Hobby Lobby is a chain retail store privately owned by the Green family and is known for its craft and arts supplies as well as candles, flowers, and home décor. Hobby Lobby offers over 70,000 products in over 600 stores nationwide, and is also known for its strong Christian ethics management policy. There is a growing arts and craft market in the U.S. and Hobby Lobby is growing with it. Hobby Lobby contends with several competitors such as Michaels, Hancock Fabrics, Old Time Pottery, A.C. Moore Arts & Crafts, Jo-Ann and Wal-Mart (SWOT Analysis. Pg. 1-6.) David Green is the founder and CEO of Hobby Lobby. The store began as Greco Products in 1972 and sold large appliances, luggage, and art prints. In the 1980s sales dropped, so in 1986 Green
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Hobby Lobby challenged the ACA in the Supreme Court on the basis that as Christian employers, they are exempt from the law because of their first amendment right to religious freedom. The Supreme Court ruled in favor of Hobby Lobby in 2014. According to Salem Press Encyclopedia, Hobby Lobby pays its employees much higher than the minimum wage requirement; full-time employees receive $14 an hour and part-time employees receive $9 an hour. Hobby Lobby has more than 16,000 full-time employees and over 12,000 part-time employees. The higher wages are used to attract a higher quality of employee. Although the logical assumption is better pay makes for happier employees, such is not always the …show more content…
Hobby Lobby may have difficulty pinning down the source of their management issues; however, Hobby Lobby must deal with the situation before it results in negative publicity and their business is hurt in the long run. Managers must make more of an attempt to reconcile employee issues. According to Glassdoor.com, bleak reviews show the main problem with the Hobby Lobby management system is favoritism. Unfair managers give better hours to employees they like and if the company’s sales are not successful managers often cut full-time workers’ hours down to those of part time work. Other employee reviews expressed disdain for being talked down to when seeking management assistance concerning store problems. Employee pay was docked the week after missing work when absent for personal reasons. Complaints included displeasure with the lack of opportunities in moving up the promotion latter for employees outside of the “in-crowd.” Hobby Lobby receives many positive reviews, but negative complaints ought to be addressed. The perceived fairness of some employees is that they feel unequally treated. Hour adjusting is a technique to keep employees on the payroll at lower pay and avoid laying them off. However, this may be a problem or its just Hobby Lobby making the best of the situation. If Hobby Lobby does indeed have toxic managers who are being negative to the
Hobby Lobby challenged the ACA in the Supreme Court on the basis that as Christian employers, they are exempt from the law because of their first amendment right to religious freedom. The Supreme Court ruled in favor of Hobby Lobby in 2014. According to Salem Press Encyclopedia, Hobby Lobby pays its employees much higher than the minimum wage requirement; full-time employees receive $14 an hour and part-time employees receive $9 an hour. Hobby Lobby has more than 16,000 full-time employees and over 12,000 part-time employees. The higher wages are used to attract a higher quality of employee. Although the logical assumption is better pay makes for happier employees, such is not always the …show more content…
Hobby Lobby may have difficulty pinning down the source of their management issues; however, Hobby Lobby must deal with the situation before it results in negative publicity and their business is hurt in the long run. Managers must make more of an attempt to reconcile employee issues. According to Glassdoor.com, bleak reviews show the main problem with the Hobby Lobby management system is favoritism. Unfair managers give better hours to employees they like and if the company’s sales are not successful managers often cut full-time workers’ hours down to those of part time work. Other employee reviews expressed disdain for being talked down to when seeking management assistance concerning store problems. Employee pay was docked the week after missing work when absent for personal reasons. Complaints included displeasure with the lack of opportunities in moving up the promotion latter for employees outside of the “in-crowd.” Hobby Lobby receives many positive reviews, but negative complaints ought to be addressed. The perceived fairness of some employees is that they feel unequally treated. Hour adjusting is a technique to keep employees on the payroll at lower pay and avoid laying them off. However, this may be a problem or its just Hobby Lobby making the best of the situation. If Hobby Lobby does indeed have toxic managers who are being negative to the