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Operational Plan Business Environment: The environment at BoxofLove is based on the culture of performance and production. For employees, we try to provide the proper motivation in our organization. â€Å"Abraham Maslow broke down on what people needed for motivation into two different categories in five factors. Category one will lower level needs and concentrate on factors such as physiological, safety, and social needs. The second category is having higher level needs such as self-esteem and self-actualization (http://www.businessballs.com/maslow.htm)†. Having to focus on higher level of needs, we will be able to motivate the our employees within in the organization to achieve high levels of performance. We are committed to reduce the operating costs to reflect the values of our customers for our good business sense. Location: BoxofLove.com is a new company that will be entering the industry with other competitors. This is an ecommerce business, which has a variety of themed care package for students in greater Chicago land area. The building is an office in the Elk Grove Village area with 400 sq. ft. which provides 11’ by 13’ overhead door and 17’ inside the office. The village gave us the permission to build the office with hours from 9 am to 5pm Monday thru Friday, 8am to 12pm on Saturdays, and closed on Sundays. Our office will include rooms that will be used for operations with project management, finance, designing, and administrative tasks required in the operations of the ecommerce. The office uses Nicor, ComEd, and Comcast business program. During the summer time Nicor would require to use less gas and winter time it would use more gas to heat the building for employees. The... .... related materials. Abraham Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs and diagrams of Maslow's motivational theory. Retrieved January 14, 2014, from http://www.businessballs.com/maslow.htm Imani, F. (2014, January 1). How to Keep Track of Inventory Manually. Small Business. Retrieved January 15, 2014, from http://smallbusiness.chron.com/keep-track- inventory-manually-21920.html LOOKING FOR OFFICE SUPPLIES? WORK WITH US.. (2012, January 1). Office Supplies, Office Furniture & Office Technology at OfficeMax. Retrieved January 12, 2014, from http://www.officemax.com/ Summary. (2014, January 8). U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Retrieved January 15, 2014, from http://www.bls.gov/ooh/production/quality-control- inspectors.htm#tab-2 Quality control. (2014, January 1).Wikipedia. Retrieved January 15, 2014, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality_control