...CASE STUDY NO 01: Questions: 1. Consider the variable pay programs discussed in this chapter. Of which type of program is Applebee’s program an example? Explain. Answer: The variable pay program which Applebee’s International restaurant has adopted is Gain Sharing Plan. It is basically a technique that compensates workers based on improvements in the company's productivity. Gain sharing has a simple, but essential purpose to involve staff in helping to improve our business. Referring to the case study , Face(senior manager of Applebee’s International restaurant)decided to adopt the gain sharing policy in order to minimize travel cost by attracting own employees towards travel benefits. He offered free domestic tickets to those employees who will use travel for 6 or more times in a year. Thus this strategy gave excellent results to the company and they were able to overcome travel expenses. 2. If you were asked to revise the Applebee’s program to include more individual incentives, how might you do that? Answer: Employee motivation is a vital process to increase a company’s profitability. I believe that there are many ways to motivate your employer. You can use financial or intrinsic rewards to motivate the employees. In some extend financial rewards fall back, and intrinsic rewards get the employees motivation. In this case, motivating the employees to use a proper system and fly more than six times a year is a great deal of management. For this purpose...
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...Final Assignment (Term Paper) : Research Focus and Methodologies for Understanding Innovation in Small-Medium Enterprises (SMEs) Course : Qualitative Case Study Research Faculty : Prof. Rajen Gupta, MDI Submitted by : Davinder Singh, EFPM (2011) Research Focus and Methodologies for Understanding Innovation in Small - Medium Enterprises (SMEs) Introduction Innovation is a product, service, or process that is new or perceived as new by its developers and provides increased value to user and organization (Van de Ven, 1986). The ability of an organization to innovate is increasingly being considered as the most important factor for competitive advantage (Tidd et al., 2001). Importance has been laid on building innovative organizations and the management of the innovation process with the organizations. This is increasingly being considered important for small-medium enterprises (SMEs) and has been researched from multiple perspectives. The aim of this paper is to discuss, the areas of innovation in SMEs which are focus of recent studies, and the various research methodologies utilized for these studies. The importance to study innovation in SMEs is discussed in the succeeding section. This is followed with discussion on research studies undertaken in this field in the recent past. The difference in the ontological perspective and the consequent use of different research methodologies has been discussed using construct of ‘knowledge’ as illustration. Innovation...
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