Benefits and pitfalls of planning Dawn is a manager for a pet grooming shop. She has decided to engage in planning by creating goals for her employees. Dawn has created a plan to increase revenues at the store by setting goals for each employee to up-sell customers into dog pedicures and hair dyeing services, which bring in higher revenues than dog bathing and trimming. Which of the following are likely results of the plan that Dawn has created? Check all that apply. Dawn's employees work harder during their shifts Dawn notices her employees staying past their shifts all month in order to meet their goals After not hitting the revenue goals the first month, Dawn's employees stop trying to up-sell customers and just focus on bathing and trimming The pet groomers become more efficient at bathing and trimming dogs so they have more time for dog pedicures and hair dyeing

Benefits and pitfalls of planning Dawn is a manager for a pet grooming shop. She has decided to engage in planning by creating goals for her employees. Dawn has created a plan to increase revenues at the store by setting goals for each employee to up-sell customers into dog pedicures and hair dyeing services, which bring in higher revenues than dog bathing and trimming. Which of the following are likely results of the plan that Dawn has created? Check all that apply. Dawn's employees work harder during their shifts Dawn notices her employees staying past their shifts all month in order to meet their goals After not hitting the revenue goals the first month, Dawn's employees stop trying to up-sell customers and just focus on bathing and trimming The pet groomers become more efficient at bathing and trimming dogs so they have more time for dog pedicures and hair dyeing

Principles of Management

OER 2019th Edition

ISBN:9780998625768

Author:OpenStax

Publisher:OpenStax

Chapter17: Organizational Planning And Controlling

Section: Chapter Questions

Problem 1CTQ: What do you think are some of the difficulties of adding 25 percent more employees for the holiday...

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