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Date Submitted: 09/29/2011 07:05 PM
R.L. Wolfe
Executive Summary
R.L. Wolfe’s Corpus Christi plant has completed the difficult work of establishing self-directed teams (SDTs), navigating both a change in ownership and management at the plant as well as convincing the Board of Directors and the Union of the new approach. Although the Director of Production and Engineering, John Amasi has targeted a specific productivity benchmark for the measure of success at Corpus Christi, the potential impact made by SDTs is possibly greater than this one measure.
Much emphasis may be put on current specific weaknesses in productivity such as the problems occurring with the third shift absenteeism rate. Looking carefully at the analysis of the other R.L. Wolfe plants, there is an opportunity for improvement at the Corpus Christi plant; however, there also seems to be some natural phenomena suggesting that the 3rd shift absentee problem is prevalent in the industry as a whole. Placing a lot of energy into the solution of this specific problem would increase productivity, but in the long run, greater productivity would be gained by investing this energy into human capital, developed through the improvement of the SDTs.
Our proposed approach will focus on moving the SDT concept to the next logical level of organization and performance and to use the benefits of the SDT approach to perform continuous improvement of the key processes at the plant. It is our belief that by determining where the Corpus Christi plant’s performance differs from the goals set in the aligned balanced scorecard and by continually analyzing weaknesses in these key processes, the SDTs will be able to create innovative solutions that move the plant towards meeting or exceeding those goals.
Over time, with the proper organizational structure and rewards systems in place, we believe that the improved SDTs will continuously monitor and improve all the processes at the Corpus Christi plant. In the future, R.L. Wolfe will be able...