Subject category:
Human Resource Management / Organisational Behaviour
Published by:
IE Business School
Version: 17 October 2017
Length: 2 pages
Data source: Generalised experience
Share a link:
https://casecent.re/p/153869
Write a review
|
No reviews for this item
This product has not been used yet
Abstract
This is part of a case series. Advanced Steel Designs (ASD) was a company providing supremely robust high-technology machines for material handling in forges, foundries, steelworks and garbage handling for energy conversion. The defective parts management was a particularly troublesome issue and could negatively impact production levels. The operators complained that they could not make the decision to accept or reject the pieces themselves and this ultimately entailed long delays, unpaid overtime, and failure to achieve the desired production levels and premiums. In this context, they decided to call for a one-day strike. In a last attempt to prevent the closure of the plant for one day, the factory director met with the representatives of the operators and they requested, as an initial condition for suspending the strike, to directly decide whether to accept or reject defective parts.
Subject category:
Human Resource Management / Organisational Behaviour
Published by:
IE Business School
Version: 17 October 2017
Length: 2 pages
Data source: Generalised experience
Subject category:
Human Resource Management / Organisational Behaviour
Published by:
IE Business School
Version: 17 October 2017
Length: 1 pages
Data source: Generalised experience
Subject category:
Human Resource Management / Organisational Behaviour
Published by:
IE Business School
Version: 17 October 2017
Length: 1 pages
Data source: Generalised experience
About
Abstract
This is part of a case series. Advanced Steel Designs (ASD) was a company providing supremely robust high-technology machines for material handling in forges, foundries, steelworks and garbage handling for energy conversion. The defective parts management was a particularly troublesome issue and could negatively impact production levels. The operators complained that they could not make the decision to accept or reject the pieces themselves and this ultimately entailed long delays, unpaid overtime, and failure to achieve the desired production levels and premiums. In this context, they decided to call for a one-day strike. In a last attempt to prevent the closure of the plant for one day, the factory director met with the representatives of the operators and they requested, as an initial condition for suspending the strike, to directly decide whether to accept or reject defective parts.
Related
Subject category:
Human Resource Management / Organisational Behaviour
Published by:
IE Business School
Version: 17 October 2017
Length: 2 pages
Data source: Generalised experience
Subject category:
Human Resource Management / Organisational Behaviour
Published by:
IE Business School
Version: 17 October 2017
Length: 1 pages
Data source: Generalised experience
Subject category:
Human Resource Management / Organisational Behaviour
Published by:
IE Business School
Version: 17 October 2017
Length: 1 pages
Data source: Generalised experience