Castle’s Family Restaurant Business Plan: Stage I Introduction Human Resource management teams work with the performance of activities such as bookkeeping, upholding policies and guidelines, employee performances, and ensuring that labor laws are enforced. Human resource managers utilize information systems to help in their daily duties of payroll, training, and organizations of personnel files. Human Resource managers develop and analyze functions that will determine the specific type of Human Resource Information system application is necessary to automate and create a strategic alliance for the Human resource department. The importance of determining the type of human resource information system application is to define which system can help make the business run more smoothly. A system is used to store, manipulate, analyze, acquire, retrieve and distribute important information.
A potential opportunity that they could explore is to utilize self-checkout terminals in their locations. Self-checkout point of sale terminals could do many things to improve Kudler Fine Foods as a retail competitor. First, it would improve their customer service as many customers prefer to check themselves out rather than having a cashier. In today’s technology environment, “…systems can be tailored to better fit any retail environment and are more focused on improving customer service rather than cutting labor costs” (Murphey, 2009, p. 1) . Even though the prime focus of these systems is not necessarily to cut labor costs, often times they can improve efficiency.
Doing this allowed Home Depot to attract new customers because of the new, innovative products they now stocked. (Constantineau) With the addition of HR managers in each store, proper training and the evaluation process became a focal point. Pre-Nardelli, there were 157 employee performance evaluation forms in use. He cut that down to two, one for management and one for regular employees. Distinguishing itself from competitors is a constant battle, and the macroeconomic environment may shift against the corporation.
(Valacich, J., George, J., Hoffer, J., 2009, pg. 3) Step one: planning and selection. Bob Mellankamp, the owner of Hoosier Burger wants to bring computerization “to their information system, inventory control, customer ordering, and management reporting systems do to frequent error”. He wants to be able “to have electronic access to forecasting information, inventory usage, and basic sales information”, which will give Bob more accurate information for him to make decisions. (Valacich, J., George, J., Hoffer, J., 2009, pg.
Spatelli Pizzeria Case: Payroll Section Corporate Governance: With us gaining possession of the Spatelli Pizzeria we mean to implement a different ambiance of the work place. Instead of just paying our bills every month we are going to look into and provide ethical and disciplined reasoning in every business decision in order to ensure the best interest of the company. We move to cultivate and establish the integrity of the business environment through honest accountability and fairness to all employees and vendors. Just as we expect each other to follow a Code of Conduct to ensure the compliance of company guidelines and procedures, we expect that of all our employees as well-so that together we can achieve a superior company. If we can show our employees what we want them to do by doing it ourselves, they will be able to open up to those ideas and more.
It was obvious that BIS was needed for CKE in making strategic decisions about monitoring food costs, closure of underperforming stores, improving data quality, and thus enhancing operations and bottom lines. The importance of BIS also underlines in focusing on a company’s performance indicators such as sales and cost of sales, underperforming or over performing business areas, and historical and future trends. Introduction Most Americans will consume any food regardless of the calories, nutritional value and health related consequences. The Brain behind the Big, Bad Burger article mentions the importance of using a Business Intelligence System (BIS) which “provides them with insights, not just mountains of data”[1]. Business Intelligence gets its strength from being able to pull data from disparate sources store it for use in a loosely coupled way, and then pull it out in an accurate and meaningful way.
People who shop at Wal-Mart know what the corporation has to offer their customers, and the community. On this week assignment the team will determine the relationship between the strategic initiative and the financial planning of the Wal-Mart Corporation to foresee the future. Let us see what the Wal-Mart Corporation has in store for the up and coming year of 2014. In point of fact many people will be surprised about how far the Wal-Mart Corporation would go to ensure that they value their customers ‘demands and input. Relationship between Strategic and Financial Planning In today’s market, the Wal-Mart Corporation must understand the relationship between a strategic and financial plan to incorporate a sound growth plan while maintaining the financial responsibilities of the business.
Our business construct is a group of individual, work-at-home customer service agents that are independent contractors. They provide superior customer service to a diverse range of clients from computer companies, internet sites, telecommunications, resort management and electric utilities. Our class text further illustrates the mission statement: "Mission Statements are a concise statement of what the company stands for, who they service and what the company does for their customers" (Abraham, 2012, Para 2.1)." Matching the current client needs in an ever changing marketplace is difficult and not an exact science. The clients for our customers change not only seasonally due to market pressures but also daily, due to volume of demand for customer service agents.
This department makes the everyday choices on and off the scene. From those in direct line to them, first-hand information is directed to those affected immediately. Information that can improve efficiency most likely starts with the ground troops also known as operations. Operations have their hands in with the human resources department, contacting vendors, organizing resources, and gaining new employees. Those are the key departments in Huffman Trucking, but all departments contribute to the overall productivity and functionality of the business.
For example, think of franchises such as McDonald’s and Wendy’s. Each is individually owned and operated but each owner has to follow the bylaws. Each is to follow the policies, procedures, recipes, menu items, and conformity of the floor plans of each. The success of each has already been proven and is clearly the vision of the corporation. In this example the stakeholder, corporate, the owner/operator, implements the proven quality process by producing good food, product for consumption.