Based on our company performance it is apparent that productivity at Echo Electronics declined significantly. I should have inform you sooner about the decline in sales and I am sorry for not getting to you on time. Meeting our customers ever-changing needs is the priority of Echo Electronics and I have taken immediate actions to improve our product quality and increase productivity. In order to retrieve our market place I decided to form a committee with the head of each department so we can avoid future mistakes. In addition, we will provide our employees with better training and detailed manuals on how to efficiently use new workstations. Also, to build better morale among our employees with will use motivational tools, such as, quarterly
Riordan Manufacturing is going through organizational changes because of fluctuations in profits and declining sales. The customers are now serviced by a sales team instead of a salesperson. The manufacturing plants have been restructured into self-directed work teams and some of the manufacturing work has been moved from the U.S. plants to China. Due to all these changes, the employees are experiencing a high level of dissatisfaction. The wide range of demographics creates a challenge for increasing job satisfaction and improving motivation among all employees.
The developing concerns and root causes of Engstrom Auto Mirror Plant in Milestone One and Two were identified and analyzed from a human behavior perspective. However, it is just as equally imperative to recommend solutions to issues identified. The major issues that Engstrom faced stemmed from the failure of the Scanlon Bonus Plan. As a result, employee motivation, management and employee trust, employee attitude and the overall work culture were all tainted. The objective of this milestone is to create organizational development outcomes that are immediate solutions to the organizational issues. Also, suggest strategic plans that will lead the organization to success. This will be successful through evidence-based management and theoretical
After recent entering into the new product line, electronic manufacturer Kuiper Leda, Inc. facing a big challenge. Being a smaller manufacturing firm for ten years, company was not expecting to get a large and urgent order from Midland Motors, an American Original Equipment Manufacturer. Executive management team concerns about Kuiper Leda approach to delivering products. Always working with smaller customers, company only has a minimum capacity for producing 1,500 ECU and RFID units, which is very low value for the order requirements.
Ecton Inc. is a small company that develops innovative solutions in the medical imaging market. The latest device they have developed is the first portable, highly compact, fully digital, echocardiography. Traditional echocardiographies are large pieces of equipment that offer zero mobility. This rendered emergency rooms powerless to the convenience mobility offers. For example, if a doctor needed to receive an image of a patents heart they would have to schedule and move a patient to the location of the echocardiography. In an emergency situation this limits the data doctors require to make an accurate prescription if the patient cannot be move to the machine. By miniaturizing this device Ecton has ushered in a revolution in the medical imaging arena. The next step for the company is to decide how they are going to introduce the product to the market. This study has put me in the driver’s seat and offered me a glimpse of what the CEO was faced with when making this decision. I will provide my opinion regarding the next steps Ecton should perform moving forward with their newly developed disruptive technology.
NGAM will never see a design bill associated with Hays’ communication work products. Effective employee communication is a vital aspect of the employer-employee relationship. It shows employees that they are valued by the company. Conversely, lack of communication can make them
The case study analysis of Engstrom shows that they are currently experiencing organizational issues with employee’s dissatisfaction (lack of motivation), failed incentive plans (Scanlon Plan), and major issues with production and quality issues. When a corporation is experiencing these types of organizational issues such as Engstrom, the root causes of these issues need to be analyzed. A Root Cause Analysis is a five step process to answer the question of why the problem occurred in the first place. (Mind Tools)
-Technological Adoption: Technology must be adopted to improve overall efficiency. It must be integrated directly into operations (to increase productivity), as well stay on date with the amounts of Ipod抯 ordered, made and delivered.
As one of the leading brands on a global scale the company aims to create a very distinct balance between work and life at home. The company knows that happy employees are more likely to be more enthused to create great products effectively if they have a grea...
After the Second World War, Philips has become the leading consumer electronics company. There are several key capabilities that contribute to this success, including the capabilities of local subsidiaries, the shared leadership within management and the strong and consistent research.
1. Strategy in the second half of the 1980s: Having innovative, high-quality products and being a reliable, responsive supplier.
Working in today’s society has changed in the last few decades. The economy and technology are the main reasons for this change. The type of job and environment where one works has also changed. The fact that many people work from home via the internet has drastically changed the workforce and the environment surrounding it. With this change have come new demands, expectations, and opportunities for employers. Everyone deals with these demands differently, affecting the employee’s quality of life and job satisfaction. Though the job and office types and locations have changed over the years the need for job satisfaction has not. In today’s economy the job is not as stable as it used to be. One must be prepared for changes in the future.
The motivation theory when applied to the case shows that there is a lack of job empowerment. When there is a positive work environment with job equality amongst the employees and a good reward system the employees existence needs would be easily met .Employees thrive on relatedness needs such as better communication, teamwork, mutual respect and conflict management within the workplace. Employees feel satisfied when employers satisfy their lower level needs, with that employees feel motivated to grow and achieve with the assistance of a good job structure and effective training to improve growth needs. (Anyim, Chidi and Badejo.2012,38) suggested that “In order to elicit better performance, motivational factors must be accorded high priority and employed properly as an essential ingredient for organizational progress and survival especially in the current day turbulent operating environment” Therefore, assembly line balancing (Otto and Scholl 2011), job rotation scheduling and positive well managed work environment can lead to a significant improvement of worker well-being and productivity resulting in enhancement of job satisfaction and improvement in productivity of work (Neumann et al. 2006; Lodree et al.
As a technician, I get numerous calls everyday about how to overcome software problems, hardware problems, and everyday stupidity. The first two are usually a result of the third problem. That stupidity begins somewhere around the arrival of the initial thought to purchase the computer. Most people are fooled into believing that the need the fastest, most up to date and expensive technology to complete their task, despite the...
Thus, management can help to guide workers to keep certain numbers up when it comes to automobile assembly, but it often won’t be able to encourage workers to think about how to bolster fuel efficiency or how to create rechargeable cars. This isn’t such a great tragedy; most management is geared at sustaining a good business and for good reason: it can be incredibly difficult to keep a profitable team of people working together in successful and e...
He has high expectations for it and his employees. He has strong faith in himself and his company to surpass the consumer’s expectations and continue to shatter the computer industry with new technology.