Pizzeria Case Study

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Perfect Pizzeria Perfect Pizzeria is a prospering pizza franchise, with employee and managerial problems. The franchise lacks structure for managers to work through, and provides limited opportunity for management training. Managers are only promoted form within, in a system where little more than a title separates assistant and night managers from the regular employee. The employee community is made up of part time roles filled by students, earning the minimum wage, where only the manager works full time. Only the manager is able to receive a bonus, but to do so they must receive cooperation from the rest of the employees, through selling and not damaging the food. As the standard employee has no access to rewards, understandably they reward themselves when the manager is not around, by taking some of the food or giving extra to their friends. Company policy indicates that employees should bare the cost of mistakes. However this rarely happens as overnight and assistant managers seldom write a bill due to peer pressure and the existence of the tight knight employee group. The poorly erected management format, elected the wrong disciplinary actions to make employees work more efficiently, which has resulted in an even more fractured work environment. Management has let this matter linger, believing that it would sort itself out, which did not happen and consequently lead to large employee turnover, with the loss of key personnel. The workplace was further disrupted with the manager working in the kitchen, against company protocol, strictly supervising employees and causing conflict. The gap between management and employee has undoubtedly led to the non existence of the manager’s bonus and perhaps ultimately the quality of the product. There are a number of ways in which we can examine the employees of Perfect Pizzeria’s needs, drives and motivation. Theories

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