Perhaps they believe that the employees are contributing to the revenue losses and are stealing merchandise. These are all self destructive in nature and could impact their ability to remain in business and keep good employees. Making the decision to close two stores without adequate justification drastically reduces it footprint in the market place. It appears that either the store supervisor or manager is not engaged with the employees and consumers; do not have sufficient training on company ethics policies to enforce them; or they do not have a fully robust ethics program in place to address to ongoing issues. PART B Company Q can take some immediate steps which I believe would turn a downward trend in to positive results.
Due to the economic downturn and shrinking market, BCCC curtailed its plans of expansion. The board wishes to continue to operate only two ships and plans to reassess their strategic direction next year. They also wish to obtain international financing and thus want to adopt IFRS in 2011. Management must decrease cost or generate extra revenue while improving customer service in order to compete in the short and long-term. This can be accomplished by targeting a more lucrative customer base.
Company Q should also review products they offer, price control factors, and donations to local charities in the community. I will show that by improving on these areas, Company Q will improve their overall view in the community and improve their view with loyal customers and potential customers. The closing of a store creates a large impact on any community. Company Q’s disregard for any social responsibility creates a negative view of the company in areas where they operate. Company Q’s stores were reportedly closed due to their lack in generating profit, being that these stores were in high crime areas raises some concern.
You can also take the route and correlate low class people were neglected, which cost many lives and peoples’ homes. It was argued that when Hurricane Betsey hit, the levees were blown purposely so that the water would overflow into the 9th ward (predominately poor African Americans) and protect the more expensive lake areas (predominately rich Caucasians). It is clear that class plays a major part in whether you are cared about by a government. If I was the director of the film, I would change the way that Spike Lee went about interviewing the people. I think that Lee portrayed the affects of the Hurricane Katrina on less affluent people, which made it more biased.
Expansion means career growth and other opportunities for the LPN’s If Happy Trails closes this facility, the organization will lose money and business opportunities. An alternative that Happy Trails can use is to explain to the LPNs that unions have made many American businesses less competitive so the employer has no option but to make budget cuts elsewhere. Those budget cuts could come from less recognition programs, pay raises less frequently and in an extreme circumstance the facility would be forced to close their doors. Many employees have come to the realization that unionization may in the long run put their jobs at risk by making their employers less competitive. The National Labor Relations Act forbids employers from interfering with, restraining, or
Employment assurance wavered due to the negligence of the organization failing to adhere to policy and procedures which resulted in employees and volunteers practicing deceitful and unethical things. Investor loyalty was severely damaged by inside personnel stealing donated funds and financial misconduct of company records. Customer fulfillment was depleted based on the untimely actions of the American Red Cross along with the consumer fraud, and the organization attempting to deceive the donor’s for their own personal gain. Today’s business world needs leaders who can make ethical decision while making sure the action can have a lasting effect on the organization as a
1. Prepare a S.W.O.T. analysis for Bass Pro Shops. What types of strategies do you recommend based on your analysis? Strengths: Catalog Sale, Internet sales, Email Client Base, Stores are tourist sites Weaknesses: Minimal employee training, employee salaries are low causing high turnover rate, not located in every state Opportunities: expansion across the United States, and expansion into Canada Threats: Competitors Taking shares of the market, bad media stating Bass Pros Shops does not uphold their promises about economic development, Ever changing market in customer needs and wants 2.
Three actions Company Q could take to improve the company’s attitude toward social responsibility: Company Q has tarnished its relationship with its customers by closing stores in cities with high crime rates. Did Company Q research demographic and location-specific information before investing in the locations that they have elected to close? It seems like rather than acknowledging their unwillingness to deal with the issue at hand, they have decided to close multiple stores. To prevent something like this in the future, Company Q should consider its customer base and how the loyalty of customers would be destroyed by an act like this. Closing these locations also leaves its employees without a job and the community without a local grocery.
It is odd to me that with numbers such as these there are not major reform bills going through to curb this problem. We have government run departments such as OSHA telling companies where to store paint and how to revamp a mattress properly when reselling it yet we are not stopping this huge slap in the face to our justice system. People are openly breaking the law, American laws, and it drains our economy and then to make matters worse we spend more by incarcerating them here in the U.S. instead of sending them back to their home country or even worse have work prisons where they can work to earn back the money they wasted that once came from Joe the working man. There are a number of things that could happen that yes, would cost money to implement but they would not cost what the current cost is to educate, feed and care for the illegal immigrants. Amnesty is over rated and it is killing our country, economy and culture.
Dawn Chadwell March 23, 2015 English 102 Professor Scott Overseas Outsourcing The discussion regarding U.S companies outsourcing internationally to countries such as India, Pakistan, Philippines, China and dozens more is highly controversial. What a lot of people don’t know is that outsourcing is a much older practice. Merchant companies or large businesses can cut their material cost and employee labor considerably by outsourcing. This has made the big corporations close their factories in the U.S and move them overseas to undeveloped countries. The citizens of these countries will work for lower wages, in dangerous conditions and have fewer restrictions as far as labor rights.