Walt Disney’s Transitional Manager," you are introduced to how Hightower knit together a federation of independent country operations and created an effective center linking local subsidiaries to the center

Answer:

While bringing about change, there is always friction among people and there is always a need to manage relationships effectively. Hightower merged operations in various countries by setting up regional offices and subsidiaries at various centres. This brought down the cost of the cost of manpower, and brought down various costs related to setting up of a new company in various countries

While evaluating the measures taken by him:

* He converted the independent international operation into to network of operations. Knowledge sharing plays a major in doing this

* He brought about incremental and radical organizational change

* Business process re-engineering and organizational change played a vital role

* Effectively manage the change process, so as to check nothing goes overboard

Some of challenges of building a transnational organization are.,

1. people from different culture has to get along together

2. people from different language has to communicate their ideas to achieve the common goal in the organization

3. Could be feeling of insecurity among the employees of the organization

4. Corporate goals and strageties not reaching to the bottom of the organizational ladder