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Organizational Behavior at Kudler Fine Foods
Companies continuously evolve and change over time. This paper analyzes Kudler Fine Foods' readiness for change by assessing the company's apparent culture, organizational structure, leadership style, as well as internal and external happenings that may drive such change.
Apparent Culture
"Commonly thought of as ?the way things are done around here,'" company culture is a "key factor in long-term organizational success" (Hunt, 2006). Kudler Fine Foods unique offering to the public parallels with its unique organizational culture. According to Jeffrey Sonnenfeld's four types of organizational cultures, KFF best takes on the appearance of the "academy culture" (Gomez-Mejia & Balkin, 2002). The academy culture encourages employees to become experts in their field with rewards based upon mastery of skills. Within this academy culture, Kudler Fine Food employees are loyal and climbing up the company ladder as opportunity manifests itself. The strength of this culture is established by KFF's commitment to promote from within the company, to make every new employee a success by providing excellent training resources as well as by providing extended training for employees advancing within the company. In congruence with the academy model, KFF managers give discretionary spot bonuses for outstanding employee performance.
Another aspect of culture identification for Kudler Fine Foods comes from key concepts found in the company mission statement including the idea of helpful and knowledgeable staff working to give the consumer a delightful experience. Daly and Kabanoff explain that companies refle ...