Introduction In 2003, R.L. Wolfe had purchased Moon plastics in Corpus Christi, Texas. John Amasi is the director of production and engineering at R. L. Wolfe. Amasi is interested in implementing self-directed teams at this new plastic plant to improve the productivity and quality (Garvin & Collins, 2009). Background In 2004, John Amasi introduced the self-directed teams in plant. He found the scope for further improvement in job definition, hiring, teal set up and responsibilities and the role of the coordinator avenues (Garvin & Collins, 2009). Problems Traditional teams were lacking flexibility and equality. The plant was unionized and hierarchically rigid. There were conflicts among line operators personnel and maintenance, low level
As a result of the approach, there was high turnover of staff and there was very little initiative amongst the remaining staff. Individuals were initially reported as being highly competent but later were blamed for things going wrong, shortly before they left. The team was very tightly knit and generally appeared supportive of the team leader.
Some responsibilities which originally fell upon management were shifted to line employees which was not received in a favorable manner
Upon reviewing the implementation of Self-Directed Teams (SDT) at the newly acquired plant in Corpus Christi, Texas I have come to a conclusion that we need to redefine each team and revamp the roles and responsibilities of the team members that comprise each team.
Sautirah: Being that this was a work group, their group identity seemed strong. They depended on one another to keep the line moving quickly. The people making the food worked very well together because you had a different person at each station. Once that person was finished with the meat portion,
Superintendents at Riordan Manufacturing believe teams are an essential way to distribute job duties and complete a task on time. Teams will begin to form from current employees and some new hire. The objective of the teams is to start production of the newly designed CardiCare Valve at the Pontiac Michigan facility. The purpose of this paper is to identify strategies available to form the teams. In addition there are challenges or barriers that may happen. Also how to determine the best strategy will be discussed. Last, to ensure effectiveness, certain measures were taken to determine each team’s success.
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The Arctic Mining case revolves primarily around team member relations. Incidentally, there is great value in studying teams and team dynamics due to the popularity of team use and team coordination across organizations (Robert N. Lussier, Human Relations in Organization (Toronto: McGraw-Hill, 2008), 194).
This week, we discussed the four different team types, which are: high performance, self-directed, virtual, and cross functional (Von Glinow & McShane, 2016). The three types of teams that were used while I worked at Cheeseburger in Paradise were cross-functional, self-directed and high performance. Cross-functionality was important because the completion of one person’s job was highly dependent on another person completing their job. For instance, I was a server, once I put in my
You know, a lot of us came from the East Coast and worked in conventional companies. You know, Bob Noyce worked at Philco—very unionized. I worked at GE—heavily unionized. We had experience in those environments where there was a restriction on your ability to be flexible. I worked for a short time in the steam power plant of GE, a steam turbine plant rather, of GE, and the chief shop steward could walk in and turn the main power off and just shut the whole place down and go into discussions. I mean it was an entirely different environment. Now, can you imagine somebody turning the power off in a semiconductor wafer fab facility? ...
There was a coordination and collaboration among all departments in the organization that resulted in faster accomplishment of tasks. Also, the goals of the organization were clear for the employees and they were always stressed by their managers.
Amasi decides to use self-directed teams at the Corpus Christi plant to improve productivity. Self-directed teams on average see a 30% to 40% improvement in productivity . The improvement can be seen through technical traits, interpersonal communication skills, and following a formal process. Even though the teams follow a more relaxed hierarchy, every person on the team is important. Managers still need to make sure decisions are made, but they may help guide everyone to come up with their own solutions through regular staff meetings. Self-directed teams allow all members to be responsible for their own actions and come together to reach a common goal.
Our employees need to be a strong team as they work together day in and day out as a team. Also, as employees they need to understand the working conditions, considering the extreme temperature changes and the manual labor as well.
When I walked into the building where their main office is I could feel the misery and negativity in the air. Everyone exuded it. I was astounded that management was caught off guard by the idea that they might unionize. Fortunately, for management, we were able to quell the situation over two months, but it was an expensive lesson for management in terms of learning to appreciate the emotional temperature of their workforce.
Training all team members in each other 's tasks is an important component of the self-managed work teams skill or practice set.
Amasi’s executive education course on work force education and Team structures, he learnt that the SDTs (Self-directed teams) model would improve productivity and quality of units by 30% to 40%, and returns on investment evidently improved by 3 times compared with industry average. After bringing 35-year-old Jay Winslow, the plant manager, on board, they both believe a flattened and simplified organizational hierarchy and committed workforce with a high level of satisfaction would enhance the employees’ commitment and sense of ownership, and therefore inspire the workers to continuously improve processes, and increase productivity and quality, eventually.