Question

Please respond with detailed feedback, do you agree? why or why not?

Macy’s, a multi-billion dollar company, has announced plans to restructure in order to stay afloat. Part of that restructure was laying off 4 thousand employees, an overwhelming task for HR. Whether you were getting laid off or moving forward with the company, every single employee had to be contacted. That was a lot of phone calls involving manual work for the HR department. In the future there should be an automated function for these tasks, howeverThey have made plans to completely restructure how they sell and these plans will begin taking effect in July. I am a shoe expeditor and our jobs will be changing. The shoe departments will be open-sell (help yourself) systems where we will get less hours. In my opinion, it opens the department up to more theft, as people already ‘try on’ shoes and swap out the new shoes with their old ones when employees are not looking. It could be a recipe for disaster.

Answer 1

One of the most important things about organizations is that they are very dynamic and in any given condition, they would look to maximize their profit in order to serve their stakeholders and shareholders better. This would mean that for a company, even people are one of the production or service input just like the capital, building and raw material. Thus, they wouldn’t care how many go jobless, but would only about how much they could save through this restructuring. The proposed open-sell or help yourself practice is the increased trust the company has on the customers that would save most of their operating costs in terms of number of people employed to serve the customers. Although there are chances that one or two may involve in theft, it would still save more money for them. Besides, the electronic surveillance cameras would help the organization keep an eye on those who involve in theft.

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