Case Study #1 1 Perfect Pizzeria – A Not-So Perfect Organization In the case study Perfect Pizzeria, the area supervisor has many problems that need his attention. The largest appears to be the organization. In this case study I will assume that the area supervisor has the authority to affect change within his organization (i.e. he is the franchise owner). Being in an area with few job opportunities should give him the perfect opportunity to recruit bright, ambitious, and motivated people
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Case Analysis: Perfect Pizzeria I. Statement of the Problem Perfect Pizzeria has no formalized training nor was there any systematic criterion for becoming a manager. This led to a low effort to performance expectancy as the managers doubted their capability to perform the duties as a manager effectively. Hence, the managers lacked the confidence and knowledge to take initiative in solving certain problem that occurred during business operations. Also, the employees are not motivated to
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“The only thing worse than training employees and losing them is to not train them and keep them.” - Zig Ziglar. Perfect Pizzeria of Southville, Illinois is a large franchise chain that was prospering, but had big issues between employees and managers. The problems all began because the company does not have an organized structure within the organization. The environment shows a lack of motivation, effective management skills, ambition with poor performance, and low job satisfaction. From the
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Case 6 A: “Perfect Pizzeria, or Not?” Case 6 A: “Perfect Pizzeria, or Not” Case Summary Perfect Pizzeria is located in Southville, Illinois. Each operation has one manager, an assistant manager, and from two to five night managers. Employees were mostly college students, with a few high school students that usually performed less challenging duties. The Perfect Pizzeria system is devised so that food and beverage costs are computed according to a percentage. If the percentage of food
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Week 2 - Case A - Perfect Pizzeria 1. Consider the situation where the manager changed the time period required to receive free food and drink from 6 to 12 hours of work. Try to apply each of the motivational approaches to explain what happened. Which of the approaches offers the most appropriate explanation? Why? The manager’s retaliatory approach to lower the loss percentage was not a motivational factor for the employees at all when he changed the number of hours employees had to work to
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Olympia Lewis 11-02-2014 Professor Kenneth Lewis HRM 530 As CEO of Donatos Pizza, I am going to compare 2 positions from Undercover- Boss season 5 episodes 3 and perform a job analysis of each position. Also, I will describe my method of collecting the information for the job analysis, create a job description from the job analysis. Lastly, I would justify my belief that the job analysis and job description are in compliance with state and federal regulations. My name is Olympia Payne
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Sean Pack BUS 101 OCA Donatos Pizza 1. We decided to use a total of 3 employees for cooks in the kitchen at Donatos. The number of 3 would not only help us with making orders, but also with the clean duties after the rush hours. In the year or so, HR will extend our cook employees to 4 per shift for better efficiency. 2. As a Pizza/ Fast Food chain, yes we do compete for employees. We feel that the atmosphere, our salaries and benefits, interest our potential employees
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What are the characteristics of a perfectly competitive market? What are the implications for accounting profit in a perfectly competitive market? What about economic profit? Perfectly competitive markets are characterized by low sunk costs, perfect information, no entry or exit costs, no search costs, identical products and an infinite numbers of sellers. In a perfectly competitive market there are many firms and many buyers, all of which are price takers, meaning they have no control over
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business environment that affect the business operations of a company include political, economic, technological, environmental, cultural, and demographical factors. This essay will explain various markets structures which are monopoly, oligopoly, perfect competition and monopolistic competition. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the impacts of different environmental factors on the business operations of Barclays. The discussion has been made in the light of international accepted microeconomics
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Strategy Simulation Game Name: University: Course: Section: Instructor: Date: Table of Contents Introduction 2 Pure Monopoly 2 Oligopoly 3 Monopolistic Competition 4 Perfect Competition 4 Relation with Porter's Five Force Model 4 Conclusion 6 References 7 Strategy Simulation Game Introduction This paper explains the use of economics in managerial decision making based on the simulation. It describes decision making process of management in different market structures. The main objective
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