Case Study: The Container Store

My past place of employment had a high level of excellence and a high level of trust. I was employed at this facility for 11 wonderful years. The upper management was involved with all of the employees and remained available for employees for with any concerns and they had encouraged communication. A new manager was hired on my unit and she had earned the trust of the staff rather quickly. Trust was obtained by working alongside the staff, assisting with tasks, and maintaining effective communication. The manager’s expectations were clearly identified and ideas provided by the staff were valued. Although meetings were held in a professional manner, nurses felt they were able to discuss concerns and feelings, freely. When managers openly

Every action a person takes is the result of having thought about what it is they think they should do and then doing it. Life is riddled with problems that require solving. Decisions are complex matters that require careful judgment and problem analysis especially when one is in a role where others look up to them and are affected by their decisions.

As a senior at Summit-Academy North high school, I am required to participate in a job shadow with a professional in the line of work that I am interested in pursuing. On April 13th, I visited Flat Rock Physicians and completed my job shadow experience with one of the doctors that worked there, her name was Dr.Fretz. I was the only student shadowing her that say. While I was there I observed her as she completed her tasks as a family doctor. The reason why I chose to shadow Dr.Fretz is because I plan on going into a career in the medical field and I want to do something that'll give me the chance to help people when they need it and this type of career will give me that opportunity.

In today’s rapidly changing business environment, the ability to transform obstacles into opportunities can be a firm’s biggest advantage (Samašonok & Leškienė, 2015). As organizations recognize the need to be adaptable, creativity in the workplace has become one of the most important determinants of performance and success (Anderson, Potočnik & Zhou, 2014). To date, even though creativity has been linked to firm performance and survival (Nystrom, 1990), many managers admit that employees have “room to improve” in terms of creativity (Shalley, 2004).

Google, Inc. is a corporation that is known for innovation and amazing leadership practices. Google’s greatest innovation may actually be its managerial practice. Google is not led by a single CEO, but by a team that gives it immense strategic and management strength. (Nussbaum, n.d.) Engineers at Google are able to work on their ongoing projects 4 days out of the 5 day work week, and one day a week is designated for potential ideas of their own choice. (Sawyer, 2009) Google has innovation reviews, where each executive presents the most promising ideas from within his own division. The CEO is at these innovation reviews to listen to these innovative ideas. Another way to ensure that some of these ideas have the opportunity to be developed is to allow the engineers to work on these ideas for more than one day a week and in some cases full time. Allowing time to be creative and develop ideas is embracing the art of innovation and

On 12/22/16 when returning to work I Ren Oldaker Loss Prevention Manager for Sportsman's Warehouse was alerted to a known theft subject (Case # Kt 16-20-234) that was in the store and was acting suspicious while in here. I went back and reviewed film and found the following:

The Kelley warehouse is located on the corner of Dylan Avenue and Fitzgerald Street in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Mr. Kelley provided a map of the warehouse showing a fence, “No Trespassing” signs, and a padlocked gate. On the south side of the warehouse, a ramp connects the loading dock and the parking lot. The ramp is thirty feet long, twelve feet wide, and rises to five feet.

The essay I believe that demonstrated my best work is essay number 4.In that essay I was able to express myself and share my believe with my reader. I was able to provide concrete evidences that support my claim. In my mind that essay could change someone's opinion on how they view the public school system. There were some minor grammatical errors in the essay but over the essay was excellent.

At this internship I have been able to apply my scholarly knowledge to my working experience. The main classes that have helped me in this work experience is Career in Professional Development I & II, Business Ethnics, Management of Organizations, Principles of Marketing, Financial Accounting, and Managerial Accounting.

It is known that when an organization is undergoing a significant change, the ability for employee’s innovation and creativity is also paramount to the organizational success. In fact, when attributed ethically and effectively innovation detracts alienation and inter-group hostility (West & Altink, 1996). Therefore, to assist the manufacturing

On December 14, 2015, AP closed an internal merchandise theft at the Bay Rockland store for a value of $3,711. Information was received that the licensee associate received a large no receipt return and the investigation revealed that several other similar refunds had been received by the same associate. It was also discovered that this associate worked at Anjou store. During live surveillance the associate was observed to take 3 pieces of merchandise into the fitting and later no merchandise came out but believed to be in her bag. Parcel check was completed by AP and the 3 items were found inside of her bag. The associate admitted to several thefts at the Anjou store plus these 3 items at Rockland.

All were a lot great ideas during the day of presentations; however there were a few that stood out to me the most that had the most viable business concepts. The first one I will be talking about will be Shooter’s Warehouse. Shooter’s Ware house stood out to me because it was something new and exciting and I never been to or seen anything like it before. But it wasn’t because it was new there was a lot of thought of that really pushed it into being a viable business concept. The team really hit what Kawasaki called the “Sweet Spot”(AOS pg9). It was obvious that members of the team had good expertise and love for the sport of soccer and wanted it to be more relevant in the city of Detroit so they hit that right on the dot. Secondly Passion

Tammie, designing jobs is a continuous process. Job design determines the tasks that employees are expected to perform. The role of job design generates engagement. An efficiency approach to job design enables companies to maximize contributions toward a competitive advantage. A challenge involved in job design is “choosing which job design feature to alter to achieve the design goal” (Shantz, Alfes, Truss, & Soane, 2013).

Job characteristics model is one of a job design models. It refers to the relation of motivational mechanism to the job characteristics and organisation outcomes. Hackman and Oldham (1976) developed job characteristics model. The model leads to high motivation, high job satisfaction and low employee turnover, under the right circumstances of five dimensions. These are skill variety, task identify, task significance, autonomy and job feedback (McShane, Olekalns, & Travaglione, 2013, p. 185). The five dimensions impacts employee motivation and satisfaction through three critical psychological states: experienced meaningfulness, experienced responsibility and knowledge of results. Moreover, individual differences also influence job motivation, thus job design does not increase work motivation for employee in every condition (McShane, Olekalns, & Travaglione, 2013, p. 185). Additionally, job characteristics model may encourage positive attitudes and increase work productivity by enhancing jobs and the five dimensions (Bacha, 2014, p. 412).

Amabile, T. M. & Khaire, M. 2008, “Creativity and the role of the leader”, Harvard business review, vol. 86, no. 10, pp. 100.