Jobs that have specific qualifications or task that are defined should be a Person/Job Match. Jobs that are poorly defined should be a Person/Organization Match, that is matched with the vision of the company. Having specific knowledge, skills, and abilities is needed for some jobs but the greater needs for the company would follow a more general path. Having a general skill set such as flexibility, ability to learn, and communication skills will enable your department to place employees across a variety of jobs and develop their more specific talents as the company has needs. While any company wants to employ exceptionally quality minded employees they are also faced with the fact that they are less experienced than the acceptable quality workforce.
Lowe’s has individual departments within the store and a structured management staff to ensure that the business is operationally sound. The core goal for the company is also the same; to service the customer and out-perform the competition. The main kinds of Operations and Materials Management costs that companies have are: raw materials and components, plant, labor, inventory and distribution. This affects their OMM by dictating what the company's overall ability to service its customers and perform will be. If a customer does not have enough or proper computer tools and equipment it will affect the OMM by preventing it from producing enough finished products.
Over time management concepts have evolved into modern techniques that rely more on listening to and understanding the needs of employees as more businesses realize how much more productive employees can be when they have some control in their team or work environment. I do feel that some leadership decisions can and should be made directly by the leader or manager in charge, as there is not always time available or valid reason to ask opinions or suggestions from the entire group. However, there are a lot of leadership decisions that can be better resolved with input from the people that will be directly affected by the decisions. Providing employees some control over their work situation can provide them with more work satisfaction; keeping employees happy in their workplace will
Each person that comes in will have a different view on the business. Utilitzing the core workforce allows the company the consistency that it needs to become successful. This is a easy way to promise customers that they will obtain the same customer service no matter what store they stop into. Hire or Retain:Tanglewood should absolutely work on retaining their associates and developing them. This shows the company ability to invest in their associates and assist with employee relations.
Organizational Behavior Terminology and Concepts How employees behave at a company is a direct representation of what is going on in the organization. Organizational behavior promotes organizational culture. A diverse staff can provide a solid team of people who are strong in various skills. Executive level management sets the tone first by providing mission statements of the organization, area, and even department. This is communicated down to the employees to set the standard for what is expected.
Also will need to establish the productivity measures and compare those with the company or organization figures. Lastly, the manager will need to have a team meeting; take contribution on achieving the goals set by the manager, and institute a common goal for the teams. The transformational leadership style will work for the restructuring strategy with the new management practices, because the teams are mature and under the strong leadership of new management. In order to allow the new transformational leadership to be effective, one will have to recognize critical competencies, educate their employees, and motivate, empower, and encourage the teams to facilitate them to focus on accomplishing their goals effectively. It is important to engage the employees in the critical thinking process, decision making process and setting a common subsidiary goal that will be able to help the specialists to merge well with the existing teams.
With the rapid change in business it is sometimes difficult for companies to keep up because it must change the organizational culture. The reason why leaders are so important is because they are the ones responsible for ensuring that all employees understand any changes that need to be made. If these so called leaders cannot relate the proper information to the workforce it would be very difficult for the company to keep up with all of the rapid changes. Another strategy that can be used is that everyone within an organization should come together and express what their values as well as their beliefs. This will give management the understanding of what procedures should be put in place.
When the employees send information to the bosses it is called and upward flow. This type of flow is less frequent then the downward flow, but more common in the workplace now. However, when employees communicate between departments with each other it is called a Horizontal flow. During the Horizontal flow information such as how to complete a task efficiently and solving problems are shared. The problem with this type of flow of communication is that information that should be shared with higher ups is
Leadership in Business Bert Lawson MGT/521 Management 1/20/2014 Les Colegrove Leadership in Business Leadership in business is a must for a business to flourish in today’s economy. Companies need to keep up with the changing times to keep their product marketable, to do this leadership has to find new ways and find ways to keep their ear to the ground to ensure their product is meeting consumer needs. This paper will discuss the role of managers in a leadership role. When you think of a manager most would think of someone who is keeping the day to day operations moving and that is true but a manager is so much more. When you break down what a manager means to a business.
Fair and equitable compensation would have to first be based on an organization’s strategic plans and resources. For compensation to be fair and equitable, employees would have pay and benefits that do not give bias to one employee over another. In an organization, pay and benefits should be relative to the job responsibilities of a given position and then based on employee performance within a given level of responsibility. The president of a company or organization definitely has much more responsibility, associated job duties, and therefore higher levels of stress than other employees. Because of this, the president of an organization should be at the top level of a pay structure scale.