...INTRODUCTION Castle’s Family Restaurant is a successful mid-sized company with 300-340 employees, with about 40% of staff being full-time. Due to such success, HR functions are becoming increasingly more time consuming and costly to accommodate the company’s growth. Currently the operations manager, Jay Morgan, is acting as the human resources manager is responsible for Castle’s eight locations in Northern California. Morgan is currently using Excel to manage payroll and manually prints employee’s checks. In addition to payroll, Morgan is responsible for scheduling, recruiting, and hiring of all eight locations. Morgan believes the addition of a Human Resources Information System (HRIS) would aid in reducing the time and costs of travel. BUSINESS ASSESSMENT...
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...Week Three O*NET Assignment Cyndi Meredith HR Management MGMT 410 September 21, 2014 James Mullins Week Three O*NET Assignment After reviewing the O*NET website I came up with the below information about my interests, skills, and information on the jobs that matched these specific items. Depending on the zone I was interested in, I was a good match for an HR Manager, or a CEO position. I think that the CEO position may be a great job for someone, but not for me. The HR Manager position is more of a job that would appeal to me. I do not think that as a CEO I would have enough interaction with the front line employee, these is more of my likening, as the HR Manager I would be prone to meet those needs. I do not mind being in the office for most of my daily chores, but I would much rather get out on the floor and talk to the employees, I do not see this happening as the CEO, or not as much as the HR Manager. According to the O*NET website the CEO position offered above average opportunities in Minnesota, Kansas, and Illinois, this is only three out of quite a few other states. I was surprised at the location of the above average locations, I thought that there would be higher opportunities on the West Coast or East Coast for this position rather than the Midwest? The average salary for this position was pretty good though, $171,000. The HR Manager only offered above average opportunities in three states, they were the state of Washington, Minnesota, and New York. This...
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...Castle’s Family Restaurant Business Plan DeVry University BUSINESS ASSESSMENT This is to assess the unnecessary travel costs of Mr. Morgan who works for Castle’s Family Restaurants which consist of eight northern California locations with approximately 300 to 340 employees and suggest a HRIS solution. The employees are made up of about 40% full-time and 60% part-time. As operations manager and human resource manager, Jay Morgan finds that he has a hard time maintaining all of the responsibilities that are required of him. He travels to each of the eight locations every week to take care of scheduling, recruiting, hiring and answering questions for the employees as needed along with the everyday operations of each restaurant. In addition, Mr. Morgan is responsible for payroll and is currently using an Excel spreadsheet and a computer application to print the payroll checks. Mr. Morgan is looking to reduce his travel time and expenses, complete his HR and payroll tasks more efficiently and allow him more time as operations manager. IDENTIFIED PROBLEMS I have identified several problem areas that a new HRIS could possibly benefit. Our goal is to eliminate the use of paper employee manuals, maintain potential, former and current employee records, manage schedules, recruiting, hiring, payroll and streamline product ordering and stock inventory records. I believe that the first need is to get a program set up that will manage the human resource and payroll processes. ...
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...Castle’s Family Restaurant Business Plan: Stage I Introduction Human Resource management teams work with the performance of activities such as bookkeeping, upholding policies and guidelines, employee performances, and ensuring that labor laws are enforced. Human resource managers utilize information systems to help in their daily duties of payroll, training, and organizations of personnel files. Human Resource managers develop and analyze functions that will determine the specific type of Human Resource Information system application is necessary to automate and create a strategic alliance for the Human resource department. The importance of determining the type of human resource information system application is to define which system can help make the business run more smoothly. A system is used to store, manipulate, analyze, acquire, retrieve and distribute important information. An HRIS system will help Human resource managers by providing them with more data on strategic levels and allow for the function of more efficient and better information for decision making. Business Assessment The Castle Family Restaurants has eight locations throughout Northern California. They currently have eight restaurants; only 40% of the employees are full time, with approximately 300-340 employees. In most traditional restaurants the food service managers are generally responsible for the daily operations of the restaurant. The Castle Family restaurant is currently being operated...
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...INTROUCTION: Castle’s Family Restaurant is a rather small chain of family owned restaurants located in northern California which employs between 300-340 employees. Most of the employees work part time, and only about 40 percent work full time. Mr. Jay Morgan acts as the operations manager as well as HR manager, which requires him to travel to each location in order to take care of the recruiting, hiring, and also answer any questions that employees may have, and other responsibilities that are required for every day operations of each restaurant like counting money, bank deposits, reviewing financial transactions, monitor budget (Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2013). He is also responsible for payroll, for which he uses Excel spreadsheet combined with a computer application to print the payroll checks for employees. Mr. Morgan is in need to reduce his travel time and costs, be more efficient in his HR and payroll tasks, as well as having more time for his operations manager tasks. IDENTIFIED PROBLEMS: From this information, I could identify various problems that could be alleviated by they use of an HRIS program. The goal is to reduce or eliminate the need of use of papers like employees’ manuals, being able to retain employees, maintain former, current, and potential employees information within reach and safe, training employees, be able to manage schedules more efficiently as it changes each week for everyone, hiring, keep payroll and benefits up to date, having records of...
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...AMERICAN GREETINGS 1. An enterprise value (EV) to EBITDA (Earnings Before Interest, Tax, Depreciation and Amortization) ratio at 3.5 times which is at the bottom of the corporations comparable to American Greetings is not appropriate. The value is too low as compared to other companies which are comparable to American Greetings in terms of Revenue, Share price, Shares Outstanding, total cash and debt. The value signals a downward trend in the company’s profitability and share price from the already low value of $12.51 per share. This could be attributed to a slow place of product innovation in the face of increasing social media embrace by the masses especially the young generation who are increasingly using Face book to send greetings and communicate. This could also be due to weak strategic retail partnerships and poor embrace of technological advancements. American Greetings should aim at an EV/EBITDA ratio of 7.1 which corresponds to the average of the comparable companies which is 7.2 from Exhibit number 6 which shows the data from comparable companies, an EV/EBITDA ratio of 7.1 corresponds to a share price of $32.65 this is the share price of Meredith company which licenses Brands and Publishes Magazines. 2. A Table Showing the Changes in Revenue as per the Bullish Scenario as Forecasted from the year 2012 to 2015 YEARS | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | Revenue Growth (%) | 5.3 | 1 | 1.5 | 2 | 2.5 | Revenue (millions of dollars) | 1677 | 1694 | 1719 | 1753...
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...Executive Summary Castle’s Family Restaurant has been a highly successful restaurant operating in the northern California area for the last thirteen (13) years. As a family-owned chain, the restaurant as proven success by operating eight (8) restaurants under the family name. In an effort to continue achieving the high levels of success that it has experienced over the years and possibly expand further, certain aspects of the operation of the company will have to be controlled by technology. One such area is the HR process that has become a manual, time consuming, daunting process. Castle’s can improve their HR operations and support their growing company overall, by implementing a web-based HRIS. After much research and evaluating the needs of the organization my recommendation to help with automating the HR process would be Asentis. This web-based software would be an asset to the restaurant chain. It would assist the operations manager, Jay Morgan is carrying out his duties in a more time effective manner rather than driving from store to store to deal with HR issues. Asentis is secure, comprehensive, caters to the needs of a growing business and is very easy to use. Asentis will assist with the payroll process and other aspects of the business including scheduling, benefits management etc. Additionally, with a staff of 340 plus, having this system will allow for better scheduling which can also be tied into the payroll system once implemented that way. The software...
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... film ‘The Black Balloon’ produced by Tristram Miall and ‘The Road Not Taken’ written by Robert Frost, clearly display these misadventures and the rewards achieved once overcoming them. In difficult times individuals have must leave behind their old life and the safety it once provided in order to fully accept and enjoy their new life. In the novel ‘The Story of Tom Brennan’, Tom’s family is forced to leave the comfort of their hometown Mumbilli and move to Coghill due the selfish actions of his brother Daniel. Symbolism throughout this novel highlights the suffering of Tom and his family. “My father closed the door…for the last time”, this symbolic act and the secrecy in the way the Brennan family leave Mumbilli reveals the families remorse about the situation, they are not only closing the door of their old home, but the respectable life they once had, ruined by Daniel. “The silhouettes of houses slipped past before I could catch them and remember the people we were leaving behind”; Darkness or black is also used throughout the novel to represent the family’s state of despair. The Family fled Mumbilli close to dawn when only the silhouettes of the...
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...Table of Contents Scenario Stage Introduction 3 Business Assessment 4 Identified Problems 4 HRIS Needs Assessment 5 Proposed Model of Castle's Family Restaurant HRIS 6 Conclusion 7 References____ ____________________________________8____ SCENARIO STAGE 1 INTRODUCTION Castle's Family Restaurant has eight restaurants in the Northern California area with approximately 300-340 employees. Most of the employees are part time with approximately 40% of them full time. The Operations Manager, (Mr Jay Morgan), also acts as the HR manager and travels to each location every week to take care of scheduling, recruiting, hiring and answering questions for the employees as needed. He also takes care of payroll using an Excel spread sheet and has a computer application to print payroll checks. Mr Morgan approaches you, (an HR Consultant), for a proposal. Due to the increase in gasoline costs, he would like to greatly reduce his travel time for visiting each location each week and wonders if there is anything you can suggest to him to help him complete his HR tasks in a cost-effective manner. He hopes there is some way he can do part of his HR tasks from his office instead of traveling to each location. BUSINESS ASSESSMENT: (Per Professor Ficken)- The name, type, and size...
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...Castle Business Plan Castle’s Family Restaurant Business Plan: Stage III Susanna Vilim DeVry University HRM-340 1 Castle Business Plan Table of Contents Item Table of Contents Executive Summary Introduction Page # 2 3- 4 5 Company Review 6- 7 Business Analysis 8 - 11 HRIS Type/Comparison 12 - 14 HRIS Recommendation 15 - 17 Conclusion 18 Bibliography 19 2 Castle Business Plan Executive Summary Castle’s Family Restaurant being the successful family owned chain of restaurants completing in a dynamic yet economically challenged environment is to be commended. To continue to achieve the strategic business objectives of living out the corporate mission and expanding the current chain, the business plan set forth in detail will address current challenges being faced in payroll processes and the recommendations in addressing each of these needs so that the organization can meet and exceed current and future goals. Jay Morgan, operations manager, currently carries the responsibilities associated with payroll activities. Payroll processes are vital to the organization and the risks associated with implementing these activities are high. Implementing an automated Human Resource Information System (HRIS) will mitigate these risks and in turn will be beneficial to current and future objectives in growing the organization. Currently Castles utilize Compeat to address other aspects of the business; the recommendation...
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...Introduction The Castle’s Family Restaurant has the potential to become more successful if it invests in automation of its HR functions. In other words, an HRIS would assist this family business to become more efficient. The purpose of the HRIS is to provide accurate and timely service to companies so that they can use the additional time to improve their business (Kavanagh, 2012, p.17). The Castle’s Family Restaurant can also reduce the costs of their business by having all the information in one place, which will be used multiple times by managers and employees. Therefore, this will prevent the company from performing a particular process manually, which can be time consuming. When choosing to automate an HR function, it is important to understand its content and the benefits it will provide for the business. Since this family restaurant has over 300 employees, it is necessary to begin by using an HRIS application and choose a vendor that would best meet the restaurants’ needs. As it was mentioned previously, Castle’s Family Restaurant would improve its restaurant productivity, retention, training, and profits if it invested in an HRIS to assist Mr. Morgan complete his HR tasks in a cost-effective and timely manner. This would also provide Mr. Morgan with more time to dive into the more operational side of the business in order to reach organizational goals. Last, the HRIS would benefit the employees as well because they would have access to their payments, work schedule...
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...Castle’s Family Restaurant Business Plan: Stage III Lamont Stokes Keller Graduate School Executive Summary The business is a food chain restaurant that is located in Northern California with roughly 300-400 full time and part time employees. There are other competitions within the area which are other fast food restaurants and we all serve the customer that wants fast food, but we are more family oriented. The majority overview of this business plan was to review and discuss the HRIS needs of the company, the type of HRIS that will be used and also what vendor would be providing these services to Castle's Family Restaurant. Introduction This business plan will discuss the importance and the benefits of having an HRIS implemented for the payroll function of the Castle Family Restaurant. Discussing of the Vendor that is selected and some key information on what the vendor provides is available in the paper. This paper will serve as a recommendation to assist the company in streamlining the payroll function of the business. Company Review The name of the business that we are evaluating is called Castle’s Family restaurant. The business is currently located in Northern California and has approximately 300-340 employees. Most of the employees at Castle’s Family restaurant are part-time with about 40% of the employees being full time. As we take a look of...
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...Castle’s Family Restaurant Business Plan: Stage III DeVry University Executive Summary The purpose of this business plan is to understand the restaurants business and its operations to improve its customer service and its employee relations. The Castle Family Restaurant has eight restaurants that operate under one regional manager that also acts as the Human Resource Manager for the restaurants. The goal is to develop a plan that can decrease the travel time of the regional manager so; that he, Jay Morgan, can save on gas due to high gas prices since each restaurant is located in the northern California area. The objective is to introduce a HRIS application and one vendor that can assist in the developing of the HR department and ease the transitioning of one individual HR manager to multiple employees. There are restaurants with profits in mind and provide the same food and service while the Castle’s Family believes in family, partnerships and developing relationships with one another for a great customer service. Introduction The Castle’s Family Restaurant has eight restaurants in northern California with about 300-340 employees. Most of the employees are part time with about 40% of them full-time. This business plan is to determine strategies that will eliminate the Human Resource position from Jay Morgan, so that he can reduce his travel time to all eight locations and to develop an HR department for the restaurants. In addition, the business plan is to enable...
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...Castle’s Family Restaurant Business Assessment Vidalena Rascoe DeVry University Introduction Castle’s Family Restaurant have expanded in the northern California region with eight actively open restaurants. Jay Morgan concurrently holds the titles of operations manager and Human Resource manager for all eight restaurants commuting weekly to each store handling all managerial operations. With roughly 300 to 340 employees currently working in the eight restaurants approximately 120-136 are full time employees and 180-204 are part time employees. With the economy changing and the price of gas increasing, changes need to be made to accommodate the growing rate of Castle’s Family Restaurants and the employees they attain. An outside referral in the human resource department is necessary to help structure the interworking’s of Castle’s Family Restaurants and equip the company with positive changes that will improve the work flow. Items to review for improvement will be responsibility of operations manager, responsibility of HR manager, restaurant employee to management ratio, employee turn around and staffing, billing and payroll. Theory It is our intentions as HR consultants to minimize overhead travel expenses, incorporate better communications between management and employees and how to better organize the responsibilities of the HR manager from a central locations while still meeting the needs of the employees and the restaurants as a whole. BUSINESS ASSESSMENT ...
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...enables an HR (Human Resource) department to streamline its activities and the demands placed on it by automating the Human Resource data and processes necessary for the management of the human capital of the organization”, (Kavanagh, Thite & Johnson, 2012, p. 4). Human Resource Information Systems allow HR managers to perform at optimum levels. This is done through the automation of key employee data and processes which essentially increases efficiency and reduces error and wastage of time. In the case of the Castle’s Family Restaurant chain, the investment in and implementation of an HRIS will impact the HR manager and department tremendously increasing the productivity of the department and reducing costs of having to manually perform the very intricate functions of HRM. Business Assessment Castle’s Family Restaurant is chain with 8 branches in the northern California area. Although the company has branches in several locations, the number of staff which the Castle’s enterprise employs averages about 320...
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