Managing The Network Organization: Nestle Case Study

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Discuss about the Managing the Network Organization.
 

Preliminary choice for making the individual report is considered as “Nestle” Multinational Corporation. The individual report required to discuss the financial and industry reports along with their organizational environmental analysis. The primary choice is taken for making the report completed with more information about the organization with detailed study about the reports.

The study will relate the portfolio with more in-depth discussion about the company culture and operation purpose and profile. The choice is justified as the researcher will need to provide the questionnaire online to collect relevant data from the employees about the company operation. The questionnaire will depict the current strength in working agenda. As Nestle started their journey from 1866 as “Swiss Milk”, and changed to Nestle in 1905, they completed 150 years. As per 2014 employee strength survey, “Nestle” has more than 339,000 employees in their firm working under the process. The visualization of the work process network should be following some key points in work. First point should be to cover the company background to gain information, then to identify the industrial reports from the firm, circulate the research agenda towards the company structure, and conduct the questionnaire survey through the structure. The network diagram is shown as in below (Refer to Appendix). 

The section discusses the external environmental factors that are affecting Nestle in working within the structure meeting the necessary objectives. The external environmental forces may have significant events and influence over “Nestle” affecting the overall business growth. The forces are included as following:

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Economic factors	The factors are in this category is identified as employment, income, inflation, rate of interest, employee productivity, and overall wealth of Nestle. Nestle conveys sustainable development in order to tackle all the factors to increase high quality food with contributing the social and environmental development as well.
Technology factors	The technology factors have major impact on the business operations and work. Nestle operates with several types of foods in different packaging types for manufacturing new beverage systems as Espresso, Special, BabyNes, Nescafé Dolce Gusto and others. They prepared technological infrastructure to serve all these types within sustainable environment. The technology progress is noticed in Extrusion, Foam booster technology adoption, healthier fat processing, fermentation, and portion dispensing systems.
Socio-cultural factors	The socio-cultural factors are is set of customer belief, their custom, behavior, and practices. Nestle conducted detailed socio-cultural examination before entering into the target market for food and beverage business. They stated the progress in identifying the target market following the same procedure as well.

Nestle follows corporate culture with reflecting the essence of “Good Food Good Life” within their logo. The company develops their infrastructure to emphasize on the food quality-increasing index and culture of good lifestyle. Nestle follows three essential things Nutrition, Health, and Wellness in all the products as mentioned in company’s mission statement as well. Talking about the culture, the traits are dependent on people and target market structure, Nestle focuses on the collectivism and orientation performance as well. The company generally believes in safe food quality so that the customers may satisfy their optimal nutritional needs in meeting the psychological needs altogether.

The mission of Nestle is to provide quality food for creating better lifestyle for common people, they have achieved on target as in meeting the value of product amongst the target people. The company states the mission statement with showing a direct relationship in between better lifestyle and good quality food. The company website relies on Nutrition, Health, and Wellness serving during long 150 years. The CEO, Paul Bulckc once confirmed in statement that the Strategic Purpose of the company is concerned with organizational achievement. In every organization, there are complex roles affecting the culture, however Nestle requires their stakeholders to be served with long-term sustainable values in products. 

Analysis of the organization’s formal structure and discussion on the environmental factors that are influencing it

Nestle developed the technological environment for company operation with different technological aspects. The technological aspects are relevant for considering the company operations with technology installation within personal interpretation as well. The technological aspects are included as following:

Extrusion: Nestle have strong expertise in this technical environment for hot extrusion in infant and breakfast cereals, co-extrusion in case of filled snacks, and cold extrusion in case of ice-cream and desserts.

Foam booster technology adoption: The technology produces Creamy layer on Nescafé Cappuchino with lesser fat. The technology makes the beverage much denser and long lasting than regular foam. In 2002, Nestle launched Foam booster technology for Nescafé Cappuchino making and they succeeded in making suitable target market capturing.

Healthier fat processing: The healthier fat processing allows the products for using natural vegetables and natural oils without using partially hydrogenated fats in products such as Maggi bouillon cubes and other seasonings.  

Fermentation: The Nestle Research Center looked through the molecular interaction in pro-biotics of the products with intestinal cells. Nestle have sequenced the several genomes configuration in products for understanding better characteristics and proficient actions planning. 

Portion dispensing systems: The protein dispensing systems are important for identifying the essential beverage making system protein and essential ingredients.

• I am connected to a reliable internet connection. The internet connection helps me to surf the job related websites where I can find suitable job opportunities.
• I am connected to a number of popular social networking sites. I use these sites for searching job opportunities and tenders.
• I have shared my personal profile; work experiences, strengths and weaknesses in some social websites like LinkedIn so that the companies can view my information and evaluate my abilities for their job profiles.
• I am open for contacts and calls from companies any time.

• I still do not have sufficient contacts that would enable me to gain a good job opportunity.
• I do not have sufficient popularity on the internet sites; hence, companies will not show much interest in me.
• I am yet to share my personal experiences in the internet. Hence, the companies or company personnel will not understand my credibility and will not contact me for a possible job opportunity.
• I may have some limitations on my research works but I am trying to overcome them.

Personal network characteristics include following features in the communication network for circulating the portfolio. The online portfolio will depict my strengths, weaknesses, risks, and opportunities as well. The network should be more detailed with connecting all corporate organization’s working persons in social networking site as Facebook, LinkedIn, and other job-hunting profiles. The features should be following:

• I need to depict my individual skills, knowledge in subjects, and proper technical aspects in terms of my work. The skills should be included with references of certificates in the profile.
• I need to add more proficiency in case of searching jobs and taking internships. In case of internships, the proficiency should include my set of expertise to support the intern jobs. The jobs should require showing the potential of myself in serving the capabilities of such profile.
• I need to add LinkedIn profile with the portfolio, so that recruiters can review my portfolio and gain knowledge about current study practices of mine. I need to circulate the portfolio through the friend circle. The friends can discuss more about the topic and posting more information in the portal. 

• Too much sharing of personal information can pose threat on my professional future and anyone can steal my personal information and use them against me.
• Sharing of CV in the internet can result in stealing. Some people can steal my CV and fake it for their own use, resulting in loss of my credibility and authenticity.
• Many fake companies have extensive network over the internet. Contacting them will result in the loss of my resources.
• Different companies have set different standards for work. If my work level does not suit a company’s requirements, it will result in termination and hamper my professional future.

• My network will enable me to find better jobs anytime. Hence, I will be able to extend my professional career if I am deemed suitable for better job options.
• Sharing of personal profile will help me draw attention of many companies seeking people for vacant positions.
• More companies will learn about my credibility. They can learn my experiences and profile and may call me up if they find me suitable.
• I may have the opportunity to go abroad for a job if I can prove myself through my communication network as well as proficiency. 

In the near future, I plan to send my personal profile and CV to the companies whose job profiles match my proficiency. Moreover, I plan to start my personal blog for sharing my work experiences and credibility. This will help me draw attention from the companies for whom I would like to work. I also plan to join some job specific websites from which I can search for some more specific jobs from my interest and specialization. I will also communicate with more people and company authorities and let them know my credibility. Further, I will be more active in the social websites where the companies seek people for their vacant positions. 

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