Essay About Sundale Club And Hostile Work Environment

The Sundale Club Case Study
Week 6: The Sundale Club         There were several underlining issues within the company; however, the major macro issues were the division within the organization because of the extremely poor relationship amongst the employees. Not only was the division visible within the organization but the lack of leadership and direction played a role within the dysfunctional organization. Although many company’s can operate within dysfunctional environments but harassment has a different effect on an organization. Basically, Johnson’s behavior towards employees within the environment were unbearable. It seem like it created a hostile work environment for employees, which  proved to be detrimental to the organization. The micro issues were those stated to include the loss of members, the difficulties within the chain or command, and poor staff morale. Heavens was unable to talk to his superior and the non-interest in problems within the company.  All of the micro and macro level problems were potientially caused by no recognition or follow through for the staff and/or on the behave of staff. Employee’s passed over for promotion and relationships between staff negatively effecting goals of the organization and the morale of the staff.  Not only were there several distractions within the environment, but retirement of an employee contributed to the problems.I recommend before Bob retire the organization attempts to pull it together and establish a meeting in order to put all the issues out on the table. Along with establish courses of action to fix the problem. If that does not work, the organization should wait and explain the problem to the new director. Maybe they would have better luck with getting a new director that is concerned with the issues within the company. Therefore, uniting the staff could be essentially easier or the new director could hire an OD practitioner to intervene and develop solutions.