Capstone: Week Nine Checkpoint
By: Jessica Swann
MGT/210
Ms. Tara Wells
January 26th, 2012

In my opinion, to be an essential supervisor of a small, medium, or large company, you must possess certain traits or abilities. First, you must be organized in time management because this is an essential part of being a supervisor. You must be able to make necessary decisions and changes in order to keep your production running harmoniously. For example, you have an assembly line in which you have 20 employees inserting different components into desktop computers. Each person inserts 2 parts into the housing as it goes down the line and after the 20th person installs their components, the computer moves on to another line. Today you have 3 people on dayshift that call off work; which means you have to fill the three openings in order to keep production running. What do you do? Option #1 is to have 3 people from other departments come over and fill the spots except it leaves those departments short by one person. Now this is a feasible idea providing the other departments are not already short staffed. Also it will shutdown your production line until you find the people willing to switch. Option #2 would be to call a “temp service” for the fill in’s except it would take too long to get people in place and then you have to train them. Production will be cut by probably 75%. Not a feasible idea.

Option #3 would be to have 3 people stay over 4 hours from the midnight shift and 3 people from the afternoon shift come in early. This would be a last resort option because you now have to pay 6 people overtime.

Option #4 is to have the 3 closet people in the production line insert the parts for both stations. After 4 hours you can switch to the person on the other side of the vacancy to do the extra component insertions. How do you accomplish this