Ben & Jerry Case Study

The difficulty in implementing this program would be getting people to buy into the idea of hiring these skilled immigrant workers. American has this notion that we are the best at everything. People may feel that these skilled immigrant workers are not qualified to do such jobs. In order to combat this I would have people like Mr. Cash tell his story. I would have Mr. Cash explained that his skills in accountant and his knowledge of the stock market is what allowed him to afford the expenses associated with traveling to America. I would have him share his story of how he was taken advantage of and the struggle he faced to care for himself and his family

This image event will take place at a Trader Joes grocery store located in Bethesda Maryland; just off of Wisconsin Ave tucked into a small strip mall. Trader Joes is a grocery store that values their costumers and therefore the food that they offer to sell to them. Most, if not all the food available at your local Trader Joes will not contain or use GMOs, which is very important due to the negative effects it has proven to cause on peoples health down the line. The ultimate mission here, is to create an impact on the costumers by putting huge, but false GMO labels on every item sold at the store, and see how many people buy their food regardless of the fact that its explicitly saying there are GMOs in the food you are willing to purchase.

The Gateway Hospital OD consultants should focus on management, employee satisfaction, recruitment, financial needs, decrease in services and communication issues within the hospital. The OD interventions that should be used to address and assist in these areas are:

2. What are the issues involved in these situations? How are they best addressed by the decision makers?

2) The oven holds only one tray (one dozen of cookies) => at full utilization we can cook only 6 dozen of cookies per hour, for example after washing and mixing we have two more minutes to wait before oven will free.

9. What challenges face HR managers with regard to workforce availability and quality? What are potential

After reviewing the case, I believe that there are three key issues that have affected the Human Resources department in terms of keeping up with the company growth. The three key issues are the employee turnover rate, training programs and

The whole process throughput time of making a dozen of cookies is 26 minutes. It takes washing, mixing and spooning 8 minutes to make a dozen of cookies. And preparation and bake time totally are 10 minutes. The final step of cooling, packing and accepting payment of cookies takes roommate 8 minutes to finish the cycle. Assume the night capacity is 4 hours, so Kristen and roommate have 240 minutes operating time. Since the oven only holds one tray, the second dozen takes an additional 10 minutes to bake. For example, first dozen of cookies take 26 minutes to make, second dozen of cookies take 36 minutes to make and third dozen of cookies take 46 minutes to make. So we can

Ben and Jerry’s, founded in 1978, is a market leading distributor of super-premium ice creams, frozen yogurts, and sorbets, and has built a reputation on being a socially minded company. They were pioneers in the policy of “caring capitalism” and place heavy importance on the concept of social responsibility, a practice which many companies have since adopted. They have enjoyed long-term success as a result of their progressive methods of doing business and novel ideology regarding how a company should be ran. However, due to increased competitive pressure and declining financial performance, they have now been confronted by the threat of a takeover. Recently four

Organization Development (OD) is a deliberately planned, organization-wide effort to increase an organization's effectiveness and/or efficiency, and/or to enable the organization to achieve its strategic goals (2015, Wikipedia).

After anticipating a need for change, it is necessary for the OD practitioner to enter the system in order to develop a relationship with the client. The relationship is important because it is contingent upon the accomplishment or disappointment of the OD program. The practitioner aim is to initiate open

Organization development grew out of the human relations traditions of the 1940s and 1950s, and it has had enormous influence on management practices and thinking about how organizational effectiveness can be achieved. Critical manpower and resource shortages faced by all organizations, public and private, during World War II and in the immediate post-war years stimulated a search by social scientist and managers, separately and in cooperation with one another, for effective means to maximize the utilization of existing individual and organizational resources. (Ritcher, I 2007). Organization Development was by tradition about planned change efforts, instituted to enhance organization effectiveness within the context of the traditional, hierarchical, management-as-experts, top-down era. The legacy of leaders and organizations developed in this context remain. Organizational Development is about how organizations and people function and how to get them to function better. Organization transformation signals the need to transform mindsets, engage people and make the deep shift to the ongoing mutual learning environment needed for the long-lasting change characteristic of our world today.

Golden Valley Foods, Inc. is a 127-year-old company that prepares packages and sells canned and frozen foods which include fruits, vegetables, pickles and condiments. Golden Valley has more than 30 processing plants in operations and annual sales of approximately $650 million. Much of Golden Valley’s management staff comes from their parent company with the previous president saying “The influence of our old parent company is still with us. As long as new products look like they will increase the company’s sales volume, they are introduced. Traditionally, there has been little, if any attention paid to

Manny Flavors Cookie Company (MFCC) is a reputable family owned business that has been in operations since 1889. Now in its fourth generation of ownership, MFCC’s sales have flourished and it is important that the business continue to grow to its fullest potential. Despite the success of the company, MFCC is currently experiencing problems on the operating floor. Willie Keepum, Vice President of Operations at the company, wishes to terminate all of the employees because he believes that many of the employees have a negative attitude and have become complacent about the quality of the product. Disregarding the opinions of the mid-level managers, he believes that firing the employees will show the workers who is in charge because there is nothing anyone can do to make the employees motivated to work. The current paper will explain the problems that MFCC face and how these problems may affect the company in its future business endeavors. Then, there will be an explanation of how a change in leadership style can benefit the organization more than terminating any employees. Lastly, alternative solutions will be stated to resolve the problems faced by workers and leaders on the operating floor of MFCC.

Organizational development (OD) is an application or process of building a greater level of efficiency within the organization. OD develops the ongoing effort geared for long-term effects. OD works to help management and employees on a variety of levels. Organizational development is perhaps unequaled in its ability to meet any type of organization needs. However, the solutions developed from the role of OD may not be necessarily interchangeable with different organizations (Grant, 2010).