... | Mission Mission statement of Hershey’s is “Bringing sweet moments of Hershey happiness to the world every day.” This statement is meant for all aspects of the business, customers, employees, marketplace, and so on. To the customers, it means delivering quality consumer-driven confectionery experiences for all occasions. Hershey’s is committed to satisfy and provide the customers with the products that fit into the balanced lifestyle. Health Weight Commitment Hershey’s is a member of the Healthy Weight Commitment Foundation. It is designed to reduce the obesity, especially childhood obesity. The healthy Weight Commitment Foundation will help the people to achieve the healthy lifestyle within energy balance which is calories in and calories out. It is specialized on three critical areas, marketplace, workplace and schools [http://healthyweightcommit.org/]. Here are listed the programs: Moderation Nation Moderation nation is a campaign which is aimed to encourage the people all around the world to live a balanced lifestyle through moderation instead of deprivation. The main purpose of Moderation Nation is to help people learn about a balanced diet, appropriate sizes, and the benefits of regular physical activities. Moderation Nation provides tips, tools and resources of how to balance the nutrition (energy in) and physical activity (energy out) [http://www.themoderationnation.com]. Hershey’s Track & Field Games Hershey’s Track & Field Games is the largest...
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...Assignment 1: Hershey’s Sweet Mission Rose-Marie Waters Dr. Robert Waldo Human Resource Management Foundations – HRM 500 Week 3: April 22 – April 28, 2013 Recommend the redesign of Hershey’s performance management system to appeal to the diverse groups that it employs. Hershey has redesigned its performance management system to appeal to their diverse group of employees, specifically the “millennials”, by implementing a “bottom up” style of performance management. Millennial generation employees are defined by their birthdate. A millennial refers to someone who was born after 1980. Currently, this group comprises one-third of the American workforce and will soon become the majority as they come of age. Millennials have expressed a desire to pursue work that is personally meaningful; they resist corporate hierarchy, are eager for challenge, desire autonomy, and are accustomed to getting work done in a variety of environments. When corporations like Hershey understand what motivates employees, like the millennials, they are better able to set mutual expectations for success. This is what Hershey has embraced with the bottom up performance management system. This bottom up approach allows employees to set their own goals and track progress on projects throughout the year. (Noe 2011, pg. 56) In order for the bottom up system to be effective the employee must understand the company’s goals and the strategy for achieving those goals. Employees must also understand what...
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...Hershey’s Sweet Mission Nekima M. Gilliam Dr. Linda Force HRM 500 November 3, 2012 Introduction The Hershey Chocolate Company is a leading provider of chocolate and other confectionary products. A few of the names of candies they produce are the Hershey Kiss, Almond Joy, Mounds, Peanut Butter Cups, Kit Kat, and other candies. Recommend the redesign of Hershey’s performance management system to appeal to the diverse groups that it employs. Hershey currently employs a diverse group of employees. Hershey’s current management system is effective and has helped in the success of the company’s revenue. The current management system relies on the baby boomers and the younger employees to train or be mentors for new employees. The new employees usually are in the early twenties and are eager to learn the details of their job. Although the current management system is working, the ever changing labor force brings about a large number of individuals whom are willing to work and able to work. Older people want to work as, so does this mean that Hershey will not considering an older person for employment with their company? Older people are willing and able to learn new technology (Noe, Hollenbeck, Gerhart, and Wright 2011). Despite myths to the contrary, worker performance and learning do not suffer as a result of aging (Noe, Hollenbeck, Gerhart, and Wright 2011). Performance management system should be designed to take into consideration what makes a job of...
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...The Hershey Foods Corporation commonly called Hershey's, is the largest chocolate manufacturer in North America as well as the oldest. Milton Snavely Hershey founded a candy shop in Philadelphia, which failed after six years. After trying unsuccessfully to manufacture candy in New York, Hershey returned to Pennsylvania, where he founded the Lancaster Caramel Company, whose use of fresh milk in caramels proved successful (Hershey). In 1900, Hershey sold his caramel company for $1,000,000(Hershey). 1903, Hershey began construction of a chocolate plant in his hometown which later was named after him. The milk chocolate bars manufactured at this plant proved successful, and the company grew rapidly thereafter (Hershey). While his company was successfully selling sweet chocolate products, Milton Hershey knew that going down the path of creating and selling milk chocolate products would be better. Milton built a milk-processing plant in the year 1896, to be able to create and refine a recipe for milk chocolate candies (Hershey). In 1899, three years later, he developed his own way of making milk chocolate called the Hershey process (Hershey). In 1907, Hershey introduced "Hershey's Kisses", which were initially individually wrapped by hand in squares of foil, and the introduction of machine wrapping in 1921 made the process easier while adding the small paper ribbon to the top of the package to indicate that it was a genuine Hershey product (Hershey). The product was trademarked...
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...Assignment 1 Hershey’s Sweet Mission Jay Jenks Professor Jesse Garcia Human Resource Management HRM 500 25 October 2012 Strayer University Washington DC Recommend the redesign of Hershey’s performance management system to appeal to the diverse groups that it employs. First of all, any performance management system redesign must recognize that all employees are motivated differently by different things, but many can be affected by certain concepts. So it is imperative to know what motivates the majority of your employees. The redesign of Hershey’s performance management system to appeal to the diverse groups that it employs will need to involve management as well as the employees to make the effort successful. I feel that Hershey currently has a very good diversity program. Hershey has redesigned its performance management system appealing to the younger generations who show an eagerness for challenge, and results. Therefore I would employ a system that is in line with Hershey’s core values, and we can start by educating the workforce through training and the utilization of seminars, team huddles, and mentoring sessions and also, by soliciting feedback from the workforce in order to give employees a feeling of inclusion (Hershey Company 2012). The employees should be clear about the organization’s mission and be rewarded for doing what their job description entails. Also, human resource management will train other employees on the proper etiquette of...
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...1857 | Milton Hershey, the man behind Hershey's Chocolate, opened his eyes to this world, on 13th September 1857. He developed the love for candy at a very tender age only and started his career as an apprentice to a candy-maker in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. It was in 1876, when Milton was only eighteen-years old, that he laid the foundation of his own candy shop, in Philadelphia. However, the shop closed down after six years only, following which he moved to Denver, Colorado, and started learning the art of caramel-making. | 1866 | Milton moved back to Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in the year 1886 and launched the much-successful Lancaster Caramel Company. The company grew by leaps and bounds. | 1893 | In 1893, Milton attended the Chicago International Exposition and ended up buying German chocolate-making machinery and started producing chocolate-coated caramels. The next year, he started the Hershey Chocolate Company, selling off his caramel business. With this, he started the production of Hershey chocolate caramels, breakfast cocoa, sweet chocolate and baking chocolate. | 1894 | Within six years of starting Hershey Chocolate Company i.e. in 1894, Milton began the production of milk chocolate, in the form of bars, wafers and other shapes. As the methods of mass-production became popular, the company was able to lower the per-unit cost of milk chocolate and bring the product within the common man's reach. The chocolate was an immediate success and witnessed heavy demand. To...
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...Forex in Islamic Perspective In Islamic perspective there are two situations to consider relating to Forex trading. Firstly, is about its investment through a company to gain profits. Secondly, is about individuals using a company platform that have the facility to deal in buying and selling of foreign currency, a platform owner or the company only collects service charge. Generally Islam permits Forex trading, but only if the activity follows the guidelines by the hadith of the Prophet Muhammad SAW. Forex is traded on the real time base and the same subject matter as narrated in a hadith as ‘yadan bil yadin’, or in English it is known as ‘on the spot basis’. According to the hadith by Muslim, the Prophet narrated; ‘Gold with gold, silver with silver, dates with dates, salt with salt must with the same weight and measurement, and exchanged directly (in a same time) but if it is of a different kind, trade freely’. In an another hadith by Muslim, the Prophet narrated, ‘Exchange between silver and gold is usury unless it is done simultaneously (offer and acceptance in the same time)’. While buying done on loan basis is prohibited, as hadith by Bukhari, the Prophet narrated, ‘the Prophet Salallahu `Alyhi Wassalam prohibits the selling of gold and silver through loans’ The above hadith explains about Islamic discipline of gold and silver trading. Islamic Scholars consensually agrees, this same applies to the currency or the bank note itself as its function as a medium...
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...Hershey's Sweet Mission Strayer University Human Resource Management Foundation HRM 500 Dr. Brett Gordon April 20, 2011 Hershey's Sweet Mission Introduction There has clearly been an evolution of the workforce as we knew it. There have been a number of factors that have contributed to these changes. Some of which are changes in the economy, company restructuring, globalization and technology. The changes in the workforce have led to the complete revision in the culture of some organizations. Now let’s take a look at some of the changes we have seen within the workforce. One major shift that we see in the modernized workforce is a change in demographics. There has been an increase in diversity of the workforce including age, race, ethnicity and gender. Another difference we have seen is the change in skills required to perform jobs. Technology has played a role in changing the way jobs are performed, the length of time it takes to complete a job, and the knowledge required to do the job. Organizations have had to find ways to manage the changes in the workforce in order to remain competitive in today’s marketplace. In this paper we will look at the Hershey Company, and ways that it has utilized to help manage these changes. We will look at ways to redesign Hershey’s performance management system to include diversity. We will also look at Hershey’s value system particularly focusing on how employees could interpret them in relation to their...
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...“Hershey’s Sweet Mission” Instructor: Matthew Gonzalez Course: Human Resource Management Foundation Date: April 19, 2012 Abstract In my formal research I will recommend the redesign of Hershey’s performance management system to appeal to the diverse groups that it employs. I will analyze how I would interpret the values that Hershey embraces in relation to my role, if I were a Hershey employee. My research will also discuss the trends identified in the chapter and describe which one may impact Hershey the most. Lastly, I will describe the effects that mentoring could have on integrating values into the Hershey culture. Recommend the redesign of Hershey’s performance management system to appeal to the diverse groups that it employs. Because Hershey’s employs such diverse groups it could benefit from knowledge workers. Organizations need a management style that focuses on developing and empowering employees. (Noe, 2011) Knowledge workers are employees whose key contribution to the organization is specialized knowledge, such as knowledge of customers, a process or a profession. Employees are then held accountable for products and services, and in return share losses and rewards. (Noe, 2011) When an organization competes for employees, depend on skilled knowledge workers, or are in need of a workforce that cares about customer’s satisfaction...
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...Hershey Foods has been telling concerned consumers and investors for over a decade that they would work to source their cocoa in a more responsible manner, yet nothing has happened. They have fallen behind competitors who are all making strides in this area. The “Still Time to Raise the Bar: The Real Corporate Social Responsibility Report for the Hershey Company” published in 2011 by Global Exchange, Green America, International Labor Rights Forum details Hershey’s extensive labor and sourcing issues. The four biggest issues are transparency, sourcing, green washing and certification. The report shows that much of the cocoa used by Hershey is from West Africa, an area overrun with forced labor, abusive child labor and over all poor working conditions. Currently Hershey’s doesn’t have a system to guarantee that their cocoa is not coming from these farms. This ties in to their transparency issue. Hershey does not identify their suppliers, making it impossible to ensure that the cocoa is not harvested in appalling conditions. To combat this issue, many organizations are calling on Hershey to adapt to Fair Trade standards set by an independent Third Party group. Finally, Hershey has donated generously to local charities around the company’s headquarters and to programs in West Africa. However, the concerned customers are calling on Hershey to change their whole policies instead of just writing a check to make people believe they a socially responsible company. This “real CSR...
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...Assignment 1: Hershey’s Sweet Mission Lauren Edmondson Dr. Matthew Gonzalez Human Resource Management Foundations – HRM 500 April 28, 2013 Introduction Milton S. Hershey came from humble beginnings were he expired several disappointed business attempts, however this did not hinder his determination and gave him a more focused driver to start his business. After dropping out of school at age 14, Milton S. Hershey began apprenticing with a confection making which triggered his love of candy making and also was the beginning of the company that we have all grown to love, Hershey’s. In 1900, the first Hershey’s bar was presented to the world and is a continued favorite amongst American’s today. The Hershey’s Company became a success through the support of local townspeople and farmers, which solidified the philosophy that Milton S. Hershey believed in and a motto that the company continues today. Milton Hershey believed that workers who were treated fairly and who lived in a comfortable, pleasant environment would be better workers and at this time he was determined to build a town, not just a company (Hershey’s, 2013). As a result of his philosophy he was determined to establish an infrastructure to take care of the people who were employed by his company, from which built housing for executives and ordinary workers alike, schools, churches, parks, recreational facilities and a trolley system. Hershey’s concern for the welfare of the people in his community provided...
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...Hershey’s Sweet Mission The Hershey Company is the number one chocolate and non- chocolate confectionary manufacturer in North America (www.datamonitor.com). Founded in 1894 by Milton Hershey, the Hershey Company has managed to withstand the ever changing economy and manage its workforce in a way that has resulted in extreme success. Companies often undergo organizational restructure as a means to keep up with today’s shifting workforce and in an effort to attract and maintain the best talent. Especially in the United States, which is now being considered the world’s melting pot, the workforce is becoming much more diverse and great effort is required to address these changes. This paper discusses recommendations for the redesign of Hershey’s performance management system in order to appeal to its diverse workforce. Also discussed is how an employee would interpret the Hershey Company’s values in relation to their role. Workforce trends will be examined and how they could impact Hershey. Finally, the mentoring program that Hershey has implemented will be discussed along with the effects that this program has on integrating the culture at the Hershey Company. Recommend the redesign of Hershey’s performance manageir ment system to appeal to the diverse groups that it employs. A performance management system is a system put into place that makes certain that the employees’ outputs and activities align with the goals of the company or organization (Noe et al, 2011)...
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...declined repeated requests for interviews from Baseline over the past year, and asked SAP and Accenture (which helped with the mySAP implementation) not to talk, either. But we gathered insight from insiders and former employees, and from some public statements Hershey has made about its supply-chain improvements. Here's a look at three things that went wrong at Hershey—and the subsequent lessons learned. #1: The Big Bang"> What Went Wrong #1: The Big Bang The overriding problem appears clear: Hershey was simply trying to do too much at once. In cosmology, the Big Bang theory tells us the universe sprang into being in an instant, wiping out everything that went before. In Hershey's case, it was the old logistics systems that had allowed it to do business for years that were wiped out in a flash. In late 1996, Hershey's management approved what came to be known as the Enterprise 21 project, which would largely replace legacy mainframe systems with new enterprise client/server software. Enterprise 21 was partly a Year 2000 project, allowing Hershey to scrap rather than repair legacy software that might not process...
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...Fundamentals of Human Resource Management (HRM500) Assignment #1 – Hershey’s Sweet Mission Student: Cheryl L. Simpson Professor: Dr. William Clampitt 22 January, 2012 Recommend the redesign of Hershey’s performance management system to appeal to the diverse groups that it employs. (Bohlander & Snell, 2004) High Performance Work System (HPWS) is defined as a set of management practices used to create an atmosphere within an organization where the employee has more involvement and responsibility. More precisely, HPWS has been defined by Bohlander et al (2004) as “a specific combination of HR practices, work structures, and processes that maximizes employee knowledge, skill, commitment and flexibility” (Bohlander & Snell, 2004). An approach that Hershey’s could use to appeal to the diverse groups that it employs would be to utilize knowledge workers, such as indicated by Noe et al (2011) in the case study in the form of mentoring. Noe et al (2011) defined knowledge workers as employees whose key contribution to the organization is specialized knowledge, such as knowledge of customers, a process, or a profession. Hershey has baby boomers that specialize in the knowledge of the customers and the process, and who are also enthusiastic about sharing what they know to the younger generation of workers, and subsequently fascinated by leaving a legacy. In order to address the younger generation’s eagerness for challenges, employee empowerment is also...
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...Assignment 1: Hershey’s Sweet Mission LaToiya Beidleman Dr. Bobby Barrett HRM 500 January 27, 2013 Assignment 1: Hershey’s Sweet Mission Hershey Chocolate Company is the largest chocolate supplier in North America. Since 1894 its rich history, Hershey has created various products that has provided the company the ability to meet and exceed the desires and needs of stakeholders-consumers, employees and business partners. Hershey’s mission statement has been quite simple and straight forward, “Bringing sweet moments of Hershey happiness to the world every day.”(Noe/Hollenbeck/Gerhart/Wright) This paper will discuss the redesign of Hershey’s performance management system to appeal to the diverse groups, analyze how you would interpret the values that Hershey embraces, the trends that may impact Hershey the most, and what the effects that mentoring could have on integrating values into the Hershey culture. The redesign of Hershey’s performance management system Hershey’s four identified values demonstrate that the organization has a plan of action in place in order to meet and exceed the expectations of the employees. It is imperative for any organization, but more importantly those that are large corporations to have a standard guideline of what employees should expect. Hershey’s new redesign plan is set to appeal towards the younger generation. Although this appears like a great idea, how does this assist in appealing to the more tenured crowd? I would recommend Hershey...
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