Executive Summary
This particular report provides an assessment of Tanglewood stores, it operating environment, its competitors, general structure and culture. Tanglewood Is a succession of general retail stores characteristic of items such as clothing, machinery, and domestic decoration. It operates in the reasonable price forte, marking middle- and upper-income customers. Tanglewood’s strategic feature is an outdoors theme, with a huge camping and outdoor living division in every store. The store also differentiates itself by its uncomplicated, stylish, and neat design perceptions for the store and their in-house products. Tanglewood also centres on stocking quality products, offering customer service, and a more designer appearance than discount stores thus edging out completion from other stores like Target and Kohl.
This report also provides an analysis of Tanglewood’s staffing data and establishes the sufficiency of their current staffing practices in meeting their ongoing needs, revealing possible problems in adequately staffing the organization in the near future. Also various recommendations on how Tanglewood should design its overall staffing mission and strategy based on their upcoming needs were provided. Tanglewood’s recruiting methods are diverse and varied in each of their regions, and by assessing these schemes there are prospects of improving and in addition uniting the operations of this business. Strategies like overstaffing are unique to Tanglewood, reason being having enough employees to the serve the customer to the best of their ability. Some improvements come from creating target demographics, some come from looking into the methods of recruitment, and some come by addressing issues brought forth by those already with the company. By assessing Tanglewood’s staffing methods and making a guide for it to adhere by, any company can build up a recruiting service that equals their unique business culture.
