Read the case study ‘The Simkin Café Chain’. The case or a link to the case can be found on Blackboard and the full reference for this case study is:
Corbett, J. M. (1994) Critical cases in organisational behaviour (Palgrave/Macmillan), pp. 201-2 (Case 41).
Answer the following question:
Outline and analyse the problems facing the Simkin Café Chain in the short and long term and offer recommendations for their resolution.
Guidance:
Please note that you should draw upon material from any or all sections of the OB unit as appropriate. This is a case that says a lot about organizational structures and cultures and processes of managing change (as well as motivations and power) and which also invites you to examine these issues in some depth (although choices about how much breadth and depth to go into will inevitably have to be made due to the word limit).
Words Limit: 2000
References: Required
The main course reading is "Organizational Behaviour" 8th edition, Huczynski, Buchanan, Please try to make references to this book