Kudler Fine Environmental Scan {text:bookmark-start} {text:bookmark-end} Kudler Fine Foods Environmental Scan Time management skills are imperative to any business owner. If one does not manage their time effectively they will not be capable of doing the one thing a business owner should focus on, growing their business. Time management is a set of principles, practices, skills, tools, and systems working together to help you get more value out of your time with the aim of improving the quality of your life. The important point is that time management is not necessarily about getting lots of stuff done, because much more important than that is making sure that you are working on the right things, the things that truly need to be done. (Rounsaville 2007) Being overloaded with the day to day operations of the business has deterred Kathy from being able to focus on the business as a whole.
Social Responsibility EST1 Task 1 Company Q's current attitude toward social responsibility can best be described as nonexistent. While a business's ultimate goal is to create profit, businesses should enlist community friendly practices to strengthen both the company and the community as a whole. Three areas that Company Q needs to reevaluate are as follows; (1) closing down stores because of the crime rate in that specific part of town; (2) only offering high margin items that are health conscious; and (3) wasting food instead of donating it to local food banks. Company Q has recently closed a couple of stores due to a pattern of lost profits. These two stores were in high-crime-rate areas.
However, a determination should be made regarding the viability of these items in all stores. If sales are low in certain areas, this could lead to loss of profit due to overages. Company Q has also declined a request by local food bank to donate day old products because they fear theft by employees. Company Q could take a few simple steps which would support their need to improve profit, engage their employees in a shared corporate vision, and build a supportive relationship with the community. Recommendation 1 Company Q should establish an ethics program.
Performance Management Framework Romonda M Harrison HRM/531 March 24, 2014 Performance Management Framework Introduction Creating a performance management framework ensures that Clapton Commercial Construction will achieve its business venture goals. A critical tool for a company is its performance management. It gives the employees an opportunity to succeed and for the organization to prosper. Outlined are recommendations that we here at Atwood and Allen consulting feel should be utilized to maximize the potential this company has. Performance Management For any business to be successful it is imperative that they implement a performance management framework.
Tanglewood Strategy Holly Weller HR/594 January14, 2012 Sheri Bias Introduction Tanglewood has some opportunities for their staffing strategy. Tanglewood’s cooperate staffing has not been strong, and their local leadership is becoming inefficient. They are seeking help for a plan to help them use all of their human assets to help centralize their staffing operation efficiencies. There are some opportunities with Tanglewood’s strategy and this case study will help give them suggestions to use to build a better staffing strategy. Tanglewood’s goals are to have the right staffing for their company without disturbing their business culture.
What direct marketing tools does your organization use? Which, in your opinion, are the most effective, least effective? Review chapter 16 in your eBook. Sustainable marketing goes beyond caring for the needs and wants of customers today. It means having concern for tomorrow’s customers in assuring the survival and success of the business, shareholders, employees, and the broader world in which we live.
Changes in services that are offered to the residents have been the driving force towards the growth and setting BKD apart from the others. One can clearly see how the change managers have applied the vision in the changes. Other departments or communities can take a look at the vision and use that as a guide to changes they want to implement or in the process of implementing to be sure that what they are doing will grow the company, will enrich the lives of our residents. With BKD’s vision in mind, one must be sure that they do not try to grow too fast. Set a pace of growth that will be sustainable, that will not rock the company to the core and in process set it back.
Personal Values Ethics in business practice is critical to the longevity and livelihood of an organization. Without a true understanding of the ethics and values by which a company abides, one can never be successful within the organization. Kudler Fine Foods (KFF) has a distinct understanding of what is important to their organization and the people who run the organization. In this paper I will discuss my personal thoughts on ethics based on the Williams Institute Ethics Awareness Inventory (EAI) (2006) and relate how my ethics and values align with a managerial position at Kudler Fine Foods. Recently, I had the opportunity to use a tool to test one’s perspective on ethics.
Creating dependable leaders should always be a part of business education, but it seems over time it has become more of incident by result than by vital content. Business leaders must embrace ethical standards and those standards need to be communicated through the business, most importantly
From Ethical system perspective, making and sustaining a strong ethical culture is key to creating a organization which encourages people to make good ethical decisions and behaving ethical every day. There are many factors, which lead people to take ethical shortcuts. But when factors increases or made to exploit ethical standards, ethical culture in whole corporate tends to failure of ethical standards at all level. Our perception of whether we do “what’s right” depends on things such as situation, time frame or (Oldhand, 2016)expectation of others. Ethics are like rules and when it is exploited for any reason which is as judged by us is right, can also be wrong to the others observing.