employees in the San Diego location started to disagree with the procedures set forth by the management in Boston. The employees were not able to agree on measures that needed to be taken within the company. The problems resulted in a strong bitterness between the employees and the management, and created an atmosphere filled with revenge. After the acquisition, Atlantica got two separate facilities; the Easter Flight Center located in Boston, and the Western Flight Center located in San Diego. Atlantica decided that both flight-centers could directly report to the company’s president. Another decision made by the management was to reduce the mandatory retirement age to 65. The later decision by Atlantica forced the manager and chief pilot of the Western Flight Center, who was also a former Pacific Industries Aviation director, into retirement, and replaced him with the head of Atlantica’s Flight Ops. The employees in San Diego location disagreed with this replacement arguing that the manager and chief pilot of the Eastern Flight Center, merely wanted...
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...UVA-OB-0682 PY INTERGROUP RELATIONS AT ATLANTICA’S FLIGHT CENTERS CO Rick Oberweis stood on the observation deck of the Prudential Building, gazing through the plate-glass windows at the city of Boston spread below. It was a Sunday afternoon, in the fall of a year which proved turbulent for Rick, and he came to the top of the Pru as he often did to gather his thoughts and take stock. Though he worked at a desk now, Oberweis was a commercial and corporate pilot for many years, and so it didn’t surprise him when—of all the landmarks to look at— his absent gaze came to rest on Logan International Airport, visible in the gray distance of Boston Harbor. Oberweis was director of Flight Operations for Atlantica, Inc., a Boston-based technology firm. A St. Louis native, he came east to Boston a year ago to take this position, which Atlantica just created as part of an acquisition-driven restructuring. East Versus West NO T The last few years were good ones for Atlantica. Two years ago the company, flush with cash, acquired Pacific Industries, a high-tech company based in San Diego, which Wall Street analysts deemed an excellent “fit” for the Boston firm. The two companies’ product lines meshed nicely, and their areas of expertise were complementary. The only possible clash, the pundits worried, was culture: how would a free-thinking California company get along with its more conservative adoptive parent? DO The events of the following year bore...
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