Sandwich Blitz Unit 7 Assignment

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Dalman has been visiting the operating locations and addressing manager operations concerns. Dalman has heard that other businesses have successfully used a team approach to managing with good results. Explain how self-managed teams could be used at Sandwich Blitz to allow Dalman more time to devote to growing the business. Switching to a self-managed team would empower location managers to solve small problems on a day-to-day basis and increase productivity. By assigning managers under Dalman and Lei’s level, the self managed teams would be better equipped to handle daily activates. This would involve training the self managed teams to better plan and determine what type of training would help them manage their daily responsibilities. Once the self managed teams are trained and assigned the ultimate goal would be to reduce Dalman’s involvement in having to go visit the operating locations and addressing manager operation concerns, and Lei would be able to completely concentrate on the financial matters of the company without being disturbed. Dalman and Lei can train the self managed team on monitoring and implementing the company’s policy so that each employee can understand what they are supposed to do and also know the positives and negatives of the company. Another way a self managed team at Sandwich Blitz can help increase team productivity, such as having the team members cross trained to do various jobs. This would increase the flexibility of the team in dealing with personnel shortages and some of the little fires, Dalman has to put out. Therefore, implementing Dalman and Lei’s knowledge of work processes with the teams would help the team members solve problems, and develop improvements. It would also help lower any absenteeism that may have existed in the past, which would free up some of Dalman and Lei’s time. In conclusion, when it comes
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