Tanglewood case

TANGLEWOOD CASEBOOK Name: Grade Course: Tutor’s Name: (29, October, 2010) Tanglewood Casebook Answer 1 1 EMBED Excel.Sheet.8 
 Environmental scan Tanglewood may be faced with a difficulty in filling their vacancies in the future. The first factor is the reluctance by college graduates to move to the retail market which the graduates consider as tough working conditions and yet the pay there is low. This situation maybe made worse by the fact that a forecast on the Pacific West unemployment situation may be changing in future. This will make it difficult for Tanglewood to get external employees to fill the managerial positions that the urban graduates are reluctant to take. Gap Analysis Of the 8,500 store associates required 3,655 will remain thus 4,845 positions will need to be filled. Tanglewood requires 1,200 shift leaders of which 648 will remain in that position, 510 of the store associates will be promoted to the position of shift leaders, thus only 42 more shift leaders will need to be externally recruited. There are 850 positions for the department managers, of which 544 will stay in this position, 192 will be promoted from the shift leaders’ position and 9 will move from the assistant store managers position thus 105 more positions will need to be filled. The company requires 150 assistant stores managers of which 78 will remain in that position, 51 will be promoted from assistant managers position thus 21 positions will remain unfilled. Of the 50 stores managers positions required, 33 will remain in that position 12 will be promoted internally thus 5 positions remain unfilled. Using the above analysis, there will be 4,845 (8500-3655) store associates that will be required, 42 (1,200-648-510) Shift leaders, 105 (850-544-192-9) department managers, 21 (150-78-51) Assistant Store managers and 5 (50-33-12) Store managers required to be hired. In order to satisfy its staffing requirements, Tanglewood will need to hire 5,018 (4,845+42+105+21+5) new external employees. 2. Demographic employee representation The female and minority incumbency proportion to availability for store associates is 83.5 % and 84.8% respectively. Since this is greater than 80% it means it is in line with the available workforce. The female incumbency proportion to availability for the shift leaders and depart...