Managing Employee Theft Case Study

According to the articles based on the topic of managing employee theft, there are different ways to manage employee theft nowadays. Amazon has place on their warehouses flat screen TVs in order to prevent its employees from stealing goods. The TVs display previous theft stories of past Amazon workers who have steal from Amazon and its warehouses. Another way Amazon is managing employee theft is by having bulletin boards with people who have been fired because they have violated Amazon’s ethics code, or because of workplace violence. Moreover, researchers have concluded that shoplifters cost American businesses less money than light-fingered employees. Employees can steal while being in the store by entering in the cash register discounts, fake refunds, or voided transactions. Trusted employees are the ones …show more content…
Rational decision-making is very unrealistic since the only constant thing in this world is change. While intuition decision-making is not reliable enough because it’s indeed based on your own judgment. Theft is considered a big issue because it affects negatively any business. Therefore, managers should know the problem solving process in which you first identify the problem. Managers will develop a list of alternatives regarding the problem and choose among the alternatives the best one. Then, the manager will implement the alternative he or she chose and evaluate the decision effectiveness. An example, an employee covered a theft from the manager; the manager fires the employee very aggressively and the employee that was fired made complaint with the police. In this case the way that the manager implemented the alternative, which was firing the employee was not efficient because it brought another problem to the company. Firms and companies should know how to manage a problem