One way in which businesses today are dealing with travel costs is having online meetings. Here's one way:
http://www.gotomeeting.com/online/enter
Another saving could be having the employees' pay delivered by direct deposit into their bank accounts instead of printing and distributing (even maybe mailing) checks.
Those are just two ideas. What else do you think could be addressed here?
Scenario:
Castle’s Family Restaurant has eight restaurants in the northern California area with approximately 300–340 employees. Most of the employees are part time, with approximately 40% of them full time. The operations manager, Jay Morgan, also acts as the HR manager and travels to each location each week to take care of scheduling, recruiting, hiring, and answering questions for the employees as needed. He also takes care of payroll using an Excel spreadsheet and has a computer application to print payroll checks. Mr. Morgan approaches you, an HR consultant, for a proposal. Due to the increase in gasoline costs, he would like to greatly reduce his travel time for visiting each location each week and wonders if there is anything you can suggest to him to help him complete his HR tasks in a cost-effective manner. He hopes there is some way he can do part of his HR tasks from his office instead of traveling to each location.
This is the part that I need some assistance with:
BUSINESS ASSESSMENT: the name, type, and size of business you’re assisting. Make assumptions in your business description using theory as needed and include the information in your paper for this case scenario. These assumptions would include background about a restaurant work environment and industry.
What are some of the theories that I could mention on this assignment?
I think that I can answer this question if I know what to look for. What are some of the assumptions that I can make from this scenario? Is it referring to the HR functions and how it affects business? Please help me with this part of the assignment.
Thanks,
Kathy
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