Tuesday, August 24, 2010

To whom it may concern;

good day!

We are students of Quezon City Polytechnic University (QCPU) San Francisco Campus and we would like to request for an approval from your company.

As partial fulfillment of the requirement for the degree of bachelor of science in Entrepreneurial management, we were given a group project that we need to do in compliance with the school requirements. We are going to conduct a case study and we gladly choose to conduct it in your company to be our subject. If granted, we are so fortunate and excited to do the case study with your company.

We hopefully wish that you'll give our request a kind consideration and approval.

Sincerely,


group representative
Company Location

Quezon City is our good choice for the Exobar's location. The place is merely chosen for practical reasons. It's our personal preference because it is just the same with the location of our homeplace. It is near to our family, friends and relatives so that we can easily ask for assistance anytime when needed. Aside from these, Quezon City is known to be a progressive city in Metro Manila and has many business establisments have successfully run up to this time. We believe that the Exobar can manage to get appropriate number of customers within this place.

The address of Exobar is at E. Esguera, Mother Ignacia Avenue, Quezon City. This is an area in Quezon City where there are no specific businesses in the same line of business of Exobar. The place is not polluted and environmentally attractive so it fits with the Exobar's choice in creating a good business environment. There are many potential customers because the are many residents here who were adult enough and most of them have good earning jobs. We have no risk of finding staffs because we only need few to start the business.
Company Ownership and Legal Form

Partnership

Exobar is a partnership company in which capital is contributed equally by each partner. Each partner has its respective role in running the company. Each of them has agreed to comply with the partnersip contract that deals with the capital contributions, division of profit and loss and dissolution procedures for the partners who act as co-owners of Exobar company.
Company Summary

Exobar is a partnership company managed by Jerry Jake G. Reyes as General Manager, Janine Adornado as HR Manager, Sarah Jane Mata as Financial Manager, Gemmalyn Mascardo as Operations Manager, and Maria Valera Rosario as Marketing Manager. Exobar is a service-oriented company and concerned with food sevice. The Exobar is a Bar business that sells exotic foods or "polutan" and drinks, as well as offers musical entertainment by providing live band performances.

Exobar is the home of excitement and entertainment. It only provides the product and services appropriated for the demand of customers.

Saturday, August 21, 2010

Executive Summary

Exobar offers exotic foods as "polutan" and variety of beverages and provides musical performances for customer entertainment.

Exobar's primary customers are adults who are in age eighteen (18) and older. Customers who are fond of drinking, watching live band performances and customers who are looking for excitement, new tastes and fun will sure get an interest to try Exobar. As for the wants of customers, we introduce exotic food as a strange yet good tasting "polutan" inside a bar while enjoying the music and drinks. Exotic food is the Exobar's main attraction for its potential customers.

Along the vicinity of Quezon City, number of bars has grown especially in the area of Timog Avenue, Quezon Avenue and Eastwood. This means that people in Quezon City have a great demand to go to Bars and have fun. The location of Exobar is in Quezon City at E. Esguera, Mother Ignacia Avenue to be exact. Exobar assumed to get a good market potential because it is in the center of Timog Avenue, West Avenue, North Avenue, Quezon Avenue and other nea residential areas in Quezon City.

The marketing strategy of Exobar is to emphasize the selling of exotic foods and to introduce a different variation of Bar among other Bars located in Quezon City. The Exobar will also be focusing on the potential improvements of the business when referred to musical entertainment.

The Exobar is a partnership company that will be managed by Jerry Jake Reyes as General Manager, Janine Adornado as HR Manager, Gemmalyn Mascardo as Operations Manager, Ma. Valera Rosario as Marketing Manager and Sarah Jane Mata as Financial Manager. Altogether, the management of Exobar will be in good hands and will have a good business potential.

1. Name of the Business

Exobar Company is a Bar business associated with selling of exotic food as the company's primary attraction. The name "Exobar" was derived from the words "Exotic" and "Bar". The two words were combined to form "EXOBAR".

2. Vision and Mission

Vision

To establish a well-known Bar business in Quezon City by providing top class services and musical entertainment on the Exobar's supportive customers through proper accomodation and proper provision of goods and services such as the exotic food, diffirent variants of drinks and live band performances just made for customer enjoyment and their satisfaction.

3. The Location

Exobar's location is at E. Esguera, Mother Ignacia Avenue, Quezon City.

4. The Product / Service

The products that the Exobar will going to offer are:

1.) Exotic foods - special dishes offered in Bar like adobo/fried/roasted rat and frog, fried beetles, adobong kambing, fried crickets, papaitan, balut, sauted (ginisa) huge worms.

2.) Drinks - Exobar will offer juices like freshly juiced fruits, shakes and read to serve juice drinks in cans and bottles; and alcoholic beverages like wine, liquor, brandy, vodka, and some other variants of beverages that are usually available in almost all bars.

The Exobar is also in service concern. It offers services like
daily musical band performances for customer entertainment.

The Exotic foods are the company's main attraction. It will make a different and unique set up of Bar compared to other competitors.

5. The Customers

The Exobar Company targets to have all the customers in the legal age (adults) for all the products and services it offers. The Exobar is only exclusive for age eighteen (18) and older in order to avoid conflicts about age restrictions.

The range of potential customers would come from the area of Mother Ignacia Avenue in Quezon City.

6. The Management Team

The Exobar Company is a partnership organization that will be managed by :

Jerry Jake Reyes as General Manager - he takes the overall responsibility for the business. He monitors the business stability and its potentials.

Janine Adornado as HR Manager - she is assigned to choose the Exobar's future employees. She has the power to hire and fire or promote the company's employees.

Sarah Jane Mata as Financial Manager - she is responsible for providing financial advice to the company. She manages the financial stability of the company.

Gemmalyn Mascardo as Operations Manager - she is responsible for planning and helping the company's operations. She helps in decision-making about business transactions and monitors the flow of business operations.

Maria Rosario Valera as Marketing Manager - she takes responsibility the promotional activities that the company will use for its growth and development. She is also the guide for the company's future plans.

8. Corporate Social Responsibility

Economic

The Exobar is devoted to being a decent business in the economy. By means of economic help, Exobar will serve the comunity of Quezon City to give job opportunities for the residents. The business will also help promote the Quezon City to acquire tourist visitors by serving exotic foods that may eventually attract them and by providing musical entertainment for enjoyment and customers satisfaction.

Social

The Exobar is not just a business stablished for profit, it is also committed to helping people even by just a little contribution. The Exobar will serve as the home for excitement and enjoyment and have no intention to promote vices like alcohol. The Exobar is only a place to forget problems eventhough in just an hour or a day to have fun and relax. The Exobar serves to give customer satisfaction through music and providing services appropriated for their wants.

Environmental

The environmental responsibility of Exobar is also being valued. The Exobar will never be an additional burden to the environment. The material wastes from food that the Exobar has produced, will be reused for other purpose like fertilizer for plants. The materials used like bottles, tincans from drinks, will be recycled to produce useful creations like for artworks and improvised utensils. By these the Exobar promotes the use of recycling for the conservation of the environment.

9. Keys to Success

We belive that the Exobar will gain its market potentials by considering the following:

a. Product / service - Exobar will only sell the popular and commonly ordered drinks in most Bars. The Exobar will serve unique "polutan", the exotic foods, that surely will attract customers to try as for curiosity and adventure. As for the musical entertainment, though the performers are not that much popular, the customers can guarantee entertaining performances and only the best music will be played.

b. Price - affordability is a great factor so we take consideration to sell the products and services in the most affordable price as for a business starter.

c. Promotion - in able for the Exobar to become known, it will undertake the following promotional activities:

1.) Advertisement - the Exobar company will release ads in newspapers and online ads in websites for better promotion.

2.) Free Offers - on first month of operation, customers will not be charged of entrance fee plus and table charge which means only ordered food and drinks wil be charged to customers.

d. Place - the location of the business is near in most residential areas in Quezon City. This means that the Exobar has a good chance to have enough collective customers with little risk. The exact location is in E. Esguera, Mother Ignacia Avenue, Quezon City. This is an area in Quezon City with no competitors yet or if there are, very far or not so much popular to the place.

e. People / Management Team - as for the start of business operation, the partners will manage the Exobar as the co-owners and Co-workers too. The partners will also be the employees of the company and would just ask assistance from family, relatives or friends. The partners assume that on the first three months of operations, there will only be few customers that only need few staffs. After three months of operations, the Exobar will hir appropriate numbers of staffs for proper accomodation of customers and better provision of services. The management team will be led by the partners themselves.

f. Profitability - the exotic food which is the Exobar's main attraction will earn good profit because other bars in the location of the business do not offer food as excitingly different as exotic foods.

Sunday, August 8, 2010

THE IMPACT OF OCCUPATIONAL STRESS ON THE JOB PERFORMANCE OF EMPLOYEES IN QUEZON CITY




As Partial Fulfilment of the Requirement for the Degree of Bachelor of Science in
Entrepreneurial Management




A Research Study

Presented to:

Dr. Rolando Alcantara




By:

Jerry Jake G. Reyes

CHAPTER I

Introduction

As part of daily living, people work and spend the whole day in their jobs in order to get money to finance their basic needs. They are well-determined to work that sometimes they don't notice they are almost abusing themselves physically and emotionally. These may lead to stress. Stress is an emotionally disruptive or unsetting of our mind that occurs as a result of adverse external influences.

The stress that usually occurs among employees is called occupational stress, the kind of stress that is associated with the workplace.

Stress is a common phenomenon since then and many studies have been conducted in order to determine how stress affects man's lífe. There are also published studies that show the various concepts that are closely related to the word stress. One of these concepts is the relationship between stress and job performance.

In Quezonc City, former capital city of the Philippines, where large numbers of people are employed, employees are predicted to possess occupational stress. This kind of stress might have something to do with their job performance. The researcher of the study aims to know the impact of occupational stress on the job performance of employees in Quezon City, hence this study might serve as a tool for employees to become more concious of the problems that may exist within the workplace and may then affect their job performance. The study will also provide some advice on how employees should cope with occupational stress in order to sustain better job performance.

Conceptual Framework

The diagram shows the connection between the four variables-workplace, emplnyees, job performance and occupational stress. It illustrates the respective role of each variable to one another that forms the cycle. Workplace is the origin of the cycle. Workplace affects the employees depending on its working condition or working environment. If the workplace is clean and has a pleasant condition, it will give a good mood to employees to perform their job well. In the contrary, if the workplace is unpleasant, uncomfortable and with loads of works to be done, it will lead the employees to possess occupational stress. The employees who possers stress may perform poor on their job performance; and poor job performance may then affect the overall condition of the workplace.

Statement of the Problem

The study aims to investigate the impact of occupational stress on the job performance of employees in Quezon City and has the purpose to answer the following questions:
1. Do emplyoyees of Quezon City believe that occupational stress affect their job performance?
2. What are the possible effects of occupational stress on the job performance of employees in Quezon City?
3. What causes the employees to possess occupational stress at work?

Assumption

The study is all about the impact of occupational stress on the job performance of employees and is assumed to give important informations that can justify it. The researcher assumes the study to find answers that merely detail and explain the problem the study was in the focus of.

Hypothesis

Ho: There is no significant impact of occupational stress on the job performance of employees in Quezon City.

Ha: There is a significant impact of occupational stress on the job performance of employees in Quezon City.

Significance of the Study

The researcher of the thesis believes that the study will provide informations that will help discuss occupational stress as a major problem of employees that affects job performance.

By this study, other potential researches might also be conducted in order to acheive further development on the public knowledge and better results about the subject.

Most importantly, the study will give an insight to the mind of employees about the impact of stress in their job performance. The study also seeks to help them know how to deal and cope with occupational stress in order to perform better in their jobs.

Scope and Delimitation

The title of the study is the impact of occupational stress on the job performance of employees in Quezon City. It was narrowed down from the previous title-"the impact of stress on the job performance of employees".

The researcher limits the topic onto occupational stress because the term "stress" has broad classifications. Occupational stress is the most appropriate one for the problem.

Since the respondents of the study would only come from Quezon City then the study was so entitled.

The respondents are employees from Quezon City with ages twentyone (21) to thirty (30) years old. This range of age is the majority age of employees.

The researcher believes that this study is timely favorable to do. The problem still exists up to this present time onwards.

Definition of Terms

Below is the list of words provided its meanings so that the readers of the study will understand the use of each word in the context.

Stress
Stress is an emotionally
disruptive or unsettling
condition of our mind that
occurs as a result of adverse
external influences.

Occupational stress
Occupational stress is a term
used to define ongoing stress
that is related to the
workplace. The stress may
have to do with the
responsibilities associated with
the work itself, or be caused
by conditions that are based in
the corporate culture or
personality conflicts.

Workplace
Workplace is a place whe people do their jobs
Job performance is most commonly referred to whether a person performs their job well.

Phenomenon
phenomenon is anything that is or can be experienced or felt, something that is noticed.

Cope
cope means to deal with problems or dificulties effectively.

Working/work Environment
work environment is
comprised of the physical
location, equipment, materials
processed or used, and the
activities of an employee while
engaged in the performance of
his work, whether on or off the
railroads property.

Saturday, August 7, 2010

As part of daily living, daily work are people's way to spend their whole day. Specially for workers who are so eager to work in order to get money as means for their necessity and for the people they dedicate their effort to work. They are well-determined to work that sometimes they don't notice they are almost abusing themselves while possessing many problems as well. These may lead to stress. Stress is an emotionally discruptive or unsetting of our mind that occurs as a result of adverse external influences.

The stress that usually occur among employees is called occupational stress. The kind of stress that is associated with the workplace.

Stress is a common phenomenon since then and many studies have been conducted in order to determine how stress affects man's life. There are also published studies that show the various concepts that are closely related to the word stress. One of these concepts is the relationship between stress and job performance. As what the study want to know, if there is a linkage between occupational stress and job performance of employees.

In Quezon City, former capital city of the philippines, where large number of people are employed, employees are predicted to possess occupational stress. This kind of stress might have something to do with their job performance. The researcher of the study aims to know the impact of occupational stress on the job performance of employees in Quezon City.

Since the study is not considered as a post-graduate thesis, the researcher merely choose the appropriate location to conduct the study. Quezon City is more likely to be chosen for ease and time-saving selection of respondents. It would be easy for the researcher to select the respondents for the study since the researcher is a bonafide resident of Quezon City.

By this study, other potential researches might also be conducted which may acheive further development on public knowledge and other purpose about the impact of occupational stress on the job performance of employees.