3 Analysis of XYZ Company Current Situation
3.1 Introduction of XYZ Company
In this part, the information of XYZ Company will be introduced. Details will include organization foundation and structure, main products, production process and technology, and operations situation.
3.1.1 Organization Foundation and Structure
XYZ Company was incorporated in 1970 as a limited company. It engaged in safety glass business. The company is located in Samutsakorn province, Thailand. It is one of the leading manufacturers of safety glass and energy-saving glass in Thailand. It has engaged in the business and has long experience and extensive expertise in the production and the marketing of producing safety glass, interior decoration glass and glass for other industrial uses both domestically and internationally for over 40 years. Besides, the company understands well the demands of customers, and has always been developing, researching and improving the design and quality of its products while maintaining the international standards quality under the management of a professional management team and seasoned technical staff in glass design and manufacturing, using computer system and modern technology. The products’ quality is guaranteed by international standards, ISO 9001:2008, TS 16949 (technical specification) and many more.
As of 31 December 2012, it has 1,044 workers, in which 80% are Thai, 20% are non-Thai workers. The management of XYZ Company is divided into 3 main work lines: Marketing and Sales, Factory and Production, Administration and Finance. The organization chart can be illustrated in Figure 6 as followed:
Figure 6 XYZ Company’s Organization Chart as of 31 December 2012
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...ad to lots of defected goods and product quality is hard to control in such circumstance.
4) Method: Some steps in production process are unnecessary. Although it yields better quality control of the products, it adds too much extra cost into the production cost, which eventually lowers the profitability of the company. In addition, frequent change in working method also result in confusion and need of time to be familiar with the new method.
5) Environment: the working conditions such as place and weather also affected the productivity. In the factory, the temperature near the machine is very high, in addition, Thailand’s weather is rather hot, which might lead to stress during work. Besides, the terrible relationship between workers and their bosses also created the unpleasant working environment, which eventually affects the workers’ efficiency.
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The absence of appropriate motivation, fairness, and communication are recognized as the root causes of the issues at the Engstrom Auto Mirror Plant. These are the real issues that added to the decrease in efficiency and product quality. Workers who are affected in an organization might be a result of de-motivation, poor communication, and personal conflict. The presence of these components is the thing that could result in a decline of workers’ productivity, since workers feel they have no control over their work and what they produce. “The success of any Analysis Organization depends on the ability of managers to provide a motivating environment for its employees” (Osabiya, p. 63).
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Having so many defects and the equipment breaking so often is costing them money they could be putting into producing.
Secondly, from years of quality control practice the firm established a well-know quality control procedure, "the Method". It has great value to the company in that it includes detail best practices for the production procedures which guarantees and improves the quality of the products. It serves as an efficient decision measure tool and a great training material.
The main problems that are affecting the company were the high level of labour turnover, below target production rates, high levels of scrap, the employees had little input in the decision making, therefore resulting in low motivation and job satisfaction, and didn't have enough feedback on there performance. Added to this was the conflict between the supervisors and employees in the production and packing areas, and the grading and payment levels wasn't satisfactory to the employees.
For many years, IBM succeeded in holding a very good market position. In fact, the company achieved a very high market share and huge profits. However, this situation did not last forever. In 1990, IBM experienced its first quarterly loss of $2billion due to some unexpected accounting charges. However, revenues increased from $62.7 billion in the previous year to $96 billion. In 1991, the c...
Regarding the information management, there is little information flow within the region as group companies are located in different countries. Besides, each group company has developed its own information system so it is hard to communicate and share information among them. There is almost no systematic information within the regional company due to the lack of computer support.
Ownership and control of production ; vertically integrated manufacturing operation to enable its constant introducing of new items and also ensure short lead time
Primary production of homogenous goods and several processes are undertaken for the finished product to be realized is what is called process costing. All stages of processing and costs accrued during manufacturing of a product will be added to the final batch of products. Keenness is
Today work environment company are expecting very high demand from manager and workers that they over sea about job performance to keep than motivated to do they tasks. First the manager has to meet executive level manager’s goals and productivity to keep a companies success. The test book reading stated Organization is people working together to achieve a common goals, that goals also can evaluate the issues about the absenteeism in the workforce. Manager are govern by four functions to keep a business delay functions work first Planning setting performance, second Organization to process assigning tasks, third Leading to process a arousing environment by inspiring others, four controlling to process of measuring work performance.
In the last few decades, America’s automotive industry has been losing revenue, decline of market share, and employment reduction but international business in the auto industry has been the opposite. For instance, General Motors (GM) have been doing poor in the automotive business while Honda, a Japanese manufacture have been increasing their sales, market shares and employment.
Threat of substitutes in market as best quality is not always a priority for some customers as they are price sensitive.
Also in this method the workers on a piece rate so they got paid for what they made. In this method every one is responsible for the quality control. Instead of checking at the end of production, it is checked as the products are made at regular intervals. This means that the quality control is done in such a way that every one is involved.
The purpose of this paper is to briefly analyze why burrs and rough spots suddenly started to appear on quarter panel parts at an automotive company. Three out of four production lines at an automotive plant facility experienced defects of manufactured panel parts. Also, an analysis of how the panel problem is related to organizational sub-culture, organizational politics and job stress. Although there are several implications of various issues related to organizational culture, organizational politics and job stress is important because it determines how human capital within an organization will demonstrate the capacity to cope with working for the organization, thus determining the success of the organization. “To illustrate, studies have shown that job stress results from the interaction of the worker and the conditions of the workplace, i.e., the culture (Vigoda, 2002).” “Likewise, there are studies conducted that found organizational politics to have an adverse effect on psychological issues such as job stress (Ferris, Russ, & Fandt,1989).” Therefore, an organizations most valued asset is its employees.