Environment
The working environment at Keller Technology is much favourable for its employees since they can enjoy full benefits. It provides the ability for employees to flexibly exercise their skills and resources that enable them to perform optimally. The internal and external factors at KTI have a great influence on employee's performance. Despite the favourable working conditions provided for employees, performance level has been outlined to be low and profits have subsided over the years.
This poor performance can be attributed to a working environment with a low quality human capital mix. Instead of implementing the RIF programs that aims for mass employee lay off, the working environment should be modified. This could include good
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The transformation from a huge 1500 workforce to a 25% reduction of employees may change the profitability capabilities for the company, but it is not the best option since it will not have the best interests at heart for the employees. The required transformation should be an overhaul outlook on myriads of aspects that may be affecting the company.
For example, there is the possibility that the company may be producing and selling products that are outdated thus causing customers to opt for alternative products or high-quality products from other companies. The management policies and skills may also be contributing to the poor sales performance among other factors. However, in a bid for transformation to occur from a low performing company to a major industry player and profit generating company, employee transfer, and better marketing skills and trends must be emulated. RFI should be the last result in case everything else
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The dilemma presented by the RFI impeding decision is prompted by performance decline in the company. KTI is proving to invest so much in its employees while the return for this investment is constant poor performance in sales. In addition, paying huge workforce a lot of money while earning little profit would mean that the company is liable to make losses.
Improving the overall productivity and employee performance is the main solution to low profits problem as compared to RFI. Improving on the quality of her products would see to it that a larger customer base is attracted, and the loyalty of the remaining customers is enhanced. In the case of KTI, costs are seen to be so high due to the high benefits awarded to the employees as well as salaries to her employees. There thus the need to reduce the high operation costs and the massive retirement benefits given to the employees. This will mean that balancing spending to the revenue generated by the company will be a
The next problem is poor morale. Morale is the job satisfaction, outlook, and feelings of an employee. Right now, employees do not feel secure within the business and are rebelling against it. They do not have a positive outlook for the future of the business and feel betrayed because of all of the people getting let go. The employees right now have a poor morale due to all these factors.
Ramona the pest by Beverly Cleary is a silly, exciting and fun book to read. Ramona is excited about the first day of kindergarten. But when she gets there it isn’t what she thought it would be like. Ramona is distracted about another classmate’s hair and can’t wait any longer to touch her hair. Ramona gets in trouble a few times but then gets over it. Her sister Beezus (Beatrice) thinks that she is a pest and everybody in her neighborhood thinks she’s a pest. At first when she starts kindergarten she loves her teacher but when Ramona gets in trouble a few times she’s beginning to thinks her teacher doesn’t like her anymore.
The recommendation I would like give to K&T is to set up appropriate strategy to expand the business size to increase the market share and to maximize the net profit of K&T.
The humorous essay City Critters makes it clear that humans with their creation of vast amounts of waste have a great deal of responsibility for the pest problem in cities by. In this essay I will discuss how humans could be pest to.
The case deals with two major transformational organisational changes that take place within a span of 5 years in Marconi PLC. The first change process was under the leadership of Lord Simpson who took over this large diversified conglomerate in 1996 when the company was in a mature phase, already in decline. The company was under performing, had a rigid structure, lacked a clear vision and the employees had become change averse and complacent. To recharge the company Lord Simpson lead a change process with a clear vision with a growth oriented strategy, acquisition and a cultural change process for the employees. To motivate the employers to embrace the cultural change he introduced an attractive stock option plan.
In order to attract new employees; sales profits and production will play a major part in recruiting top managers to execute a plan in the next 3 years that will need to involve a quality management performance base pay. The first performance metric that should be tracked is the customer satisfaction score, this will help improve the sales profits. Customer satisfaction score should be measured internally and externally by doing so it will help the organization identify where changes are needed. The next metric is productivity; Weave Tech wants to offer some new quality products that attract more than just military customers. In order to launch a new product, the organization should determine the cost per unit and determine the output cost as well. If these metrics are met the organization will have no problem attracting and retaining new employees. (Ops, 2012) Dealing with the firing and hiring of new employees can become expensive as well detrimental to the morale of the company. Having an employee satisfaction score card can help the organization determine employee needs and overall feelings about the organization. Collecting a survey on things that matter to their employees will give the organization an idea of their needs which will help improve production. (Ops,
Russian General Gregor Alexei Pestro stood alone on the beach at Tybee Island Georgia. Just 15 miles east of Savannah, he watched as several landing craft rambled onto the beach from transport vessels at sea that brought them here from Mother Russia. Tank-like treads rattled with the moan of diesel engines as the bobbing heads of his comrades-in-arms held a salute for their general. From here, the landing vehicles would transport troops and supplies to Hunter Army Air Field just a bit south of Midtown Savannah.
“A segment is a set of buyers who share common needs or characteristics”(Marketing by Tony Gray (2000))
The main problems that are affecting the company were the high level of labour turnover, below target production rates, high levels of scrap, the employees had little input in the decision making, therefore resulting in low motivation and job satisfaction, and didn't have enough feedback on there performance. Added to this was the conflict between the supervisors and employees in the production and packing areas, and the grading and payment levels wasn't satisfactory to the employees.
We are facing a human resource crunch on our two fronts: The Engineers and designers i.e. the executive level staff as well as the Leaders who can efficiently manage the business. Improper use of good talent has led to high rate of attrition.
TTI was in Israel. Ultimately, the two companies had a completely different point of view on management and financial spending. TEOCO’s management was cost-conscious while TTI was willing to overspend on shows and other marketing activities (Calo et al., n.d.). Finally, the third problem associated with the means of acquisition as the way of how TEOCO was doing its business. The case mentioned the differences of TEOCO’s post-acquisition between TA and TTI and how the company would be able to handle debt and financial leverage to acquire a larger target (Calo et al., n.d.).
Today work environment company are expecting very high demand from manager and workers that they over sea about job performance to keep than motivated to do they tasks. First the manager has to meet executive level manager’s goals and productivity to keep a companies success. The test book reading stated Organization is people working together to achieve a common goals, that goals also can evaluate the issues about the absenteeism in the workforce. Manager are govern by four functions to keep a business delay functions work first Planning setting performance, second Organization to process assigning tasks, third Leading to process a arousing environment by inspiring others, four controlling to process of measuring work performance.
A chasm between management theory and practice leaves behind the harrowing question of how to improve employee work performance. Research has proven that some methods are more fitting than others on a situational basis. The key is to adopt practices that work the best for an organization’s goals and capabilities and consciously work towards progression. However, having a strategy to improve performance goals and objectives, are often only as effective as the people who have the responsibility for seeing them through. A strategy that is ineffective or poorly used can often cause more damage than good by reducing morale, creating confusion and decreasing performance. There are numerous ways to tackle more suitable practices that can add
The Chemical Pest Control A pest is usually seen as an organism potentially hazardous to health and is in competition with humans for space food or soil. Pesticides are any chemical or biological agent that kills plant or animal pests; herbicides, insecticides, fungicides, rodenticides, etc. are all pesticides. There are various types of chemical pesticides available such as contact pesticides which are sprayed directly onto the crop, systematic pesticides, which are sprayed on the crop but absorbed by the leaves and transported through the plant, and residual pesticides which are sprayed on the soil before the crop is planted. An ideal pesticide should: - Be specific-toxic only to the targeted organism - Not persist- but be unstable enough to break down into harmless substances and; - Not pass accumulate along the food chain I will now, using examples, assess the advantages and disadvantages of using chemical pest control, then come to a conclusion. Pesticides have been used for some time, and have been used in large amounts in most parts of the world to try and control human diseases however it has been debated whether or not they’re seen as ‘good’.
Performance is defined as a role of individual ability, skills and effort in a given situation. Performance depends on an individual’s perception, values and attitudes. Job performance is an accomplishment of the specific work related tasks or skills by an employee. Besides, employee behaviour is also necessary for an organization to be smooth, cooperate and communicate well in the organization to achieve gaols. There is some reciprocal relationship between job satisfaction and job performance. Satisfaction can cause performance, performance can cause satisfaction and rewards affect both performance and satisfaction. If employees are satisfied and committed to their job, they are more willing to take additional responsibilities without increasing their salaries. Then, their levels of commitments are high and they are more enjoyable in their work place. When employees are happy, they are more probably to have a positive attitude on life and more enthusiastic and productive. Otherwise, if employees are dissatisfied on their job, they are demotivated and they are not participating in any organizational activities, means lack of commitment.