The following issues I have identified are: Staff training and Procedures There is currently no training taking place within the store as it is seen as a waste of money. This is causing low staff moral and is showing in staff attitudes. The procedures booklet issued by head office is almost redundant and is unused by the store. Structure of Staffing The business seems to be top heavy with little or no respect for night Managers. It seems though the manager and assistant are not seeing the business as a whole by not working different shift patterns.
Lessens need to purchase “hard copy” of these. * Other competitors; Circuit City, CompUSA, Amazon.com, even Wal-Mart, Target, etc. * Possibility of losing customers to wholesale business. I think that for the most part Best Buy has lived up to their mission statement, because they are at the intersection of technology and life. I believe this to be true because they offer some of the newest technology in their store and it is place where people can actually interact with salespeople in real life.
This will cause a lack of consistency in teaching from the management side and discipline of the employee in balancing both clients and management. Every district manager might not have the same goals for each salesman. District managers may have different expectations on how the salesman should perform during a sales call. This could be why each manager had different records of Marsh’s performance written down in the reports. When Marsh started working with Ted Franklin, it made a negative impact on his attitude towards his career.
Risk Factors of Bloomingdales Risk factors play a major role in today’s economy. Since we are stuck in the stagnation period and do not seem to be recovering for quite some time, businesses have to come up with a proper marketing plan that will help sell their products. All businesses suffer from the same risk factors. Some common risk factors include: product quality, price, brand loyalty, competition, managerial skills, etc. Many customers are shopping at lower priced stores because the economy is not allowing them to spend extra money.
Establishing an annual Buy Nothing Day punishes everyone for the few idiots’ problems. Not everyone has a problem with consumerism. Creating a day that ‘helps’ people tackle their overconsumption problems only helps a minority of the population. And overall, it is not the governments’ job to monitor citizens’ personal problems.
He doesn’t think that his staff is offering and contributing to their job as much as he does. As a brand manager of a group whose job is heavily involved with creativity, flexibility and thinking out of box, Simon’s management has created a punitive and mistrust atmosphere that prevents his staff from sharing their points of view and challenging new ideas just like Simon did when he was an assistant. Also, this downfall of his management style will eventually lead to lower job satisfaction rate of his staff. The pro of his style is that he catches the flaws at early stage, which is also a very valuable skill and can save company time and money. Simon’s personality type is a combination of Obsessive-Compulsive and Narcissistic Personality.
But it becomes wrong when you are selling your products at such a low price that you put all other companies out of business. When you are using this form of dumping, you put people out of work because their company can no longer afford to keep them on. Either way I don’t see any moral reasoning that would support dumping products overseas if it’s illegal. First you are breaking a law that has been setup to protect people. You are also intentionally causing harm to others, if you follow either definition.
During shift reports and company meetings, these things are discussed, but with a lack of caring, it was a lose-lose situation. I’ve witnessed that if they can fit in with the residents, it would make the job easier for them. They are more than likely to get by with just about anything without the resident going back and reporting it to management. You become careless to your job duties; and that’s exactly what happened with
Unfortunately, many people have no desire on developing his or her negotiating skills they simply avoid or postpone solving problems. For example, a conflict between two employees caused production levels to down at Joe bait. The manager of these two employees instead of taking immediate action and using his or her negotiating skills allow the conflict to escalate; whether the manager though the problem would resolve itself his or her lack of action only contributed to the conflict and the continued decrease in production. If the manager had used his or her negotiating skills and solved the conflict with the employees the company would not have only save time and production it would have saved money for the company. One can only image the amount of money wasted from unnecessary and in many cases avoidable lawsuits or injury.
Case Study: Zing PC 1. What are the Major Problems facing ZingPC? * Losing the market share Zing PC is losing its market share because of Push strategy failing to comply specific customer needs. * Dysfunctional Logistics Dysfunctional Logistics occurs because there is no 3PL (third party Logistics Contractor) for inventory / supply and order deliveries to the customer, hence overloading company resources / expertise. * Lack of inventory Management Lack of inventory management and standardized parts not being used in manufacturing, due to unrelated inventory procurement of Zing PC.