Group 5 - Case Write-Up # 2 Background As a largest nation-wide auto glass company maintaining the largest market share‚ Safelite faced what was called ‘glass ceiling’ in productivity. Low productivity as well as traditionally high turnover rate were a crucial issue‚ especially accompanying with high installation demand‚ if Safelite could not find an effective way to address this surplus installation demand brought in largely by the strategy of creating partnership with insurance companies and
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MGMT 3110 Case 3 Sin Ho Man 20052982 1. Why was the productivity of Safelite installers so low? Does the proposed PPP plan address the low productivity problem? The low productivity of Safelite installers stems from the lack of hard work of workers. Besides‚ low productivity is also due to their difficulty in finding the correct location when they arrived or the customers are not at the stated location. Also‚ those technician had been give unclear or even wrong direction to go to the stated location
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Why was the productivity of Safelite installers so low? Ans) Safelite was the largest nation-wide auto glass company in the United States with about 500 stores‚ more than 3000 employees and 3000 trucks. The company has started mobile services and gained 12% of market share. Although Safelite offered mobile service from virtually all of its stores by the early 1990s‚ the main focus of the company was to serve the customers at their place and the trend of the stores was decreasing so forth. The
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Performance Pay at Safelite Auto Glass Safelite Auto glass introduction of the proposed PPP plan to increase the productivity of the installers is going to bring more problems for the organization. One of the major reasons for this is the decrease of the technicians guarantee rate by 30% after 12 week period. This plan will increase the already existing turnover rate even higher. The problem with the PPP rate is that not all technicians will get the opportunity to increase their productivity.
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Ritz-Carlton of extending the training? • Safelite Auto Glass 1. Reflect upon a time you worked (part-time). Were you motivated by pay? Or‚ by other factors? Explain. 2. Why was the productivity of the Safelite installers so low? 3. Does the proposed PPP plan address the problems described in question 2? Does it introduce new problems? Explain. 4. What are the pros and cons of switching from wage rates to piece rate pay? Are Safelite installers good candidates for piece-rate
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TRADEMARKS What is a Trademark A TRADEMARK is a word‚ phrase‚ symbol or design‚ or combination of words‚ phrases‚ symbols or designs is used in the course of trade which identifies and distinguishes the source of the goods or services of one enterprise from those of others. A trademark is different from a copyright or a patent or geographical indication. A copyright protects an original artistic or literary work; a patent protects an invention whereas a geographical indication is used to identify
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through the design of work.” Organizational Behavior and Human Performance 16 (1976): 250–279. Hall‚ B.J.‚ H. Lane‚ and J.P. Lim. “Akamai’s underwater options (A).” HBS Case No. 902-069‚ 2002. Hall‚ B.J.‚ E. Lazear‚ and C. Madigan. “Performance Pay at Safelite Auto Glass (B).” HBS Case No. 800-292‚ 2000. Holmstrom‚ B. “The firm as a subeconomy.” Journal of Law‚ Economics and Organization 9 (1999): 74–102. Holmstrom‚ B. and P. Milgrom. “The firm as an incentive system.” American Economic Review 84 (1994):
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AND PRODUCTIVITY Nicholas Bloom John Van Reenen Working Paper 16019 http://www.nber.org/papers/w16019 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge‚ MA 02138 May 2010 This paper has been prepared for a chapter in the Handbook of Labor Economics Volume IV edited by David Card and Orley Ashenfelter. We would like to thank the Economic and Social Research Council for their financial support through the Center for
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PART 5—LOOKING TO THE FUTURE Chapter 16—SUPPLY CHAIN PROCESS INTEGRATION AND A LOOK TOWARDS THE FUTURE For those for whom integration is not happening‚ the future is bleak and getting darker.1 There is a lot of value that is “trapped” between the processes trading partners use to transact business‚ and when companies work together‚ they can unlock that value and share its benefits.2 LEARNING OBJECTIVES After completing this chapter‚ you should be able to: Discuss and compare internal
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