Tim Hortons: Business Analysis

I have chosen to discuss two examples, in relation to how the changing economic and competitive pressures have impacted organizations, and what these organization's reaction has been.

My first example is Bulk Barn (where I work). Which is a small organization. The company has Franchises who can have one or more stores, and are responsible for keeping the store up and running. The store I am at is part of a new development in Findlay Creek. The store does not bring in enough revenue to support itself, resulting in having to borrow money from Corporate to refrain from closure. In time this will hopefully change as they expand more businesses, houses, schools making more jobs for people available. So far it has affected the business negatively resulting in cutbacks. For example a Bulk Barn store in Toronto might have six employees working at one time, where as in our store we have half that to save costs. Therefore we do less recruiting / hiring, and the employees we do have are trained with extensive knowledge. All of the
The business beside them which was a grocery store closed its doors in 2010, resulting in less sales for Tim Hortons. With a slow economy organizations all over the country have to make changes in order to operate functionally. So like most organizations it affected the employees the most. Tim Hortons cut back their employees by almost half.They also changed many employees to contingent employees.There was a management team of 13 which was cut back to 6. Out of the seven management workers who were cut, four downgraded to non-management jobs else where, where they were overqualified. My brother was part of the half that did not get cut. However it affected him and the rest of the employees greatly. They had to work longer shifts and do a lot more duties than before.Tim Hortons lost almost a quarter of the employee due to mistrust and