...Career Development Plan Summary University of Phoenix Today’s economy demands that employers face the challenges that are associated with the economy, internal budget pressures, and a highly competitive business environment. Kudler Fine Foods is owned and operated by Kathy Kudler. She currently manages the business by herself which includes staffing, ordering of merchandise, marketing, and personalized customer service. With visions of growing the business, Kathy is stretched to the extreme and needs assistance with the leadership roles necessary to successfully operate and mature the business. Even though Kathy has managers and assistant managers in each store, she needs a team that can not only relieve her of some of her duties, but also assist Kathy in creating a roadmap for the envisioned future state of Kudler Fine Foods. Business Development and Excellence The proposed reorganization in the chart below will give Kudler Fine Foods the leverage and capabilities to offer not only additional products but a full range of new catering services. This proposal strives to reorganize our current staff to best draw from their talents as well as evaluate new employees for the best appointment. Proper department organization and placement of employees is critical to the success of this new endeavor. A new department has been created within the organization and is identified as Business Excellence and Development. The department will consist of five new positions to include a purchasing...
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...Kudler Fine Foods Job Descriptions Kudler Fine Foods is a local upscale specialty food store located in the San Diego metropolitan area. The company has three locations and looking to expand. Each store has approximately 16,000 square feet of retail space located in fashionable shopping centers. The stores are stocked with the very finest domestic and imported foodstuffs and divided into the following departments: Fresh bakery, cheese’s and deli department Fresh produce department Fresh meat and seafood department Grocery department with condiments and packaged foods In order to fulfill the owner’s dream of expansion and growth Kudler Fine Foods is in the process of developing an organized structure of buyer, catering manager, store director, and the various department managers at the stores. The following are the job descriptions developed to hire and develop these key positions at Kudler Fine Foods. A buyer for all stores would facilitate the need for the owner to stop ordering for the stores. A buyer will purchase grocery merchandise or commodities for resale. The buyer inspects and grades or appraises agricultural commodities, durable goods and other merchandise offered for sale to determine value and yield. The buyer selects and orders merchandise from showings by manufacturing representatives, growers, or other sellers, or purchases an open market for cash. Buyers will baseselection on nature of clientele, or demand for specific...
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...Career Development Plan Summary HRM/531 October 9, 2010 Patricia Neu Introduction To improve the development of Kudler Fine Foods it is important to implement a business strategy to increase loyalty and profitability from our customers. Increase Kudler workforce is one way to achieve our objectives. The increase workforce will help Kudler focus on customer programs to expand Kudler store service, better target awareness, frequent shopper programs, increase efficient supply chain, and administration. To execute the new Kudler business strategy it is also important to recruit, train, monitor performance of the new employees, create incentives through market value compensation, and create career development plans that will help implement an overall business strategy. Job Descriptions and Qualifications Executing the business strategy will require the addition of five new positions. These positions will be created within the Kudler administrative organization chart as they will support all three current and any future stores. The new position will report directly to Kathy Kudler. The first new position will be the Director Marketing & Services. This new position will have responsibility to manage four new positions, including: catering manager, event manager, information manager, and a promotions coordinator. The Director of Marketing & Service responsibilities are: 1. Growing Kudler revenue through catering, cooking classes and wine appreciation...
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...Career Development Plan Summary HRM 531 Kudler Fine Foods: Career Development Plan Summary In 1998, Kathy Kudler had a vision to start her own gourmet food shop. Over ten years later, her wish has been realized by Kathy and her business continues to be well received in the neighborhood. Now Kudler Fine Foods has a straight more daring vision to eventually become the premier gourmet grocery shop for everybody seeking the best meat, create, cheese, and wine. Kathy should form a management team effective at managing growth, if the firm is anticipated to develop past the three shops already in-operation. To satisfy this type of challenge, Kudler Fine Foods (KFF) is promoting a fresh team of workers, developing a mentoring program, efficiency evaluation method, compensation plan, and strategy for improving performance along with the professional goals of each and every worker. New Employee Positions Since the conception of the first Kudler Fine Foods, Kathy Kudler has been involved in every decision. In fact, not only has she made the decisions, but she has carried them out as well. The following positions reduce Kathy's individual responsibilities so she can oversee the opening of a new store and the future expansion of KFF across the region. Regional Manager The Regional Manager oversees all the currently operating stores and their store managers. The Regional Manager also maintains communication and directly reports with Kathy Kudler to keep her informed of store events...
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...Career Development Plan Summary This following proposal was design to document a career development policy for new and existing employees to help minimize employee turnover. The proposal is established to offer employees more opportunities for professional development from within Kudler Fine Foods. Active engagement from the management team will be required for the proposal to be effective. Job Descriptions and Qualifications To become more in line with the strategic plan, a need to restructure the organization for Kudler Foods was identified. The restructuring will include five additional positions that will be advertised and posted immediately. These positions will consist of an Accounting Manager, a Catering Assistant and three Purchasing Managers. The job descriptions for each are as follows: 1. Accounting Manager – Job Description: The Accounting Manager will be responsible for all areas relating to accounting and financial operations for the Kudler Fine Food stores. The Accounting Manager must also adhere to accounting principles and practices to ensure the financial statements and general ledger transactions are recorded accurately. Job Qualifications: CPA with a Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting or Business; five to seven years of work experience in retail; three to five years of management or supervisory experience; and must be familiar with Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Word and Access). 2. Catering Assistant - Job Description: The Catering...
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...Career Development Plan Summary HRM/531 March 7, 2011 Anita Orozco Kudler Find Foods (KFF) has recently promoted me to a midlevel manager in the accounting department. Kathy Kudler, the founder, has decided to restructure the accounting department and will require hiring additional personnel that entails training for new and current employees. Kathy is considering a better method for appraising the team’s performance. This proposal will include the job descriptions and qualifications for five new positions, a new training program that enhances the skills and qualifications of new and current employees, methods for evaluating employee and team performance (including a progressive discipline process), challenges of the team performance, incentives and benefit packages, strategies for managing employees’ career development, and a fair and appropriate compensation plan. Job Descriptions and Qualifications Kudler Fine Foods will be restructuring the accounting department. The accounting clerk positions will be eliminated altogether. The accounting department will be divided into five new positions including a first level management position. The accounting department will consist of an accounting manager, two accounts payable specialist, an accounts receivables/cash applications specialist, and a staff accountant. The job description and qualifications of each position is as follows: Accounting Manager Job Description: Responsible for all areas relating to financial...
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...Career Development Plan Summary – Kudler Fine Foods Sherry Martin HRM/531 Since my promotion as Human Resource Manager at Kudler Fine Foods, I have been working extremely hard to work on my career development plan for my new team at our La Jolla store. A much needed purchasing manager will be hired, and four new positions will open up for our new Supervisor in Training Program (SIT). It has been made clear to me that my team at will be hired to train in La Jolla and upon completion of Carlsbad location they will move there to train other new employees, and will become part of the supervisory team. Due to this team preparing for supervision responsibilities the position will require employees who are willing to work hard to ensure the new store opening in exceeds expectations. The Job Descriptions and Qualifications for Five New Positions I think it is crucial to hire for five new positions, one in which will be a purchasing manager position. With the changes and expansion happening at Kudler’s, owner Kathy Kudler needs to relieve some pressure and hire a person who can be responsible for all purchasing, inventory reporting, and record keeping for all three locations. This person can be a new hire or a current employee who will work out of the La Jolla store but must be able to travel to other store locations when needed (25% of time). The Purchasing manager will work closely with owner and president of the company ensuring the store is making purchasing decisions based...
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...BAKERY | Each of our stores has its own modern European Style Bakery.In the wee hours of the morning, our bakers begin mixing their dough and creating fresh breads and pastries including fruit tarts, table loaves, flat bread and the flakiest croissants in Southern California.Our breads and pastries are made from old world recipes and the finest ingredients – Irish butter, organic eggs and unbleached flour.Kudler's bakery products do not contain preservatives. | | | PRODUCE | | Our produce department offers over 350 fresh fruits, vegetables, herbs and spices.We stock 16 different varieties of apples as well as a wide range of tropical fruits from around the world.Experienced cooks know that the right combinations of herbs and spices will turn a good meal into a great meal. Herbs and spices are most flavorful when they are fresh, and we carry the freshest herbs and spices in the area.Be sure to check out our Asian Specialty Produce department where we carry the produce, herbs and spices that are the staples of Asian cooking. We know that our customers are interested in maintaining a healthy lifestyle while also trying to live within their budgets. We address these concerns by offering most of our produce in both organic and non-organic varieties. | MEAT & SEAFOOD | Our meat and seafood are procured from certified organic producers.The meat and seafood products are fresh and prepared in the store to your order. The butcher shop in each store carries: *...
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...Head: PERFORMANCE, CAREER MANAGEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT Performance, Career Management and Development at Kudler Fine Foods Introduction Kudler Fine Foods is a food store situated in the San Diego metropolitan area. Its stores are located at different locations of California. The main focus of the store is to have profit maximization by providing quality products at appropriate prices in comparison of the competitors. The company also wants to provide maximum satisfaction to its customers. Through this objective, the store wants to have major growth. The company currently wishes to enlarge its services by attaining perfection in the efficiency of its operations and due to this company’s management wants me to restructure my team by adopting and developing different measures and plans. Here, I will develop a proposal for the company that will entail recommendations and justifications to upper management in concern to the job descriptions and qualifications for five new positions, a training program to introduce and enhance the skills and qualifications of new and current employees, methods for evaluating employee and team performance, including a progressive discipline process, challenges of the team performance evaluation, incentives and benefits packages, strategies for managing employees’ career development, like promotions, educational opportunities, accommodations for diversity and so on and a fair and appropriate compensation plan. Job Descriptions...
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...Since my promotion as Human Resource Manager at Kudler Fine Foods, I have been working extremely hard to work on my career development plan for my new team at our La Jolla store. A much needed purchasing manager will be hired, and four new positions will open up for our new Supervisor in Training Program (SIT). It has been made clear to me that my team at will be hired to train in La Jolla and upon completion of Carlsbad location they will move there to train other new employees, and will become part of the supervisory team. Due to this team preparing for supervision responsibilities the position will require employees who are willing to work hard to ensure the new store opening in exceeds expectations. The job descriptions and qualifications for five new positions I think it is crucial to hire for five new positions, one in which will be a purchasing manager position. With the changes and expansion happening at Kudler’s, owner Kathy Kudler needs to relieve some pressure and hire a person who can be responsible for all purchasing, inventory reporting, and record keeping for all three locations. This person can be a new hire or a current employee who will work out of the La Jolla store but must be able to travel to other store locations when needed (25% of time). The Purchasing manager will work closely with owner and president of the company ensuring the store is making purchasing decisions based on inventory levels, expiration dates, and most importantly demand...
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...Statement…………………………………………………..7 Generic Strategy…………………………………………………….7 Grand Strategies…………………………………………………….7 Long Term Objectives………………………………………………8 Shot Term Objectives……………………………………………...10 Contingency Plans…………………………………………………10 Critical to Success Factors…………………………………………11 Environmental Scan and Summary………………………………..12 Internal Analysis…………………………………………………...13 External Analysis…………………………………………………..14 Value Chain Analysis……………………………………………...16 SWOT Analysis……………………………………………………20 Resource Based Analysis…………………………………………..21 PEST Analysis……………………………………………………..22 Conclusion…………………………………………………………25 List of Appendixes………………………………………………...26 References…………………………………………………………27 Executive Summary This paper examines the current state of the organization, Kudler Fine Foods (KFF) by considering its background, financial status, operations, original and future vision and mission statements as stated by the owner, Kathy Kudler. It expands upon the owner’s desire to continue growth by creating and suggesting a new vision for the organization that continues to build on the organization’s original set of values and mission. The internal and external environments are examines. A new generic strategy and new grand strategies are presented and supported by long and short term objectives, and contingency plans and critical success factors are identified to mitigate unforeseen issues that may occur. The leadership at KFF wishes for continued growth and expansion and this must be completed in a manner...
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...Career Development Plan Summary Summary: Kudler Fine Foods, the company, is a specialty fine food store with locations in La Jolla, Del Mar and Encinitas, California. The stores are stocked with the very best domestic and imported foods and the stores are divided into five different departments, Bakery, Meats and Seafood, Produce, Cheese and Dairy, and Wine. Kathy Kudler, owner and operator of Kudler, is in the process of expanding into other parts of Southern California and is considering a new store in Carlsbad, California and looking forward the company needs to evaluate their employee policies. I am writing this proposal to propose to upper management the recommendations and justifications for the following company policies, job descriptions for the modified positions, the implementation of a training program, the methods for evaluating employee performance, the disciplinary action program here at the company, explain the incentive and benefits program and the strategies for managing employee’s careers, and explain a fair and appropriate compensation program. Job Descriptions and Qualifications: Store Manager: The Manager will focus on the overall operation of the store and all the staff at their store locations and also focus on store inventory and will implement a just in time inventory system for stock to optimize cash flow and to minimize the wastage of products. The manager will develop a list of current sales projections, of products that...
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...As Kudler Fine Foods expands into a new dimension of providing fine foods not only in the San Diego area but also to other geographical locations, it is essential that new organizational and strategic plans are implemented. This newly developed team will be provided with specifics of what Kudler’s expects of them, they will also be provided with job specific training programs and regular individual and group appraisal. Our goal is to provide our customers with the ultimate customer service while retaining our employees by providing career development, effective appraisals system, and fair compensation. “Organizations today are constantly undergoing change in what, and how, work is done, the job description has emerged as a powerful tool for avoiding chaos” (Grant, p.40, 1997). As we are restructuring our firm and developing new strategic and operational plans, several new positions are needed, the combination of these jobs will implement our goals. The main five positions that will be created are: first level service manager, catering service director, customer service relations advisor, marketing manager, and general administrative assistant. “The job description holds great potential for guiding the execution of key human resource management functions” (Grant, p. 36, 1997). To eliminate any confusion the below mentioned job descriptions were written with “the focus on what the employee does, not on how--and not on how accomplishment will be measured” (Grant, 1997). 1)...
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...of ways that, implemented correctly, can help them achieve this goal. They include performance management, compensation, and benefits. After human resources has recruited, hired, and trained the best candidates, the next step is to ensure that they are meeting standards, and if they are not, that they receive the proper training. The best way to track employee performance is to set up a performance management system. Performance management is not just an annual review of what the employee did wrong last year, or what they achieved, according to "HrCouncil" (n.d.) it “is the continuous process of setting objectives, assessing progress and providing on-going coaching and feedback to ensure that employees are meeting their objectives and career goals” (Keeping the Right People: Performance Management). To have an effective performance management system, there are a number of practices that should be adopted. The first practice is to provide sufficient training for management who will conduct the appraisals. Training will ensure that they can successfully complete the evaluations without prejudice or bias, and stay within all legal requirements. Thoroughly trained management will be able to “act upon the outcomes of the performance management process[…]to ensure that good performance is recognized, inadequate performance results in the necessary support and/or training to improve performance[.] Consistently poor performance results in a change of responsibilities or termination...
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...Kudler Foods HRM Recommendation As a mid-level manager in the Information Systems department, I am required to restructure my team and provide training, performance appraisal systems. I will begin by defining the roles that I will oversee, and then outline a training program and evaluation process. I will address the concerns of apprising team performance and include a compensation plan. My team will consist of five different roles. (1) A trainer will provide employee training on company software and systems. (2) A help desk technician will provide front line support to employees. (3)An infrastructure technician will provide support for IT infrastructure, including, servers, circuits, and network equipment. (4) A DBA, who will manage and maintain company databases. (5)An entry-level manager to oversee day-to-day operations of the network team. Let us review the job description for each role. A trainer will be available to new employees and current employees alike. This employee’s responsibility is to provide application training for new employees, feedback to the DBA on potential database improvements, and training for existing employees when improvements and upgrades take place. This employee will be required to possess at least an associate’s degree, and strong intra-personal skills. A trainer needs to develop training courses, so therefore excellent written and verbal communication skills are required. This position will require travel A help desk technician will be provided...
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