Management of Self

1. Notes of –“The Morning Star Company-Self Management at work”
Overview
Founder:-1970, Chris Rufer.
Partner:-Paul Green.
Place:-California’s Central San Joaquin Valley.
(State’s fertile agriculture heartland)
Deals:-Processing of Tomatoes.
Tomato supply chain.
Main Products:-Tomato Based Products.
40% share in Diced Tomato
Tomato paste. Market.
Customers:-Supermarkets.
Branded Food-Service Companies.
Focuses on:-Self Management & Peer accountability
Mission:-“Our Mission is to produce tomato products that consistently achieve the product and service
expectations of our customers in a cost-effective, environmently responsible manner. We will provide bulk-
packaged products to food processors and customer-branded, finished products to the food service and retail
trade.”
Colleague Principles:-Mission, Individual Goals & Teamworks, Personal Responsibilty & intiative, Tolerence,
Direct Communication & Gaining agreement, Caring & Sharing, Doing what is Right.
History
1970-Founded ‘’Morning star Trucking Company.’’
-Hauling Tomatoes and Peaches from farms to Processing Facilities.
1982-Founded ‘’Ingomer Packing Company.’’
-Processing of Tomato Paste.
-Proved to be successful & Leading the market.
1990-Launched ‘’Morning star Packing Company.’’
-adopted Self-management approach & Colleague Principles.
1995-new facility ‘’Morning star Packing Company, Williams’’
-Largest in California.
2002-Purchased existing facility ‘’Liberty Packing Company’’
-Diced Product Processing.
2008-Rufer Founded ‘’Self-management institute’’
-Encourage research & learning at workplace.
2012-Total sales $700 million (performing really well)
Summary
- Cost Leader.
-Goal to operate full capacity for entire production season (24x7)
Processing Operations
Growing—Harvesting—Trucking—Grading—Unloading—Sorting--Hot/Cold Break—Finishers—Evaporators--Flash
cooler--Fillers.

2. Self-management
-means you have less control, but individuals have freedom to sense and act.
-Philosophy:-‘’people are productive when they are happy; people are happy when they have control over what
they do.’’
-Guided by the idea of total responsibility.
Company Principles
-Refraining from initiating physical force against other people.
-Doing everything they agreed to do.
-Based on Fundamental Principles
-Company’s approach to Organising, identifying 5 key aspects:
Organisation is but an idea-a concept.
Profitability and growth are the natural outgrowths of excellent execution and innovation.
People think innovate when they achieve freedom of choice.
Principles of self-management & total responsibility- most effective principles.
Employees Related Approaches
Empowering employees by letting them identify their personal mission
-Writing a personal mission statement-so that to know how they can contribute towards company’s goal.
-Mission is to maximize overall efficiency and effectiveness and also to promote accountability.
-Culture of self-management also extended to staffing decisions.
Colleague Letter of Understanding
-identify each employee’s responsibility activities.
-allows employees to fulfil their mission.
Gaining agreement/Conflict resolution Process
Compensation Steps
-firstly, Colleague letter of understanding review.
-Secondly, Compensation packet- 4 components
Compensation letter Colleague Review CLOU Steppingstone
Summary Report Results
-Thirdly, Compensation Committee Review.
Capital Budgeting-they have right to acquire the resources needed to complete the work.
Concluding
-managed to establish as the dominant player in the tomato processing industry.
-also did justice to maintaining Company’s distinctive approach to management.
-Encourage greater accountability.
-Proposal to address Compensation & Accountability
Premium pay Accountability & Current
Evaluation Process
-So the proposal was actually implementable or not-even, if it wasn’t it would be sufficient to drive
accountability behaviours.
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