Gretchen Fox, founder and CEO of FOX Transfer Control Corporation, a company that specializes in the management of the resettlement organizations successfully grow its business form Boston-1 to 40-person firm. Fox's business model and management style was unusual and set her personal beliefs. For example, Fox loved hierarchical, highly structured organization and kept lines of responsibility and authority is ambiguous between it and the second in command. As the demand for the services of the company has expanded and Fox are ready to grow its business with 40 to 60 people, her experiments with the organizational principles and compensation approaches have been under pressure. Fox must decide which of the organizational design and management practices need to change? How would they? At the same time, how to maintain a culture of Fox that she so carefully developed and which has brought the company's success? "Hide
by Cynthia A. Ingols, Lisa Brem Source: North American Case Research Association (NACRA) 15 pages. Publication Date: April 1, 2004. Prod. #: NA0096-PDF-ENG
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