In: Operations Management
HT Corporation, a manufacturer of heavy trucks had a long, sad and bitter history of employee relations. The company openly practiced "management through terrorism". Engineers and technicians dominated the culture. One of the company's assembly plants devoted major resources to statistical process control. An entire department staffed with engineers and Quality specialists justified its existence by keeping control charts. The engineers collected and stored data on a computer and posted the charts in every production department once each week. They also posted lists of problems and defects attributable to each department. Another department kept itself busy with "work redesign" and "assembly line balancing". The plant was highly product focused. Material moved smoothly from one operation to next. Subassemblies flowed into assemblies like the tributaries of a river, all moving toward the final assembly line.
Despite this effort, quality was mediocre at best. HT Corporation devoted more factory space to rework and repair operations than to the original assembly. The individual and social aspects of the system were largely ignored. People lacked interpersonal skills, common goals and trust and they could not hope to attain these qualities under the existing power structure and reward system.
Answer the following Questions with 150-200 words.
If you take over as the Quality Manager of HT Corporation, what changes would you make?
Answer:-
As a Quality Manager of HT Corporation following are the upgrades I would do:-
1)
The greatest issue in the association is the absence of sentiment of being a piece of the group. So as the quality manager of this association, my first endeavor will be to make common interests among the various divisions.
This should be possible when the individuals from the various divisions are made to cooperate as either a group or as a major aspect of the task.
2) Empower employees Delegate the obligation just as power to singular employees w.r.t. their individual work zones and assignments apportioned. This will persuade them just as drive them to improve their exhibition and the procedures persistently.
3) Do esteem stream mapping and recognize the inventories and the lacunae in the procedures. Tail it with a pareto investigation to organize the improvement ventures.
4) so as to make shared concordance and improved coordination, the prizes gave to these individuals must be associated with the presentation or yield of the other colleagues or the general benefit of the association.
This will drive the colleagues to support one another with the goal that the general execution of the various groups and offices improves and subsequently hello can get the higher rewards.
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