Hrm 531 Week 4 Case Study Mid Town

3. What new retail concepts can you identify? How might you learn about more? What strategies do you suggest for learning about new retail concepts?

List your current source(s) of income (e.g., salary from job, interest from savings, alimony/child support, even parents)

BIG FLATS (WENY) - Imagine being able to market, develop and sell your business idea all within just a few years. Better yet, imagine being able to get the help and support to do so, right here in the Southern Tier. Well, that's what the area's newest business incubator, IncubatorWorks, is trying to do.

I graduated high school back in 1994. I was engaged to be married in just two years, and even though I joined the Pennsylvania Air National Guard right after graduation it was only one weekend a month and two weeks out of the year. So I needed a full-time job. A friend of the family knew a guy who was opening a second store, and was going to need a store manager. I took the job and got started. What I didn’t know was the guy I was just hired to work for was a little confused as to what he wanted. I hung onto the job for a little over a year hoping it would turn around but, no dice.

According to Schutt (2008), sampling is defined as a subset of population used in a study to be a representation of the population as a whole. My final project is a pre-hire assessment which analyzes potential risky pattern behaviors and emotions in the work place. One of the most important considerations related to sampling that will need to be addressed in my final project is defining the population that will be taking the assessment.

Our company’s Continuity Management Program (CMP) dictates that the business adheres to an annual testing program. The program does utilize the guidelines from the Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program (HSEEP). The Continuity Management team has written and scripted into our process to incorporate our Tabletop Exercise’s (TTX’s). Our annual process is to test each of our business units for resiliency. TTX’s allows for us to open up discussions and dialogues focusing on many different areas in the event we need to declare. Also, the exercises aid in discovering any gaps and working through each tier of the recovery process. Our business lines have Recovery Time Objectives (RTO’s) starting at 1 hour up to 72 hours. During the TTX’s we cover the business impact analysis (BIA’s ) and each of the RTO’s.

I hope that everyone had a great weekend! There are a few things that have been causing issues with completing assignments. So going forward we all need to be following the same procedures as follows:

Even though not everyone on the team completed their tasks by the due date time, but we all managed to complete this week assignment. Keyna did not to complete her assigned tasks on time because she did not receive all the materials she needed to complete her tasks. This is due to Rashaad having problem adding his document to Google Docs. We only communicate via emails; meeting was not set up for this project. We can't communicate effectively due to time zone limitations.

Team “C” was hired by Riordan Manufacturing management to overhaul the security features currently employed by the company. Management outlined a comprehensive plan that included a complete hardware refresh, security best practices and end user training. Team “C” will devote resources to assess the physical and network security issues and concerns at each Riordan plant. Once those have been identified, Team “C” will identify the data security issues and concerns present at each Riordan plant. Finally, Team “C” will address web security issues and concerns present at each Riordan plant and recommend a way forward for the company.

Lydell brings fifteen years of sales and sales management experience to the team, and the executives have tasked him with increasing the sales force productivity and name recognition throughout the three-market area by using the newest technology brought to the company the electron beam tomography scanner. Obviously, bringing a new person on board comes with challenges; however, I believe hiring a sales manager will be a huge asset to the organization. Lydell spent his first month with the company spending time with the sales representatives, he spent a day with each of them making sales calls and trying to understand why the productivity was low. Upon reaching the sixth representative, Cindy Minnis, he already had a clear idea of how to increase productivity by the answers given to him when he asked his sales representatives about their workday, and Cindy’s answers were no different from the rest of the employees. Some of the issues that Lydell could conclude about his team by the answers to the questions he asked were poor time management skills, no training, lack of communication or feedback, and not a clear territory for each

wondered what changes he would have to make to the meeting, the organization, and the product

Week four at Wild Dunes began on Sunday with three evening shifts 3-11PM. Sunday, the 31st was extremely slow with very few arrivals. I was able to concentrate on one of my goals – mastering the complex computer system. Being the perfectionist that I am, it is frustrating when I feel as though I haven’t mastered a skill so I’m working on that aspect of my personality. Since the shift was so slow, I was released early on this Sunday as there were no arrivals due in at the late hours.

3.     What major problems might you encounter with your new sales force structure as it relates to both external factors (customers) and internal factors (employee reactions)?

Getting NAKED is a fascinating book. The part that the Patrick Lencioni goes over the three fears is what appeals me the most. One of the major take away that I got from the book is to let go the fear of losing business. In Bay Area, we have huge amount of competitors which has different philosophy and process. In addition to that, our sales staffs are also fear to lose business to our competitors. First of all, I believe that we have the greatest process compare to others. Also we have an excellent location and inventory to make good business. The potential approaches to enhance our sales team is to always provide a reliable service rather than focus on pricing strategy, and to give away good business information and process. Unfortunately,

You work as a Trainee Associate at a retail store. You need to prepare the products for sale. Identify the actions that you will perform to accomplish the desired task.