Margaret is a supervisor in the online sales division of a large clothing retailer. She has...

Margaret is a supervisor in the online sales division of a large clothing retailer. She has let it be known that she is devoted to the firm and plans to build her career there. Margaret is hard-working and reliable, has volunteered for extra projects, has taken in-house development courses, and joined a committee dedicated to improving employee safety on the job. She undertook an assignment to research ergonomic office furniture for the head of the department and gave up several lunch hours to consult with the head of human resources about her report. Margaret filed the report late, but she explained the delay by saying that her assistant lost several pages that she had to redraft over the weekend. The report was well received, and several of Margaret’s colleagues think she should be promoted when the next opening arises.

Question: Evaluate Margaret’s skill in building a power base. What actions has she taken that are helpful to her in reaching her goal? Is there anything she should have done differently?

Expert Solution

Power base is the capacity that person A has in order to influence the behaviour of another person Band B does whatever B would not have otherwise done. Whatever explanation Margaret had given after filing the report late , was well taken because Margaret had a good reputation in the firm which she had made by her hard work.So without questioning her report ,which was submitted late was accepted.

Her goal was to build her career in the firm and so she was very devoted to the firm .She was hard working ,reliable and did extra projects. Margaret took an assignment to research on office furniture and submitted the report late giving the excuse that her assistant lost some pages of the report and so she had to redraft them.This was well taken and her colleagues were of the opinion that she deserves a promotion.

Margaret should have spoken the truth instead of blaming her assistant.In recognition of her dedication towards the firm , late submission of the report would have been accepted.

Rahul Sunny answered 1 year ago

Maria works for a retail clothing chain in Ontario. She is a supervisor in the Human...

Maria works for a retail clothing chain in Ontario. She is a supervisor in the Human Resources department and earns $39,000.00 annually, paid on a bi-weekly basis. Her federal and Ontario TD1 claim code is 2. Maria’s employment contract requires her to travel to other store locations to conduct interviews. She must use her own vehicle, and in turn, she receives an annual car allowance of $3,250.00, paid on a pay period basis. As Maria is not required to report...

For planning purposes, senior executives at a large national clothing maker and retailer need to understand and forecast quarterly sales revenue.

For planning purposes, senior executives at a large national clothing maker and retailer need to understand and forecast quarterly sales revenue. The available data are contained in the table attached below. The data is in units of hundreds of millions of dollars ($100M). You have been tasked with describing the historical data and with developing preliminary forecasts for 2018 based on the historical data from the first quarter of 2011 (quarter 1) through the last quarter of 2017 (quarter...

You are the manager of a large but privately held online retailer that currently uses 17...

You are the manager of a large but privately held online retailer that currently uses 17 unskilled workers and 6 semiskilled workers at its warehouse to box and ship the products it sells online. Your company pays its unskilled workers the minimum wage but pays the semiskilled workers $12.75 per hour. Thanks to government legislation, the minimum wage in your state will increase from $10.25 per hour to $10.75 per hour on July 24, 2017. Discuss the short-run implications of...

You are a corporate accountant for a distribution company that provides distribution services to a large online retailer.

You are a corporate accountant for a distribution company that provides distribution services to a large online retailer. Your company extensively uses conveyor belts to move shipping boxes and their contents through its warehouse. The seams in the company's conveyor belts have started to jam periodically at times bringing the belts to a stop. The company has invested $ 100,000 to apply a special bonding agent to the belt's seams so they won't jam anymore. By applying this bonding agent,...

1. Margaret has to buy a car to get to work and school, and she can’t...

1. Margaret has to buy a car to get to work and school, and she can’t spend more than $580 a month. If she gets a 5-year loan at 6% interest, what is the largest loan that Margaret can get with her price constraint? A) $20257 B) $34800 C) $25056 D) $30001 2. Jason has applied for a $17000 car loan to be repaid in four years in the form of monthly payments at the end of every month. If...

E-books, an online book retailer, has two operating departments—corporate sales and consumer sales—and two support departments—human...

E-books, an online book retailer, has two operating departments—corporate sales and consumer sales—and two support departments—human resources and information systems. Each sales department conducts merchandising and marketing operations independently. E-books uses number of employees to allocate human resources costs and processing time to allocate information systems costs. The following data are available for September 2017: Support Departments Operating Departments Human Resources Information Systems Corporate Sales Consumer Sales Budgeted costs for each department $72,700 $234,400 $998,270 $489,860 Budgeted Number of Employees...

A clothing retailer is selling a fashion print tee that retails for $22.95 and has a...

A clothing retailer is selling a fashion print tee that retails for $22.95 and has a total landed cost of $15.35 per unit. A new print is released each month, and any leftover inventory from the previous month is deeply discounted to $6.95 to clear space for new product. Assume that all units sell at the clearance price. Based on sales in previous months, you've determined that full-price demand for each fashion tee is normally distributed with mean 1,380 and...

Gloria is a seasoned sales manager with a very large international company. Although she has a...

Gloria is a seasoned sales manager with a very large international company. Although she has a great deal of experience with sales, she has little experience with investing. Gloria has been investing in her company’s 401K plan. However, she has decided to invest some extra money on her own. Gloria has $75,000 she would like to invest. Since she has recently signed up for internet access to a broker, she is allowed a small number of phone calls to a...

You are the technology auditor for a medium size online retailer. With the growth, it has...

You are the technology auditor for a medium size online retailer. With the growth, it has been very difficult for the Information Technology (IT) group to keep up with the hardware requirements and new software for all the various smartphone applications. Although there would be reduction of most of the IT staff the CIO has done a complete analysis of moving to a Cloud Computing solution with Amazon Web Services. With this change, all IT functions for the primary application...

You are an auditor of a retailer that operates entirely online and has no physical inventory...

You are an auditor of a retailer that operates entirely online and has no physical inventory on site beyond that necessary to operate. What auditing techniques would you use to check on sales, cost of goods sold, expenses, receivables, and cash? You may use a specific firm as an example.

Question