Kudler Foods Change Initiative
Kudler Foods Change Initiative
Richard Hearn
LDR/535
Dr. Gwendyl Spann
April 20th, 2015
Kudler Foods Change Initiative Kudler Foods is in the process of a technical change. The company wants insight and feedback on how their employees will respond and potentially react to the change. They are looking for emotional responses and how the employee’s personal values and morals will affect the change and how much the resistance level to the change will hinder the entire change. Any unwanted behaviors and negative attitudes have been carefully analyzed from the employee reviews in all three locations, and in those files, we have findings that should assist Kudler Foods in their approach to the change to minimize the possible negative outcome.
Kudler Employee Attitudes From the employee files located on Kudler Foods Intranet, the firm reviewed each employee and their yearly reviews in all three locations. Beginning with the administration, the employees there seem to do only what is necessary. There seems to be a lack of direction with the employee’s leadership skills on site. Out of the three employees, the average raise was between 2-3.5% annually.
LaJolla
In LaJolla, Raj Slentz was the only employee who took the initiative to progress as an employee. Glenn Edelman is nearing retirement and Eric McMullen does not understand punctuality. This can be identified as resistance to the change because this is a location that will experience turnover in a short period of time.
Del Mar The Del Mar location is where the trouble area will be with the change. Half of the employees have attendance and attitude issues that have not been corrected in three years. The emotional response has to be taken into consideration at this point because there are three employees that perform as and above expected and three employees that only do the minimum when they are present and “feel like it.” The employees that like their jobs will become frustrated with the other three
Richard Hearn
LDR/535
Dr. Gwendyl Spann
April 20th, 2015
Kudler Foods Change Initiative Kudler Foods is in the process of a technical change. The company wants insight and feedback on how their employees will respond and potentially react to the change. They are looking for emotional responses and how the employee’s personal values and morals will affect the change and how much the resistance level to the change will hinder the entire change. Any unwanted behaviors and negative attitudes have been carefully analyzed from the employee reviews in all three locations, and in those files, we have findings that should assist Kudler Foods in their approach to the change to minimize the possible negative outcome.
Kudler Employee Attitudes From the employee files located on Kudler Foods Intranet, the firm reviewed each employee and their yearly reviews in all three locations. Beginning with the administration, the employees there seem to do only what is necessary. There seems to be a lack of direction with the employee’s leadership skills on site. Out of the three employees, the average raise was between 2-3.5% annually.
LaJolla
In LaJolla, Raj Slentz was the only employee who took the initiative to progress as an employee. Glenn Edelman is nearing retirement and Eric McMullen does not understand punctuality. This can be identified as resistance to the change because this is a location that will experience turnover in a short period of time.
Del Mar The Del Mar location is where the trouble area will be with the change. Half of the employees have attendance and attitude issues that have not been corrected in three years. The emotional response has to be taken into consideration at this point because there are three employees that perform as and above expected and three employees that only do the minimum when they are present and “feel like it.” The employees that like their jobs will become frustrated with the other three