In: Operations Management
Please answer the following questions in details on company Vitamin Shoppe: (Please do not attempt if you can not answer all)
1) Find out how the company's organizational structure.
2) Make a similar analysis of the culture of the company.
3) Describe the leadership and management capabilities of the organization.
4) Seek to assess the overall capacity of employees for change.
Q1) This is the company structure-
CEO
Chairman of the board (Alexander smith)
Director (Michael backer)
Director (John bowlin)
Director (Deborah derby)
Director (Tracy dolgin)
Director (David edwab)
Director (Melvin keating)
Director (Guillermo marnol)
Director (Beth Pritchard)
Director (Himanshu shah)
Director (Timothy Theriault)
Director (Sing Wang)
Q2) Vitamin Shoppe industry which is growing and being competitive. They provide you with excellent training, found it very transparent, competitive, excellent culture and very fair. Employee satisfaction and customers engagement are the parameter of success. Organisational management is consistent. there is lack of leadership in the organisation and struggling sales. Because of this they are getting throw more pressure and all responsibility on the store manager. Within every quarters company is changing its vision and focus but with a reason and explanation. They should focus on work life balance.
Q3) The leadership and management of vitamin Shoppe, led by Mr Collin Watts, is a very capable and effective group which committed to developing a transparent and accountable corporate structure with effective governance practices. The company’s corporate governance practices are approved by company’s board of directors. The company is a controlled company” as pet the defection of the rules of NTSE(New York Stock Exchange).
Q4) The employees of this company have a positive outlook for the organisation. They learn a lot about good living, health and nutrition. They feel aligned with the company's goal and objective which says that health is for everyone. They believe that change is possible and the effort of all the employees is equally important in bringing the change that the company so desires by providing a healthy diet to its customers.