Whole foods case study
November 27, 2013
HRM 598
Case Study
Introduction
Whole Foods Market, Inc. is the largest chain of natural foods supermarkets operating in the United States. Whole Foods has six core values that drive its company and they include; selling the highest quality natural and organic products, satisfying and delighting customers, supporting their Team Members (Whole Food Employees) happiness and growth, creating wealth through profits and growth, caring about the communities and our environment, creating win-win partnerships with their supplies and promoting the health of their stakeholders through healthy eating education. The company operates stores in 26 states of the US and in the District of Columbia (Whole Foods Market, 2010). Whole Foods offers a wide variety of products that include; meat, poultry, bakery items, catering menus, coffee, and grocery, seafood, liquor, and nutritional diary foods. When determining the job structure at Whole Foods I will consider the core values and apply them to the job analysis and prepared job descriptions.
Evaluation of Jobs and Job Structure
After looking over the job descriptions and requirements provided in the case study, I was able to assign job titles as such:
Job A – Prepared Foods Team Member
Job B – Customer Service Team Member
Job C – Prepared Foods Department Team Leader
Job D – Prepared Foods Supervisor
Job E – Dishwasher
Job F – Customer Service Food End Supervisor
Job G – Prepared Foods Associate Team Leader
Job H – Associate Store Team Leader
Job I – Grocery Retail Team Member
Process, Techniques and Factors
The job ranking method is what I decided to use for my Job evaluation technique. While browsing the Whole Foods website and their career paths page, the job opportunities in each store appeared to be hierarchal in nature. There is less than thirty different job classifications for the Whole Foods company. Whole Foods itself has placed the jobs in order from Store Team Leaders, Facility Team
HRM 598
Case Study
Introduction
Whole Foods Market, Inc. is the largest chain of natural foods supermarkets operating in the United States. Whole Foods has six core values that drive its company and they include; selling the highest quality natural and organic products, satisfying and delighting customers, supporting their Team Members (Whole Food Employees) happiness and growth, creating wealth through profits and growth, caring about the communities and our environment, creating win-win partnerships with their supplies and promoting the health of their stakeholders through healthy eating education. The company operates stores in 26 states of the US and in the District of Columbia (Whole Foods Market, 2010). Whole Foods offers a wide variety of products that include; meat, poultry, bakery items, catering menus, coffee, and grocery, seafood, liquor, and nutritional diary foods. When determining the job structure at Whole Foods I will consider the core values and apply them to the job analysis and prepared job descriptions.
Evaluation of Jobs and Job Structure
After looking over the job descriptions and requirements provided in the case study, I was able to assign job titles as such:
Job A – Prepared Foods Team Member
Job B – Customer Service Team Member
Job C – Prepared Foods Department Team Leader
Job D – Prepared Foods Supervisor
Job E – Dishwasher
Job F – Customer Service Food End Supervisor
Job G – Prepared Foods Associate Team Leader
Job H – Associate Store Team Leader
Job I – Grocery Retail Team Member
Process, Techniques and Factors
The job ranking method is what I decided to use for my Job evaluation technique. While browsing the Whole Foods website and their career paths page, the job opportunities in each store appeared to be hierarchal in nature. There is less than thirty different job classifications for the Whole Foods company. Whole Foods itself has placed the jobs in order from Store Team Leaders, Facility Team
References: http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/. Whole Foods Market http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/values/corevalues.php. Whole Foods Market core values http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/careers/index.php. Whole Foods Marker careers Milkovich, Newman and Gerhart. Compensation, 10th Edition