Introduction to Problem statement The Treadway Tire company’s Lima plant at Ohio has faced a huge turnover rate in the year 2007. Per Skinner & Beckham (2008) “Out of a total of 50 foremen at the Lima facility, 23 of these positions had turned over in 2007” (pg. 1). As Treadway, had closed its plant at Greensville, South Carolina and hence the volume of work at Lima plant had increased drastically as it was reequipped with advanced tools for better productivity. Line foremen were the salaried, non-unionized and floor-level managers who mostly looked after the most of the process in the tire production like the preparation of rubber component, assembly of tire and final finishes. The foremen were dissatisfied with their job which lead to the high turnover at the Lima plant. According to Naikwadi (2017): The main reasons for the turnover rate are the dissatisfaction of the job among the line foremen due to: 1. Overstress on them to keep up with the daily production goals, and unforeseen technical events or with the hourly employees, which are not taken into consideration by the supervisors. 2. A sense of threatening from their superior, of a negative impact on their appraisals if goals are not met. 3. Management’s indifferent …show more content…
First, reducing the turnover rate increases the productivity of the Lima plant. As the Lima plant, had restructured its shift working timings to 12 hours, it could reduce the headcount and thus achieve cost savings. With that model, a high turnover rate would decrease the productivity of the plant as it takes some time for the new employee to get accustomed to the new environment. Meanwhile, in this entire process of hiring a new employee, the productivity of the plant would slow down which affected the revenue. Thus, reducing turnover will save on the cost incurred in recruiting new hire as well as increase productivity of the plant
After analyzing the reading, a few things seems to be causing this issue. First, Gobias Industries recently underwent a change which made each division a separate entity. The change caused job mobility to plummet. Communication between each division halted. The pool of job opportunities and work location transfers decreased for the employees of each location. Without communication between the divisions, employees found it difficult to hear of job opportunities at other location. The employees became limited to only the opportunities offered at their location. Secondly, the job opportunities at each division also decreased with the introduction of new technology. The technology began taking over the majority of work for many entry-level jobs. The work left for employees to do became low complexity and low effort therefore, were compensated less. The wages for these entry-level jobs became stagnant. These jobs then became boring, less attractive, and scarce. With the decrease in jobs, a decrease in the opportunity for promotion also exist. Thirdly, the new technology also caused job evaluations to become outdated and incorrect. If recruiters are misrepresenting the jobs during recruitment, then employees will be highly unlikely to stay with that job for long especially if the job does not pay well and has little room for promotion. In order to fix the issue of high turnover, Sudden Valley Works needs to redo their job analysis and revamp their recruiting. These solutions will help with job turnover as well as reaching their goals of retention and employment of more women and minority groups. Recruiting should include a broader market and leadership personality assessments. Previous recruiting techniques were targeted at engineers with the highest GPAs however, with the new technology, a high-level of educated employees are not longer needed. A high
During 2014 there was an ethical dilemma that occurred at Canadian Tire. There was an employee named Samantha and she held the position of a Supervisor at Canadian Tire. Canadian Tire would give out Canadian Tire money to their clients depending on how much they have spent at the store and this was basically a marketing strategy for Canadian Tire whereby the clients could use the Canadian Tire money to purchase merchandise at the store. Samantha was in charge for restocking the Canadian Tire money at all times. Every time Samantha restocked the Canadian Tire money she would always withdraw few dollars out for herself and make adjustments on the paperwork and she would go to the Canadian Tire Gas station and purchase gas for herself. She went
“We run to grab the wheeled carts...We run past each other and if we say something, we say it as we keep moving” (McClelland 400). A practically inhuman speed is expected from the workers, forcing them to rush from place to place. They do not have time to spare for walking. They are even deprived of socialization, which is essential to human satisfaction, due to a lack of time. There is not a moment of peace as long as they are clocked-in, no matter how hard or long they work. Enjoyment is impossible, and no effort is made to reduce the highly stressful environment of the workers. The company shows no concern for its workers’ mental well being.
Forklift wellbeing is a noteworthy sympathy toward stockroom administrators as forklift related passings have been a noteworthy reason for mechanical passings and mischances almost consistently for as long as 20 years. By and large, there are more than 100 passings in the United States each year. 10's of 1000's of wounds happen every year from mishaps that could have been dodged by appropriate forklift preparing. The most widely recognized damage or passing happens when a forklift tips more than, a person on foot is hit, the administrator is not focusing, or falling burdens.
Lima plant had 50 line foremen and they were supervised by the 13 general supervisors. Foremen were primarily employed in 4 main areas: Production, Maintenance, Material control, and Quality assurance. Most employees at Lima were working in a 12 hour shift (Skinner & Beckham, 2008).
At Treadway Tire Company, the major problem of job dissatisfaction is the expressed result of varying underlying issues. Firstly, at Treadway, there is a misalignment of the mission and vision statements when compared to the daily work performed. The company has become very focused on surviving the outside challenges of escalating raw materials costs and global competition setting aside the internal issues of morale, job dissatisfaction, and high turnover rate among the line foremen. By continuing to manage by daily numbers, the Lima plant has incorrectly assumed that their current way of managing is adequate. According to Collins (2001) this is managing by “self-ego, self-interest which will hinder them from becoming great” (p. 30). While the outside challenges may not go away, the inside challenges can be handled by embrac...
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doing it as much as possible. In turn employees do not want to take responsibility,
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