...To: Human Resources Manager From: Assistant Manager Human Resources Date: 11/7/11 Re: Response to Memo received on 11/6/2011 Message: Message 1 – Discharges at the Anderson Cost Club The question to be addressed: if the GM (General Manager) can discharge employees without cause. Mr. Smith, GM – since the store is currently facing financial and economic hardship during this recession, there aren’t any repercussions from Federal or State Law. You terminated the employees under tenuous economic pressure. While there are certain exceptions to the Doctrine of at-Will employment conditions that the company has to be mindful of, this case is not an example. Cost Club’s Handbook clearly indicates in the Termination Policies section that, “if the company has to downsize, merge or relocate there may be a reduction is staff.” Message 2 – Regional CEO’s question about to reducing employee costs. The question to be addressed: will the law allow reduction in force through the use of temp’s and contractors Mr. Taylor, CEO - Your request to amend the staff at your location is here by granted. Under Termination Policies in the Cost Club Handbook the employees understand that they are at risk and the terms of their “at-will” contract allows Cost Club the right to adjust their relationship with our company. You might suggest to those that you want to terminate an alternative. Suggest this to them, that instead of a complete severance of the relationship, you could offer them...
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...Running head: COST CLUB SCENARIO 3 Cost Club Scenario 3 University of Phoenix HRM-546 April 14, 2014 Cost Club Scenario 3 Introduction Every employee has fundamental rights in the workplace that include their right to privacy, fair compensation and free from discrimination. Even applicants have rights before they are hired as an employee. Some of those rights include discrimination that is based solely on a person’s race, gender, age, religion, national origin, or during the hiring process (FindLaw, 2014). Employee Privacy * Employees have the right to privacy with regards to their personal possessions * This includes their purses, handbags. Briefcases, lockers. * Employees have limited rights with respect to e-mail messages and internet usage while using Cost Clubs computer system * Employers do not have the right to conduct a credit checks or background checks on an employee or perspective employee without the express written permission of the employee (FindLaw, 2014). Employee Unions Under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), employers are forbidden from interfering in an employee’s right to organize, or to join or assist in a labor organization for collective bargaining purposes, or prohibit working together to improve terms and conditions of their place of employment. Union employer’s may not coerce their employees in exercising any of their rights such as (National Labor Relations Board, 2014): * It is illegal for an employer...
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...Hrm 546 Scenario One: Cost Club Cost Club is administratively organized into regions, and each region develops their own operational policies as long as the low cost bottom line and reasonable customer service is maintained (University of Phoenix, 2012). There are several routine human resources issues that need to be addressed in the workplace. The first issue involves potential wrongful discharges at the Anderson Cost Club store. The second issue is assisting the regional CEO in reducing employee costs; addressing the use of independent contractors and temporary employees. The third issue involves determining if Cost Club is legally responsible in three separate situations because of employee or vendor error. The fourth issue is addressing alternatives to settle disputes between employees and the company. The last issue involves addressing the Employment Law concepts that can arise in personnel actions, and assisting in the training around best practices in selection, promotion, and performance evaluations of employees. Message 1: Discharges at the Anderson Cost Club store The Anderson Cost Club store is located in a right-to-work state which secures the right of employees to decide if they want to join or financially support a union. This will have nothing to do with how or why the two employees were terminated from Cost Club. The GM at the Anderson Cost Club store terminated the two employees because he wanted to downsize his store’s workforce. This is a very valid reason...
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...Scenario One: Cost Club Background Cost Club is a growing retailer, similar to Super Wal-Mart or Target. It provides discount merchandise and supermarket products in large stores located in many areas of the United States. Cost Club is administratively organized into regions, and each region is permitted to develop its own operational policies these worekersliijijijijoijmmkhere are many strong competitors to Cost Club, with some regions experiencing more competition than others. Your Role in Cost Club You recently have joined the Atlanta regional office of Cost Club as the Assistant Manager of Human Resources (HR) for the region. If you do well in this assignment, you may advance to the HR manager spot when your boss, Pat, moves on to another executive role in Cost Club. For memo purposes, Pat’s last name is the same as the last name of your facilitator. Pat has explained that while the Manager’s role is to focus on long-range and integration issues involving the entire region, your role as assistant manager is to deal with HR issues that arise routinely in the workplace. Pat has forwarded you a number of e-mails that present situations referred to HR; you must look at the situations and respond to Pat in an e-mail that addresses all the forwarded e-mails. Pat apologizes for not giving you time to settle in to your new position, but says that these are significant and time-sensitive issues that have to be dealt with quickly. You immediately begin examining the...
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...| Cost Club | Memo To: | Pat Sutton | From: | Leonna Whitfield | | | Date: | June 23, 2015 | Re: | Human Resource Issues | | | Discharges at the Anderson Cost Club Store Pat, since the Anderson Cost Club Store is located in a right-to-work state, the general manager was justified in not giving the employees a reason for being discharged. There is no evidence of any broken labor laws or violation of employee rights on behalf of the general manager. In a right-to-work state, an at-will employee can be terminated at any time and without notice; as long as the discharge is not for reasons of discrimination, intimidation, retaliation, or breach of contract. There have been no formal complaints about any unethical treatment or violations from the discharged employees. Since this particular store is located in a right-to-work state, I can assume that the discharged employees signed an at-will-employment agreement which notifies them of the company’s right to terminate their employment without notice. Reducing Employee Costs According to (Bennett-Alexander & Hartman, 2007), the definition of an employee differs depending on the statute, case law, and other analysis. For example, the Retirement Income Security Act defines “employee” as “an individual employed by an employer”, but one court determined that the nominal definition is completely circular and explains nothing (Bennett-Alexander & Hartman, 2007). Although it is slightly difficult to distinguish...
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...Running head: COST CLUB Scenario One: Cost Club Week Two HRM/546 Human Resource Law October 28, 2012 University of Phoenix | | Cost Club | Memorandum To: Pat, HR Manager From: Priscilla Seamster Assistant HR Manager Date: 10/29/2012 Re: Long Range & Integration Issues Issues against Discharge The issues against discharging an employee with any reason can be very harmful to any business. This opens the door for a lawsuit to any organization because, an ex-employee could file a lawsuit against the employer for alleging that they had been discharged wrongfully. The civil right law act in 1964 provides protection to the employees against wrongfully discharge. This describe that companies cannot terminate their employees basis of race, gender, skin, religion, color etc, (Employment law for business, 2007)”.) For example, if their at-will relationship exists between the employee and employer this does not mean that employer may terminate the employee, in a discriminatory manner. This mean the organization has to follow the legal principles before discharging their employee. There are so many laws that protect the individuals even though we are...
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...Briefing the Cost Club Senior Regional Staff Alvin M. Johnson Human Resource Law HRM/546 November 16, 2015 Thomas Hartnett Briefing the Cost Club Senior Regional Staff This handout is intended to explain the five key regulatory areas Cost Club must adhere to. Following is a list of those areas: Employee Privacy, Employee Unions, Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), and Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). Employee Privacy Federal Law – General Privacy Laws * Driver’s Privacy Protection Act of 1994 – 18 U.S. Code 2721. This law limits disclosures of personal information maintained by the Department of Motor Vehicles. * Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 – 18 U.S. Code sections 2510-2522, 2701-2711, 3121, 1367. This law amends the federal wiretap law to cover different types of electronic communications i.e. e-mail, radio-paging devices, cell phones, private communications carriers, and computer transmissions and extends ban on interception to the communications of wire or electronic communication services and restricts access to stored wired and electronic communication/transaction records. * Family Education Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (FERPA) – 20 U.S. Code section 1232g. This law restricts the disclosure of educational records. * Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) – 15 U.S. Code sections 1681-1681u. This law promotes accuracy, fairness, and privacy of information gathered by credit...
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...Running head: CLUB IT University of Phoenix Club IT There are many clubs throughout America, especially, in San Diego, California. Although clubs come and go, there are only a few that are successful and are able to keep clienteles returning. One may ask? How did these clubs become successful? What were the things that these clubs did that is different? In order to understand how these clubs become successful, one must understand the importance of their mission statement, their clienteles, their resources, and be able to implement a strategic plan that will work--like the cost leadership strategy. As an intern for Club IT, the most important thing to remember is the owners’ mission statement. The mission statement is always a statement that is clear, consist, and straight to the point. The mission statement for Club IT is as follow: "We, Ruben and Lisa, offer you live music, DJ's, dance space and refreshments that suit your lifestyle. You are our friends, and we seek to build a community that meets regularly at Club IT" (Keys & Tejada, 2000). Here at Club IT, our main clientele are those amongst the community. We strive to connect with the community in an effort to understand their needs or want. There are numerous ways to connect to the community. In order to obtain the information on what people want or need, our main strategy is through word of mouth, flyers, or by ways of surveys. Word of mouth, flyers, or surveys is a great way to reach out to...
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...Club IT is a new, fun, and energetic nightclub which is owned by Ruben Keys and Lisa Tejada. While they earned their degrees in Business Administration, they decide to follow their dreams and open a nightclub. They recently remodeled the club, which has changed the atmosphere to reflect great energy. The 6,000 square feet has a dance floor, short order kitchen, and bar that offers a great place to dance, eat, drink, and just relax. Club IT also offers a wide variety of music. Club IT’s Mission Statement is “We, Ruben and Lisa, offer you music, DJ’s, dance space, and refreshments that suit your lifestyle. You are our friends, and we seek to build a community that meets regularly at Club IT.” The club focuses on all music genres, which includes Hip- Hop, Techno, Electronica, MP3, and live bands. With these genres, the music caters to all people from young adults to older adults and single to married couples. Although the club is striving, Ruben and Lisa want their company analyzed for a more competitive advantage. As their intern, I will take a look at the company’s intranet resources, which is an internal network that only the owner’s and employees’ can access. The current intranet is a good resource of information, but it lack security. The access to the intranet needs to be accessible individually. The owners need to have their own login credentials with access to the information related to all the company’s information and employees’ information. The employees...
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...I recently had the opportunity to visit a nightclub called Club IT owned and operated by Ruben Keys and Lisa Tejada. I must include that the evening was interesting and enjoyable. I had the opportunity to sit down and speak with both Rueben and Lisa taking the time to review and establish an understanding of Club ITs information needs. From what I gathered from the visit and meeting with the owners is the club is very well updated and newly remolded to allow the atmosphere to have an inviting and excitable feel. The club offers food, drinks, music, the chance to meet people and plenty of room to dance. I believe that the main clientele of Club IT is the younger to middle aged crowds. These crowds may consist of professionals, college students as well as tourists. After leaving the nightclub I thought about the enjoyable evening I had, I pondered about what and how much information technology Club IT may need to be fully successful. The important thing will be if there will be opportunities for me to analyze to keep me involved in the Clubs information and technology analysis. The question is will I my expertise allow the Club IT to boost their decision-making abilities, data control, and information technology. I took the opportunity to visit Club ITs website to establish a better idea of their overall desires and capabilities. I noticed that the Club’s owners Ruben and Lisa have a mission statement "We, Ruben and Lisa, offer you live music, DJ's, dance space and refreshments...
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...Economics of setting up a Tennis club clinic This study aimed to study and research on the financial prerequisites of setting up a tennis club. It details the resources needed, procedures followed and criteria adhered to when starting a tennis club. It further expounds on practices to ensure that the club runs profitability. Tennis is undoubtedly the most major game played in academic institutions; it’s played in all elementary schools, high schools and colleges across continents. A lot of financial, economic, management and HR practices need to be addressed in setting up a club club (Keighley, 2010). In this light, the paper will dwell on the economic side detailing the mandatory resources, and procedures. With this knowledge one can smoothly run a successful tennis club. The most emphasized aspect to a club is hiring a professional management team for the club (Sprecher, 2016). Coaches and managers with proficient qualifications should be hired to drive the business aspect of this venture. A coach is instrumental in nurturing talent and lessening negative experiences (Perris, 2000 ). The study further analyzes budgeting for initial set up cost, recurrent expenditures, cash flows and profitability of the club. It accounts for resources such as salaries of administrative stuff, purchase of equipment, maintenance of facilities, organization of competition, petty cash and consultation services. Therefore we cannot overlook the need for sponsorship, endorsement, talent scouting...
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...Quiz Submissions - Chapter 06 - PRIVATE CLUB MANAGEMENT Section 005 Spring Semester 2015 CO - Georgia State University A… 4/27/15 10:24 PM Tiera Farley 4/27/2015 Maintenance Schedule Email PRIVATE CLUB MANAGEMENT SECTION 005 SPRING SEMESTER 2015 CO Course Home Assessments Communication Resources Learning Tools Quiz Submissions - Chapter 06 Tiera Farley (username: tfarley3) Attempt 1 Written: Feb 9, 2015 10:10 PM - Feb 9, 2015 10:14 PM Submission View Question Set Question 1 2 / 2 points Focus group research is a form of __________ research. secondary qualitative descriptive quantitative Question 2 https://gsu.view.usg.edu/d2l/lms/quizzing/user/quiz_submissions_attempt.d2l?isprv=&qi=1046447&ai=7303923&cfql=0&ou=889719 2 / 2 points Page 1 of 3 Quiz Submissions - Chapter 06 - PRIVATE CLUB MANAGEMENT Section 005 Spring Semester 2015 CO - Georgia State University 4/27/15 10:24 PM An individual who controls the flow of information into a buying center is called a: gatekeeper. decider. buyer. influencer. Question 3 2 / 2 points The family life cycle is a series of stages within a family that are determined by: the incomes of the adults within the household. a combination of age, marital status, and the presence or absence of children in the home. the ages and sexes of the children within a household. a combination of the family members and their immediate -family relatives. Question 4 https://gsu...
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...BIS/219 Club It Part One Rolanda Wright Instructor: Erick Frick July 13, 2011 Introduction The Mission for Club It is to recognize the best house clubs around the World. Club It creates an atmosphere that is electrified with there multiple rooms. They are one the leed clubs around and they continue to flourish and compete with the bustling cities. They are known to have great entertainment, Djs, on-off events, promotional campaigns and the Best Bar and Clubs awards. The kind of information that Club It would need to pursue in a strategy for new competitors is to have a competitor analysis that can strategize the planning process. This analysis would understand the competition when it comes to the advantages and disadvantage in relative When it comes to the cost of leadership, there is a lot to think about and plan out; this isn’t an easy business to jump into a lot needs to be considered. Club It would need to ask how much it will be to start the business, also would need to consider the size, location, the target market and types and features of the business. There are three main sources of revenue when it comes to running a nightclub business: The admission sales, the food sales, and the beverage sales. Club It would need to consider how much they would want to invest in the marketing strategy. Most nightclubs use advertising and promotions to promote nightclub businesses by using radio stations, newspapers and sponsors, depending on the marketing...
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...Club IT, Part One BIS 219 Club IT, Part One Club IT is an up-and-coming downtown nightclub that caters to local musicians, DJ talent, and music lovers of all ages. The owners, Ruben Keys and Lisa Tejada, endeavor to provide a comfortable, friendly atmosphere that keeps customers coming back on a regular basis. The goal is to move from a “brick-and-mortar” business to a “click-and mortar” business leveraging the Internet for marketing, customer service, sales, and information sharing (Rainer & Turban, p. 38). Embarking on business-to-consumer e-commerce strategy will broaden the company’s customer base and showcase what the club does best, music. Lisa and Ruben have a clear mission, “to offer live music, DJ’s, dance space and refreshments that suit your lifestyle.” They believe that customers are also friends and seek to build a community that considers Club IT a regular meeting place. The goal is to extend the company’s reach and provide a portal in which customers can get information, listen to song selections, and buy merchandise. This will enhance the customer experience and enable the club to market its artists and events. The customer demographics are young adults ages 21 to 35. The club specializes in Hip-hop, Techno, Electronica, and some Top 40 music. Friday and Saturday nights feature live bands and local talent. Weeknights, talented, local Disc Jockeys create a high energy atmosphere and play the latest dance music. Each month the club showcases...
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...1-16 The participants of such recreational activities as hang gliding, soaring, hiking, rock collecting, or skydiving often create local ‘‘birds-of-a-feather’’ (affinity) organizations. Two examples are the Chicago sky divers (www.chicagoskydivers.com) or the soaring club of western Canada (www.canadianrockiessoaring.com). Many of these clubs collect dues from members to pay for club activities as well as the printing and mailing costs of monthly newsletters. Some of them maintain only minimal accounting information on manual pages or, at best, in spreadsheets. a. What financial information are such clubs likely to collect and maintain? The clubs are likely to collect the member’s income, credit card information, club dues, admission fees, district dues, RI per capita dues, RI fees and personal information. b. Assuming that the club keeps manual accounting records, would you consider such systems ‘‘accounting information systems?’’ Why or why not? An accounting information system is generally a computer-based method for tracking accounting activity in conjunction with information technology resources. However, I believe that when this type of information is collected its member it is AIS. c. Assume that the club treasurer of one such organization is in charge of all financial matters, including collecting and depositing member dues, paying vendor invoices, and preparing yearly reports. Do you think that assigning only one person to this job is a good idea? Why or why not? ...
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