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The case study will focus on thirteen various decisions for strategic staffing and nine out of the thirteen decisions will be on staffing levels while the remaining four will be on quality of staffing. Tangle wood business strategy/goals Tangle wood is a form of retail type of business that operates in clothing, electronics, appliances, and home decor items. The prices of the items in the business are relatively low and this is because of the customer target. The business targets both upper and middle income customers and it applies outdoor strategy so as to appeal to many clients.

Some of the goals of the business are to be the best store for the clients that are capable of offering quality, durability as well as value for client’s money and provisions of maximum value not only to the clients but also the stakeholders and the various employees in the organization. The achievement of the above goals and objectives rely on the application of responsible financial management core values as well as precise and honest communications. The applications of the core values will go in accordance with the customer service and performance values.

Strategic staffing decisions Acquire or develop talent Tangle wood should concentrate on acquiring and developing talents externally. The acquisitions of the workers will be cheap for Tangle wood case since these personnel would not be need of further training since most of them shall have been trained (Elmuti, 1993). Hire yourself or outsource Outsourcing would be very expensive for the business since the various outside organizations that would assist in outsourcing would also require some forms of payment.

Tangle wood should therefore, hire the employees for its self in order to cut on the hiring expenses. External or internal hiring Hiring should be done externally since the external staffs already have the required training and therefore, Tangle wood will not be required to train the employees further. This helps in reducing hiring cost as well as training costs for the case of internal hiring. Core or flexible workforce Tangle wood should adopt flexible workforce as this would help it to maximize on productivity of the workers.

Core workforce would limit the productivity of the workers as most will not produce fully. Hire or retain Tangle wood should retain workforce since retaining the workers would reduce the unnecessary spending on hiring new employees. Workers also tend to gain experience while on the line of duty and therefore, the existing workers are better to understand the business compared to new employees. National or global Tangle wood should consider going global since this would increase their customers’ base as well as their rates for sales and profits.

Operating globally would increase their profits margins and they would be able to enjoy economies of large scale. Attract or relocate Tangle wood should strive to attract customers since relocation means they would have to look for new clients. The time spent looking for new clients’ means a loss in profits for that given period. Overstaff or under staff Overstaffing and under staffing both have consequences. However, the consequences of under staffing seem to outweigh the