The Plastco machine operators seem to be suffering from low job satisfaction and motivation. Make suggestions for solving these problems by redesigning these jobs to add more intrinsic rewards.

Self Esteem
Management should encourage Plastco employees to express freely their thoughts, feeling and desire in a direct honest manner which will allow them to resolve issues. Employees should be able to approach each other directly and honestly instead of reporting to the supervisor/Manager.

Demonstrate your trust in their abilities. Providing adequate training, trusting them to do their jobs well, allows them to know you have faith in them and that they should have faith in themselves and that will improve self-esteem of employees. Encourage employees to work as a team towards a common goal which will increase profitability, productivity and improve their morale.

Managers should be pro-active and schedule preventive maintenance on the machines instead of waiting until it’s broken. Manager needs to investigate and determine the root cause of the frequent defects of the machines and should work on a resolution by being transparent with the staff. Employees feel good about the company and themselves if they have correct tools to perform their jobs. Every effort should be made to improve the culture, team-work and ownership.

Growth
By providing cross training opportunity for different jobs in the plant so that the employees could move around and working towards a specific goal. Bring in outside help - building coaches to come to your company and hold seminars, exercise sessions and other activities helps employees to expand their level of knowledge. A trained professional knows how to motivate a team and excite the workers about being part of the company.

Recognize success. Employees who meet quotas and are recognized for their efforts generally have