The strategic philosophy behind Bruegger's Bagel Bakery is based on the strategic choice to decentralize control and empower their store managers. How has Bruegger's been able to implement this strategic choice to develop a successful organization of highly productive people?

Before trusting staff with the high level of autonomy that Bruegger$$s provides, certain choices regarding the company$$s approach to recruitment, selection, training, and compensation might need to be made. If you were in a position to design these elements of Bruegger$$s HR program, what are some key choices you would make? In other words, how would you go about recruiting, selecting, training, and compensating store managers to ensure that you had the best and most productive people for these empowered positions?

$3.$ If you were asked to measure Bruegger's productivity levels, how would you do it$?$ Would you limit your measure to sales or would you add additional measures?