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Hunter Steel: Hunting for Labour
內容大綱
Owner and general manager of Hunter Steel, is struggling to decide what to do about Ontario’s labour shortage as a result of COVID-19. The steel company is categorized as Tier 2, and requires general labourers and saw mechanics within each warehouse in order to efficiently run operations. Currently, each of his 5 warehouses are short 2 general labourers. This is unsustainable and poses a threat to meeting demand, Hunter must decide a course of action. He can either invest into partial automation eliminating the need for as much labour to be employed, pursue a labour government assistance program, continue status quo and hope, or pursue a marketing campaign that markets to consumers and potential hires.
學習目標
This is a comprehensive case that is best used for a general management section of an introductory undergraduate university business course. The aim is for students to be placed in a general managers shoes and to make an important strategic decision for the steel company’s future within the industry.