Henderson Industries

Henry Hank Anderson founded Henderson Industries( HI) in 1954. It was a sub-contractor of industrial scales operating out of his garage in NJ. He worked for Richardson Scale Company during the day and for himself on nights and weekends. Hank expanded the HI product line to include instrumentation and control panels. In 1967 he quit Richardson Scale as his own growing company needed full time direction. As a university graduate with a major in electrical technology he knew he had the technical skills to head up the business. Hank embodies the managerial skills (human and technical) which are required to run a successful business. He knows how to adapt organizational skills to match a company’s growth and was featured in Black Enterprise as company of the year in 1984.

Q(1) what are the mgmt functions performed by Henderson At HI? Give examples

Describe company, then manager, management, type of managers(examples) goals, objectives, plan. specialization

Responsibility and accountability. List 4 functions of mgmt.

Planning-(products were technical enough he knew he needed a specialized salesforce. So he trained an inhouse salesforce to streamline the process.

(2) HI is moving into field of robotics, knows he needs skilled workers hiring diversified experienced engineers with different backgrounds will help him get insight into how other leading companies in the industry handle this challenge.

(3) When the firm’s equipment design partner Edo Aireleft the company, he bought the product line from Edo so that the entire design group would be under Hank’s control .

Organizing- Decided to reorganize company into two units – govt and commercial each with authority and responsibility to do its own admin marketing and management functions. Determine who handled tasks. Appointed Kurt Huff 45 as general manager of govt and his son Ken Henderson55 to manage commercial He allowed Kurt and Ken to hire own staff.

Leading and motivating- Hiring minorities of varying...