What's going wrong and how can it be improved at Target?

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Asked 9 years ago to all employees at Target

22 Answers from Employees at Target

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score 0 · Answer 1

Not enough hours to do the job required. Not enough staff to maintain the store. New rules restrict efficiency and now the store is sloppy

score 0 · Answer 2

I'm always giving too many tasks in an unreasonable amount of time and I'm expected to do tasks that don't directly affect my work center

score 3 · Answer 3

The instocks at our store are killing us, the TLs are the only sales floor coverage from 8am until 7pm creating difficulty fixing problems.

score 3 · Answer 4

Need new leadership and allow the people that know what they are doing to do it. Don't stick a tl friend in the position

score 3 · Answer 5

Not sound so self gratuitous about getting red cards. It should be more guest benefiting praise ("Bob just helped a guest save 5%")

score 0 · Answer 6

Management is too young and immature, right out of college without common sense work ethic. They all want to conform, no original thinking.

score 0 · Answer 7

Stop cutting hours , better training, leave people in one area so they know a lot instead of everywhere and know some

score 3 · Answer 8

People at my store are crabby and not friendly or very helpful to our team or guest and it bothers me

score 0 · Answer 9

Increasing employee compensation and committing more to hourly team members would go along way to improving turnover.

score 0 · Answer 10

It's dead-end retail, but it pays the bills and I'm thankful for it. Just FAR from excited.

score 0 · Answer 11

Get rid of the criteria that u have to have a degree to be an exec

score 3 · Answer 12

Move leadership, and hire higher quality of leader with integrity and work ethic.

score 0 · Answer 13

I just ask that the ETL,S see us as co workers not slaves!

score 0 · Answer 14

Target is not taking care of their employes any more! ????

score 3 · Answer 15

We are turning into Walmart and that needs to stop.

score 3 · Answer 16

Management needs to stop overworking the team with multiple departments

score 0 · Answer 17

Too much work. Need more time to accomplish tasks.

score 2 · Answer 18

Executives need to treat all team members equally.

score 2 · Answer 19

requirements, design, timelines, attitude towards developers(not slaves)

score 0 · Answer 20

No respect from managment

score 0 · Answer 21

New leadership

score 0 · Answer 22

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