TANGLEWOODS

Tanglewoods - Organizational business strategies

Tanglewoods - Organizational business strategies

Introduction

People management is a term alternatively known as Human resource management. As suggested by the title, people management has under its umbrella the recruitment and selection of candidates as well as management. It provides ongoing support to current employees. This support can be in various forms, such as compensation, hiring, performance issues and performance management, organizational development and safety, wellness, welfare, benefits and employee motivation. People management also arranges and takes care of training, communication hierarchy, and administration and employee satisfaction issues. In managing employees within an organization, it is necessary for the manager to focus on n issues like hiring the right candidates out of a pool of hopefuls. This is then followed by ensuring the potential of candidates can be fully utilized. Some organizations cannot fulfill this task and employees remain on the same level they started out as for a long time. This results in employee dissatisfaction and de-motivation.

Tanglewoods is an organization that exists boldly despite strong competitors and severe risk factors, thus demands respect in the retail industry. It is a retain chain store that houses clothing, appliances, electronics and a home décor section. With its fairly high end product range, the chain store has distinguished itself over time and is considered a household name. However, it is currently facing issues in terms of its human resource and severe competition. In this paper, I will be examining the factors disrupting the flow of profits in the organization, with recommendations as to what can be done to ensure smooth operational management.

Discussion

Tanglewoods is a large company that operates in the moderate pricing niche and is known to target the middle and upper-middle classes. While the company has been doing well as per its loyal customers and is managing its operations in 12 states very diligently, there are certain factors that are impeding its growth and expansion plans. The number of staff employed for each state is varied and is according to the need of the store, but due to these variations the expansion strategy which was supposed to occur during the 1990's has been delayed and is causing problems for the organization as a whole. The corporate administration of the organization is under pressure to come up with a better decision process in terms of the operations, structure and competition faced by the organization. While the organizational structure of Tanglewoods is based around the philosophy that employee participation will lead to profitability and customer satisfaction. There are a total of 273 Tanglewoods strores spread across the nation.

Current operating environment , structure, culture and human resource

Tanglewoods expanded very quickly over a short period of time, thus its human resource management had to make quick decisions as per the lilely candidates, especially since were so many needed across the United States in its 273 stores. The corporate culture of the organization focuses on strengths such as quality of the product ranges available under the umbrella of Tanglewoods rather than the services being ...