PolyOne Polymers India Private Limited

Structural Changes and Change Management

PolyOne Polymers is an American multinational company providing specialized polymer

materials, services and solutions. It has three businesses – ‘Color, Additives and Inks’,
‘Specialty Engineered Materials’, and ‘PolyOne Distribution’. It has a global presence with 60
manufacturing facilities employing over 7000 direct workers. In 2008, it started its Indian
operations in Pune offering only Color and Additives. Its initial team consisted of only 45
employees on payroll and 30 contractual workers and today it has grown up to 130 payroll
employees and 180 contractual workers.

Objective:

1. To study how and under what circumstances did PolyOne Global changed PolyOne
India’s reporting center from Chinese Headquarter to European Headquarter
2. To understand how they manage to maintain a horizontal working culture despite of
having a formalized hierarchical structure to develop better coordination among all
the departments for gaining maximum efficiency
3. To analyze the reasons for the structural changes that they made with their Sales,
Marketing and Business Development department and their Change Management
strategy

Plan of Action:

1. Understanding the global structure and culture at PolyOne with the help of some
known connections
2. Interviewing some employee from HR department to get to know the challenges
they faced while communicating the structural changes and how they formed their
Change Management strategy
3. Interviewing some Regional Sales and Business Development Managers to
understand their view on this structural change, what were the challenges before
and how they adapted to this change