You will prepare and submit a term paper on How Does SAN Implement Continuous Improvement and Carry the True Essence of Management. Your paper should be a minimum of 2000 words in length. The philosophy behind work at SAN is that when individual workers are allowed to work at their own pace and given the responsibility as part of the team, they become well motivated and work for the team and the company for which they work. The motivation is that each works for improvement and advancement of the organization. A member becomes like a part-owner of the business. The cluster to which a worker belongs competes with other clusters when it comes to skill, but they are all working for one organization. Cluster methods provide improvement not only as workers but as developed individuals. Each cluster works like an independent body but each member is multi-skilled that allows the cluster members to be flexible.

The hierarchy of ordinary Western and American corporations is vertical with top echelon doing the commands and policies. In this case study, there are only four levels in the hierarchy, which means this multinational organization is trying to be modern and innovative, distinguishing itself from too much supervision and corporate politics. SAN is multi-cultural with Swedish and French cluster managers and respective teams working with precise teamwork. that’s why they are effective and very motivated.

Official data from the Department of Trade and Industry in the United Kingdom, which forms part of the Workplace Employment Relations Survey 1998 reports that 65 percent of workplaces have the majority of their employees working in teams. According to one estimate in 2000, 80 percent of all Fortune 2000 companies had over half of their employees working in teams (Flores and Gray, 2000, cited in Thrift, 2001, p. 420, cited in Knights and Willmott, 2007, p. 118). “If the organization is to perform, it must be organized as a team” (Drucker, 1992, cited in Knights and Willmott, 2007, p.