Cadbury's History

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day holiday” on a Saturday, and closing the factory on bank holidays . Young employees were encouraged to attend night school and were allowed to leave work an hour early twice a week. Loyal and hard-working workers were treated with great respect and relatively high wages and good working conditions. Cadbury pioneered pension schemes, joint works committees and a full staff medical service. The company, provided many facilities for use by the staff, including a sports field and a swimming pool, and encouraged membership of the many clubs and activities promoted by the company (Samuel, 2016 ).

It can not be denied that the success of the Cadbuby factory was given by the way employees were treated by the owners; cooperation was the basis of business. The workers were treated as human beings; they were treated as equals to themselves and as co-owners of the factory (Samuel, 2016) Although most of the approaches to the welfare of Cadbury’s workers are already been used nowadays, the Corporate Social Responsibility practitioners of today as well as multinational enterprises still need to learn a lot from the way John and George Cadbury led their company. Because they used the profit to benefit the community in which they are located as they believed that profits must be used to develop the community. They believed that workers should be led rather than driven, that the workers must be treated as partners in progress, because employees are fundamental in shaping the organizational culture of a company.

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