In this exercise, please read the mini-case and answer the questions that follow. Just Bom has three business objectives: Improve sales, profits, and leadership. Just Born wants to obtain aggressive growth and above-average profitability through superior leadership. It has implemented several business strategies to reach these objectives, including growing the brands, expanding into international markets, diversifying, reducing supply chain costs, establishing effective procurement, and developing a market-driven scorecard. The Just Born People Development System is designed to ensure that learning and development align with the business strategy and drive business results. Each year, associates at Just Born create learning plans based on performance evaluations and development plans. The associate and supervisor agree upon four personal objectives that will help achieve departmental objectives and two competencies that need improvement. Using the corporate competency dictionary, the associate and manager develop a learning plan. The learning plans are collected and used to develop a corporate learning matrix, which is used to build the corporate learning plan. At the end of the year, merit pay increases are based on the achievement of performance objectives, as well as the learning plan. Just Born has more than fifty internal trainers who offer customized training to meet the learning needs of associates at all levels of the company. Just Born also offers a leadership program for managers. In this program managers learn fundamental leadershio Al Save and Sub The Just Born People Development System is designed to ensure that learning and development align with the business strategy and drive business results. Each year, associates at Just Born create learning plans based on performance evaluations and development plans. The associate and supervisor agree upon four personal objectives that will help achieve departmental objectives and two competencies that need improvement. Using the corporate competency dictionary, the associate and manager develop a learning plan. The learning plans are collected and used to develop a corporate learning matrix, which is used to build the corporate learning plan. At the end of the year, merit pay increases are based on the achievement of performance objectives, as well as the learning plan. Just Born has more than fifty Internal trainers who offer customized training to meet the learning needs of associates at all levels of the company. Just Born also offers a leadership program for managers. In this program managers leam fundamental leadership skills in addition to learning the Wow...Now Improvement Process. This process teaches a systematic way to make process improvements and deliver business results. Managers work in teams on a business problem involving data collection and analysis of decision making and processes. At the end of the training, the managers present to the executive team and trainers what they learned, the tools they used, and the business results of their projects. At Just Bom, the impact of leaming the business is measured by business results including growth and above average profitability. Also, use of the improvement process by managers in the leadership program has resulted in more than two million dollars in cost savings. For the toolbar, press ALT-F10 (PC) or ALT+FN-F10 (Mac). B IV Arial Paragraph 10pt _IO