...Mongolian Grill Operations Case Analysis Management of Organizations COMM1006E-02 Executive Summary John Butkus is set to open his second Mongolian Grill in just over a month, to be located in Waterloo, Ontario. Mr. Butkus who currently owns another Mongolian Grill in London, Ontario is debating if he should change the current floor plan for the Waterloo location after observing wait times in London. A design that would allow for customers to eat faster without taking away experience as well as a design that would increase total profit. Mr. Butkus has many potential design options to choose from. Choices must be made to include one additional food prep area which includes a food bar and sauce, oil, and spice bar. Whether or not to centralize the location of the grill which would add more counter space. He could also choose to only include one of the features above or none at all. Lastly Mr. Butkus could hire a firm that specializes in restaurant design so that an optimal design is used. After examination based on the London’s location wait times it is advised that Mr. Butkus put in both the additional food prep area and the extra counter space. This recommendation will allow for the restaurant to reduce wait times, which will increase turnover rates as more customers can be seated on a nightly bases. Financially this option does not cost much as the purchase and installation is rather cheap and only two additional workers will be needed to cover the busy periods (Thursday...
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...team, he also has problems adjusting to a stable life after retirement. Likewise, retirement is proven to be a tragedy because the linebacker Dick Butkus in the article, “The Last Angry Man” struggles to adjust to a new life after retiring. A linebacker is defined in the article as “’rare human beings who appreciate being called animals’” (sjs). It is dehumanizing for someone to describe a human in such a manner however these words are praised by linebackers showcasing the type of environment that linebackers reside in. Living in a jungle like environment for most of your life doesn’t prepare one for society because you are not exposed to real life situations. Most of his interactions are to the point, moreover, the article introduces Butkus by saying, ‘“Good lord, Butkus the wimp’” (sjs)? This is staged as a rhetorical question, or used to show disbelief because Butkus was never portrayed as a wimp in his life. However, it is evident that he is only questioned once he leaves his post as a linebacker. He is referred to as a “’restless and caged animal”’ (sjs) implying that he is in a setting that he may not be familiar with, the cage that he is in represents the effects that retirement has on him, and continues to play a role on him post-retirement. While one may think that the post retirement phase comes with a luxurious life, Butkus was seen as ‘“a casualty of Hotel California”’ (sjs) proving that he resides in hotels, and does not have a stable home. The retirement has also taken...
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...has been instructed to help advice on a business case involving a restaurant, The Mongolian Grill. Its owner, John Butkus, is contemplating renovations, in hopes of adding capacity and increasing revenue. There are several scenarios that are available to him. One option is to add an extra food bar. The second option is to move the location of the cooking area. He can also implement both options, if he so chooses. Our team has done the appropriate financial calculations, as well as qualitative considerations. Our decision is that Mr. Butkus should choose to implement both options. The additional capacity is definitely needed, and the demand to fill the capacity is also present. We calculated the possible revenue that could be earned under two sections: Low additional demand and High additional Demand. The additional revenue generated in these two scenarios are $42 900 and $31 200, respectively. Also, the in both of these scenarios, the time needed to pay for the cost of the required expansions are less than a year. We have looked at a number of possibilities, both positive and negative, and we feel that this is the best option. There really is no justification to not go through with the changes. They will result in a greater profit, both in the short and long run. Our analysis is included in the following document. Problem Statement John Butkus, owner of the Mongolian Grill restaurant in London Ontario, had to finalize his major design decision for his second...
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...Jackie Robinson is everything a leader should be viewed as. For those of you who do not know of Jackie or his story, it’s quite an amazing one and he displays the utmost highest respect to all of his followers. Jackie Robinson was the first African-American to ever play in the Major Leagues of Baseball. He started his rookie season on April 15, 1947, and went on to thrive breaking the strong color barrier that had been around the Major Leagues since 1876. He not only was the first African America to play baseball but he displayed honor and respect to every person on the field and off the field he came in contact with. His career helped drive the civil rights movement that started in the 1950s and 1960s. Jackie had a way of presenting himself to people no matter what color they were. He was known to be an aggressive man yet only when standing up for his civil rights. He always hated injustice things and would do whatever was in his power to seek out solutions to anything he could. I particular event that occurred and that many people honored were when Jackie was in the army. He had the courage to stand up on the bus and tell the sergeant who wanted him to go to the back of the bus ‘No’. This caused an outrage and Jackie went on to be court-martialed for his guts to fight for civil rights. Jackie was a firm believer in facing his problems head on and he was never an ‘avoider’. Upon most of all Jackie’s success in the Major Leagues, it was mainly because he had the courage and...
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...Simas Butkus E&P STARBUCKS Starbucks is the largest coffeehouse company in the world with lots of stores all around the world and also amazing profits. In this short writing assignment I will try to evaluate this brands philanthropic activity and distinguish strategic philanthropy examples from not so strategic ones. First of all, I would like to mention few strategic philanthropy examples, which were mentioned in the book: * “Since 1992 we have been working with CARE International, a global humanitarian organization, to help alleviate poverty and create long-term solutions (such as sustainable community health services, primary education programs and village banking networks) in coffee-growing communities”. (p. 174) * “Starbucks staff also offered their creative talents to develop new brand identity and marketing materials – something that has helped raise the visibility of the organization”. (p. 168) In my opinion, those citations, quite well illustrating the strategic philanthropy in Starbucks company. First citation is about coffee-growing families who were supported by the Starbucks in order to provide them a highest-quality coffee in the world. In other words, Starbucks are investing in their quality of coffee. The second citation is also a good example how to advertise your brand and have free advertisement by offering for creative talents to develop new brand. In short conclusion, we could say that Starbucks are doing well in strategic philanthropy...
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...Using the modified London Football Association rules each club began changing them. In order that all teams play by the same rules, a group of football club owners got together to form the American Professional Football Conference which was later incorporated as the National Football League. Halas was very instrumental in the development of the NFL and created the “T formation” which became a league standard. The Bears soon began to develop acquiring players like Red Grange and Bronko Nagurski who became two of the best known and most accomplished football players of all time. The Bears played as a team with a well-established winning history. Midway through the 20th Century record breaking players like Sid Luckman, Johnny Lujack, Dick Butkus, Mike Ditka, who later returned to the club and became their winning head coach, Gayle Sayers, Walter Payton, and others. These outstanding athletes and coaches like Ralph Jones, Luke Johnsos and Hunk Anderson, Paddy Driscoll, Jack Pardee, Neill Armstrong, Dick Jauron and Lovie Smith left a legacy that started before the inception of the NFL. Many fans have...
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...will have to struggle and will come into many different problems as they grow older. Having society help with such issues should be an important concern for communities. All schools should encourage each other to implement policies that promote healthy foods in vending machines that are of appropriate sizes. As children are in elementary school’s teachers and staff should she stop giving unhealthy foods as rewards and bring healthier alternatives. This article was focused on children ages from 2-12 throughout the important years. Vending machine companies should be encouraged to change for the better. In the article, “Changes in a Middle School Food Environment Affect Food Behavior and Food Choices”, Wordell, Daratha, Mandal, Bindler, Butkus had all studied to view if schools had changed their food environments as well as the choices provided for middle school students. They had studied 6 different schools and allowed certain foods and beverages at certain schools. For example, 2 out of the 6 middle schools were given bottled water in vending machines. This study overall had a very good response for the comparison between the school food environment and how the student’s behavior changed inside and outside of school for food. School policies are what will make a difference to the great increase of obesity in children. This study provided results that had changed many children’s eating habits. “Encouraging Healthy Beverage Intake in Child Care and School Settings”, Patel and...
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...Training is a process in order to change a human being’s attitude,knowledge,skills and behavior. It can be done internally or externally and it can also be done whilst one is at the job called on-the-job training or out of the job or company premises to be called off- the-job training. Sensitivity training can be defined as a practice that involves small or large group meetings that are organized or held by the company to discuss openly intimate and personal issues and opinions, values or beliefs and or to act out feelings and emotions towards one on other in a group, using techniques of self-confession and mutual criticisms. Sensitivity training is about developing social sensitivity and behavioural flexibility. It is also about making people understand about themselves and others reasonably, which is done by developing in them, social sensitivity and behavioral flexibility. Social sensitivity is the ability of an individual to sense what others feel and think from their own point of view. Behavioral flexibility is the ability to behave suitably in line of understanding. Sensitivity Training involves three stages which are unfreezing the old values where old values are considered, development of new values and freezing the new ones. Sensitivity Training is often offered by organizations and agencies as a way for members of a given community to learn how to understand better and appreciate the differences in other people. It asks training participants to put themselves into...
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...Executive Summary Transportation has played a part in human beings affairs over the years. It gave man a change to travel to different places. Transportation also provided man with the capability to transfer his/her goods, products, materials and belongings from one place to another without experiencing many difficulties. There are many kinds of transportation one of which is automobiles or cars. A company that sells cars and its parts in the US is Toyota Motor Sales USA. Inc. (TMS) The paper takes a look at the company and its background. The paper will also evaluate TMS's system of measuring, evaluating, and rewarding performances of the regional and general managers and whether or not TMS implement the proposal for change. Case History TMS and its managers have been discussing a change in organization that will give more responsibility to the company’s regional managers. For those who wanted to pursue the change, they believe that the change would force the regional managers to decide on the success or failure of their region. They believe that the change would reduce the bureaucracy at TMS. For those who disapprove the change, they believe that the change would force regional managers to focus on short term profits and sacrifice long term commitment to clients. Regional managers have outmost importance to the firm since they are the ones responsible for dealer related activities; they are also responsible for supervising, training and evaluating their personnel; moreover...
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...Charlotte Cox Dr. M Butkus Philosophy 251-W1 13 July 2013 Where the Decision Lies Living wills are documents that define a patient’s medical wishes usually pertaining to life-support or any such instances where death is presumable. A living will provides a patient with a voice under circumstances which would leave them without the ability to make health decisions. Patients who fall into a persistently vegetative state would be at the mercy of their physician, next of kin, or living will. However, there are many times when a patient’s family has contradicting beliefs to what the patient proclaims in their living will. It can be difficult to decide whose decision should prevail. Ultimately, the previsions made by the patient in their living will should overrule in a majority of situations. Still, there are circumstances when such a decision may be unclear. First, we must understand the medical extent of someone who is in a persistently vegetative state. PVS is a disorder of consciousness and the patient is not in a state of trust awareness. PVS occurs when a patient loses cognitive function and can only perform certain involuntary actions. Such actions include but are not limited to crying, laughing, or movement of the eyes. For them, any movement or response is purely spontaneous, unpredictable and unconnected to events outside of physical impulse. After one year, it's highly unlikely that patients will emerge from their persistent vegetative state. For those who do, severe...
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...ijcrb.webs.com INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY RESEARCH IN BUSINESS A STUDY ON THE IMPACT OF REWARDS ON EMPLOYEE MOTIVATION IN THE TELECOMMUNICATION SECTOR OF PAKISTAN Farheen B. Zaidi 1, Zahra Abbas 2 JULY 2011 VOL 3, NO 3 Abstract A good reward system is necessary to motivate the employees of an organization. This study was conducted in order to investigate the impact of rewards on the motivational level of employees of telecommunication sector of Pakistan. The impact of three independent variables rewards, monetary rewards and non-monetary rewards on the dependent variable motivation was studied. Four dimensions of motivation, focus, determination, effort and satisfaction were considered for the development of theoretical framework. A total of 292 questionnaires were returned fully complete. The research study showed that there exists a strong positive relationship in rewards and motivation among the employees. It was concluded that monetary rewards have greater impact on motivation of employees than the non-monetary rewards. Significant differences in rewards offered to employees and motivation level were found in the analysis of comparison of means with respect to gender, age group, marital status, working duration in the organization and salary. Keywords— Focus, Determination, Monetary Rewards, Non-Monetary Rewards, Motivation, Rewards . INTRODUCTION "Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it...
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...What is Operations Management? 2013 Joshua Richards POM 343 Due: 12/11/2013 Table of Contents Tale of Things to Come 1 Conceptual Model 2 Class Two: What is Operations Management / Productivity, Competitiveness & Strategy 3 Class Three: Forecasting, Aggregate Planning, MRP and ERP 4 Class Four: Product and Service Design 5 Class Five: Capacity Planning, Process Selection and Facility Layout 6 Class Six: Design of Work Systems and Learning Curves 7 Class Eight: Location Planning and Analysis 8 Class Nine: Management of Quality and Quality Control 9 Class Ten: Inventory Management 10 Class Eleven: JIT and Lean Operations 11 Class Twelve: Supply Chain Management 12 Conclusion 13 Tale of Things to Come I am going to take you on a whirlwind of wonder and learning all based around operations management. At least that is what I saw it as. Coming in to a class with no expectations, mainly because I have never heard of the topic, I was pleasantly surprised. Coming from a person who has hopes and dreams to own or at least run a successful company someday this class had a plethora of information that I will hopefully someday have the opportunity to use. I decided to break the class down week by week. The reason I chose to do this is partly because of the material and partly because of the teaching method. One thing I loved about the class is that as you go along you always continue to use the stuff you learned previously. When we were doing supply...
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...Factors of Motivation & Impact of Job Satisfaction on Organizational Commitment [pic] ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS “If you take care of your employees, your employees will take care of the organization & its customers over a period of time”. These are the words that have inspired us to conduct the research on the effect of employee motivation on organizational commitment. We shall be failing in our duty, if we do not record our gratitude to all those who have helped us & co-operated with us to pursuit this project. We would like to thank Prof. Kavita Lagate for her excellent sessions on Research Methodology which helped us to understand the various aspects of the subject & the project. Further by giving us an opportunity to carry out this research & present this research report under her guidance has enabled us to understand the concept of making a research report. CONTENTS Abstract………………………………………………………………………………………4 Introduction………………………………………………………………………………….5 Objectives of the Study …………………………………………………………………….6 Previous Research…………………………………………………………………………...7 Literature Review…..……………………………………………………………………….9 Research Methodology…………………………………………………………………….22 Data Collection & Analysis…………………………………………………......................25 Conclusion…………………………………………………………………………………..28 Direction for Future Research……………………………………………………………...
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...NaNotechNology applicatioNs for cleaN Water Micro & NaNo TechNologies series editor: Jeremy ramsden Professor of Nanotechnology Microsystems and Nanotechnology Centre, Department of Materials Cranfield University, United Kingdom the aim of this book series is to disseminate the latest developments in small scale technologies with a particular emphasis on accessible and practical content. these books will appeal to engineers from industry, academia and government sectors. for more information about the book series and new book proposals please contact the publisher, Dr. Nigel hollingworth at nhollingworth@williamandrew.com. http://www.williamandrew.com/MNt NaNotechNology applicatioNs for cleaN Water edited by Nora savage Office of Research and Development, US Environmental Protection Agency and (in alphabetical order) Mamadou Diallo Materials and process simulation center, Division of chemistry and chemical engineering, california institute of technology Jeremiah Duncan Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison anita street Office of Research and Development, US Environmental Protection Agency and Center of Advanced Materials for the Purification of Water with Systems, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign richard sustich N o r w i c h , N Y, U S A copyright © 2009 by William andrew inc. No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying...
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