Discuss the following:
Cobalt Cola Inc.
1. Describe the following observable artifacts of your organization.
a. Logo:
b. Motto/slogan: Serving the best to the best since 1915.
c. Describe office, factory, warehouse spaces:
? We have a large bottling factory that manufactures and bottles a variety of different Cobalt beverages. We have a very neat and organized factory with both human and technological operations.
As for our office space, it is also large and open. We want to promote group thinking and teamwork throughout the sales, distributing and management processes. We keep a very nice, clean and organized office space. Although the office is primarily made up of windows to have a happy, free and natural work environment, we have many company pictures on the walls of different events, projects or ideas the company has come across.
These pictures include employee interactions, customers, the company logo and motivational phrases. This helps promote a comfortable atmosphere for all employees.
? Factory Space:
? Office Space:
d. Employee attire: Both on the factory floor and in the office we like to promote a relaxed environment. In order to do so, we wear relaxed business casual in the office while we wear our Cobalt Cola Inc. T shirts along with long pants, closed toed shoes and safety gear on the factory floor.
? Office:
? Factory Floor:
e. Traditions: At Cobalt Cola Inc. we strive to promote friendship and camaraderie ?among our employees. Throughout the year we have multiple annual department outings like picnics, go carting, retreats and other stress free activities. For the past 75 years, we have a year end company wide picnic in which all 25,000 employees of Cobalt Cola Inc. and family get together for a relaxed day of eating and fun to show how much we respect the hard work our employees do throughout the year.
2. What are at least two espoused values of your organization? How would we know that you espouse these things?
? Succeed Together.
We strive to use teamwork throughout every process of this company. Having open group office space, weekly group challenges and even friendly employee competitions bring all of our employees together to succeed.
? Focus on the Customer.
Here at Cobalt Cola Inc we like to get our customers involved in different aspects of the process. We have monthly design competitions entered and voted for by the customers either online or during a daily tour of our factory. We want the customers to know and love what they are drinking.
3. What are at least two basic assumptions of your organization?
4. Describe a crisis that your organization has faced in the past, tell me how your leadership handled the situation.
5. When a new employee starts work at your organization, how do you "socialize" the employee into your company? What is your newhire onboarding process?
Cobalt Cola thrives on new additions to the company. On the first day of hire, all of the fellow employees will be email notified about the new hire. Then upon arrival, our company will provide the new employee with a peer mentor for the week. This peer mentor will provide a tour of the company's offices, overview his/her work for the week along with facetoface introduction with the staff daily. Once the new employee feels comfortable after that week of orientation, that Friday a mandatory work meeting will be enacted. This allows for the company to realign the goals along with one last introduction of the new face of Cobalt Colas employee staff. Our onboarding plans are intended to make the new employees familiar with our overall goals of the company and support them as they begin their career towards success. This process is going to be assimple as a gift sitting on their desk the first day. This welcome gift includes a Cobalt Cola, employee tshirt, employee name tag, a Cobalt Cola coffee mug, and pens that write in cobalt blue. This allows the new hire to feel welcome and apart of the company's striving success.
6. To what degree does your company use technology? Website? Sell products on it?
7. What is the communication climate like in your organization?
8. Are there honors, awards or incentives given in your organization?