Utilising and Studying Cadbury as the case study to demonstrate the understanding of two of the dynamics influences at play within the Organisation.
Background:
The Story begins when Richard Tapper Cadbury (English Quaker) sent his youngest son, John, to London to study a new tropical commodity: Cocoa. In 1824, John opens a shop at Bull street selling tea, coffee and drinking chocolate. After couple of years in business he saw a rise in sales by 16%. In 1861, Richard and George Cadbury took over the business and introduced new procedure to speed up the manufacture. They developed a new recipe where they could use the butter and chocolate to make several types of eating chocolates, first of which was the Cadburys dairy milk (Cadbury.co.uk, …show more content…
They had strong religious beliefs about things like social justice and alleviation of poverty. As Quakerism was viewed with enormous suspicion by the political establishment, this meant Quakers were barred from English universities, Military and public offices. With all traditional career path blocked, many Quakers pursued business as there only option. Cadbury brothers were the pioneers to introduce the Saturday half day holiday. (Mullins & Christy, …show more content…
There are two types of cultures, corporate and organisational culture. An example of corporate culture is its mission statement, while organisational culture is what is happening in an organisation. It is a way of life in an organisation, it can be thought of as something which keeps things flowing smoothly in an organisation (Hatch & Cunliffe 2006).
Culture can be defined as a outline of basic assumptions discovered or developed by the people to cope with its problems of external and internal integration. Edgar Schein’s model of organisational culture is one of the most well-known theories of organisational culture. Schein model clarifies that there are three levels of organisational culture which are Values, Beliefs and Artifacts. (Schein,