Introduction
NutriGrow is a Canadian owned and operated agricultural company, currently operating in the province of Manitoba. The organization has been in business for 60 years and has experienced relatively slow growth, until the introduction of a new product, which turned out to be great success to large agri-businesses. Based on the new products’ success, NutriGrow has made a strategic decision to market this product internationally, with the expectation of increase business activity over the next decade. With the expectation of increase business, management has assigned the payroll department with the task of implementing payroll best practices in order to transform into an efficient high performance team.
The payroll
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One is an in-house system used by payroll to process employees’ pay and the other is a HRIS system used by Human Resources to store employee’s information. Because, the two systems are not integrated, mandatory employee information must be manually entered in both systems. Transferring of employees hire documents from one department to another could be missed, lost, or received late this can cause an employee to be paid incorrectly, or not paid at all. Consequently, if plant employees are not paid correctly, and on time, there is potential for a grievance payouts as a result of non-compliance with the union collective agreement. Since payroll’s goal is to expand their role in the organization, any issues with an employee’s pay would weaken their credibility.
There is no documentation of any payroll processes or procedures. The absence of documented procedures can cause confusion, inefficiencies, and may result in failure to meet deadlines not only within the payroll department but also for other area of the organizations that require information from the payroll department.
There is also no continuity plan in place; in the event of calamity, without a set procedure, employees may not be paid.
Currently there are over 700 employees all of which are paid by cheques printed on a bi-weekly basis. Manual cheque printing is neither cost nor time efficient. Payroll direct deposit can significantly reduce the production, administration and
The purpose of this report is to discuss the effectiveness of the internal procedures used to administrate the payroll function and provide information to other stakeholders
Managers – Require staff who can fulfill their job role efficiently and meet performance targets.
To conclude, our current way of agricultural life is not sustainable. The article “What’s for supper” has made me realize that if I hope for a better future for generations to come I should support a locally sourced lifestyle. This article is an eye opener to me and proved to me the importance of supporting locally grown produce. Locally grown produce supports the environment as well as jobs for people in the community. The current system takes a toll on every species on the planet. Humans are overproducing on a massive scale and are wasting close to half of our supplies and
Challenges: Although it has highly integrated payroll partnerships, it is the only vendor in this evaluation to not offer payroll administration as a native part of its application. SuccessFactors a high energy offering; though it may be intimidating to more traditional HRIS users. Corporate wide training and cultural adjustments will be required to get employees, managers, and HR professionals collaborating through the
The Firm offers direct deposit of paychecks as a convenience to our employees. Participation in direct deposit is voluntary. Direct deposit forms can be obtained from your supervising Partner or the Firm Administrator.
This release explains how NutraCea, a company based out of Phoenix, Arizona that manufactures and sells health food products, was involved in a very
Sunflower Nutraceuticals is a privately owned company that is a wide distributor providing numerous dietary supplements for customers, distributors, and retailers (University of Phoenix, 2013). After starting the business in 2006 as an internet based company, SNC expanded operations into retail outlets as well as introducing some new private labeled products. Although SNC has the potential to grow into one of the major nutraceutical distributors in the industry, the company still struggles to break even. On more than one occasion SNC has been forced to exceed the company’s credit line of $1,000,000 to finance payroll and other
Introduction: The author is a trainer in the food industry and will refer to themselves throughout this assignment as the author or the trainer.
For the sole purpose of the economical benefits, Hu’s Kitchen should continue to sell almond milk because it provides numerous jobs in the United States. In fact, over one hundred thousand jobs in California, are created from the almond industry (Fujii, 2014). Every year, the state’s almond industry supplies eleven billion dollars to California’s gross domestic product (Kasler, n.d.). In addition to the gross domestic product, the almond industry generates twenty one billion dollars in economic revenue (Sauer, 2014). Due to the fact that California produces eighty percent of the world’s almonds, this industry requires farmers to keep up with the demand from the consumers. Thus, over eight hundred thousand acres of farmland are used to produce the almonds, as seventy percent of the almonds are exported overseas (Pierson,
Managers – Require staff who can fulfill their job role efficiently and meet performance targets.
Failure to manage a payroll effectively may cause many problems for the company and its employees. It could mean loss of money, integrity, and trust between both parties.
Nutri-Kohl has a goal of expanding its operations in the areas of Miami Beach such as South Beach within one year. The objective is to promote its product to local restaurants, night clubs, bars and gyms in the area. This is a nationally and globally renowned area for its nightlife, health conscious crowd, art deco design and outdoor activities (Miami Beach vs South Beach, n.d.). The variety of local businesses and the constant flow of tourists, according to Miami New Times it reached 14.6 million tourists visit in 2014 and all the money they spend (Munzenrieder, 2015), would increase the chances of Nutri-Kohl developing name recognition and interest of the public and hopefully increased revenue.
When Abbott lab comes to delivering innovative solutions to the people that they serve, they explore every path to a breakthrough. Abbot Lab strives to carry out their mission of advancing global health. Abbot’s diverse businesses enable them to offer vast solutions to people worldwide during every stage of life and enable them to live not just longer but better. Nutrition from infants to the elderly, are offed to make every stage of life a healthy one. Abbot’s broad line of products, like Similac, Ensure, Glucerna, PediaSure, EAS and ZonePerfect, provide people with a variety of health conditions with the nutrients they need to thrive. This commitment to enhancing health and well-being at every stage of life has made Abbot a leading nutrition
This Journal relates to the Trent Market Garden event with Adam McLaughlin. TMG is a student run enterprise on a farm that specifies in growing fresh and healthy foods which are locally supplied and distributed at Trent University and with the Peterborough community. Other than the TMG locally supplying and
The customer is a main thing from the business, without customer, the business will not run. As an entrepreneur, we have to observe what the needs of the customers become. When we think about societal changes, recognize that the customer’s needs and wants evolve, with that evolution there is an opportunity for the emergence of new ventures started by entrepreneurs, we also want to anticipate societal change and recognize that entrepreneurs who anticipate such changes are going to play a more successful role in entering and growing and scaling their new ventures in these space (Green, 2015, p. 70). Nowadays, people more concern about their health, they start to exercise and consume the health foods. New Zealand has struggling to reduce the obesity in adults and children. Based on these conditions, we can evaluate the needs, wants and fears of the customer. Health and good food become the answer to solving the problem that customer face like the risk of serious health conditions that causing by eating habit of bad foods. With hydroponic products, people can try to alter their consumption through foods to get a healthier life and longer life expectancy. The target market is household, hotels and restaurants, the community of vegan and vegetarian people, pregnant women who want to keep the pregnancy health and to people who more recognize about make healthy meals as a lifestyle to become stay health.