Issues Faced by Whole Food Market

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Module 2 – Case Assignment Case: Organizational Diagnosis Issues Faced by Whole Foods Market Tuesday December 18, 2012 Whole Foods Market General Background Whole Foods Market is one of the biggest retailers of organic and perishable foods. The company has 311 operating food stores in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. Whole Foods Market covers a complete organic food range such as poultry, meat, seafood, grocery and bakery products along with offering tea, coffee, vitamins and other sorts of organic body care products. The success structure of Whole Foods Market depends upon six important dimensions and these are the socio-cultural, economic, global, demographic and technological dimensions. In order to investigate various aspects of and issues faced by Whole Foods Market we can conduct an organization diagnosis of the entire company. However, before conducting the organization diagnostics we need to know which organizational diagnosis model suits Whole Foods Market. In order to find out the best suitable modal we need to analyze strengths and weaknesses of various OD models. This case is aimed at analyzing various OD models and their best use in diagnosing various aspects of an organization. What is Organizational Diagnosis? Organizational diagnosis is a method of assessing the level of functioning of an organization so that changes may introduce in an organization in order to make the organizational system more effective and more functional. The entire system of the organization is diagnosed with the help of inputs, throughputs and outputs. All these aspects are connected to each other with feedback loops. For example for an OD process services and products can be considered as outputs, where as the internal functioning or employee level of involvement can be considered as inputs. We can use different models to investigate and diagnose an
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