With all the layoffs for the past few years, reductions in my stores why does FHEG have two presidents. One manages physical stores and the other eFollett? That makes no sense at all and cost the company double money and also inconsistent strategic direction.
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They are all pointless. My regional barely comes to our location once a month. We are a multilocation campus accounting for 20 percent of the region’s sales. What the heck do these people do all day?
How about eliminating the JH position & have GVPs report directly to CW? Plus, eliminate the GVPs whose regions are performing poorly.
One would think that management overhead and focus on the employees where the revenue is generated. How about cutting out half the VP's and letting the half you have left do twice as much work. LIKE YOU'RE DOING IN THE STORES!
Exactly two presidents with two different strategies. Most importantly, twice the overhead!
Follow the org chart. Regionals report to their GVP, GVPs report to JH and JH reports to CW.
By most corporate standards a "Director" oversees 3 to 5 "Managers" who oversees 5 to 8 exempt and/or hourly employees. That would mean a "Director" would have between 15 and 40 people in his group. A "Vice President" position usually oversees 3 to 5 "Directors" which means a "Vice President" should have between 45 and 200 people in their group.
If you look at the Quad you'll see VP's with only 1 or 2 direct reports. Directors with no direct reports. This was a top-heavy corporate structure, that's why it's crumbling....even before Co-vid.
Nice try You are incorrect. "Follett Corp COO owns store labor and physical inventory at FHE as well as inventory and ops for FSS & B&T. FHE president owns FHE applications, dev, online, GM, marketing, FOD, and store contracts."
It actually sounds like you are trying to justify that convoluted reporting structure. It is no wonder Follett is failing. Run by Redbox and Sears.
Vision and leadership? Wishful thinking. Upper management are just job hoppers having the same "vision" company after company.
Not necessarily. Book Fairs management vs worker bee ratio is 4:1. The is an overabundance of former Scholastic cliques that seem to stay on the payroll and maybe attend a few zoom conferences here and there. $60-$75k a year for a few hours a week of work, nice scam they have going on. A majority of them, if not all of them live out of State of Illinois including the current VP and the former VP who abruptly vanished when they audited the financials. Tens of thousands of dollars were spent (wasted) on the book fair budget for flights, hotels, food and car rentals.
IVORY TOWER- YOU'RE LAYING OFF THE WRONG PEOPLE!!!!! You need to seriously look at the supervisors and managers still on the payroll and evaluate their contribution with all these school closures going on. Stop the nepotism!!!!
The number of presidents or organization is irrelevant. Vision and leadership is what makes successful companies.
No there aren’t two Presidents. Actually there are zero. CW is COO of Follett responsible for all operations for B&T, FSS and FHEG, all supply chain and HO Ops. That’s why FSS Book Fairs reports to him for example. As hard as it is to tell cause he spends so much time in FHEG he’s not President of FHEG. RM has all Retail, eCommerce, All Access, GM and so on and isn’t a President. He’s a VP. Most successful companies are structure similarly.
You are incorrect. Follett Corp COO owns store labor and physical inventory at FHE as well as inventory and ops for FSS & B&T. FHE president owns FHE applications, dev, online, GM, marketing, FOD, and store contracts.
So that they have half a brain between them
a) Bad strategic management?
b) Company run by not smart people?
c) Company run by people that yell, I never fail while failing miserably?
d) All of the above