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BARRY A. MACY
2003

BIO-SKETCH

Dr. Barry A. Macy is the Director and Founder of the Texas Center for Innovative Organizations; he is also Director and Founder of Texas Tech University’s Japanese Studies Program; and, Professor of Organizational Design, Jerry S. Rawls College of Business Administration, Texas Tech University. He holds a joint appointment in the Health Organization and Management Department at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, School of Medicine.

He is a specialist in the field of large systems change for Continuous Business Improvement. Previously on the faculty of the University of Michigan, Institute for Social Research, Survey Research Center, and the Graduate School of Business Administration, he has been actively involved for over thirty years in employee and employer cooperative efforts to improve financial performance and enhance employees’ quality of work life while specializing in strategic change planning, organizational transformation, new plant design and re-design of existing facilities, horizontal design, enterprise units, new business/product design and redesign, self-directed work teams, financial reward systems, and direct employee involvement.

He has published in the following books and Journals:

1. Books:
The Innovative Organization, Pergamon Press (1982);
Assessing Organizational Change, Wiley-Interscience (1983);
Improving Government: Praeger Publishers (1983); and,
Research in Organizational Change and Development, JAI PRESS (1993);

2. Some representative Journal articles:
Journal of Applied Psychology,
Administrative Science Quarterly,
Human Relations,
Group and Organizational Studies,
Evaluation Review,
Monthly Labor Review,
Business Law Review, and
Academy of Management Review.

He has over sixty publications pertaining to work innovation, organizational design, and organizational transformation.

Dr. Macy had considerable full-time organizational experience with the Aluminum Company of America and Cooper Industries. He has consulted (new plant design and redesign, new product/business design and, redesign, and horizontal design) with many Fortune 200 organizations (Armstrong World Industries, Boeing Electronics, Carlisle Industries, Chrysler, Clorox, Eastman Chemical Company, Esso-Inter America Inc., Exxon Chemical Company, Exxon Research and Engineering Company Exxon U.S.A., General Dynamics, Goodyear, Hercules Chemicals, Herron Pharmaceuticals-Australia, Kraft General Foods, Kraft LTD-Australia, 3M Company, Monsanto Chemical Company, Monsanto Company, Procter and Gamble, S.C. Johnson and Sons, Sony USA, and Weskit Industries, Inc.). In addition, he has advised the governments of Columbia (CARBOBOL), India, Cyprus, and the States of Texas and Indiana regarding new approaches to productivity/quality improvement and work innovation. Through applied research grants, contracts, and foundation gifts with the private and public sectors, Macy has received over six million dollars worth of external funding. He has collected the largest "benchmarking the best practices" database in the world.

He has also advised the United Stated Department of Labor, the United States Productivity Commission, U.S. Office of Personnel Management, United Nations Development Program, the International Labor Organization, the White House Conference on Productivity, and the Texas Legislature. Recently, Macy spent considerable time in Japan and Europe performing a comparative Japanese/European/American analysis of work systems. He is the author of a number of articles and book chapters, co-author of two books on work improvement, a member of the editorial boards of the National Productivity Review and Evaluation Review and an outside reviewer for the Department of Labor and the National Science Foundation.

Dr. Macy’s formal education includes B.B.A. and M.B.A. degrees from Ohio State University and a Ph.D. in Management Sciences from the College of Administrative Sciences, The Ohio State University. He is a fellow in the World Academy of Productivity Science and the International Society of Business.

Texas Center for Innovative Organizations  

Macy’s Petro-Chemical and Process Manufacturing Organizational Design Experience  

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1980 – 85:

·        Exxon U.S.A. (Oil Refinery, Maintenance and Stores), Baton Rouge, LA - (Union), 3,200 employees

  1984-86:

·        S.C. Johnson Wax (Chemical Plant), Racine, WI - (Non-union), 80 employees

  1985-87:

·        Exxon Chemical (Plastics), Baton Rouge, LA - (Non-union), 350 employees

  1987-89:

·        Kraft Foods (Food Plant), Chino, CA - (Non-union), 300 employees

·        The Clorox Company (Bleach and Distribution), - Houston, TX - (Non-union), 80 employees

  1989-93:

·        S.C. Johnson Wax (Aerosols Business Unit), Racine, WI - (Non-union), 385 employees

·        S.C. Johnson Wax (Liquids Business Unit), Racine, WI - (Non-union), 150 employees

·        Solutia-formerly Monsanto Chemicals (Butvar Business Unit),  Springfield, MA - (Union), 150 employees

·        Solutia-formerly Monsanto Chemicals (Adhesives Business Unit), Springfield, MA - (Union), 200 employees

·        Solutia-formerly Monsanto Chemicals (Maintenance), Springfield, MA - (Union), 375 employees

·        Bayer Chemical-formerly Monsanto Chemicals (5 Business Units), Addison, OH - (Union), 650 employees

·        Bayer Chemical-formerly Monsanto Chemicals (Stores), Addison, OH - (Union), 60 employees

1993-95:

·        NutraSweet – Division of Monsanto (Food Plant) - Manteno, IL –(Non-union), 300 employees

·        S.C. Johnson Wax – Canadian Division (3 business units & staff) Toronto, Canada - (Non-union), 350 employees

  1995-97:

·        The Clorox Company (Bleach/Other Products and Distribution), Chicago, IL - (Union), 150 employees

·        Solutia-formerly Monsanto Chemical (5 Business Units and Core Staff), Pensacola, FL - (Non-union), 1,350 employees

·        Solutia-formerly Monsanto Chemical (2 Business Units and Maintenance), Nitro, WV  - (Union), 400 employees

1996-98:

·        Kraft, Ltd. (Cheese Plant), Strathmerton, Australia  - (Union), 900 employees

·        Celanese Chemicals Company (4 Business Units and Core Support), Pampa, TX  - (Non-union), 575 employees

·        Hercules-Acqualon Division (2 Business Units and Commercial Staff), Kenedy, TX - (Union), 100 employees

1998-02:

·        Goodyear Tire & Rubber – Chemical Division (Multi-business units and maintenance),  Beaumont, TX  - (Non-union), 600 employees

·        Hercules Chemicals (2 Business Units and staff), Hattiesburg, MS- (Union), 170 employees

1992-Present:

·        Proctor & Gamble: Product Supply, Marketing Development Organizations (MDO) and HR

1999 - Present:

·      Colgate-Palmolive: Product Supply

1985-present:

·      SCJohnson Wax: Value Chain

Other Organizational Designs:

·        Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company

o       Hose Plant – Mt. Pleasant, Iowa – (Non-union), 200 employees

o       Wire Plant – Ashboro, NC – (Non-union), 600 employees

·        Graham Magnetics/Carlisle Corp.

o       Magnetic Tape/Clean Room - Ft. Worth, TX – (Non-union), 225 employees

·        Exxon/Colombian Government

o       Coal Mine - Bogota, Colombia - (Union), 11,000 employees

·        Solutia – formerly Monsanto Chemical

o       Yarn Plant – Greenwood, S.C. - (Non-union), 1,750 employees

·        Boeing Electronics

o       Airplane Electronics – Corinth, TX - (Non-union), 475 employees

·        Sony Display Tube Company

o       Electronic and Tube Manufacturing – San Diego, CA - (Non-union), 1,100 employees

·        Sony &  Qualcom Joint Venture

o       Cell phone plant – San Diego, CA – (Non-union), 475 employees

·        Armstrong World Industries

o       Vinyl Floor/Sheet - Stillwater, OK - (Non-union), 475 employees

·        3M Company

o       Tape and Post-it notes - Cynthiana, KY - (Non-union), 500 employees

o       Multi-business units and staff – Hutchinson, MN - (Non-union), 1,300 employees

·        Wescast Industries

o       Auto Parts Plant – Wingham, Ontario, Canada - (Union), 225 employees

·        Harman Industries

o       Automotive Division – Bolivar, TN - (Union), 550 employees

·        Herron, Ltd.  

  o      Drug Manufacturing Division – Brisbane, Australia – (Union), 400 employees  

. N.S.A-(National Security Agency): Clean Sheet Design(2001-2002)

. Procter & Gamble: Marketing Development Organization (M.D.O) (1998-Present)

Designing and Assessing Customer Exterprise Teams (Dedicated cross funtional team aligned to key external customers.)