Ben & Jerry

[Organization Development]

[Ben& Jerry Case]

Ben & Jerry 's A: Team Development Intervention

Question (1):

What factors are important to consider in determining whether the company is over or under-organized? What are the implications of planning on OD interventions?

Over organized companies are characterized by:

1- Reliance on written between staff members and at the management level rather than face-to-face communications. Lack of interaction between managers and staff members added to gaps between operating programs

2- Specialization barriers: Lack of communication prohibit staff members and managers get any sort of help from others within the company as specialization limits obliges members to be committed to one specialty rather that cooperating with others in other tasks.

3- Meetings between managers or staff members are highly orchestrated as minimal staff members join these meetings

4- Planned programming: Organizational operations are programmed with no room for spontaneous actions to occur. Planned programs are dominating the life of the company and the staff as well.

5- Leaders are valued: leaders are valued for their good actions not for what they are.

Under-organized companies are manifested as :

1- Lack of strategic thinking: it has no strategic thinking (Mission, Vision and Values). It lacks respecting the corporate image and the managerial principles and when lines of authority are not clearly defined and respected

2- Human resource unclear function: When the human resource regardless hierarchy has no clear functions (manual administrative) and when there are no policies for staff with respect their rights and obligations.

3- Underestimate leadership role: When there are no a regulations of written work and when leadership role is not appropriately estimated

4- Unit effectiveness: When each organizational unit is not a cost center or defined their effectiveness and profitability

The implications of planning on organizational...