Company Back Ground and A Description of the Company
Fayaque is the largest retail chain of electronic products in Taiwan. Fayaque can be traced to Fanc which was found by French. In 2003, Shin Kong Mitsukoshi (SKM) took over Fanc electronic store and changed the name from Fanc to Fayaque (About Us, n.d., para. 1). It is because Fanc opened electronic stores in Taiwan and it could not earn normal profit; thus it got out of business and sold its branch, that is located in Taiwan, to SKM. In other word, marginal costs exceeded marginal benefits, so it had to either shut down the stores or sell the stores to others. Otherwise, they would lose more money (Brickley & Smith & Zimmerman, 2016, p. 18). SKM’s founder appointed his son as CEO in
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Therefore, sometimes they are not helpful for employees.
Fayaque has three slogans that are “Good Life, Wonderful New Things, and Find Fun Everyday” (About Us, n.d., para. 2). Fayaque has a strong corporate culture and its goals focus on the quality of service and sales. Furthermore, Fayaque pays attention to employees’ skill. For instance, it requires every employee to remember any information that electronic products have. Every Monday lower level employees have to take a small quiz before leaving the workplace. The small quiz would be about the information of new electronic products. Moreover, store managers sometimes have a centralized training approach and decentralized training approach. Generally, every six months store managers have a training lesson for a week in the headquarter which is located in Taipei.
Agency Problem
The CEO of Fayaque grants decision management to the store managers and decision control to the floor supervisors. Once company uses decentralized decision system, incentive conflicts within firm are more likely to be appeared. Subsequently, once incentive conflicts appear, firm should use reward system and performance evaluation system in order to reduce incentive conflicts. Similarly, agency problem is like the CEO of Fayaque as an agent to grant his managers as a principal to do some special tasks. Therefore, it might have some incentive conflicts between
By using this strategy, they notice who has provided customer with outstanding service, choose winner in separate categories and reward. This kind of strategy is quite important in hotel business since they (hotel and employees) are stimulating each other. This program encourages employees to find better way to communicate with company and college effectively. Most of all, since it is a comprehensive method, it can even build their social connection further and further if they understand and communicate with each other in the right way. In addition, Fairmont hotels also give exclusive deals to their employees, family members and friends. As employees who have moved to another property of the hotel chain notice and compare common customer’s needs, they realize how their customer should be treated and what is the most important factor to sustain their service
Corporate group is one of the most popular business structures in Australia. To be popular is because forming subsidiary companies will bring a lot benefit for parent company, such as reducing business risk, separates working duties. The famous Salmon’s case identify that each subsidiary company should stay as separate entity, after the court determine agency relationship is not exist between corporate groups. Thus corporation veil should apply on the subsidiaries in order to stop third party to review company’s detail information. Unfortunately, until now there is no official procedure provided to regulate the agency relationship. Therefore, how to testify cooperate veil in agency grounds becomes an arguable concept. Indeed it is unsurprisingly to find out piercing corporate veil is also a vexed issue to decide. In this report, there are two major parts. The determination for agency relationship including overwhelming control from parent company and poolling provision provided will be presented in the first part. Then in the second part we will list in certain condition such as using subsidiary company to make fraud or breach the duties and more importantly when there exists agency relationship between parent and subsidiary company will causes the result as lifting corporate veil.
As we know from the previous history, Leslie Fay obtained many department stores and loss
The store chain understands the importance of human resource management and invests heavily in quality training of its staff. It has a staff training college that admits 10000 of its colleagues annually. As a result, the organisation was gold accredited by Investors in People due to its role in improving quality of human resources. Quality staff provide superior services to customers hence increasing customer satisfaction.
eBay is a growth company with low fixed costs associated with its business. The company's growth has been relatively stable, and it tends to track the broad economy and the development of e-commerce. With a beta of 0.92, the growth in eBay's business seems fairly reliable. The company is profitable and its growth is managed slowly. Based on this assessment, eBay can handle some debt as a means to lower its cost of capital, but should not have more than the 30% range. There are a few reasons for this. The first is that while eBay has the top market position in its industry, the industry itself is still growing. Thus, eBay might not be able to retain its leading market position. The company's current cash flow can support taking on debt, but the future cash flow is uncertain. Thus, eBay can expect to meet some debt obligations, but should not take on too much leverage. It is also worth mentioning that eBay should use more equity in its capital structure because it is oriented towards long-term growth. Equity will help the company to align its capital structure with the time frame of the investment, which is for the long run.
Jensen and Meckling described an agency problem as the relationship between stockholders and managers and the dilemma that occurs when one employs another to do a job for them. The issue that arises is how can one be sure that the individual employed acts in the best interest of the individual who employs them. An option to ensure that work is done in accordance to performance expectations is to reward the individual who is employed. In looking at shareholder wealth maximization this same concept comes into play. The shareholders hire the CEO or manager to run the business in accordance to their
Agency relationships in a business organization exist between the principal, who are the owners or capital providers of the firm and the management, who form the agents. To avert conflict between the agents, the management should seek to fulfill the duties and responsibilities vested upon them by the principal. However, management actions may lead to agency costs, which may be excessive or unnecessary emanating from the agency conflict. The agency costs may entail excessive remunerations to self, neglect of duty, empire building by the management, pursuit of sales growth at the expense of shareholder wealth or profits, inadequate investment of corporate resources in potentially profitable ventures at the expense of the shareholders, assigning excessive perks to self, manipulation of dividend policy rather than wealth creation, and employee welfare objectives.
DICK’S Sporting Goods, an American sporting goods retailer, was founded in 1948 by a young but up-and-coming 18-year-old Dick Stack. Upon being rejected from presenting his new idea by the owner of the Army surplus store he worked at, Dick received a $300 loan from his grandmother and blossomed that investment into much of the product line you examine today when visiting a DICK’S sporting goods location. As of today, Ed Stack, Dick’s son, is the current CEO and Chairman of the company. In addition to Ed, he and his siblings have purchased the store from their father and are responsible for the drastic expansion from just two stores to a comprehensive chain of over 600 store locations. Behind
For the agency cost, the internal problem in between managers and shareholders will affect the operation of the company. The problem between headquarters (CEO) and department managers are mostly reflect in operation of company, including managers rent-seeking activities, influence activities, power struggle. Inefficient in internal capital markets are often caused by this layer of
Most construction professional have no experience in law, but they at least need to have a clear understanding of their work involving contract construction. There not always gone be a time were professional will have time to consult lawyers on construction and bid contracts. When it comes down to bidding and contract bargaining the heat on construction professional is blistering. Profit is mostly the reason for bidding on a contract. To become successful in bidding a construction company has to have a great background for great work and prodigious completion timing. Some construction company bid for no profit when there company have been inactive for a while. They do it to keep their company up and running smoothly. To start a bid, a contractor must first prepare a bid packet. The first step in preparation is a cost estimate. The cost estimate should include material, labor, equipment, and subcontract costs. Then it is a must to add an additional amount for float and profit.
Ivanovic Djukic and Predic (2010) show that exceptionally valuable measure is the code of corporate administration that permits stakeholders to perform agreeing their privileges and energizes straightforwardness of the topmost supervisors (Predic and Ivanovic–Djukic, 2010). Hence, in the research paper, we are going to explain and discourse about the approach taken to solve the ethical concerns or conflict amid shareholders and firm managers known as agency problem or conflict.
The organization that I currently work for is one of the largest department store retailers in America. With over 850 stores spread accross the entire country and an impressive online presence, there are many moving parts. Robbins and Judge (2015) remind us that "an organization 's size significantly affects its structure" (Robbins & Judge 2015, pg. 450). The structure of my company is a traditional bureaucracy. It is highly mechanistic with formal rules and regulations, narrow spans of control, high degrees of specialization and decision making that follows a chain of command (Robbins and Judge 2015). I am an Assistant Store Manager and report to the Store Manager and the District Vice President. There are 89 districts in my organization all with the same exact structure. The DVP reports to the Regional Director of Stores, who has a functional team very similar to the district team but at the Regional level. There are 8 regions in the country. The RDOSs report to the Chief Stores Officer who as a member of the Executive Committee reports directly to the CEO. There is a pyramid for nearly every function in the organization with established procedures for interactions between them.
Economic science teaches us that due to their subjective needs, individuals have subjective preferences, and hence different interest. Occasionally different subjective interests give rise to conflicts of interest between contracting partners. These conflicts of interest may result in turn, in one or both parties undertaking actions that may be against the interest of the other contracting partner. The primary reason for the divergence of objectives between managers and shareholders has been attributed to separation of ownership (shareholders) and control (management) in corporations. As a consequence, agency problems
QANTAS, one of the world’s oldest airline was founded in November 16, 1920 in Queensland. The company is registered in the name of Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services Limited (QANTAS). It is the tenth best airline in the world which ranked seventh in the category of world’s best business class airlines and fourth in world’s best inflight entertainment in 2015 (Platt, 2015). Starting with the small biplane which had capabilities of transporting only two passengers, the company has now advance and luxurious Airbus with capabilities of carrying 500 passengers around half way of the world in a single day. It employees over 30,000 people and collects about $1.6 billions of revenue in a year. ("Qantas | All Inclusive Airfares On Australia Pacific 's Best Airline," 2016).
Among stores in Hong Kong, Yaohan, Uny, Jusco, and Seiyu fall into this category. In Japan, these GMS department stores tend to locate in the suburbs, and they have also expanded to medium and smaller cities. Land was much cheaper here, and the Large Store Law initially did not restrict the establishment of large stores in suburbs as much as in city centres. The law was strengthened in 1979, and expansion of the GMS was curtailed. However, because of different location strategies, GMS chains contain many more stores than traditional department stores. They also tend to rely somewhat more heavily on their supermarkets (Table I). To cope with the Large Store Law and spiralling land prices, GMS stores, in particular, have invested heavily in small convenience and small speciality stores. They now own most of the large convenience and speciality retail chains in Japan[6]. Many stores, including Tokyu and Seibu, have also begun diversifying into non-store retailing methods[7]. However, until the Large Store Law was relaxed in 1993, there was little opportunity in Japan to establish large new department stores, with their attached supermarkets. These department store/supermarket complexes are the core business for both the traditional and the GMS