Inside the Clothing Store For years in a row, the Clothing Store was rated as on
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Question
Inside the Clothing Store For years in a row, the Clothing Store was rated as one of the best employers in the geographic area. What makes a retailer that sells both men’s and women’s clothing a great place to work provides some insight for other employers striving to improve individual performance and retention. At the heart of the Clothing Store’s culture are these key ideas: Educate your employees Compensate employees competitively Insure fair and equitable treatment As a result, the store consistently has highly motivated and enthusiastic employees. Also, its turnover rate is 80% lower than other retailers in the area. The store takes considerable time and effort to hire employees who “fit” the company’s culture and values. This effort means additional recruiting and selection attention by HR staff and operating managers. The firm also pays higher wages than many retailers and offers a competitive benefits package. Incentive programs allow some hourly employees to earn extra competitive averaging an additional 25% of base pay. The firm also spends considerable time training its employees, which is much more than the annual training typical at other retailers. Extensive use of internal promotions demonstrates the firm’s commitment to providing career opportunities for employees. At the store locations managers are expected to keep in constant communication with employees, help out in various jobs in the stores, and be more team leaders than “supervisors.” HR professionals have responsibilities in some areas of store operations, so that they maintain a sense of what employees and managers face daily and weekly. All of these activities take considerable effort, but the payoffs make them worthwhile. Sales at the firm have increased annually and the number of customers has increased as well. Obviously, the Clothing Store has the “right outfit” that enables its employees to be significant contributors to its success.
Questions
2. Compare the culture at your present employer to the culture suggested by the examples at the Clothing Store. Then identify recommendations you would make to the executives where you work.
Explanation / Answer
In this specific case, store has a perfect culture where each and every employee is treated according to the moral as well as the standard code of ethics and operation. This type of approach directly creates an extensive support to the overall workplace structure improving its efficiency as well as productivity. Providing proper compensation as well as consistently looking into the satisfaction rate of the employees are the best practices implemented by the organisation for retention of the high employee turnover as well as employee commitment by a huge margin.
As learning from the culture of the clothing store I would suggest that implementation of the strong communication program at our organisation is required. The compensation process is also a major Reform area that have to be done. As our organisation lacks the availability of a proper communication center for employees of our organisation can discuss their problem should also be implemented as it would increase the overall satisfaction level of the employees. Level of accuracy in deliverance of the compensation as well as timely survey for employee satisfaction and probable changes should also be done in our organisation as this reference is relatively at a very deteriorated state. By following the guidelines from the clothing store we can easily implement changes in our organisation that would boost our internal competency as well as provide a positive effect on availability to create for more efficient working place benefiting the organisation in a very positive manner. Combining all of these approaches and creating a very strong bond between the managerial and employee departments would also their major approach in terms of improving the beneficiaries capabilities that could increase overall effectiveness of the organisation in a better way.
Availability of all of these factors implemented in our organisation would boost the level of cultural aspect as well as implementation of better standard in internal operation creating a better environment for employees to work, increasing the efficiency as well as the productivity of the organisation.
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