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Evaluating Nestle Inc for Change Implementation

Change is an inevitable aspect of business operations. Every organization regardless of the industry or nature of operation is subject to change. Nonetheless, the need for an organization to pursue and implement change should be based on a thorough assessment of the elements or areas that deserve improvement or elimination (Johansson, 2014). It is in this light that this paper evaluates areas of pressure that will compel Nestle Inc to pursue and implement change.

Company background

Nestle Inc was started in 1867 by Henri Nestle when he created first infant foods. His response was to respond to the affordable as well as healthy diet to serve as a choice for mothers who were unable to feed the young born from breast milk naming the product Lactee Henri Nestle. The company falls within the food manufacturing industries. With a short span of time, the product was all over Europe, and he moved to advance to condensed milk in the year 1874. At the time competitors walk in with products like cheese and the instant formulae with factories like Switzerland and Cham within Europe (Biswas et al., 2014).

The companies merged later in 1905 and added chocolate to the brand. The time Nestle (Swiz-Milk Company) had branches in Britain, Spain, German, and United States. However, World War I made it impossible to purchase raw materials including distribution of raw materials. Over the years, the business has survived several challenges making it still the top food company in the world. It is dealing in broad food categories to include coffee, bottled water, dairy products, breakfast cereals, ice cream, confectionery, pet food, and snacks. It has merged at some points with global competitors, as a marketing strategy. The document looks at organizational and environmental management systems of the firm as well as the hiccups experienced in the two departments of the Nestle Inc.

Nestle organizational structure

The company staff chart characteristically demonstrates the interaction between individuals within the business. It may include from managers to workers who are the top-down structure of departmental structure operates horizontally. The decision channel can also follow from director to managing director to the chief executive officer that responds to various departments. The system works down and backward. Different structures include Hierarchical Matrix Flat which called Horizontal. The type of chart permits branches to benefit the higher proportionately the high independency level. However, subordinates take daily duties. The more elevated rank responsibilities are lowered to local stages. Nestle; however, uses three levels of management which are lower, middle, and upper. The top level has the board of director, chief executive officer and managing directors. The high level is the final command of authority and makes policies for the formulation; it gives more planning time. They make the company objectives. They also issue an instruction, schedules, procedures, and budget (Sethi, 2013).

Nestle organizational dilemmas

Nestle company has poor organizational structures in developing countries. Laborers who attempt to form some unions are threatened with sacking. In India, the workers were physically intimidated. It has sued labor organizations near it industries abroad. It has affected it responsibility structure. The result is the conflict between management and employees that affect the business. There was lack of employees training (Coombs, 2014). The company thinks that the worker should learn fellow employees when new to the firm. There was also staff selection biases that create serious weaknesses personal and business conflicts. There is also the problem of disagreement over issuing authority and balancing of responsibility among the top management. Communication flow also affects the organizational structure. If at any point information bypasses a specific office, conflicts arise. A junior employ cannot take data directly from or to the top bench without following the correct channel hence conflicts. The young employees also indulge in office politics which is a challenge. The racial and boss attitude was also a problem. Uncooperative employees are prone to disputes. Poor interaction and failures that can result due to lack of system structure (Coombs, 2014).

Solutions to organizational dilemmas

The Nestle Inc should proper train their new employees. With no training, the firm may have the challenges that are irreversible causing the organization even some court cases. The management should stop interfering with recruiting process as they might select a wrong person for a specific job (Johansson, 2014). Nestle must ensure that hire tasks like hiring employees are done by more prominent top management only. There should be a properly managed flow of information. Employees should be well trained to follow the chain of command for an issue. The Nestle saw it fit to employ only married and mature experienced workers alone. Policies should be put to control relationships and behaviors. Employ only corporative persons. The decision makers also present to employees the system of hire and fire, contractual jobs, and authority to the manager. Encourage interaction among employees. Use of centralized systems to solve decisions (Carollo, 2012).

Nestle environmental management dilemmas

Nestle has been a victim of environmental pollution scandals. It the year 1997, the United Kingdom discovered that the company has passed the state set laws for water minimum pollution level amounting to 2, 152 times in a total of 830 locations. Also in Asia Nestle made a lot of environmental malpractices. In fact, it is reported that the firm prevented The US due to strict environmental laws. Nestle Sources Shanghai Limited is also said to have started to function before its Environmental Impact Assessment report. The company is also accused of following ecological rules in its home-base yet infringing the same in China. It capitalized in the country to maximize profit. The accusation also goes that it extracted water unlawfully from Brazil for its Pierre brand (Siegert, 2014) Even though it lost the case, it operated almost ten years to continue polluting the environment. A new Greenpeace study revealed that Nestle use of palm oil of the peatlands and rainforest to make Coffee, Nestle Crunch, and PowerBar had endangered the orangutan monkey species to almost extinction as well as increasing climate change. The company water industry branches in desert states are struggling with water shortages, and the firm has refused to disclose it’s the amount of water it consumed (Siegert, 2014).

Nestle environmental dilemmas solutions

The Nestle needs to safeguard the natural environment where they work. They should also sustainable exploit raw materials like water for packing and forest products. They should also train employees in the safer working environment and excellent health policy statements and tools in place. The food industry can take personal initiations to ensure the business remains in the market. Train the plant employees towards managing their environment. Tell them the importance of to saving water. The firm can give employees incentives to take environmental management measures willingly. Since the society is also keen on how a company manages its environment, Corporate Social Responsibility is necessary. The firm should also implement dry cleanup as an opportunity to wastes collection. It will ensure that robust wastes are collected through other means as water sifts to drain to the outlet. The firm should hire an expert who can draw the dry wastes collection system (Biawas et al.2015). Additionally, evaluate all the plant process from offloading to end production department to ensure that better environmental techniques are in practice. The company will bring in more efficient machines that use green technology. On the government permits, the food company can invent safer environmental technologies that allow it to sell its excess pollution permits. The company can also change to better gain where the government put subsidies to continue

Conclusion

To conclude, no Nestle business will be willing not be willing to evade its global market due to environmental and organizational pressures. It will always work means available to solve the issues and develop more. The company with its better clean technology products as well as green processing means, it customers will still deem it sustainable. Since it is evident that Nestle has been in the limelight for assaulting employees abroad and initiating court to continue exploiting the environment, they should build a high CSR to make a positive relationship with customers.

References

Biswas, A. K., Tortajada, C., Biswas-Tortajada, A., Joshi, Y., Gupta, A., Porter, M. E., & Biswas-Tortajada, A. (2015). Sustainability in Coffee Production. London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.

Carollo, B. (2012). Corporate Management in Action - Nestlé and Globalisation. Munich: GRIN Verlag.

Coombs, W. T. (2013). Applied crisis communication and crisis management: Cases and exercises.

Johansson, J. K. (2014). Contemporary brand management.

Kramer, M. (2014). Creating shared value: Impacts of Nestlé in Moga, India.

Sethi, S. P. (2013). Multinational corporations and the impact of public advocacy on corporate strategy: Nestle. Place of publication not identified: Springer.

Siegert, L. (2014). Sustainable development approaches in the food and beverage industry: A comparison between Nestlé SA and Kraft Foods Inc.

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Being able to recognize potential pressures that require an organization to change its practices or processes is a vital for its success. Examine an organization in the field or industry in which you work, or are planning to work. In 1,000-1,250 words, evaluate the pressures the organization currently faces and discuss the potential effects these pressures could have on the organization. You will use your evaluation of this organization for your Implementing Change assignment.

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1. Identify and describe the organization you are evaluating. Provide an overview of the industry within which the organization operates.

2. Identify the environmental and organizational pressures currently driving organizational change in your field or industry. Explain the origin or reason for these pressures, and explain how they directly affect the viability of your organization.

3. Predict what type of organizational changes (first-order/second-order) these pressures may cause within the organization.

4. Provide support for your analysis and prediction.

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