...Interclean Memo InterClean-Enviro Tech Merger Memorandum Christopher L Kearney University of Phoenix HRM/531 Human Capital Management Shavona Wright November 8, 2010 MEMORANDUM To: First-Level Management Team From: Christopher L. Kearney Date: November 8, 2010 Re: InterClean-Enviro Tech Merger This memo is designed to inform the first-level managers about the recent merger with Environ Tech and the vital role management will play in ensuring the transition is a smooth one for everyone. I will explain the expectations for the management team and discuss how important it is managers lead by example so that other employees will follow the managers lead. The attitude of a manager has a huge effect on subordinates, and as managers it is important not to allow behaviors to hinder the performance of others and this is each supervisor will have to develop better strategies when working in an environment with diversity. The merger will generate a higher degree of diversity, which will allow others to build on their strengths and innovative abilities. InterCleans expansion into new markets affords the company to acquire more consumers. With more consumers come more markets shares that the company can draw from any competitors in the process. This is why it is vitally important for all managers to unify so this can be a successful venture. Embracing the merger will show others the positives making them want to join in and support the merger with renewed ideas. Productivity...
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...Memo on Management Behaviour Managers must practice the art of getting things done through organisational resources (eg.workers, financial resources, information and equipment).At one time, managers were called bosses, and their jobs consisted of telling people what to do and watching over them to be sure they did it. Bosses tended to reprimand those who didn’t do things correctly and generally acted stern. Many managers still behave that way. Perhaps you’ve witnessed such behaviour.Today, management is more progressive. Such managers are educated, to guide, train, support, motivate and coach employees rather than to tell them what to do. There is much more emphasis on working in teams and team building. Managers of high-tech firms realize that workers often know much more about technology than they do.Thus, most modern managers emphasize teamwork and cooperation rather than discipline and order giving. Managers must give direction to their organisations, provide leadership, and decide how to use organisational resources to accomplish goals. Managers today must deal with conflict resolution, create trust in an atmosphere where trust has been badly shaken, and help create balances between work lives and family lives. A manager’s behaviour can impact productivity of his or her employees through the kind of leadership and vision him or her espouses. Productivity is an important aspect of every company because it measures the output of goods and services relative to the...
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...order to utilize even more business opportunities as our customer base expands rapidly. This will be a challenging process and I am sure our management team is up to the task. This is not to say that there will not be hurdles for even some adversity in the merger process. With that being said, our management team will be a critical cog in the integration process, and our attitudes, conduct, and behaviors will be scrutinized. We must set the example in supporting and driving this merger. Employees from both companies will be looking to management for direction, reassurance, and resolution. There will be many concerns that employees from both companies will have. The employees will fear for their jobs, their positions, their pay, and many other factors. It will be up to us to temper their fears while also managing expectations. We must also be sure to treat the EnviroTech employees fairly and equally. They will be the most anxious and will have more concerns, as it is their company that is being acquired. We must be sensitive to their fears of coming into a new environment and their fears of job security. We will also need to be aware of our own employees’ fears of job security as they may see the influx of EnviroTech workers as a possible threat to their positions. This will be another crucial step for us a management team, creating a cohesive, welcoming atmosphere for all involved. It is imperative that we set the right tone from the start as we...
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...MEMORANDUM TO: II Level Supervisor Team FROM: Bernadette Marks VP. InterClean Sales DATE: December 7, 2009 SUBJECT: Business and Management Practices CC: Board of Directors In response to the recent merger of InterClean and Envirotech Inc, several changes have been implemented in order to ensure the successful and seamless transition of the merge in regards to company policies and practices. It has come to the attention of upper level management, as much excitement that has been circulating via emails, conversations and meetings, there have also been some valid concerns about these changes and how they will effect departments, management and our employees. The important thing to remember is this is normal activity, and what we do to maintain professionalism throughout the duration of these changes will impact the outcome of the success of the merger. The purpose of this memo is to introduce you and your team innovative strategies to positively endure the changes and increase productivity and morale among the employees. As leaders of this company, what we communicate to our teams and the level of professionalism that is displayed plays an integral part in focus and productivity. That being said, the only information that should be presented before the employees are facts. With the surge of hearsay circulating through emails and conversations that has been indicated, we want to make sure as leaders that we are conveying positive messages that...
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...Management Behavior Memo Interclean is preparing to merge with EnviroTech between 90 to 180 days. By merging with EnviroTech our clients will be able to take advantage of not only the products, but also the solutions and services that will be provided. We have made the announcement to all of the employees regarding the merger and since doing so there have been some inconsistencies circulating. This is an exhilarating and receptive time for the company and must be approached in a fragile and professional manner. Unmanaged or caustic behavior of a manager can turn the best job into a dejected one. A negative manager can create an environment of distrust and hostility causing productivity to decrease within the company. The best way to inspire your employees is to center more on the positives relatively than the negatives. Look at your employee’s prospective and what separates them from other employees. As a administrator find ways to create a tension free environment that will inspire your employees to want to come to work on a daily basis. Give them the empowerment to make choices and open the lines of communications. In completing these steps you will most definitely make the merger between InterClean, Inc. and Enviro Tech a successful one. Manager’s Impact on Employee’s Productivity: Various studies have shown and proven as well as every day interactions with managers that employees’ performance and actions of the manager(s) have a harmonizing relationship. Just about...
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...Management Behavior Memo HRM 531 November 15, 2010 Management Behavior Memo To: Supervisors From: Manager CC: David Spencer, President Janet Durham, VP of HR Date: November 15, 2010 The purpose of this memorandum is to remind each of you about the importance of your response and behaviors as a result of this merger with EnviroTech. To this point each of you has done a superb job in maintaining your professionalism and addressing issues as they come up. I want to commend you for your hard work and dedication to making this transition as seamless as possible. There are numerous issues we as a team will see, hear, and experience. These issues will be equally as important and confusing to your employees. I am excited about this merger because of the opportunities it will open for our growing company. Without getting into specifics, this merger will set InterClean up with more resources and expertise to break into a global market and offer services that will be unique to our company. This merger will give us a hand-up on our competition as it will set us apart as the industry leader and allow us to provide mass customizations aimed at our customers. I want to reiterate our responsibilities as supervisors for the five areas of the HRM system we have trained on in the past and they included: Staffing, Retention, Development, Adjustment, and Managing change (Cascio, 2006). Every leader is different and to have a successful merger we will have to face tough challenges...
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...To: Dr. McCarty From: Allison Milack RE: Analysis of Sales Trends Resulting from Promotional Activities Purpose To analyze the effect our promotional activities and our competitor’s promotional activities have on our brand sales and brand share. Method Nielson Scantrack collected the sales and store display data for 32 areas of sales for June 2012. The data show the sales and percent of store displays of frozen spinach for both our brand and our top competitor, DelMonte. The advertising expenditure data for our brand was taken from company records. The analysis was performed to evaluate the relationship between sales of our brand and DelMonte’s under certain variables such as increased ad spending and increased percentage of store displays. Key Findings The promotional activity of our brand has mixed results in terms of brand sales. Our store displays have the strongest positive relationship with Brand Sales of the promotional activity. More displays in a sales area results in higher sales. On the other hand, our advertising expenditures do not have an apparent relationship with brand sales. Lastly, percentage of competitor displays has a negative relationship with brand sales. The more displays a competitor has in a sales area, the less sales our brand makes. Recommendations Because of its low correlation with sales, our brand should cut advertising spending. Put more effort and resources into creating store displays because its relationship...
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...Change Management Memo Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, which is why we are pleased to announce this major change to our corporation. Taco Bell will now be open for breakfast! Our breakfast is going to be launched started in mostly the western states and a select few states in the south that will be on a trial run. Breakfast is going to start around 9:00 o’clock a.m. and we are going to stop serving at 11:00 a.m. The main breakfast item on the menu will be breakfast burritos. Burritos will be filled with eggs, cheese, and the customer’s choice of bacon, sausage, or steak. We will be teaming up with different partners such as Cinnabon©, Seattle’s Best Coffee©, and Johnsonville©. Type of Change Involved The idea is to bring breakfast to the daily menu. Millions of customer visits different fast food restaurants to get breakfast in the mornings and with millions of dollars in profits back in 2014, the purpose is to create a new market and extend our possibilities of growing financially and create a different image that will attract a targeted number of new customers. Ever since the establishment of the company, the growth on popularity was attracted a great percentage of Male customer leaving a great number of possibilities to grow on different demographics. Not only did the menu introduce completely new tastes to the brand, but it’s also helping tap into previously hard-to-reach demographics—women in particular. “People who … may not have been attracted to Taco...
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...Interclean Management HRM/531 May 2, 2011 Memo Interclean Management May 2, 2011 RE: Merger with EnviroTech As you all know, there will be some changes happening around the company with news surrounding the merger with Envirotech. I wanted to take a moment and discuss a few topics with each of you in regards to this merger. Merging two companies’ together is a difficult and stressful process, especially when adding roughly 60 Envirotech employees to our sales staff The topics I wanted to discuss with each of you are, (1) how your behavior can affect the productivity of our employees. (2) Employment Laws and (3) working in a diverse environment Managements Behaviour Communication is vital in regards to behavior. This will be a stressful time for all your employees because of the unknown factor, taking on additional work or training. As managers, your behavior can affect the productivity of your employees, which will cycle down to our customers. I ask each of you to have a positive outlook during the merger and show support to your staff. Recognize those that are going above and beyond their duties as this will help ease some of the stress within the staff and will temporarily help move some of the focus off of the merger. Express to your staff that we plan on ramping up training activates in different area of the company. This will give your staff an opportunity to cross-train which will broaden their skill set. As the merger gets closer, rumors...
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...MEMORANDUM To: CEO From: Elementary Division Manager Date: 30th August, 2012 Subject: Response to the Employee’s Claim As the company is growing with a remarkable pace, the production schedule of the company has been modified and it has been affected from the onset of the New Year. According to the new production schedule, the employees work time has been revised. Now they need to work on different times than the previous time of the usual schedule. The employees which are related to the production related operations have to work for around twelve hours on the 4 days of the week and for them the next four days were holidays. Also the time table of the office staff has been revised. Now they need to work from 8 AM to 5 PM in the weekdays. And the weekends will be off for them. According to the employee who had filed the case against the company has stated that the firm is discriminating on the base of the religion and they need to bring modification in it. The firm is trying to compel the employees to come and work on the religious days too if it comes in between those four days of the production work which is not correct on their part and they need to bring modification to holidays in case of religious occasions. The Civil Rights Act was enacted in the year 1964 and hence known as the Civil Rights Act of 1964. It has several chapters which are related to various aspects of the rights that are provided to the citizens. The aspects range from the basic rights to the rights...
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...Request For Permission To Pursue Research |Paychex, Inc | |Memo To: Frank Fiorille, Director CC: Michael Silsbee, Risk Management Supervisor: Doug Baxter, Credit and Banking Risk Manager From: Danielle Cole Date: 3/16/2010 Re: Request for research proposal Request for Approval I’d like your approval for me to continue with my research on the benefits of switching to a lockbox for our invoice payments. In this memo, you will find some of the highlighted benefits that I feel will help you make your decision for me to continue with this research. A lockbox is a P.O. Box that is set up with our bank that our customers will be able to send their payments too. The bank has a machine that will open, sort and process the checks. Once the day’s checks are processed, the bank will create a file and send it to us. The Information Technology will load the file into our Oracle system and once the nightly processes run, the file will post automatically into our billing system. In my initial research of the benefits of switching to a lockbox, I have found many advantages. Switching to a lockbox could mean a reduction in costs, less errors, it would be more time efficient, and we would have an easier look up process. Switching to a lockbox could save us money by possibly reducing our head count. We have the potential to reduce our head count by two people. We could also save money because we could cut out fuel reimbursement casts. If we had a lockbox, the people...
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...TermPaperWarehouse.com - Free Term Papers, Essays and Research Documents The Research Paper Factory JoinSearchBrowseSaved Papers Home Page » Business and Management Memo to Manager In: Business and Management Memo to Manager Memo Date: March 22, 2010 To: Andre Adams, Program Coordinator of the TerpZone * From: * Adedoyin Ogunbajo, Tournament Coordinator, the TerpZone Subject: Proposal to implement a sign-up fee for all video game tournaments. Purpose The purpose of this proposal is to request your approval to evaluate the current video game tournament sign-up process and ultimately institute an entrance fee for all tournaments starting next semester. Summary When the TerpZone started running the video game tournament series, I personally did not know what to expect, as I was in charge of coming up with a schedule of games, implementing the schedule into the TerpZone calendar, coming up with various ideas to market the various tounrmanents, and actually hosting and running the tournaments. But as the results have shown, the TerpZone video game tournament series has been a huge success, and the attendance numbers have steadily increased as more students become aware of the possibilities that our tournaments offer. However, as this number has continued to increase and I have continued to implement different new strategies and additions to the tournaments, there still lies the problem of what measure of compensation the students...
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...Summary: Carol Teinchek & Bruce Marshall have first started Sundown Bakery. As the business grows, Carol hired two assistant to help her who is Marina from El Salvador and Kim a korean guy. Bruce also hired Maurice a French Canadian as a master baker in Sundown Bakery. Within the next year, two new shops and two kiosks stall have opened; Hans Mikelson was hired as a operation manager. Mikelson have implemented dress code for all employee and employee manual for new employee. All of these changes were announced in memo and distribute to employees. However, Mikelson’s memos have created some issues, experienced worker were furious about receiving orders from bureaucrats and new employee barely knew Bruce and Carol. Besides that, there are seven workers from different countries who now work together in original shop, which affect the quality of communication. Quality product alone is not enough to guarantee the continuing success of Sundown Bakery, they need to improve the quality of communication among the whole company. Question 1 . Communication is a process of transferring a message from one person to another. Effective communication is important when conducting a business; the receiver must able to interpret the meaning of the message correctly. The key element in communication process included sender, message, decoding, feedback, context and noise. The sender is the person who initiates the communication, his ideas or information is encoding into a massage in a form...
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...Memo Review Your name here BCOM/230 August 26, 2013 Instructor name Memo Review Whenever an individual is in any type of a leadership role with their employer, it will be necessary to communicate with other department managers and possibly even upper level management. In this scenario, the boss has requested an overview of LIFO versus FIFO as it would apply to their company. The memo that will be submitted to the boss must be professional. The figures presented in the memo should be as precise as possible so that company officials will not be misled. The use of jargon in a memo is not professional and is not a good idea. Members of the accounting department use jargon when interacting with each another. Jargon and clichés are not uncommon while communicating within your department, but should be avoided when communicating with other department heads and management. This kind of treatment would inform readers that the author doesn't have particular concern for them and the current case is dealt with much in the same manner as others (Lesikar, Flatley, & Rentz, 2008). The memo presented to us for our assignment is an “inter-departmental memo” so the language used in it is acceptable. However, the memo that will be sent to the boss is official correspondence and the content should be presented in a professional manner. The memo alters from casual to official while revising the data. In this scenario, the memo under review is about...
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...Course Reflection December 13, 2015 Dear Professor This course has been very informative. English has never been one of my strong suits. Your course this semester has helped me with strengthening this skill to help prepare me for the business management field. The assignments I felt were most beneficial included the bad news and memo assignments. Being in a management position, there will times that I need to deliver bad news to staff members. This assignment gave me insight on how to handle these types of situations in a professional manner. Memos are an integral part of any office. The memo assignment showed me the proper way to prepare a memo so that it did not look like a personal email. My least favorite assignment was the Persuasive Message. I do not feel that I am very persuasive and this is a skill that I am lacking. It was very helpful by making me practice this skill, but it was not my favorite assignment. I do feel that my writing skills have improved. With writing, there is always room for improvement and the more that you practice your writing skills, the better they will become. Since I want to work in the healthcare management field, my writing skills are going to be used on a daily basis. This course has greatly increased my chances for successful business writing that is professional looking. I would like to thank you for teaching English in a way that could be easily understood. Your feedback was insightful as well as useful. I truly...
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