Case 4 “Never on a Sunday”, speaks on one of the most successful family owner and managed business, the McCoy’s Building Supply Centers. The case gives descriptive details of the principles used to operate their business. In 1923 Frank McCoy started a roofing business. In 1960 under the management of his son Emmett McCoy, the company expanded its services selling roofing and other building materials directly to the general public. The McCoy’s are a very religious family who carries their Evangelical Christian beliefs into their business causing all 103 stores to close on Sundays which is said to be the busiest day of commerce for retail. The McCoy’s values and beliefs enable them to implement essential elements which facilitate the organization’s overall success.
According to Organizational Behavior, “values” represent “broad preferences concerning appropriate courses of action or outcome” (83). Organizational Behavior elaborates on this definition stating, “Values reflect a......
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