W.L Gore & Associates Inc, is an American company specializing in manufacturing of products associated with polymer polytetrafluoroethylene(PTFE) and it's headquarters situated at Newark, Delaware, USA.
Quick snapshot about the company:-
Quick snapshot about the company:-
- Founders: Bill and Vieve Gore
- Founding year: 1958.
- Gore is one of the 200 largest privately held U.S. companies.
- For the 16th consecutive year, Gore earned a position on FORTUNE's annual list of the U.S. "100 Best Companies to Work For" in 2013.
- Gore ranked 21st overall. Gore is now one of only a few companies to appear on all of the U.S. "100 Best Companies to Work For" lists since Robert Levering and Milton Moskowitz initiated the ranking in 1984.
Gore company has been granted more than 2000 patents worldwide in various fields.
How W.L.Gore & Associates is different from others:
- Organizational Structure:- Gore company has a flat organizational structure i.e, no hierarchy in the company they termed as flat lattice organization and all the employees are designated as "Associates" and some of the top management people are termed as "Sponsors", who are their to advice and motivate employees
- Organizational Culture:- Gore company has team based, motivational and inspirational culture. As it encourages it's employees to come out with innovative ideas and freedom for expression.
Preserving this type of company philosophy and organizational culture in present day virtual world is herculean task, but still they follow because their employees believe in their organization culture and system.
In the book Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell, he clearly explains about the working of the Gore company.
Link to the company website is http://www.gore.com/en_xx/index.html
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