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Case Study-Reducing Twenty Five Pages to Two
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Case Study-Reducing Twenty Five Pages to Two
In this scenario, undertaking a change process seemed to work well, but the feedback received told a different tale. The feedback was that the change process was creating pressure on people in terms of workload. As a result, people started carrying work home from the weekends. They began complaining to Ken that their wives were complaining and they could barely keep up. The pressure was coming from the need to meet a monthly deadline. Each month, every department was expected to develop a 25-page report to be distributed to around 60 people. The report highlighted everything, including status updates on specific initiatives and new product developmental goals. While much effort went into developing the report, even employees stopped reading it. If they wanted to know whether they were leading in marketing sales, they would have an assistant run the twenty-five report. They would also reach out to the VP of marketing to find out how the marketing launch of a new product was going. The employees found it difficult to read the 25-page report to access the information they needed. As a result, they decided to transform the monthly report from a 25-page report to a two-page report which was less complicated to read.
Undoubtedly, the first six steps of a successful change were not demonstrated in making a change in this scenario. The six steps for a successful change effort entail; identifying goals and having a strategy, determining how change will affect the organization, putting together a change management team, developing a strategy, implementing a plan, and performing a post-transition review. None of the six steps were successfully observed in deciding to change the monthly report from twenty-five to two pages. They did not identify a goal and come up with a strategy. Instead, they just woke up one day and decided that the monthly report would be two pages long moving forward. Additionally, they did not pause to think about the negative and positive effects the change would have on the entire organization. They just concentrated on the fact that the 25-page report was not working as it took too long to develop and information was buried in detail. Additionally, there is no mention of a change management team, as they did not select a team to handle the issue and neither did they have a strategy for making the change. Additionally, no implementation plan was followed in making the change. Notably, even after making the change, no post-transition review took place. They did not take a moment to review whether having a two-page monthly report was more beneficial than having a 25-page report. They only made the decision based on the fact that having a two-page report would save time and reduce the pressure of people carrying work home with them during the weekends.
There is no denying that this organization took some critical actions to ensure the change effort became successful. For instance, they looked at the day-to-day activities and asked questions such as, “does this really add value? Do I absolutely need this?”. Asking such questions plays a significant role in deciding to do away with the twenty-five-page report and remain with a two-page report. Another critical action they undertook was the email they sent to people noting it was not incremental work. In the email, they made it clear that they were working as a team and that if there was more work to be done, they would reallocate it further down the hierarchy or not at all. This action went a long way in pointing out that reducing the length of the monthly report would go a long way in attaining work-life balance as employees would no longer have the need to carry work home just to meet deadlines.
Adidas Company
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Adidas Company
Adidas is a multinational company that is commonly prominent in dealing with sporting goods. It being among the best and largest sporting industry in the world it offers a wide range of attire and footwear among other hardware such as game balls which are essential in sports. It encourages recycling of the old products, and it produces up to around a hundred and ten million pairs of sporting shoes annually.
Adidas organization is socially responsible and has developed a program that facilitates is functionality. It plays a vital role in giving back to the community either directly or through indirect ways. One way is through the act of taking the old sporting footwear and other clothing and recycling them to produce their new brands. For instance, in the year 2012, half of the material used manufacture athletic shoes was recycled while the jackets and shirts were made entirely from the old recycled products. The recycling program is advantageous to the society as it reduces the amount of polystyrene in the landfills which can be a threat to the environment. It also reduces energy consumption at the supplier level (Holtbrügge, et al. page 19). The people who take part in helping the organization collect the old sporting attires and shoes among other product are given preference as well as a bonus after the production of new commodities. Their aim of striving to improve their production and supply with a motive of ensuring there will be no emission of hazardous chemicals to the environment coming the year 2020.
Adidas organization show the high value of honesty and openness when it comes to dealing with the clients and other business partners. It is accomplished through carrying out the business in an ethical and fair manner where all the parties involved in various sectors are valued. Fair play being the core drive enables the firm to participate in a friendly competition as they believe in discovery more than competing. Adidas focuses on the journey to discover the unknown but not battle to win other the competing firms. The quality, friendly pricing as well as excellent customer care proves the organization’s honesty when it comes to its operation.
The aim of every running company is making a profit and achieving the targeted goal of improving its operations. The case is similar to Adidas, but this cannot be achieved without the customers who are the buyers of their sporting footwear and attires. The accomplish the objectives of the firm, Adidas company have to build a good network that appropriately links them to the clients who in return will have the incentive of buying and promoting the manufactured product (Jayawardhana, page 79). Even though Adidas gives priority quality and ethical production, income generation is what makes it keep running in the right direction. Customers come first in the business as they are as well important in company growth.
Due to the Adidas organization high sales per year, they make significant high profits which they use to enlarge and facilitates the company’s productivity. That is they use the money to generate more income. Using the revenue gained wisely, the company has been able to allocate branches in many countries all over the world actually in more than a hundred nations globally (Wang, page 6). Creating new products that will enable sports to change peoples’ lives is among the critical step that the company has taken, and it is through using its assets appropriately in enhancing production of unique brands.
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Holtbrügge, Dirk, and Tassilo Schuster. “The Internationalization Strategy of Adidas.” The Internationalization of Firms: Case Studies from the Nürnberg Metropolitan Region (2017): 19.
Jayawardhana, Anupa. “Financial Performance Analysis of Adidas AG.” Journal of Business and Management 8.11 (2017): 79-80.
Wang, Yidan. Authenticity, Creativity and the Future—Adidas Advertising and Contemporary Youth Culture. Diss. Maryland Institute College of Art, 2017.
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Case Study-A Case of Listeria Contaminated Food at Nature Only LLC
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Case Study-A Case of Listeria Contaminated Food at Nature Only LLC
If the CEO of Nature Only LLC came to seek advice from me regarding whether they should stop the supply of oats in the company, I would advise him to recall the product not only because it is the right thing to do but also because the move would save the entire company a lot of money in lawsuits and compensation. As a business owner or operator, it is always advisable to do actions that contribute to the greater good for all the parties involved (Pedrós-Garrido, Clemente, Calanche, Condón-Abanto, Beltrán, Lyng, & Whyte 2020). Because the granola bars are contaminated with listeria, it would not be advisable to continue selling them. Such a decision would be selfish and it could land the company on the wrong side of the law if people found out. Understandably, the company could be tempted to overlook their mistake and continue selling the oats because if they recall the product, they lose over $200 000. Recalling the product would be the right move for Nature Only because if the public got wind that they were aware of the contamination yet did nothing to stop its sale, they would lose trust in the company. The people would view the company as a self-centered brand that is only interested in profits and cares little about the welfare of the consumers.
Worth noting, the legal implications of not recalling the contaminated granola bars are rather dire. If the consumers knew that Nature Only has been feeding them with listeria-contaminated products, they could take legal action against them. This would negatively affect the company’s reputation and lead them to spend lots of money in legal fees to deal with the lawsuit. In the event that the court finds them guilty of the action, Nature Only LLC would end up spending up to tens of millions of dollars compensating the victims. The company would also lose its good reputation and they would end up losing clients.
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Pedrós-Garrido, S., Clemente, I., Calanche, J. B., Condón-Abanto, S., Beltrán, J. A., Lyng, J. G., … & Whyte, P. (2020). Antimicrobial activity of natural compounds against Listeria spp. and their effects on sensory attributes in salmon (Salmo salar) and cod (Gadus morhua). Food Control, 107, 106768.