MCC

MCC (Missouri Computational Company) is a multinational group created in 1952 which successfully develops, manufactures and sells computers of medium and high capacity. It is building up business in North and South America, in Europe, in South-Eastern Asia, in Australia and in the Middle East. The American Headquarter, located in Saint Louis, Missouri, co-ordinates the production, the activity of research and development, the HRM policy and financial aspects. The factories are located in Saint Louis and Newark, New Jersey. The sales activities are structured in regional divisions. The major business sectors of MCC have regional sales under their responsibility.

This decentralised organisation has some limits. Indeed, there is a centralisation with regard to the logos, the letters used, the types of products and the financial criteria to respect. The central level co-ordinates the standardisation of the working conditions, the classification of jobs and the planning of HR policy, while the recruiting is carried out at the level of the regional entities. Each one of them has its own human resource management and financial management. A Management Committee gathers at the headquarter every two weeks.

The direction wishes to reinforce the MCC spirit of globalisation: the requirements of the customers are increasingly international, the overseas sales of the group are developing, even if the export growth remains difficult to foresee, and the manufacturing units are located in a growing number of countries. At the time of the last Management Committee, a marketing plan at the global level was decided. A new logo symbolising the increasing globalisation of the group in the world was presented. For Michael Smith, the MCC chairman, now is the time to use management tools which are valid universally, as he learned during his MBA studies. In addition to the