Organizational Behavior - Kudler Fine Foods
Your team has been asked by Brenda Wagner to review Kudler Fine Foods' employee files and other documents to assess its readiness for change. Write a 1,750-2,100-word paper in which you answer the following questions:
a. What is the apparent culture at Kudler Fine Foods?
b. How would you describe the organizational structure at Kudler Fine Foods?
c. What can you infer about the leadership style at Kudler Fine Foods based on organizational performance? How is that leadership style evidentially reflected in the employee motivation at Kudler?
d. What things are happening external to the organization that will drive change at Kudler? What is happening within Kudler that might drive some change (e.g., workforce becoming younger, and younger employee turnover is high; retirement of key executives)?
Conduct research in the University Library to explore what businesses comparable to Kudler have experienced. In addition, you may want to explore the Web sites of other fine food grocers to examine trends in this industry.