However, the hiring policies at Tanglewood require employees to start out as store associates and work their way into managerial positions. I have found that many recent college graduates are reluctant to put in several years as a shift leader and department manager positions in order to be promoted. Additionally, the retail industry holds a negative image of providing low pay, requiring long hours, and of their being frequent conflicts with lower-level employees. The environmental scan also shows that unemployment in the area is considered to be relatively high, thus making it easier to hire employees. But, recent forecasts suggest that expansion in the professional and managerial sectors may reduce that number of individual qualified for these jobs.
These businesses were so large and employed so many people but with that being done, it was very difficult for a mass of workers to come together and fight for higher wages and better social benefits. Nowadays, big manufactures are not easily achievable when it comes to ordinary citizens trying to start one, but that is because the mass of Americans are shut out. Not being able to inherent the means of manufacture, us citizens are compelled into making a living by
Question 1c Environmental Scan The labor market of the Pacific Northwest indicates a high unemployment rate, and therefore difficult environment for individuals to find new jobs. There tends to be a consistent supply of qualified individuals in the urban markets of Seattle and Spokane, however it is difficult to recruit these college-educated individuals into entry-level positions in a retail environment. Retail stores tend to have a reputation of requiring long hours of work, including weekends and holidays, with little compensation. It is difficult to hire individuals that are willing to start in an entry-level position and work their way up over the years into managerial positions. Tanglewood prefers to promote from within, allowing the managerial employees to grow with the company, already experienced with the social and cultural environment.
The U.S. produces almost double than what japan produces. I’m not too sure on what the number of Japan is but they are more populated than the U.S. and the U.S. still produces more. There was no proof when the United States first became number one, only because no one was there to keep statistics. In the 1920 the economic growth was rapid because of electricity, telephones, appliances and indoor plumbing took place. The fact that all of these things had taken place in the 1920, the United States needed to find ways to keep it going over the years.
WW1 ends – The ending of WW1 meant that the European countries were able to meet their own demands and therefore did not need any more supplies from America. Farmers suffered from overproduction and could not afford to keep their homes or pay mortgages, some farmers even decided to become sharecroppers. In 1924, 600,000 farmers went bankrupt. Also, there was stiff competition from Canadian, Australian and Argentinean farmers who were selling vast amounts of grain to the world market. Over-production – Fewer products such as cars, consumer good etc were not being sold as factories were making more goods than Americans needed or could afford to buy.
As America became an industrial giant she was in many ways still a small nation. America's international influence was minimal, in large part due to precedent set down by Washington and other early Presidents. In reality, though, America was not a powerful nation militarily and the level of business conducted internationally by American concerns was relatively small. The rapid growth of American industry forced business to look elsewhere and the government was obliged to help find markets for these products. The influence of industrialists and Social Darwinism is evident in the motivations for American expansion.
America began on small businesses and America has to continue to have small businesses to have a good economy. Wal-Mart endangers businesses all over the country because small businesses cannot compete with the superpower on account of Wal-Mart getting goods from places like China. Most people live within thirty minutes of a Wal-Mart and with their lower prices people will continue to shop there without realizing what they are doing to their own economy. Most people don’t realize that saving a few dollars by shopping at Wal-Mart is crippling all the local businesses around their area. Wal-Mart does not care about the American economy because they are thriving the way the economy is now, so American citizens have to stand up for their communities.
Employers knowingly employ hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants each year on farms, in restaurants, as domestic help, and in labor-intensive jobs. Without these workers some industries could not survive. Undocumented workers fill a need in this country and will work for wages that most Americans will not (“Employment protection policies and the undocumented worker: a balancing of competing interests,” 2005). Conclusion In conclusion, our current immigration laws are tearing families apart. Immigration reform is needed, but there is not a one size fits all solution.
Professor Pierce HIST 2020-501 “Regulated Influence” Without the free market enterprise the country would fail. You could see civil liberties slip away one by one. The freedoms of each and every person could be at stake. The American way of life could cease to exist. In the late 1800s times were tough, living and working was brutal, due to the conditions and the lack of safety regulations, scarce supplies of food, over population due to the vast amounts of immigrants filled the cities, money was hard to come by, because monopolies were controlling the market place, influencing consumer pricing and purchasing the “haves” could get it, while the “have not’s” had to fight for it (Doc-4).
Instead of reforming them, the populous that uses this “opportunity” has become so dependent on it that it isn’t enough and now our government is increasing these “opportunities” while America sits in the largest deficit it has ever been in. To really grant them opportunity, they need to be given jobs. However, on the same side of this token we are taxing the employers and cutting down on their funds. This gets rid of jobs; it doesn’t create jobs. It is much like the saying: “give a man a fish, he eats for a day, but if you teach him to fish he’ll eat forever.” Bono from U2 had the right idea.