The case is called “Josh’s Toy Manufacturing”.
In this case,It shows the work strategic is very important in an organization. The toy manufacturing hires four employee and asks them work 8 hours each day on four different machine. Which means each worker works on different machine for two hours without breathing space (Stewart &Brown,2014,P155). [pic 1] As provided in the data from the manufacture management (Stewart &Brown,2014,P155),there are some conclusion show up after rotate woking.Fred is hard to handle the machine1 because he can not bear the loudly noisy from the machine1,he has to take a break and leave away the machine.
then he has to reopen the machine’s computer again. Bonnie do not how to use machine1 and machine2,machine4 is more easier to her. The recent survey shows that they can produce 2,610 products average a day. If they can work all day like the Hour 3,they can produce 3,200 production each day.
Which means the factory will augment 22 percent of their production rate.This case can prove that strategic design of work is very important. The phases of job analysis is important too. It will influent the organization's success.
The worker use which machine in this case is the key point,it will influence the production. (Stewart ;Brown,2014,P155) The symptoms of this case is to decide the strategic of the product line. The fundamental issues is to design the assembly line. Which people use which machine? We should increase the work efficiency,so we need deeply analyze the factor influence the produce efficiency.The causal factor will influence the production may be the break time of workers,health condition of the workers,and the competitiveness design of the workers.
The inference of the case result that is the strategic design of the workers. From that picture we can find out the machine3 is the highest the efficiency. Because the Fred work on machine1 and Bonnie work on machine4. This is not coincidence.
They all avoid their weakness and choose the machine which is the most suitable for them. The key point for the work design is the differentiation and the integration.These are the most important principle of the work design (Stewart ;Brown,2014,P122). The result can also compare the hour2 and hour3,once Fred used the machine1,the efficiency reduce 50 percent.
Using the differentiation and integration correctly is really important. The design of work training should league with entire HR strategy. The assumption of the fundamental issues for the productivity is the job plan tactic and steps in competency modeling. The other alternative course of the case is the flexible work scheduling, employee ’s health condition and the pressure of the worker.
Giving the flexible schedule to the worker maybe can improve the workpiece ratio. People will work harder after enough relax. From the analyst of the case the supervisor did not ofter the relax time to the employee. Labor producing is not the machine produce, human benign need relax. Tired worker only ofter the lowest production.
The health condition is really important to the company too. Fitness employee can alway have the best expression in the work. Supervisor also do not to worry the limited ability of the work. Like the Fred, he had some trouble with hearing that made him could not work normal on machine1.
Setting the reward and punish system maybe can increase the speed of the worker produce. For example,the highest producing worker can gain more salary as reward or reduce the salary for the lowest production. Suitable reward and punish can rise the positive attitude of the employee. There is research shows that the highest produce come from the enough relax.
It called the break time 17-minute break after 52-minute work time is the best solution of the work design strategy. The minute 15-to-20 minute productivity is “golden hour”. This is long enough to set your brain free and feeling freshen.Persistent working without breaking will make people loosing focus on work.
It will let people make careless mistake easily (M. C,2014). This research can prove that the break time is really important to the employee. It will effect the employee’s efficiency. Giving the flexible and enough relax time will increase the work speed.
F;P(2014) discuss a model for figure out the offering of the labor quality property to the company ability of produce. They try to find out the measurement of the influence with the worker’s fitness and psychosocial work surrounding on work output.F;P(2014) using the long process of the precise math method to prove that the good health condition of the employee and fitness woking environment can increase the efficiency of the work. Get Paid for Good Health is a recommended method.
Building the correct reward and punish system can give the motivation to the employee. Employee will compare with each other and try their best to win themselves. The most important strategy is the work design of each worker. Successful company always building the strong strategic. The supervisor should analyze the overall situation and detail.They should consider seriously that how is work design strategic.
Is that necessary let the worker develop their autonomy, develop interdependence, and link autonomy and interdependence to human resource strategy? The origination should make the employee believe that they can gain benefit from the hard woking and high producing. The essential of request for the high efficient is the flexible and suitable relax time and satisfy salary. Find out what employee deeply need and thought can increase firm profit and production. Build the complete reward and punish system is the easy way to increase the efficient of the workers.Designing productive and Satisfying work is the most important core competitive to gain the tallest sale amount. Finding the most suitable work strategy of the firm is the key to open the highest produce’s door.
From the (Stewart ;Brown,2014,P122) there is a famous manufacture in the word. It produce water resistant and breathable in creative work design strategy. Workers in here are in freedom to decide what they do. They do not have specific work content here.
This method help the employee and management build strong relation. The people work here is very satisfy.This creative strategy helps the company change from a small shop to global film of $3 billion sales in total a year. The company want to become successful should have the most suitable work design and correct strategy. The company should have deeply searching of the core competitive strategy.
Each employee’s potential benefit and weakness should be known. Satisfy of the employee is the key point to win the highest profit to the company. If the company want to become successful, It should has the correct work design strategic and approving worker.