Horvath Foods Limited: A Case Study Analysis on Organizational Behavior

CASE STUDY ANALYSIS 1
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CASE STUDY ANALYSIS
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CASE STUDY ANALYSIS 2
Decision making
In 1970 Bob Horvath has started Horvath Foods Limited. This Canadian company manufactures
and distributes food products for Canadian market. The current situation of the organisation is
not upto the mark . There are many HR related issues that are occurring in the organisation .
Executives and Managers are appointed at started salaries which was set primarily on the basis of
their ability to negotiate the salary rather than any specific salary range criteria (Thompson,
2017). No policies are made regarding Employment equity or Pay equity. Performance appraisals
are not provided except the senior managers. The scientific management approach theory
suggests that work must be simplified, specialised and standardized so as to increase efficiency.
Application of scientific management theory of Taylor will minimize errors and increase
productivity by easing the decision making process (Vibert, 2017). The organisation must make
a proper decision on such issues and communicate to the higher management so that there are
some organisational changes and behaviour. The Human resource of the organisation should
make proper check in the skills and abilities of the candidates being hired (Miner, 2015). This
will help Horvath Foods to resolve through setting salary scientifically rather than arbitrarily.
Job Designs
According to Morgeson, Brannick, & Levine, (2019) the organisation should make always have
standard range of salary for all the members being appointed. Job means a particular task being
allotted . The task should be allocated among the employees on the basis of their skills and
abilities. The wrong job provided to wrong person will waste the time as well decrease the
quality of the work. The important and challenging job should be assigned to motivated

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employees who can identify the task and can perform it confidently. Each and every employee
should have the freedom of working without any kind of fear.
In this Horvath company the employees fear of losing job if it goes against the favour of the
owner. Varieties of skills must be used while doing any work. Employee motivation increases
only when the team member use varieties of skills rather than one set of existing skills to execute
a particular piece of work (Miner, 2015). The employment are working so hard but they are not
getting any performance appraisal until they become manager but this should be removed and
performance appraisal must be provided to each and every employees. Bonus act as a motivation
for the workers but it is provided only to those who are working in sales department on the basis
of the target. Barnard theory of organization implies that authority of manager lies in acceptance
of subordinates rather than hierarchal structure of organization. Hence, mangers should motivate
through monetary incentives and bonuses. This will bring pay parity in Horvath Foods and
equalize the effort of the employees as per compensation.
Work Group and teams
The organisation should always work in a team. According to Costa, Passos, & Bakker, (2015)
the team work always helps to work in a friendly and comfortable atmosphere. Each and every
individual possess some weakness and challenges but when it comes to team work it can be
divided among every members on the basis of their capabilities thus the work can be done in
systematic and scientific manner. Team work always provide different kind of innovative ideas
and development . Different opinions and thoughts are being shared which helps to design the
work more efficiently and effectively(Miner, 2015). The company should focus on providing
quick feedback to the team so that team effort increases which ultimately increases the