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How much do you think it matters that team member rewards are based on performance of the whole team?

What are the advantages and disadvantages of Whole Foods' hiring process with respect to managing team composition?

To what extent are these teams 'self managing'?

Teams are taken very seriously at Whole Foods. Not only are company employess rederred to as "team members," bul teams aIre given il greal deil ol lreedom to make imporlanl decisions. For example, teams help decide what items to order and sell, and how to price and promote them. Althourh it might not seem all that unusual for a company to give teams the liberty to make decisions so they can carry out their core functional responsibilities, Whole Foods goes much further in providing autonomy to their teams. Perhaps there is no better example of this than how new team members are hired at the company. In most organizations, individuals sceking employment fill out an application form or submit a resume. Those with qualifications that are judged to match a joh deseription are interviened by human resource jersontel of a manager to trake sure the applicant fits with the job and org:s. nization. At Whole Fools, the process is qudite different and much more inolved. Applicants not only lill out an application and have one-on-one interviews with managers, but they also have inlerviews with pinels composed ol recruters, manigers, and select teim members. Bul that's not all. An applicint who mukes it through this process is placed on a team for a 30d aly trial period, after which the team wotes for whether or not to accept the applicant on their team. Applicants who don't get a two-thirds wote are out of that tean. They may be placed on a new team, where the trial process begins anew, or they leave the compary. This hiring process typically takes about 60 days and is applicd at all levels of the organization, "from cashicrs on checkout teams to financial analysts in the home office." Wholc Foods belicves CHAPTER 11 Teamis Clarocteristics ard Dhersty that hiring decisions should be made by the team members, in part, because they're the ones who are most dircetly affected by the choices that are made. A new hire who chds up hurting a tcam's performanoe will roduce bonuses paid to team members, whereas the opposite would be true of a hire that ends up promoting a team's performanoe. Whole Foods also beliewes that the team members themselves are the best judges of who might fit with in their tean. Finally, inwolving team members in the hiring pfocess pfomotes a sense of oprnership for the decision, and following from this, team members may be more inclined to help a new hire who is struggling to cateh ont. 11.1 What libel would best describe the lype ol team that whole joods use in its storesi Explair. 11.2 Describe the advantages and disadvantages of Whole Foods" hiring process with respect to managing team composition. 11.3 What steps could Whole Foods take to mitigate potential disadvantages of their hiring process