Week 9 Case Analysis Utiliscan’s By: Tenika Carroll Wednesday March 3, 2010 Dr. Kimberly Scanlan Utiliscan has experienced a growth rate in company business. The HR director and the company CEO’s have been having a very hard time trying to find experienced employees and also address the current issues within the Utiliscan. So Paul the current Director of HR has just learned of a new opportunity and has decided to leave the company, but before he left he conducted a survey on some of the employee concerns. Once the survey was completed, Paul was asked to complete a conceptual plan that would address the employees concerns and stay within the companies’ budget. Throughout the case analysis Paul will address each of the employees
Even if MCI sold out at a premium, Pavlo wasn't going to get rich like top managers. He earned $70,000 and had vested options worth less than his salary. "I'm getting instructions from other parts of MCI that aren't in writing, like 'Make the bad debt $15 million,' but I'm the only one with my name all over this stuff," he says. "I started to feel I was going to be made into a
The contract was not vetted through all the departments and the specifications were approved by only one department head, the IT Director. C. Sam Sliderule, Inventory and Spares Manager, is thoroughly unsatisfied with the initial tests of the system – calling them a “disaster” - and the system is 4 months behind schedule. Additionally, the regional and centralized inventory management system is 10 months late. D. Jana Perry, director of Information Technology, has also used the system and thinks it works well, however she has a M.S. in Information Technology which implies the system does function however it is not user friendly.
In Document A, ‘The Numbers’, it clearly shows that by the end of February, there were only 8,000 soldiers at Valley Forge, half of them ill. An army of 4,000 healthy soldiers, the rest ill, fighting off a strong army of tens of thousands of healthy, well fed soldiers has terrible odds for the Patriots. Yes, the British lost the war, but at the time, no one knew that! France ended up helping, but they knew that in April. Odds of the odds turning to my favor are slim, like one out of a million. If I'm smart, I'd already be out of Valley Forge.
Revenue fell 4 per cent to $7.9 billion. Qantas' domestic operations reported a 74 per cent fall in pre-tax profit to $57 million, which was blamed on intense competition in the domestic market and growth in capacity. But it was overshadowed again by Qantas' international operations, which slumped to a $262 million loss compared with a $91 million loss previously. This article refers to Qantas cutting down jobs for many workers. This is an internal issue- business management; this affects the business in a negative way.
In the case there is a lot of evidence which indicates that management is not effectively motivating their employees and this is leading to a decline in productivity and profitability. One reason would be management is not giving employees proper incentives to raise their productivity levels and they are using a financial incentive plan with major flaws in its design (Scanlon Plan). Another reason would be the decline in suggestions that are submitted, at the programs height 305 suggestions were submitted. Now it has dropped to 50 a year showing that employees no longer feel like they are contributing successfully to the plant success. This is a major issue because feedback is an essential part of motivating a person and making them feel valued in the company.
Nowadays, the retail industry is targeting younger adults and senior citizens for hire and Wal-Mart is especially guilty for this. In reality it’s impossible to make a living working in retail and these targets are easy to manipulate. The majority of Wal-Marts goods are made outside of the U.S. and often in sweatshops. It’s displeasing and although the fine low prices are tempting, some customers will disappear because customers will feel terrible of workers treatment. Without customers, there is no business and this will hurt this large company in the long-term.
Sadly, this company had a lot of factors working against them when the quarter came to an end. The reason that companies budget is to help ensure that money is being spent properly and to help track where future profits and losses may occur. The unexpected decrease in revenue can be factored into many different areas. One main factor of loss is due to the internet being down for 7 days causing the company to potentially have lost 7.7 percent of it’s customers and an estimated $10,00 in profit for this quarter. Factor number two is the company offering free shipping to orders over $100.
Wal-Mart agreed to pay $81 million and $27.6 million to settle allegations (O’Donnell 1). Wal-Mart has killed unionization efforts (Armour 1). When people went on strike to improve working conditions and worked for Wal-Mart, Wal-Mart would threatened to fire them. Worse yet as the National Labor Relations Board confirmed, Wal-Mart has systematically and retailed against workers who have had the courage to stand up to improve working conditions (Rizzuto 1). These examples of how Wal-Mart is bad but still gets business shows how powerful they are and they can hurt America more in the
First USA was the second-largest credit card issuer, yet it had so many flaws, such as low customer satisfaction, payment-processing problems, a shortening of late-fee grace period for some customers, and a very competitive low-interest/zero percent solicitation. These flaws angry the customers, which led to declining in net-interest margin. And that’s not all, once the customer lost his/her trust in the business, it is very hard