Quick Stop operates 1,000 convenience stores throughout the United States. The company's slogan is "Best Stop of the Day," and its mission is to make every customer a return customer. Quick Stop's corporate strategy supports this mission by stressing the importance of sparkling clean surroundings, well-stocked shelves, and, above all, cheerful employees. Of course, improved shareholder value drives this strategy.
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1. Assume that Quick Stop uses a balanced scorecard approach (see Chapter 12) to formulating its management control system. List three measures that Quick Stop might use to evaluate each of the four balanced scorecard perspectives: financial perspective, customer perspective, internal-business process perspective, and learning-and-growth perspective.
2. How would the management controls related to financial and customer perspectives at Quick Stop differ between the following three employees: a store manager, a regional sales manager, and the corporation's CEO?