Sandwich Blitz‚ Inc. opened its doors for business October 15‚ 2004 and now consists of eight locations. It specializes in organically grown food ingredients‚ upscale breakfast and healthy beverages. The President and CEO‚ Dalman Smith and Vice President and CFO‚ Lei Lee are the sole owners. Dalmon and Lei are wishing to expand the business‚ but first they need to conduct a SWOT analysis to determine the strengths‚ weakness‚ opportunities and possible threats involved in the expansion. Sandwich
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Sandwich Blitz is a fast food chain‚ specializing in organic and healthy alternatives. Previously they were without competitors in their store locations. Recently‚ individual stores of the same genre are beginning to make their appearances in the areas of domination by Sandwich Blitz. The goal of the last meeting was to establish a strategic plan to ensure that the company stayed on a senior level in their sales as the competition builds a customer base. Dalman and Lei face several more challenges
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- Strategic Planning: According to Bateman & Snell "Typical strategic goals include growing‚ increasing market share‚ improving profitability" (2010‚ Page 77)‚ which means that Dalman and Lei need to set a long term goals and achieve them for example if they would like to expand they need to set their expansion based on meeting a certain percent of their profit after 4 years of achieving this profit or higher. Implement annual training for their middle management to improve their managerial performances
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Dalman and Lei have discussed two possible avenues to grow and expand Sandwich Blitz‚ Inc. One possible strategy would be to franchise locations. Another strategy would be to secure venture capital to finance an internal expansion by opening more company-owned shops. Dalman feels that he just does not have time to investigate these options because he is spending an increasing amount of his time assisting the location managers. Lei noted that two of the location managers had exhibited a lot of skill
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In order for Lei to effectively apply and enforce the four step control process she would have to begin by updating the employee handbook. By accomplishing this crucial step she would now have set the standard where all future infractions could be measured against. She should determine what worked and did not work with the old handbook as a guide. Her next step in measuring performance is to evaluate each and every employee on a one on one basis with their managers input taken into consideration
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paper I will provide an analysis on the steps that Sandwich Blitz Inc. can take to make an ethical decision regarding the recently passed health codes and the government inspector’s proposal regarding approval of their current set-up. Local health codes have been updated‚ and Sandwich Blitz must comply with these. They currently have a few infractions of the new codes‚ but the government inspector has told a unit manager that if Sandwich Blitz caters their holiday party they will be approved to
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within the Sandwich Blitz company would help the company grow. This will also allow Dalman to have more time to concentrate on the expansion as well. Self-managed teams empower employees most often in manufacturing‚ workers are trained to do all most of the jobs in the unit‚ they have no immediate supervisor‚ and they make decisions previously made by the first-line supervisors (Bateman & Snell‚ 2012). Self-managed teams can offer several possible advantages that could be used at Sandwich Blitz; including
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Grace Smith MT 140: Introduction to Management Unit 7 Assignment May 15‚ 2014 Self-managed teams can be very useful in taking most of the extra stress off of upper level managers. The team is trained to do all the jobs in the store. They are given the freedom to plan and control the work they do. By using self-managed teams Dalman and Lei can invest their time more effectively in expanding the company. They should pick people that are energetic and enthusiastic. Keeping in
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Unit 8 Assignment Dalmen has just been informed by one of his location managers that at this particular location‚ they are in violation of new local health codes. Each of the Sandwich blitz locations is situated on very small parcels of land. This contributed to lower operating expenses for the business and was considered by Dalmen and Lei a competitive advantage. With the new local health codes‚ the location of their out buildings‚ which encloses the trash dumpsters‚ are in violation of these
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teams offer a few advantages that can be used at Sandwich Blitz like having a stronger commitment‚ employee satisfaction‚ and faster product and service development. There are also some drawbacks to having self-managed teams. Self managed teams can be difficult to implement at first and failure is a risk when not implemented at the right time or without the right amount of leadership. Self-managed teams could work to a certain extent at Sandwich Blitz such as having employees cross trained to do different
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