This activity is important because Human Resources Management (HRM) has increased in importance over the last few decades, in part because managers have developed a better understanding of human relations through the work of Maslow, Herzberg, and others. Moreover, the human resources themselves are changing. Employees today are concerned about not only how much a job pays but also with job satisfaction, personal performance, leisure, the environment, and the future. The goal of this exercise is to demonstrate your understanding of the approach Whole Foods takes to create better job satisfaction in their employees. Read the case below and answer the questions that follow. Whole Foods Market, one of the largest retailers of organic and natural food and personal care products, is a successful company with 331 markets throughout North America and the United Kingdom. Production and sales for the company have been growing at a rate of about 12 percent per year-notable in an otherwise stagnant/slow-growing industry. Rather than offering customers the typical grocery store shopping experience, Whole Foods Markets make you feel as though you are shopping in a high-end, specialty store that just happens to be grocery-store sized and offers a large variety of products. The establishment of this environment rests not in the hands of Whole Foods executives but in the hands of Whole Foods employees. Employees, called team members, are treated respectfully and given a sense of true empowerment. Team members help to make decisions that will directly affect them. Employees are given stock options and, therefore, a personal stake in the company. The company leaders realize that the company's success depends on Whole Foods Market team members and believe in motivating them and rewarding them appropriately for their efforts. Whole Foods also has a casual dress code that allows for individuality, covers 100 percent of full-time employee health insurance, and allows full-time employees 20 paid hours per year during which to perform volunteer work. Many Whole Foods team members left potentially better paying and higher status jobs to work with the company and are happy with their decisions. At each store, people are divided into roughly eight teams, and when a new person is hired provisionally, his or her team votes on whether to retain or dismiss the new person at the end of the provisional period. This is an important practice because each individual influences the teams' performance-and the team members' ability to earn additional pay. Multiple Choice a benefit. a bonus. salary. wages. This activity is important because Human Resources Management (HRM) has increased in importance over the last few decades, in part because managers have developed a better understanding of human relations through the work of Maslow, Herzberg, and others. Moreover, the human resources themselves are changing. Employees today are concerned about not only how much a job pays but also with job satisfaction, personal performance, leisure, the environment, and the future. The goal of this exercise is to demonstrate your understanding of the approach Whole Foods takes to create better job satisfaction in their employees. Read the case below and answer the questions that follow. Whole Foods Market, one of the largest retailers of organic and natural food and personal care products, is a successful company with 331 markets throughout North America and the United Kingdom. Production and sales for the company have been growing at a rate of about 12 percent per year-notable in an otherwise stagnant/slow-growing industry. Rather than offering customers the typical grocery store shopping experience, Whole Foods Markets make you feel as though you are shopping in a high-end, specialty store that just happens to be grocery-store sized and offers a large variety of products. The establishment of this environment rests not in the hands of Whole Foods executives but in the hands of Whole Foods employees. Employees, called team members, are treated respectfully and given a sense of true empowerment. Team members help to make decisions that will directly affect them. Employees are given stock options and, therefore, a personal stake in the company. The company leaders realize that the company's success depends on Whole Foods Market team members and believe in motivating them and rewarding them appropriately for their efforts. Whole Foods also has a casual dress code that allows for individuality, covers 100 percent of full-time employee health insurance, and allows full-time employees 20 paid hours per year during which to perform volunteer work. Many Whole Foods team members left potentially better paying and higher status jobs to work with the company and are happy with their decisions. At each store, people are divided into roughly eight teams, and when a new person is hired provisionally, his or her team votes on whether to retain or dismiss the new person at the end of the provisional period. This is an important practice because each individual influences the teams' performance-and the team members' ability to earn additional pay. Multiple Choice a benefit. a bonus. salary. wages