Case Study

Submitted by: Iqra Khalid

Section: B

Semester 4th

Submitted to: Miss Amna Imtiaz

Date: February 1, 201

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Case Incident 1

“DATA WILL SET YOU FREE”

Question no. 1

Why do you think Freescale focuses on metrics? Why don’t more organizations don’t follows its approach?

Ans. “Freescale has discovered that in order to have the right people at the right time to do the right job, it need an extensive and elaborate set of metrics to manage large number of employees in different countries”. By focusing on metrics and set in metrics, organization will know what they need form employees and for what. To set metrics for any organization require lot of data, collecting and maintain of past data is very difficult. So many organizations don’t follow this approach.

Question no. 2

As a manager, would you want to be accountable for the acquisition and retention of employees you supervise? Why or Why not?  

Ans. Yes, as a manager I would want to be accountable for the acquisition and retention of employees I supervise because, I can know what they capable off and use them more efficiently.

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Question no.3

In general, what do you think are the advantages and limitations of such metrics? 

Ans. If we have certain metrics with census data, it would help in talent needs into future and reconcile those with projected availabilities. With benchmark data it will be easy to compare effectiveness with other with same benchmark.  There are limitations for such metrics such as Company cannot perform any operations if the product did not meet its benchmark, this may reduce productivity.

Question no.4

Freescale focused on metrics for the acquisition and retention of employees. Do you think metrics can be applied to other areas of management,...