• Scotiabank implemented a shared services model by taking most administrative work out of the branches to form a shared serviced department. The branch staff can thus focus on customer services and enjoy greater autonomy. By giving teams increased autonomy and responsibility through multi-functionalism approach, organizations may achieve flexibility (Kanter, 1983; Walton & Hackman, 1986). However, multi-functionalism does not simply refer to employees’ expanded job duties; moreover, it should never be an excuse for an organization to streamline or to cut jobs. My experience in the army provided an example of malfunctioned multi-functionalism approach. During my military service, Taiwanese Army had just completed a three-year 20,000 armed forces reduction plan (approximately 6% of the armed forces). As a result, many units suffered a severe shortage of both non-commissioned officers (NCOs) and enlisted personnel. As many roles were restricted to only NCOs, most NCOs in the combat units were required to take charge of multiple, irrelevant job duties. For example, as a battalion-level NCO in an anti-aircraft unit, I was responsible for not only the training and education for both officers and enlisted personnel, but also for other duties I had not been trained for including the 12-hour shift of air-defence radar monitoring, and engineering equipment maintenance. Such an ill-designed cross-functional team design does not empower the team members; on the contrary, it contributes to low morale, low productivity, and regular fatigue among personnel. Organizations must understand the goals of cross-functional teams before the implementation. Through job analysis and evaluations, an organization is able to decide what duties shou... ... middle of paper ... ...l organizational development. It is a well-designed integrated system of training and development, reward and compensation, and talent management. • Tennessee Eastman has a very innovative compensation system. Teams have to first meet a series of technical, social, and business knowledge skills expectations set by a cross-functional compensation policy team. Not until all team members meet the initial expectations can they participate in the pay-for-applied-skills-and-knowledge (PASK) plan. The PASK has six levels and includes a range of “skill areas.” Team members are expected to master additional technical skills and serve in at least two team leadership roles. As team members go up the system, their learning goals will shift from a series of skills to specialization, and eventually team members will be required to choose a career path. (Wellins et al., 1994)
A military officer must manage pieces of one of the largest organizations in the United States government - an organization that accounts for the third largest piece of the American budget and is comprised of 1.3 million active sailors, soldiers, airmen, and marines, many of whom are tasked with being deployable to any location within 48 hours. This is only possible through concise, professional communication on the part of every service member, especially
Although Susan’s plan to “just do what her competitors are doing” (Nelson Education, 2013) may have not been the best approach to follow, it is in The Fit Stop’s best interest to match their compensation policy to those business’s similar to them. There is no need for The Fit Stop to lead with the best compensation options around, but lagging with the compensation could repel employees and could push them towards working for a competitor.
We can identify three major cultural dimensions that help us to understand what leaders must focus on as they guide the transition of the Army. First, professional Identity, which is guided by Soldiers at all levels who are striving for excellence in their functional specialty, i.e., HR Sergeants. Soldiers who have goals and ideals of the Army to ethically put service and duty first. HR Sergeants are trained and well educated in their field. They are taught to put Soldiers first and have great customer support skills. Second, community, the sense in which Soldiers stop thinking about “I” and start thinking “we”. The bond among units who not only believe in cohesion with Soldiers, but their families too. The HR Sergeants are there to take care of Soldiers when financial issues arise with them or their families and don’t back down until the situation is solved. Last, hierarchy, which leads to order and control and provides Soldiers with moral reference and a sense of direction. The HR Sergeant has the mentality of mission first, knowing who to contact at the next level for assistance helps get the mission
Self-managed teams have greater ownership of the task they perform and the end product or service they deliver. Decisions made by self-managed teams are more effective because they are made by the people who know most about the job. However, research says that the effectiveness of self-managed teams has not been uniformly positive. Some organizations are disappointed with the results of self-managed teams. Self-managed teams do not seem to work well during organizational downsizing. The effectiveness of self-managed teams is situationally dependent. The third type of team is the cross-functional teams, it is an organizational team consisting of members at the same level of hierarchy in organization but work in different
In April 2010, KK BB, the CEO of Marshall & Gordon, a leading public relations firm met with the firm’s leadership committee off-site in Miami. This off-site brought together Marshall & Gordon’s executive committee, practice and regional heads, and senior HR officers to discuss on redesigning the firm’s compensation system. A global advisory taskforce, under the direction of an external consulting firm, had spent three months collecting and analyzing data. Marshall & Gordon hired external specialists to design the new performance management program. The specialists proposed that the senior managers and human resource form a global advisory unit together with Marshall & Gordon partner to represent the firm’s five regions of the firm and lead the design process. The advisory unit surveyed all consultants in February in order to understand their way of thinking about the fairness, worth, and effect of the current performance management system. Majority of the interviewees responded to the corporate surveys implying that the subject was topic was especially exciting to them. Interviews gave insights on present and prospective business plans and direction. The survey also showed that specific focus across certain employee populations should be given. Six current hires from key competitors were also interviewed to comprehend competitor pay practices and compensation program structures. Further focus groups discussions and key information interviews enabled the taskforce’s to understand the needs of certain groups within Marshall & Gordon’s worker population. The survey culminated with the taskforce conducting interviews of 20 partners and principals togeth...
The company Steel Co, which has been established for around 30 years, has been in a steady decline during the current recession and although a Divisional Director has been employed by the owner the fortunes of the company have not improved. The staff is unhappy, unproductive and unimpressed by the Human Resource system that currently exists in the company. The pay structure that currently exists within the organisation has been much debated among employees who feel it is unsatisfactory. The Business Adviser will research Performance and Reward management tools in order to help the company develop a more suitable Performance and Reward system to use. A variety of sources will be used in order to evaluate the system and tools against other organisational frameworks. The pay structure within the company will also be looked at in order to identify any possible changes that could be made.
The organizational issue in this paper is Understanding Work Teams in the Workplace and how it affects the employees in the Sheriff Department specifically the Uniform Division which I work for. The Uniform Division consists of Patrol Deputies in 7 regions around the County, K-9, Traffic, School Resource Officers, Courthouse Security, Warrants, and more. While working with a Sheriff Department the most important thing that I notice is work teams in the workplace. Without teamwork the mission can fail because everyone is not on one accord. This is very important in the line of work that I did on an everyday basis. Teams can do a variety of things. They can make products, provide services, negotiate deals, coordinate projects, offer advice,
Developing and improving the team work in my organization is one of my key responsibilities. I work in a military department with about thirty different personnel. Each individual has certain skills, age, rank, and motivation. These attributes can make my department effective or ineffective.
Teamwork harnesses individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives and is the key to spreading my 4th ABCT vision. Leaders and Soldiers alike, create synergy and a positive organizational environment by sharing in each other’s accomplishments and foster a culture of interest, instead of indifference. My intent is for 4th ABCT to develop an understanding of this team mentality, realizing how as individuals we are limited to the sum of our efforts and achievements, while as a team our efforts and achievements are multiplied. Pride, performance, and camaraderie in our organization will increase motivation because each individual achievement is shared by all. I will look to CSM Ivor, my brigade staff, and “battalion command teams” (Battalion Commanders and CSMs) to share and embody my vision of teamwork and foster the same within their commands. They will be my guiding coalition and lead agents for change, and I expect them to build our team through coaching, teaching, and mentoring their subordinates. This exemplifies engaged leadership and shares my vision because leaders are investing time in training and counseling our soldiers, and empowers our subordinates to execute it. I think that once we start acting like a team again pride in the unit will surge as leaders demonstrate engaged leadership with increased counseling and active mentorship programs. Members of the unit will spend more time together, strengthening professional and personal bonds and incorporating families at after hour unit evens. Our success will ultimately be realized when I MAJ Cobb more at church on Sundays than on my appointment
One of the disadvantages of a multidisciplinary team is that problems can be encountered when different professionals work together, there can be unclear goals, lack of direction and poor leadership (D...
In the United States Army, there are two categories of rank structure, the enlisted corps and the commissioned corps. The enlisted corps within itself contains leaders, who are referred to as Noncommissioned Officers, or NCOs. These individuals, whose ranks range from Sergeant to Sergeant Major, are responsible implementing the guidance and command policies provided by the Commissioned Officers and commanders in their units. NCOs are also responsible for the welfare and training of junior personnel. The US Army provides regulations and manuals with step by step guidance for the most trivial of tasks, but it fails to spell out specific and concrete information on how to be an NCO. There are publications, such as “The Creed of the Noncommissioned Officer” and regulations on leadership, but they lack specificity and objective instruction for how to accomplish the aforementioned responsibilities of an NCO. The knowledge and skills of an NCO are instead acquired through training and experience, the products of which are NCOs of varying quality. A good NCO is one who knows and fulfills the written laws and regulations of Army doctrine, has the character of a good soldier and leader, and is able to strike a balance between written law and doing what is right even if the two seem to contradict one another.
This would pull the company together strengthening it in the face of incoming competition while keeping all its existing structure and value system intact. Rather than take away responsibility from the employees, the functional specialists together with the functional operators’ level would introduce dynamic measures of collecting and coordinating operations across the whole company and thus, not only giving direction but keeping everybody well informed about market conditions/trends and company focussed and prepared for future changes. Teams will then be able to take better decisions in view of the overall company’s short and long- run strategy. Knowing that the company is stable and well prepared for future contingencies boosts the employees’ and shareholders’ confidence.
The primary challenge for leaders in the Army is taking a group of individuals and molding them into a team. The framework that is employed to the greatest effect uses task-oriented instruction and is called battle focus training. After major objectives are defined, they are broken down into smaller sets. These smaller sets are known as collective tasks and are designed to be accomplished by small teams of soldiers. Each soldier is assigned one or more individual tasks that work together to accomplish the collective task. Training begins by teaching soldiers how to accomplish each of the individual tasks. At this point, emphasis is placed on the soldier as an individual. Although training is conducted in small groups, soldiers are evaluated independently of their peers. Once individual task mastery is achieved, leaders have soldiers begin to work together to accomplish collective tasks. This method of battle focus training incorporates aspects of both individualism and collectivism to accomplish the ultimate goal.
In any organization, sometimes, monetary schemes doesnot get people involve to pursue work in a certain way, rather it demoralize and threatens the self-esteem of employees. According to Meyer (1975), “the basis for most of the problems with merit pay plans is that most people think their own performance is above average”. The amount may ...
Organizations are working hard in today’s world of business, not only to remain competitive, but also to focus on stability and structure. Employees are the backbone of an organization. It is becoming more important to offer quality HRM programs to staff, in order to support the retention of trained and experienced staff. Employees have always been concerned with salary however, there is a new focus emerging that looks at compensation as a whole entity. Monetary wages are now just as important as other benefits such as paid time off, medical and dental offerings and retirement. This paper will discuss the importance of the total compensation program which includes many aspects, not just salary. Attention must be paid to equal pay, pay