Coles Myer Corporate Structure

Before Ian McLeod landed at Coles head office in May 2008, Coles had a poor performance because of broad factors. There are 7 elements in cultural web that might explain the roots of the problems in Coles. The first element in culture web is rites and routines. Coles management had unfavorable culture, which is bureaucracy. This bureaucracy is interrupt communication between head office and stores because there are substantial gap between them, so that many brilliant ideas and initiatives from store employees do not reach the top management desk. Poor customer service is also their main problem at that time. For example, there is no help desk at the store, which is very important for customers who confuse to find specific items. Thus, Excessive queuing times also quite annoying because it is very uncomfortable for the customers. This problem is occur because of many checkout machines are broken or simply because the store had only small number of checkout machine or cashiers. Lastly, poor training programs for managers an employees are is the important factor why the employees seem less passionate and excited. First thing that Ian McLeod doing at his arrival is removing ‘head office” mindset and change it to ‘store support centre” term and improving communication pattern between head office and shop fronts, so that, Coles becomes

Myer is a mid-range to upscale Australian department store chain. They house a variety of products, including men’s, women’s and children’s footwear and clothing as well as cosmetics and fragrance and general electronics and other home wares.

Sainsburys is currently the second largest chain of supermarkets within the UK, with a current supermarket sector share of 16.9%. Sainsbury’s was founded in 1869 and today operates in over 1,200 supermarket and convenience stores, and has over 161,000 employees. We will be looking at a number of areas internally and externally and see how they are effectively or not effectively performing.

According to Pettinger(2004) The Company extends its pillar of service not only by aiding clients in making decision to shop in stores, but also making it easy for them to drop by the stores and shop. There are two potential competitors existing in the market .There is Woolworths which has an 8% stake of the vast Australian market share and uses its subsidiaries such as Home Hardware and Timer, Thrifty Link, and Masters Home Improvement. There is also Metcash which has a 7.3% market share and uses its two subsidiaries: True Value Hardware and MITRE 10. Bunnings is currently the market leader in Australia (see Appendix figure1.1).Australia’s largest and most profitable home improvement retailer with (9,012,000) customers who shop at Bunnings over period of four week July 2014. This numbers was up in July 2012/13 which was 8,435,000. Bunnings potential competitors are Mitre 10 (1,789,000) and Masters (1,217,000).

One key responsibility of working as a manager is to recognize the best way to organize and run an organization. A manager who can work with and put into motion the structure and plans of a company is very important to the life of the organization. Chief Executive Officer of Chick-fil-A Dan T. Cathy is an example of such a manager and business owner. Chick-fil-A began its journey in 1960 in Hapeville, Ga. Since then the second

Coles Myer Limited (CML) and Woolworths Limited (WOW) are two major Australian companies with extensive retail interest and listed on the Australian Stock Exchange. They are Australian public companies which operate a number of retail chains.

Myer, the largest department store retailer in Australia, re-listed on the Australian Stock in November 2009.

As the Atha Corporation grows changes will need to occur to the structure of each functional area. Within H.R. we added two more Human Resource Generalists. These generalists will simply be used for management to delegate more tasks and take on the goals planned. One new generalist will focus on culture, incentives, welfare and safety, and employee counseling. The other will focus on recruiting, building space planning, performance management, and committee facilitation. Each of these focused tasks tie directly into the goal, objectives, and plan already laid out for this department.

Fresh produce are the chief of Cole’s product line. The chain of supermarket is among the leading retailers operating more than 720 stores in Australia (Morales, 2013).

Topshop was founded in 1964 in Sheffield within the ladies fashion store chain Peter Robinson Ltd. The first official stand alone store was opened in 1974, followed by Topman being introduced in 1978 exclusively for male customers. Topshop has over 300 stores in the UK and over 100 stores internationally and has a flagship store in both London andn New York. It is part of the Arcadia Group which also owns Dorothy Perkins, Burton and Miss Selfridge.

Coles is an Australian Supermarket chain owned by Wesfarmers. It is a retailer of food, liquor and convince in Australia. There are more than 102,000 team members across all brands including Coles express, 1st choice liquor superstore, Coles and Bi-Lo supermarkets, liquor land, vintage cellars and spirit hotels.

Most corporate financing decisions in practice reduce to a choice between debt and equity. The finance manager wishing to fund a new project, but reluctant to cut dividends or to make a rights issue, which leads to the decision of borrowing options. The issue with regards to shareholder objectives being met by the management in making financing decisions has come to become a major issue of recent times. This relates to understanding the concept of the agency problem. It deals with the separation of ownership and control of an organisation within a financial context. The financial manager can raise long-term funds internally, from the company’s cash flow, or externally, via the capital market, the market for funds

Brenda Franklin had been serving Allied Tech for the past 8 years. As any other organisations, Brenda used to be a part of the lunch hour conversations with her colleagues. One day when her colleagues were discussing about corruption and politics, something occurred to her. As a result she prepared a list called “Ethically Dubious Conduct” and pasted it on the common notice board. Her colleagues were taken by surprise. Brenda was now anticipating the next lunch where she was expecting her list to be analysed among her colleagues.

Marks and Spencer Company is one of the biggest retailers in UK, which it has known by providing the finest qualities of goods and services including clothing, home product, foods and groceries. In currently, M&S Company operates 852 UK stores, 480 international stores and e-commerce platform includes approximately 83,069 employees, while M&S Company is one of the UK’s leading market positions in Menswear, Women-wear and Lingerie products (Mark and Spencer 2016.

Starbucks business level strategy has been to become and remain the world's premier coffee franchise that operates in a sustainable and principled manner. The company utilizes a comprehensive corporate social responsibility program that is integrated in every part of the company's operations from the way it treats its employees to the way it sources its coffee.