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Participants:
Ola Talabi
Ankit
Ishtiaq
Nazrul
Hasanat
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Key Facts
1. Largest Food & Beverage company in the world.
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Financial Highlights (December 2008)
Top Competitors
http://biz.yahoo.com/ic/41/41815.html
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Present culture of Nestle
Adaptive
.Ability to Become a Local company.
.Tolerant to different Cultures and value sets.
Absorptive
.Continuous Learning.
.Flexible-Willingness to change.
.Principles not rules.
Collaborative
.Team work
.Open, Transparent and sharing
.Pioneers and Innovators
.Creating long term sustainable shared values
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Present culture of Nestle
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Cultural Challenges – Internal
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Cultural Challenges – External.
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Cultural Challenges – External.
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Cultural Challenges – External.
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Possible Actions on cultural challenges.
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Organisational Structure:
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Nestle - Present Organisational Structure
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Nestle - Critical Review of Present Structure:
Advantages:
All Nestle products are ‘Halal’ certified in Middle East and other
Muslim countries.
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Nestle - Critical Review of Present Structure:
Disadvantages:
Nestle is trying to cut off 250 jobs by 2009 in two of their French
plants due to high administrative cost.
CEO
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The Hybrid/Mixed Structure.
Features
It combines the advantages of both the functional and divisional
strategy.
Advantages
It is flexible owing to the fact that it would create the leverage to
mix and match advantages from either the functional/ divisional
structures.
It would allow for the achievement of economies of scale.
Disadvantages
It might be some what costly in practical terms
The mixed structure might raise problems of dual reporting and
the ambiguities which follow from there on.
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Suggestions on Present Structure:
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Conclusion:
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Sources:
www.Nestle.com
www.greenpeace.org/internation/news/chines-consumer-challeng
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/hershey_food_corporation#cite_note-3
www.super-business.net/Intercultural-management/302
http://www.corporatewatch.org.uk/?query=nestle&lid=21&go=GO
http://www.scribd.com/doc/14183891/Critical-Evaluation-of-Nestle
www.corporatewatch.org.uk
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