Friday, April 11, 2008

Individual Proposal

Wegman's has such a squeaky clean image, and it's up for debate whether or not this is image is an accurate representation of the company. They have a reputation of treating their employees very well, including providing scholarships for them. I want to dig deeper into this issue, and explore the process behind the the scholarship giving process. Why do they even give scholarships? I want to know if this is a part of somebody in charge's personal opinions about helping their employees, or if they just want to seem like a more desirable company to work for compared to most, as a part of their image. How do they award these scholarships? Who's pocket is the money coming out of, and how many scholarships on average can they give? With this knowledge, I also want to know how they scholarship winner. Is it based on their work ethic at the company, or is it based on their GPA's, or extracurricular activities? Is there any particular thing that usually lends to someone earning the scholarship? All of these questions need to add into the Wegmans superstore appeal, and i want to see how that works out, or if the focus should change.
PEACE!

1 comment:

E.S. Ouellette said...

that's good stuff. do you still plan on interviewing maniya? she could probably provide quality insight on this situation. another aspect you could look into is the racial distribution of the scholarships. you'd probably also have to look for racial distributions of employees to see the relative spread that goes on there.