Case Analysis Form

Participant
Name
Arsalan Ahmed Patel
Case Title Iggys Bread of the World
Key Facts
Key Players
Core Business
Problem &
Management
Objective
1. The company was operating at capacity, and expansion in the
infrastructure, both physical and human, was inevitable. The
basic problem appears to be with the new management style
and abrupt change in hierarchy.
2. Decide whether to keep Mcae, the current !"" on with the
company, which would mean relin#uishing some control and
increasing his remuneration or choose to let him go.
1.
Recommene
!olution
o "ire a communications manager t#at $oul eal as a
liaison bet$een t#e ba%ery sta& an t#e ne$
management'
o The COO appears to be temperamental and adopts an arrow
managers approach to the problems. In the exstng
en!ronment of the company" a crc#t managers approach
was more s#table.
o The COO also needed to be more n!ol!ed and aware of the
prod#cton sde of the b#sness.
o Intatng team b#ldng exercses and mandatory extra$
c#rrc#lar act!tes between the new management and the
ba%ery sta&.
o 'c(aes salary sho#ld be drectly ln%ed to the performance
and e)cency of the company. Increase n pro*ts wth respect
to captal after he had +oned sho#ld drectly a&ect hs payscale
and !ce$!ersa.
o The owners wo#ld ha!e to #ltmately reln,#sh some control of
how the organ-aton was r#n" and ass#me a more ad!sory
poston.
o The personal goals and ob+ect!es of the new management
employees sho#ld also be %ept n$chec%" by ntrod#cng formal
.( body and proced#res s#ch as apprasals based on
performance" and non$performers sho#ld be let$go.
o /!ery member of the new management team recr#ted sho#ld
ser!e a mandatory perod at the prod#cton le!el to better
#nderstand the b#sness and nteract wth the ba%ery sta&.