Vetements Ltee is a chain of men’s retail clothing stores located throughout the province of Quebec‚ Canada. Two years ago‚ the company introduced new incentive systems for both store managers and sales employees. Store managers receive a salary with annual merit increasing based on sales above targeted goals‚ store appearance‚ store inventory management‚ customer complaints‚ and several other performance measures. Some of this information (e.g.‚ store appearance) is gathered during visits by senior
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Vêtements Ltée by Steven L. McShane University of Western Australia Perth‚ Australia This case may be used by current adopters of: S. L. McShane Canadian Organizational Behaviour‚ 5th ed. (Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson‚ 2004); S. L. McShane & M. A. von Glinow‚ Organizational Behavior‚ 3rd ed. (Boston: McGraw-Hill‚ 2005); S. L. McShane & T. Travaglione‚ Organisational Behaviour on the Pacific Rim‚ 1st ed. (Sydney: McGraw-Hill Australia‚ 2003) Copyright © 1995 Steven L. McShane Vêtements Ltée Vêtements
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goals and increase profits and customer loyalty‚ or the incentive programs might create competitiveness and back-stabbing among employees‚ and that is not best way to run a company. Vetements Ltee encountered competitiveness and back-stabbing among employees when it introduced its new incentives program. Vêtements Ltée is a chain of men’s retail clothing stores located throughout Quebec‚ Canada. In 1993 the company introduced a new incentive system for store managers and sales employees. Each store
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of Case: Vetements Ltee Date Due: November 6‚ 2012 Problem Statement Who has to make recommendation/decision: Vetements Ltee Executives Has to do what: Adjust the incentive systems for both store managers and sales employees. Why: The sales employees began to engage in activities that had an adverse effect on inventory management‚ employee cooperation‚ and customer relations. When: Immediately To Whom do they make recommendation: To the store managers of Vetements Ltee retail stores
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Individual weekly case assignment – Vetements Ltee RUIWEN RAN (N01014875) MGMT- 1500-OLG 1. What symptom(s) in this case suggest that something has gone wrong? A men’ retail clothing store in Quebec called Vetements Ltee which introduced new incentive systems‚ which are salary with commission based on several performance measurements. The goal of the new incentive systems are that encouraging either store managers or employees to serve customers better in order to improve sales volume. Actually
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NO HANDWRITTEN submissions will be accepted! Apply chapter material throughout your analysis of the case (expand/contract table boxes to fit your content). Case Title: Vetements Ltee Key Person: Sales staff of Vetements Ltee Case Overview Who is the case about? This case is about the sales staff that work at the Vetements Ltee (A chain of men ’s retail clothing stores located throughout Quebec). What is the current situation? The senior management start to receive complains from the store managers
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In The Answer Is No‚ the narrative describes the story of a school teacher who went through a difficult time dealing with her personal and psychological conflict. In her painful memory of childhood‚ she was violated by her tutor (schoolmaster) who came over her house to give her private lessons. It happened when her parents were not home and she was not aware of his shameful action. Furthermore‚ he was trying to cover his serious sin by convincing her that everything was normal and that he loved
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"The Answer is No" Historical content is not necessary for the reader to understand the short story "the Answer is No" by Naguib Mahfouz. It is possible to understand the theme of the story without knowing the author’s background or the story’s historical context. "The Answer is No" is about a fourteen year old girl who gets sexually assaulted by her new tutor who is of the same age as her father. The tutor tries to convince her to marry him in exchange for her education at a prestigious College
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