I. INTRODUCTION Mr. Brad Holden is the executive vice president of the family-owned business chain of six branches, Plaza Grocery, in the metropolitan area. Mr. Holden's recently been swamped with problems regarding his employees, specifically the stock employees considering they are paid according to what is stated in the hourly wage rate in the Federal Law. He observed that they are not efficient and effective enough in their jobs, which resulted to empty shelves and slow service most of the time. He also had a hard time in obtaining enough applicants for Plaza Grocery and worse is his employees are doing only the menial level of effort in their jobs. He also noticed that his employees are lacking motivational drives to strive harder …show more content…
This alternative course of action is enough to motivate workers because these concern their families. Brad Holden will have to make records of each employee to check their performance and growth and this environment can create competition among workers. VI. RECOMMENDATION/CONCLUSION Plaza Grocery experiences problems with its employees due to low compensation and lack of incentives. Even after consulting a local expert, the same causes are pointed as the reason for the employees’ poor performance. Given this situation, we recommend the company to apply the second alternative course of action, which is to increase the wage rate and apply an incentive system. The store, having only six branches, can easily increase the wages due to the relatively small number of workers. However, once an increase is implemented in one branch, the same shall be applied in the other branches to emphasize the sense of equity among the employees of all branches. Although this may entail costs for the company, the increase in workers’ productivity may lead to higher sales, providing more revenue. In the long-run, the benefits would outweigh the costs. Although increasing the wage rate may motivate the employees to work harder, it is not enough because it would not always and ultimately lead to the satisfaction of their needs. What the company can do is to adopt an incentive system. The incentives the
As a manager the three motivational methods that should be used would be to provide monetary incentives, employee recognition, and training incentives. Monetary incentives are one method that can be used by a leader or a manager in his or her workplace, these incentives is to reward an employee for his or her outrageous work-related performance. These incentives may include such as profit-sharing within the company, stock options, performance bonuses, and scheduled bonuses. These different types of monetary incentives can increase the motivation of its workers and can lead to more productive, less absenteeism, and may improve one’s quality of service. Monetary incentives when awarded to one employee may also be a morale booster can also encourage other workers to improve his or her work performance, and maintain a healthy, friendly, positive work environment. A healthy workplace is a product of a successful and productive work environment. Working in this kind of economy, monetary incentives is the excellent method to use. However, these incentives may persuade others and may not to some; the result will be the same, increased quality work
The workers of Tesco PLC are interested in the level of profit which is due to workers would want to receive a higher wage, incentives and more flexible work hours. So, the workers will feel motivated to do better among all the other workers. As this could lead to a promotion to move up in their career at Tesco PLC. The workers would want to be working in clean and safe environments and that their job at Tesco PLC is secure. Therefore, from this the level of profit is important as this can be reinvested for the higher wages or can be reinvested into the store to fix any issues. For example, more cleaners in case of a hygiene issue.
It is clearly that the company is experiencing some growth; however, the management needs to find a solution to solve the arising issue where their employees are lacking of motivation in their job. However, the executive team’s decision to raise pay rates for its customer service staff and the vested profit-sharing plan does not improve the employees’ work performance or customers’ satisfaction.
According to the National Employment Law Project (NELP), one benefit an increased wage would bring would be an improvement in overall productivity resulting in a reduced turnover rate for the company (NELP, n.d.). It makes an employee want to come to work and perform at an optimal level if they are being paid well. Basically, the more we are paid, the better we want to perform and the more we will show up for work. Job satisfaction plays a huge role in an employee’s willingness to commit to a company. If we are satisfied with our employer and the pay, chances are we are going to remain with that employer. That is why this would ultimately reduce the employee turnover rates of companies. Good pay is an extremely important factor in job satisfaction. Some
Increasing the wage for all employees will cost a lot of money for employers. Business will be faced with two decisions, either “raise their prices”, or “simply cut employees or reduce benefits” (Williams). If they choose to raise up prices, then there will be no benefit for the increase of wage. Employees will get an increase in wage, but so is prices of almost everything. And if businesses choose to cut employees and benefits, then the number of unemployment could possibly arise, and the benefits such as paid vacations and PTO, can be easily get demolished.
2. Company Q's management should announce to their employees that they will be choosing "Employee of The Month" and which ever employee is picked for each month will receive a generous raise, as well as have their picture posted at the front of the store for the entire month, and this will give Company Q's employees more of an insentive to display honest, hard working behavior, and help eliminate the issue of employee theft.
This Story takes place in 1961, in a small New England town 's “A&P” grocery store. Sammy, the narrator, is introduced as a grocery checker and an observer of the store 's patrons. He finds himself fascinated by a particular group of girls. Just in from the beach and still in their bathing suits, they are a stark contrast, to the otherwise plain store interior. Though it takes place over the period of a few minutes, it represents a much larger process of maturation. From the time the girls enter the grocery store, to the moment they leave, you can see changes in Sammy. At first, he sees only the physicality of the girls: how they look and what they are wearing, seem to be his only observations. It fascinates Sammy because he has never seen any girls like that come into the store especially Queenie. As they go about their errands, Sammy observes the reactions, of the other customers, to this trio of young women. Sammy wants to get out and do what teenagers do while on summer break and not just work in their parents store. In “A&P”, the social class and society expectations come hand in hand depending on the symbols throughout the story, in fact it allows the readers to get a full understanding of what went on in Sammy 's “World”.
Referring to the section under “The Transition”, Stayer asked his employees what the ends are for the employee’s work, with the most common responses being job security, compensation and rewarding job, Stayer comes to notice that all these ends revolve around performance (Roberts, 1993, p. 6). If the workers maintain a high performance, resulting in higher customer satisfaction, then there will be a less likely chance of contract cancellation. Therefore lowering the issue of the thirty day contract cancellation, forcing Johnsonville Sausage Company to let go its workers. Compensation will also increase due to performance of workers. Johnsonville has the Capital Expansion Plan with a twenty-five percent increase. This acceptance of the Palmer Sausage Offer will create more hours for the employees and increase job responsibilities for most, which was a problem for workers who did not receive an increase due to lack of responsibilities (p. 11). This reflects Johnsonville Sausage Company's strong culture, where they highly value employees obtaining more responsibilities in their work environment (Robbins et all, p,
Publix Super Market. Describe the type of business market, its business share, financials, size and global presence.
This would not only be advantageous for the employer but also the employee since it would result in higher wages. Due to this, the worker’s level of motivation and drive to do better would escalate leading to overall productivity of the organization (Salimath and Jones, 2011, p.88).
However, for candy company offering a 50% bonus to assembly line workers is an action of rewarding and how successful is their managerial function on organizing, planning, staffing, and leading. By, Schuman and how he learned to dream up an ideas, it represents how the process of carrying out and how manager motivates and
Organizations that are committed to retaining good workers must also provide adequate compensation that allows employees to feel the organization cares about their needs. In order for Wal-Mart to remain competitive they must offer a compensation package that employees feel is fair and comparable to other organizations. If employees feel that the organization does not care or place any value on their individual needs employees may not remain with the organization and/or adapt the desired behaviors the organization requires, to provide superior customer service.
This paper is a company analysis on Giant Hypermarket Malaysia in general, but specifically focusing on Giant Hypermarket Sabah. Giant Hypermarket is a major supermarket and retailer chain in Malaysia. It is a subsidiary of Dairy Farm International Holdings (DFI) and is headquartered in Shah Alam, Selagor. In this paper, firstly we focus our analysis in identifying the Strength-Weaknesses-Opportunities-Threats (SWOT) of Giant; in addition, we constructed a SWOT Matrix for Giant where we identified the SO, ST, WO and WT strategies, which we think Giant should apply to improve their competitiveness. Next we focus our analysis on the external as well as the internal analysis on Giant. In the external analysis, we center our
Grocery Gateway would like to increase their deliveries from 2.7 to 4 per hour. Dominique Van Voorhis, vice president of industrial engineering and operations systems, must provide recommendations for improving and optimizing the delivery operations.
An incentive pay program can reward employees who continue to produce superior work or encourage employees who already produce good work to best. Sometimes, use an incentive system when employees are lack of enthusiasm of getting down to work and improving things. If everyone in the same job classification gets the same pay, there is no real incentive to do an outstanding job (French, 1990). Various incentive plans used to motivate all employees such as production staff, sales staff, administrative staff and managerial and professional staff on an individual basis. To be improved employee work performance, the incentive pay programs need to be fairly matched with the employees’ expectation. Properly designed and maintained incentive pay program has the potential to increase employees’ productivity and work performance.