Tanglewood Case Study #1 Nellie J. Harris HRM594-Strategic Staffing Mr. Perrone, I am responding to your request to review Tanglewood’s staffing decisions currently in place. After reviewing Tanglewood’s 39 year history as well as current and potential competitors, I have reviewed the 13 sections per your request. Each recommendation is based on Tanglewood’s mission and values. Tanglewood is a 39 year old company looking to expand its’ organization while still maintaining its’ core values. Tanglewood believes in running its’ stores with a “strong base of employee satisfaction, customer satisfaction, and profitability” (Kammeyer-Mueller, 2012). Tanglewood must set itself apart from companies such as Kohl’s and Target. …show more content…
National or Global Tanglewood’s goal is to be a market leader. To achieve this goal Tanglewood’s focus at this time needs to be to improve its’ national presence first. Tanglewood has 243 stores throughout the United States, from Washington State to Arizona. Tanglewood finding a global company with workers who operate on the same value system, where it is not impossible, it could potentially be a costly and time consuming endeavor at this time. Operating and optimizing domestic personnel is the best option for Tanglewood at this time. Attract or Relocate Tanglewood wants to be successful. Tanglewood needs to establish locations closer to their distributors and attract higher quality applicants at their current locations. Regional managers have a limited background in Human Resources (HR) within 12 regions. Training should be provided for managers to keep them knowledgeable of new policies and guidelines for efforts in attracting new employees. Tanglewood managers should attempt to attract employees with or pursuing higher-education to ensure the growth of the company. Overstaff or Understaff Tanglewood at this time should implement understaffing at their locations. In today’s economic climate and to avoid potential layoffs in the future understaffing is the best option. The option to adjust staffing levels, region to region, through increasing employee overtime or bringing in short-term flexible staff if the market demands, will remain
Tanglewood has organizational plans to staff open store associate positions on an ongoing, continuous basis. The first stage staffing plans must take into consideration is recruiting from the labor market. Tanglewood management team must clearly consider the different methods available as well as the associated cost benefits of each. This case study will provide Tanglewood with a recruitment guide for its open store associate position, describe the best targets for its recruitment, estimate the yields and costs of each method, and finally offer proposed recruiting messages. The organizational date provided was used to determine what Tanglewood’s best method for recruiting are.
Every business in the global market has to have some sort of staffing strategy in order to be successful. Tanglewood Retail store is one of the big and puplor retailers among 12 regions locally and ovbersees. After I examined the report that you provide me with, I have analyized the stafffing strategy decisions as below with my recommindiation.
Tanglewood is known for its culture and philosophy to provide the best work environment and customer service in the retail industry. Tanglewood also prides itself on allowing employees to grow and develop through its management training programs; however, it is essential for Tanglewood’s current HR staff and executive management team to be particularly aware of the statistical numbers of its management staff and to
Northern Oregon also uses Media recruitment; applicants are 2686, Kiosk 3896, and Agency Recruitment 1290. The overall rate is Media at 41%, Kiosk at 43% and Agency of 48%. Cost per set up; Media at $10,000, Kiosk at $40,000 and Agency of $50,000.
Contact local colleges to notify them of available positions and see if they know of any students looking for employment
“The human resource planning process, demands the HR manager to first understand the business requirement. Only if he comprehends the nature and scope of the business, will he be able to employ those who will deliver the required performance. When it comes to engaging the
Even though Tanglewood has a niche in the market the organization should still be able to attract a qualified workforce. Tanglewood is in the retail industry, which doesn’t require specified or task specific workforce. The workers and managers are pretty much the same as any other worker or manager in any other department store around the country; the only different is can they adhere to the corporate policies and procedures of Tanglewood.
With reference to Exhibit 1.7 in the textbook, I think that of the staffing quantity and staffing quality strategies listed; that developing talent, internal hiring, and exceptional workforce quality are the fundamental strategies to implement. By utilizing these differentiation strategies, Tanglewood would continue its strong culture. Tanglewood must differentiate themselves from their competition; companies like Target and Kohl’s. Tangelwood can accomplish this by having the best staff that delivers a positive experience their customers, thus, making their store standout from their competitors. These strategies will help maintain a positive work atmosphere and build a strong relationship among
Boxall, P and Purcell, J (2011), The Goals of Human Resource Management, Strategy and Human Resource Management, 3rd Edition, Palgrave Macmillan, New York, pp. 1-36.
After consulting the service and sales managers and review the political, economic, social and technological business environment, these are the HR needs and recommendations:
9. What challenges face HR managers with regard to workforce availability and quality? What are potential
In order to centralize the human resource department Tanglewood should look into outsourcing their hiring. It can help the business a competitive
Inaash (a Lebanese non-profit organization that supports the Palestinian refugees) has created jobs for thousands women in camps through the production of Palestinian embroidery products. Although the organization had made significant achievements—from supporting refugees to offering medical help to elderly and sponsoring children’s education—major changes in its environment have resulted to diminishing sales and increased dependence on donations. As a result, Inaash’s
Assume that one of Philip’s clients is a married man, aged 36 with two young children, who wishes to reallocate a significant portion of his retirement funds that are currently invested in certificates of deposit. Philip recommends a growth investment, and he identifies the three representative possibilities shown in Table A.
is still growing and needs to hire more employees. For the future, do you have any suggestions for Mr. Zheng about employee qualifications and training sessions?...........................................................................................................8