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Business Portfolio Robert C, Larry Jr. University of Phoenix Com/285 Dr Golabek July 24, 2010 This paper will discuss the changing in the retail store by the Public Relation Manager. This will included the three sets of stakeholder of this retail clothing store chain. The stakeholders are store managers, employees, retail customers and the public. This will explain adjustment that allow employees to come to work on fewer days a week in effort to combat rising gas prices and save money on store operations. The store will close on Sundays. Monday through Saturday, stores open an hour later and close an hour earlier. Ours full time employees, including managers, work four 10 hour days a week. Part time employees consolidate their hours in 1-2-or 3 day work weeks, depending on how many hours they are scheduled to work. There are no stores are closing, and no new stores are opening. There will be a business letter, a business memo, an e-mail message to the appropriate audience. The flowchart will outline how the schedule will be implementing to each of the stakeholders. Each one of the stakeholders will be inform by different type of message explaining the changing in the retail store operation. Each message will address the information that is presented in the scenario so your audience might perceive it in a positive way. Business Letter: Store Managers Harris Retail 1234 Main Ave Columbia, SC 28213 July 19, 2010 Mrs. Sonja Williamson 532 Short Bend Road Columbia, SC 27563 RE: Harris Retail Stores Modified Operations Dear Mrs. Williamson, We would like to thank you for your dedication and hard work you have provided this company over the years. You may be aware of the increase in gas prices. Due to the rise, it is causing higher costs to the company as well as inflating gas bills for managers and employees commuting to work. We want to take this opportunity to inform you of the upcoming changes to our retail chains. These changes should ease your current position, save our employees’ money and time, and in the end guarantee the survival of our company. Effective August 1, 2010, a workday will consist of 10 hours. This will allow full-time employees to take an additional day off each week. Full-time employees will still work 40 hours every week. Part-time employees will combine their hours into shorter workweeks as well, not to exceed three days. Our stores will no longer open on Sundays. During the week, all stores will open an hour later and close an hour early. We understand that you may have questions regarding the possible closing of stores due to the global recession. However, with these rising gas prices it will benefits everyone and helps the stores out as well. Respectfully yours John Harris, Public Relation Manager Memo From: Management To: Harris Retail Stores Employees Date: July 19, 2010 Effective August 1,201, a workday will consist of 10 hours for fulltime employees give them addition time off. Full time employees will work 40 hours every week. Part time employees will combine their hours into shorter work weeks as well, not to exceed three day. The store will no longer open on Sundays. During the week, all stores will open hour later and close hour early. Email: Date: July 19, 2010 From: Harris Retail Store To: The customers and Public To others loyalty customers, this is to inform you of others new stores hour and when will it come in effect. The store will be closed on Sundays. The close will open hour later and closed an hour early. There is no change in the way we conducted business. Let me ensure that the store is not going out of business. Everything will operate the same just for the new store hours. The change will start on August 1, 2010. Thanks, Manager In the business writing is a detail page of what and how they will get from point A to point B. business writing tell everything in a short message. That messages needs to be able to get the point to the reader without guess what the paper is about. Academic writing is the full length details that go into great length and detail how the paper should go. This paper contains the introduction, heading, body, and the conclusion. This writing is put in an APA format so that the everybody used this to write theirs paper.