CIPD CERTIFICATE IN HR PRACTICE Assignment 3HRC Understanding Organisations and the Role of Human Resources Anna Cole, Welcome to Alan Howards. Thank you for joining our lively and energetic workforce. Alan Howard is one of the UK’s largest professional Hair and Beauty wholesalers, a speciality retailer and distributor of professional Hair and Beauty supplies and equipment. Alan Howards was established 22 years ago opening its first store in Stockport followed by the Oldham store and slowly expanding and taking over other local wholesalers such as EWD and Salon Services, to now having 22 branches across the North West of England. The company is family run by Howard Littler owner of the company and 2 sons Anton and Jonathan directors of the company.
Reichart is the assigned project manager for a computer program. Functional managers are charging direct labor time to his project but actually working on their own project with no relation to the Trophy project. This caused over cost in budget. When Reichart complained of this and tried to get support from upper management/corporate they told him not to poke his nose in the functional manager’s business. As time went on so did the project
No proper tracking and accounting of inventory is possible. Early payment discounts are also missed. The lack of documentation for the items picked up is not helping the departments to stay within budget. Corners are being cut with the way the system works. Two micrometers are lost because the expeditor most likely has picked up them up at the receiving dock and has taken them directly to the engineers.
Strategic planning is crucial at this stage and there are tools available to help any business perform the analysis needed to succeed. Kudler Fine Foods is an upscale food store specializing in foods and services that appeal to a niche market; gourmet chefs and gourmet chefs in training. The firm had good initial success with its first two stores, but its third store is suffering with lower than expected sales. The firm wishes to continue expansion and increase profitable growth. Before moving forward the company’s owner, Kathy Kudler, needs to understand her company fully and have accurate knowledge about the firm’s internal and external environment.
The third and final thing that QuikTrip doesn't execute quite as well as they could is the use of their employees' ideas. They have the foundation for it to work, but it doesn't and the reason it isn't as successful as it could possibly be is due to the fact that there isn't enough incentive. QuikTrip has resource groups that meet to discuss and bring up issues that happen on every level of employment within the company. If they do have a great idea there isn't any significant recognition for them. It is for the most part a voluntary program and when all of the employees meet to discuss the topics that the resource groups have come up with nobody takes it seriously.
Warm Delights Company Assessment Betty Crocker is a brand that is marketed by General Mills, one of the largest food companies in the world. General Mills market some of the world’s best loved brands including Betty Crocker, Häagen-Dazs, Pillsbury, Green Giant, Lucky Charms, Cheerios and many more. Betty Crocker was formed in 1921. It began during a promotion for Gold Metal Flour where the customers were rewarded with a pin cushion that looked like a flour sack. Through this promotion, The Washburn Crosby Company, which was a predecessor of General Mills, had gotten flooded with questions about baking.
They have a plethora of business associates, and consider themselves leaders in the customer service business. Their motto is: “a strong organizational culture is the foundation for making a good company a great one.” (Sam Walton, founder of Wal-Mart, 2011). I chose them because of their company background, culture and their international operating formats. Even though Wal-Mart is advancing in the industry I have seen other corporations do the same thing and fail due to their neglect when it comes to social responsibility. SYSTEMS THEORY Wal-Mart currently utilizes a relational systems theory.
Carl demonstrated meager planning, implementation, and unwieldiness to follow-through with his assigned duties. It appears that Carl Robins is not qualified or trained properly to do his job successfully. This issue may have been averted by establishing a systematic leadership and mentoring plan by ABC, Inc. to train and advise their new employees. Several issues stand out immediately. New employees did not have the required forms completed and their transcripts were not on file.
Brigade S-6 was going to Combat Training Centers (CTC) and failing badly when it came to deploying their systems. There are several issues seriously having a negative effect on the MCAT organization. The two I will discuss in this case study is managerial challenges and personality conflicts. When management started hiring individuals to do the job as trainers and mentors, they did not write a detail job description. The job description mainly look for individuals with Information
There is an emphasis on factual and numerical reporting on which we make decisions about how our company will be run. This is a seriously flawed method of management in that there is a complete lack of thought to the psychological impact of their decisions and management of the organization. The lack of empathy is palatable in the room during these meetings. My failure to elicit empathy for others and myself in the group creates a huge challenge for me. In order to more effectively contribute to the organization, I would like to spend some time researching techniques to connect on an emotional level with the team.