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¶ … productivity and the decrease in controllable rejects?
It may be that the workers were given more autonomy now and they felt more creative and in charge of decisions that they may wish to effectuate.
This coheres with Maslow's model of motivation where he ranks creativity as the highest hierarchy on the pyramid. Workers are not only motivated by money. Many individuals are motivated as much and sometimes even more by acknowledgment, recognition, and their higher needs being met.
Previously, workers had to cohere to an "assembly line [that] had been carefully balanced by industrial engineers, who had used a time and motion study to break the job down into subassembly tasks, each requiring about three minutes to accomplish. The amount of time calculated for each subassembly had also been "balanced" so that the task performed by each worker was supposed to take almost exactly the same amount of time. The workers were paid a straight hourly rate. " Now the workers built the hotplates individually tasking their creativity and stimulating them. No wonder,...
As one person put it, "Now, this is my hotplate."
2. What might account for the drop in absenteeism and the increase in moral?
Before, workers may likely have felt robots stultified by a demanding system that threatened their autonomy and sense of individuality. employees may feel their autonomy threatened in that they feel that they have a 'boss' who dominates them.
Real or perceived threats against autonomy are often a cause for loss of motivation. Motivation can be restored by the manager, as in this case, rejecting an authoritarian style of leadership and adopting a more democratic or laissez faire style where either he involves his employees together as a team to work with him and make joint decision-making (this can be most effectively accomplished if the organization were small) or, as in this case, makes them more responsible for the outcome and liberates them to accomplish the job as they wish provided that it would accomplished according to certain conditions. This more democratic, laissez faire…
Motivation at Work Application In the case study, Making of Hotplates, Workers seems to be having jobs which are extremely specialized. Each task is balanced for three minutes per each station making the work to be extremely monotonous to the workers making them to become unhappy, Because of unhappiness of workers at the workplace; these would have resulted in poor morale as well as low motivation. Motivation in the workplace is
Hotplates Case Study What changes in the work situation might account for the increase in productivity and the decrease in controllable rejects? Changes in the redesign and distribution of workflow and increase in work responsibility of the employees accounted for both an increase in productivity and the resultant decrease in controllable defects. This redesign looked at the way the hotplate was being constructed, and then allowed workers to assemble a
It helped that a worker could actually package the hotplate up knowing that the customer would be the next person to see it. 3. What were the major changes in the situation? Which changes were under the control of the manger? Which were controlled by workers? There were several major changes in the situation, including changes in employee training, and changes in personal responsibility for the success of the project. Furthermore,
The design of this study will be conducted in a fashion that is different from the typical survey design. This study will be examine the effects of each pay scenario independently from the others. Employees will self-assign themselves to a group based on their answer to a particular question in the survey, which is worded in such a way that they will have the perception that they are voting on
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According to (Mishkin & Schmidt-Hebbel, 2007) this tool is so popular because it has a proven track record of creating macroeconomic stability. The authors explain that this stability is present because it promotes price stability. The authors further explain that even "though the contribution of it to lowering inflation is still a matter of debate, empirical research suggests that it has significantly contributed to lowering inflation and its volatility, especially