Overview
Established in 1985, was a small, family-owned floral company, known as The Garden Depot, located in Barrie, Ontario. By 2007, The Garden Depot operated a successful 12,000 square-foot retail store, a law maintenance division and, a landscaping division. Due to the nature of the gardening business, The Garden Depot’s sales fluctuated with seasonal demands. An important individual and key player in the business is Janice Bowman. After thirteen years of service with one of The Garden Depot’s competitor’s, Bowman was offered a position at The Garden Depot in 2005. In March 2006, Bowman became the office manager, which included tasks such as inventory management, computer oriented individual who would go to great lengths to ensure
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If The Garden Depot wants to be more efficient, the company needs to hire more qualified and knowledge staff, so that Bowman can focus all attention on her own tasks that need to be completed. A discovery was made by Bowman when reviewing a time card that was filled in by a landscaper, named Jayme Strong. His time card seemed to propose the idea that he had been doing other jobs on the side, instead of completing the landscaping jobs that he was deployed to. When Bowman had spoken to Sinclair about this issue, he told her that he had approved it and that it was not a big deal. Bowman then discovered that those individuals, in whom he had done work for, were not being billed; Strong may have been taking the money into his own possession. This was unacceptable, as Strong had been completing these tasks during working hours, instead of on his own time.
Actions and Alternatives Actions and alternatives are important when choosing how to deal with problems in The Garden Depot. Three processes that would help to solve problems in the landscaping division include: hiring a qualified and knowledgeable manager who has experience in the landscaping industry, Moving Sinclair down to a lower position or, organizing for Sinclair to take management classes and participate in programs. A process that would help to solve the problems in the landscaping division, would be to hire a new manager that is knowledgeable when helping
3. Conflict management: - speak to the person first, then if not resolved speak to the manager
* Talk to employees 1 on 1 get to know them see what they feel can be improved, get their input and
I write to advise you that I am resigning as Vice President Corps Relations AFGE Local 953, effective 5:00 PM Thursday, May 4, 2017. It has been my honor to serve the men and women who work diligently with the Army Corps of Engineers “ACOE”. These past three years have educated me in labor relations, and I am appreciative of the fact that Mr. Howard “Dave” Gassett saw fit to reach out and appoint me in 2014. Mr. Gassett mentored and advised me and for that I will be forever grateful.
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• Weed out poor managers. Dissatisfied workers dislike poor management. Act quickly to preserve your credibility in the workforce. Remember the law of procrastination. “No matter how long you ignore a problem employee, his or her behaviour will not improve-act now!”