Ben & Jerry Case

Ben & Jerry Case

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Ben & Jerry Case

Introduction

The leaders of innovation in the ice cream industry are Ben & Jerry. The company is committed to provide its customer high quality, and natural ice creams. The command also focuses on its responsibilities towards the environment and society. They compete in high competitive market of super premium ice creams, sorbet business, and frozen yogurt.

One of the OD interventions is team building helps over-organized companies to loosen up and become flexible in defining policies and procedures, such as bureaucratic form of organizations. Furthermore, in under-organizes companies, team building intervention facilitates in establishing structures that helps in defining roles and responsibilities.

Discussion

Q1# Ben and Jerry's was trying to overcome from two extreme conditions of organizing, such as over and under organizing. Almost every service provider has the propensity to come such conditions. Particularly, the company that is under-organize faces the deficiency of guidelines regarding how to do things. Due to inadequate organizing, leaders find difficulty to make employee work as they are required to.

Following factors helps in determining that the company is over or under organize is as follows:

The under-organize can be determine but these factors. The responsibility and job description of administrators and staff are not clear in under-organize. The delegation of work and duties are uncertain and unsure. Employee is uncertain and hesitant where they are plug in and able to serve best. In under-organize organization, the most important spending is on time and effort requires implementing and adopting plans. Furthermore, the load work is unequally distributed; in the under-organize organization, some employees are suffered from work over load, while others are entirely free. Leaders not respond rapidly to the query of teams, and unsuccessful in controlling behaviors of team members. The mission, vision, and goals are dimly communicated among members resulted in unclear goals. Moreover, under-organize company faces the problem of duplication and overlapping of work and efforts (Aggarwal, & Chatterjee, 2007).

An over-organized company, the delegation of roles and responsibilities are very clear and secure, which helps the organization to achieve goals and results in getting things done efficiently. However, in over-organized companies the policies and procedures are rigid and guidelines are overly defined to get things done. The communication mechanism is poor in the over-organized company because conflicts are avoided in such organization. In such companies, employees are less concern ...