The communities were these jobs were lost have been devastated. Families’ lively hoods have been broken, retirement pensions are questionable, and the revenue this company generates for the city in which it resides. According to CNNMoney.com the company has asked for an extension for the liquidation of their inventory until March 31 and they are only waiting for the courts approval. If this does not succeed stakeholders, stockholders, investors, and suppliers would be affected alike. Ethically I found it hard to believe that this happening in the United States and that our economies have become so terrible that the Circuit City’s in Canada are not closing and their profits are up.
The type of influence tactics that can be used throughout KFF are proactive influence tactics. The tactic I would use the most across all the different managers is collaboration. This will allow for the consultant and staff to build a healthy working relationship. To get complete buy-in from the CEO for the steps KFF needs to make to have the change initiative a success I would use rational persuasion. Giving her all the fact will allow Kathy Kudler to make a good decision about what steps KFF needs to make from top to bottom to allow the new software to be accepted throughout the organization.
Gov. Chet Culver has ordered a 1.5 percent across-the-board cut to trim spending by $90 million for the current fiscal year. The article states that do to the recession, the Iowa Supreme Court is closing state courts for a day. The closing will help them save some money in theses tough times. Nearly 2,000 employees will be unpaid, saving them nearly $350,000.
What are people in our market likely to see as weaknesses? What factors lose us sales? Examples of CanGo’s weaknesses are: bad communication, no clear strategic plan, weak management team, low R&D and poor decision making. OPPORTUNITIES: What good opportunities can we spot? What interesting trends are we aware of?
While senior management is getting raises and expanding their corporation, people are living in misery because of the lay-offs; this could change if the corporations gave those unemployed some compensation. Flint, one out of the 11 towns
Executives should encourage their communication teams to study what motivates customers to but their product, and then communicate that information to company management and employees (Stuart, Sarow, & Stuart, 2007). USAA does a great job at segmenting their customer base and is in the process of working on a marketing structure to best fit each group. Each generation and culture learns a little differently and varying income level and education affect your ability to have and obtain knowledge on certain subjects. USAA membership has been traditionally an officer based group, who over the years has opened up their membership to family and anyone who has served honorably in the United States Military. As the original membership begins to become a minority of their book of business, the children and family members, as well as the enlisted market has become the largest part of their customer base.
CalPERS vs. JC Penney Overview CalPERS investment program began on February 22, 2000 when they included JC Penney on their annual Focus List. CalPERS further exclaimed that due to declining sales and a deteriorating customer base they had lost confidence in Penney’s management. Subsequent to the release of their focus list JC Penney made numerous strategic decisions to revitalize and boost the value of the company. Penney forced their current CEO James Oesterreicher to retire. Next instead of promoting from within, they searched for new blood and hired former Barney’s CEO Allen Questrom.
This could possibly hinder Anthony’s job with a budget cut of 51 percent. Anthony attempts to find jobs, in case his loses his job, Erin is a school teacher who stands to be laid off unless organizers get 231,147 signatures to put a repeal of anti-collective- bargaining SB 5 on the ballot and voters vote to repeal it to stop the budget cut in public education. This reminds me of how the economy here is today; I recall in 2011 there was a lay-off of teachers and state employees in Northeastern, North Carolina due to lack of funding and state budget
Paul Fortune was the GM for HI, came from England in April 2002 to the preparations for RDH. Problem: The challenge was to transform a large group of family-based employees, working under an ad-hoc management style, into a professional group of dynamic employees operating within a structured international organizational culture. Fortune also realized that many of the existing staff, who had been employed for as long as 30 years, were limited in their work professionalism and the ability communicate in English. Opportunities: Fortune has to reduce the number of employees from 675 to 350 employees by November 2002. A two month training period for all employees would being in search for employees with the right attitude and ability.
Concord Bookshop Paper Monica Wilson HCS/587 January 14, 2013 Dr. Sonnia Oliva Concord Bookshop Paper I would like to present the caase of a Concord area bookshop where organizational change goes wrong on many levels for a number of the stakeholders; i.e., store employees and some members of management. Spector (2010) points out that the board of the 64 year old institution decided to hire a new general manager, in effect causing de facto demotions. The workers wanted to meet with the owners to discuss the issues but the owners declined. They opted instead to move forward with their planned change, minus any employee input. The proposed change caused a number of employees to resign and many in the community to voice their outrage.