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.
Acquire or Develop Talent: engaging in an acquired talent strategy shifts the responsibility of employees to human resources department to all managers throughout the organization. The process of attracting and retaining profitable employees is well promoted in the organization so this really increases more competitive relation between firms. But if you refer to the book if the company wants to achieve a full acquisition strategy then Tanglewood is going to have to acquire new talent. This is obviously the best strategy for Tanglewood due to its evident looking at the case. They are some inconsistency in the management styles between the first set of stores and the more recently acquired stores.
Explain your answer. MGT/311 WEEK 3 DQ 3 DQ3: In the article, “Conflict Management”, the author discusses several strategies for resolving group or team conflict. Which type of strategies seems to fit you best? What criteria should you consider when determining the best conflict resolution strategy? Week 3 Employee Portfolio: Motivation Action Plan Determine the motivational strategy or strategies that would likely be most appropriate for each of your three employees, based on their individual characteristics.
FALSE Difficulty: Medium 9. (p. 510) Anticipatory and in-country factors will influence the expatriate's mode and degree of adjustment to an overseas assignment. TRUE Difficulty: Medium 10. (p. 512) One of the reasons why there has been a decline in the number of expats in recent years is that MNCs have found that the expense can be prohibitive. TRUE Difficulty: Medium 11.
Workers within the function become much more knowledgeable about the function because they work amongst many different products performing the same task in each. Grouping according to product would allow the teams to become experts in the product that they are working on, allowing them to make smarter decisions based on the context of the specific product. In this situation however, I feel that grouping according to function would be smarter for production. The matrix organization around countries and products seems to be the smartest move for the company. Organizing the company’s organization around the products limits the contextual ability for
In these situations we will need to think about who else may benefit and why this is important. A new procedure may take you longer; however, it could allow a better service to be given to our internal/external customers, which could result in better working relationships and/or customer loyalty. Responding negatively to a change will influence those around us creating a difficult environment to work in. A positive approach encourages a good working environment and good teamwork. b) Explain why you should respond positively to changes in products or services.
It can go globally, but it should be careful with culture of countries, and beware of other potential competitors. Before going globally, it should improve the company’s workforces, be better and offer best products and services. Attract or Relocate On my opinion, it is easier to bring the labor to the organization, than organization to labor for Tanglewood situation. Company has 12 regions, many region choices for people to live. It would be hard for Tanglewood to relocate.
The learning curve will present challenges in that, employees will maintain the need to refer to the old system to proceed with business as usual. Possible struggles presented by the learning-curve are expected from several employees. Some will adjust more than others, but the main challenge is in the adaptation or orientation phase. Technologically, since the system is equipped with back up software, it should eventually eliminate the need for hard copy records and files. This will save time in the long run, which should encourage most employees despite their initial frustration with the management system change.
The job of a salesperson ranges from order takers to order getters. Personal selling is the key to developing strong relationships because it is directed toward achieving mutually satisfying results between customer and seller, which will sustain and enhance future interactions this is very important because it is a lot cheaper to retain current customers than to attract new ones. However, “In a results-oriented environment, the foundation of many compensation systems, sales quotas can focus sellers and managers in a direction inconsistent with customer-oriented selling.”(“Evans”,
The inability to look past the right choice to the most beneficial one, the obligation to right versus wrong, and the idea of equality in the workplace may result in problems in the workplace for a person who holds these values within the obligation category. With this said, it is certainly valuable to know the individual ethical style and perspective held when entering a business atmosphere. This would allow for easier transition of ethical dilemmas into issues that can be accepted by everyone involved. This, in turn, would provide a better atmosphere for the company, the employees, and ultimately the