Castle's Family Restaurant Executive Summary
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Executive Summary Castle’s Family Restaurant is a successful family owned chain of restaurants competing in a dynamic yet economically challenging environment. In order to achieve strategic business objectives and meet the corporate mission for the expanding chain of restaurants, this business plan will address challenges being faced in the payroll function and recommendations for each of these challenges in order for the organization to meet its current and future goals. Jay Morgan who is the operations manager is taking care of payroll responsibilities in addition to many other activities outside of his role. Payroll is a critical function to the organization and manual payroll activities are high risk activities. Implementing a Human Resource Information System for payroll processing will mitigate the risks and will be greatly beneficial to the current and future objectives for this growing organization. Currently Castle’s Family Restaurant utilizes BenefitMall as s solution to other business …show more content…
It also helps meet expectations and outcomes for all stakeholders of Castle’s Family Restaurant. Introduction Castle’s Family Restaurant is a successful and expanding organization. The restaurant is experiencing growing pain with the HR department not being able to implement processes while reducing time and expenses. Jay Morgan, who is the operations manager for the company also takes care of HR management for all eight locations. He feels that implementing an HRIS will help him afford the time and effort to manage this processes from his office at one location. This will reduce cost and will help him manage time. With an automated payroll HRIS system, Castle’s Family Restaurant will become effective and efficient in implementing these processes and provide their employees the necessary services which are easily accessible, secure and
In this essay, the author
- Explains that castell's family restaurant is a successful family owned chain of restaurants competing in dynamic yet economically challenging environments. this business plan addresses payroll challenges and recommendations for the organization to meet its current and future goals.
- Opines that implementing a human resource information system for payroll processing will mitigate the risks and be beneficial to the organization's current and future objectives.
- Opines that using benefitmall for payroll automation will greatly reduce human error and is a cost effective solution. the implementation will reduce risk, improve current payroll process and establish employee business relationship.
- Explains that castell's family restaurant is a successful family owned chain of restaurants competing in dynamic yet economically challenging environments. this business plan addresses payroll challenges and recommendations for the organization to meet its current and future goals.
- Opines that implementing a human resource information system for payroll processing will mitigate the risks and be beneficial to the organization's current and future objectives.
- Opines that using benefitmall for payroll automation will greatly reduce human error and is a cost effective solution. the implementation will reduce risk, improve current payroll process and establish employee business relationship.
- Explains benefitmall's automated payroll system will improve data management and reporting, and meet expectations and outcomes for all stakeholders of castle’s family restaurant.
- Explains that castle's family restaurant is experiencing growing pains with the hr department not being able to implement processes while reducing time and expenses.
- Describes the benefits of an automated payroll hris system for castle's family restaurant.
- Explains that castle's family restaurant business has been in the northern california restaurant vertical for the past ten years.
- Explains that the plans to expand the restaurant business will increase employee hiring and increase the need for an automated payroll system.
- Explains that mr. morgan does all the hr related activities manually. he travels from one location to another administering the necessary hr processes.
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