9. Sales Force Management - Pros & Cons Background Comission system Competitive Advantage Comp. pratices Pros & Cons Legal Implications
10. Sales Force Management - Pros & Cons Freedom to make decisions ( decision-making responsibility) Objectiveness of the sales clerksâ contribution for the company â Customer service All-starsâ Opportunities for rapid advancement Pros Background Comission system Competitive Advantage Comp. pratices Pros & Cons Legal Implications
11. Extra selling hours affect SPH negatively Equal emphasis to service, profitability and mini-managerial autonomy â Sharkingâ: stealing credit for sales made by other staff Working off the clock. Violating state and federal fair labor standard laws. Sales Force Management - Pros & Cons Cons Preverse incentive Disloyal competition â sharkingâ Contraditory pressure â Selling/Non-sellingâ work time Background Comission system Competitive Advantage Comp. pratices Pros & Cons Legal Implications
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13. Dissension in the Ranks? Mariana P.Monteiro | Joana R.Santos | JoĂŁo Ildefonso THANK YOU!
Hinweis der Redaktion
Outstanding salespeople: the envy of the industry in terms of their quality and productivity Superior customer service - âNordiesâ; Extraordinary services ï drive to another stores for desired items;home-deliver purchases;call for arriving merchandise;assemble complete outfits;thank you notes Decentralized system; Managers basically ran the shop and were responsible for goals achievements/failures; Employee motivation system; High salary; Promotion possibilities (promoting only from within); Extremely strong customer loyalty; Availability of product Excellence of the service provided
Outstanding salespeople: the envy of the industry in terms of their quality and productivity Superior customer service - âNordiesâ; Extraordinary services ï drive to another stores for desired items;home-deliver purchases;call for arriving merchandise;assemble complete outfits;thank you notes Decentralized system; Managers basically ran the shop and were responsible for goals achievements/failures; Employee motivation system; High salary; Promotion possibilities (promoting only from within); Extremely strong customer loyalty; Availability of product Excellence of the service provided
Outstanding salespeople: the envy of the industry in terms of their quality and productivity Superior customer service - âNordiesâ; Extraordinary services ï drive to another stores for desired items;home-deliver purchases;call for arriving merchandise;assemble complete outfits;thank you notes Decentralized system; Managers basically ran the shop and were responsible for goals achievements/failures; Employee motivation system; High salary; Promotion possibilities (promoting only from within); Extremely strong customer loyalty; Availability of product Excellence of the service provided
Better working hours: when the store is more crowded
Better working hours: when the store is more crowded
Contradictory pressure: Por um lado ha incentivo a vender muito mas por outro querem que tenhas um serviço muito personalizado ( ir levara acasa) e atencioso Disloyal competition: Even though team work is encouraged, there is peer pressure that sometimes result in undisired behaviour such as sharking: stealing credit for sales made by other staff ( exemplo da xavala) Preverse incentive to violate state and federal fair labor standard laws. Working off the clock Pros Group recognition: All stars Decentralization: freedom to make their own decision; â your own businessâ Promotion policy : only within the company
Contradictory pressure: Por um lado ha incentivo a vender muito mas por outro querem que tenhas um serviço muito personalizado ( ir levara acasa) e atencioso Disloyal competition: Even though team work is encouraged, there is peer pressure that sometimes result in undisired behaviour such as sharking: stealing credit for sales made by other staff ( exemplo da xavala) Preverse incentive to violate state and federal fair labor standard laws. Working off the clock Pros Group recognition: All stars Decentralization: freedom to make their own decision; â your own businessâ Promotion policy : only within the company
For instance, if a person has a substandard SPH, they can get a bad shift, are scheduled for less hours, or even be terminated. So in order to maintain the tradition and their competitive advantage of superior customer service, sales people would have to write thank you notes, deliver purchases, and even help change a flat tire on their own time. If they booked those hours, their SPH would go down because they werenât actively selling anything and would most likely be penalized for it in the end. But there really wasnât a clear definition as to what was âselling timeâ and ânon-sellâ time. The employees struggled with this because they werenât exactly sure how the types of activities they did would impact their SPH. Nordstrom intended the SPH to be an incentive and a way to reward top sellers through commission, but they were really using it as a tool to force employees to work off the clock as to not impact their SPH and would punish them if they booked all the hours they worked.