Archived Org Charts...

[insiteful1]

AGREED FS! I have good sources that back this.

 

[pellinore]

OK, been reading this thread....very interesting as well as disturbing.

Meantime, can someone explain what AE means?

 

[Hardlinesmaster]

Gtc to fs!

Org chart is organizational chart - it describes the amount and types of ETL's/TL's that various store sizes - or "volumes" - should have allocated to them.

AE12 stands for Achieving Excellence 2012. Every year headquarters comes up with a way of supposedly making stores more efficient (read: more profitable). This often includes changing the amount of leaders - who are higher paid and thus more expensive - in certain org charts. For example, for AE12, in a GM org chart 2 (all non-super Targets that make between x million and y million dollars a year) the number of hardlines Team leads may grow/shrink, two seperate TL positions might be combined into one, and so on.

 

[Target Annie]

^True, this.
But, as I mentioned in an earlier thread, this is why they should bring specialists back. If you're going to foist more of the ETLs' duties onto TLs (& demanding that they have degrees), specialists could siphon off some of the TLs' duties like sales planners, scheduling, etc. TLs would still need to be responsible for disciplinary & administrative roles but much of the task work could be shouldered by specialists. It would also showcase who has leadership potential at an earlier phase. It would also be more realistic for a spec to consider working toward a degree if they knew they were being groomed for the future.

I think they still do have specialists - they just call them different names... "brand team members" At least at my store they do all these things in many areas. I miss specialists - and being in upper lower middle sort of management - ha ha!

 

[Hardlinesmaster]

I agree with you. Pm me, please.