Effective Management of Global Organizations

Managing a global corporation effectively takes considerable skill and expertise to ensure success. This paper is intended to identify several factors affecting global businesses, in particular those affecting Bechtel Corporation, and show how the organization has continued to be profitable while managing these controllable and uncontrollable forces.
Bechtel Corporation, founded in 1898 by Warren Bechtel, is a global engineering-construction organization, that provides premier technical, management, and directly related services to develop, manage, engineer, build, and operate installations for customers worldwide. It is the intent of the company to bring expertise to the specific markets being serviced while applying core competencies and skills to all the work accomplished. To do this effectively, Bechtel has many internal and external forces that it must contend with and overcome.
External Forces
External factors affecting Bechtel are numerous and constant. If companies like ...