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The following appeared in a memorandum from the business department of the Apogee Company:

“When the Apogee Company had all its operations in one location, it was more profitable that it is today. Therefore, the Apogee Company should close down its field offices and conduct all its operations from a single location. Such centralization would improve profitability by cutting costs and helping the company maintain better supervision of all employees.”

Discuss…

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There are several fallacies in this argument. These fallacies make the argument that centralization of the Apogee Company will lead to more profits.
One fallacy in the argument is that closing the field offices alone will lead to more profits. There are more factors that determine if a company is profitable than just the amount of field offices. Market conditions play a role, internal culture plays a role, and even competitors play a role. By closing field offices, Apogee company may lose some of its competitive advantage and market share. It would be important to look at each field office individually and determine whether that field office is profitable. Then the company can have a reasonable awareness of the entire situation.

The company believes that centralization will reduce costs. This is not always the case, especially if the company benefits from economies of scale. Centralization may reduce some fixed costs such as rent and insurance, but it may increase the variable costs such as cost of goods. An analysis of the costs associated with doing business is important here. It would also be good to see what benefit the company gets from maintaining a larger scale operation versus what they lose when scaling down.

Another fallacy that this argument presents is that centralization leads to better supervision which leads to more profits. The whole goal of more supervision is to increase profits. This is not always the case either. If the company over-supervises its employees then it may lead to a less productive work force. This is especially true if the company is in a business where creativity is needed. The idea that more supervision leads to more profits would also depend on the companies culture. It would be important to see if the employees were lacking supervision in the first place. Then it would be important to determine if the lack of supervision led to reduced productivity.

Based on the above fallacies, the argument that centralization of the Apogee Company by closing field offices is not very well thought out. The company needs to do much more analysis to determine the real cause of the reduced profits in order to know how to become more profitable.

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Darzumanov