Imagine that you are the owner of a small manufacturing company. Your company manufactures a commodity, widgets. Your widget is a clone of a nationally known widget. Your company’s widget, WooWoo, is less expensive and more readily available than the nationally known brand. Presently, the sales are high; however, there are many defects, which increase your costs and delays delivery. Your company has fifty (50) employees in the following departments: sales, assembly, technology, and administration
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Teamwork and Motivation BUS 520 Teamwork and Motivation As the owner of WooWoo limited there still exist challenges especially when it comes to dealing with the company’s human resource. The sales are doing well but as the management we need to evaluate any strategies that we can implement to further motivate our employees. The first step is to pin point the problems currently being encountered in the human
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manufacturing company located in Dallas, Texas, and also manufactures the widget, WooWoo. Success through teamwork is our business motto and it embodies the culture of Jones Enterprises. Over the years WooWoo, has become a success and it’s all because of you, the employee. We are thankful to you and the effort you’ve made to ensure WooWoo becomes a household name. To continue with the success we’re experiencing with WooWoo, it is imperative that make some adjustments. Per our recent consumer surveys
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work comes an expectation of appropriate compensation. It is more often than not decided based on industry standards. As the company under consideration faces the problems of increased cost and delayed delivery due to increased defects in the product WooWoo, there seems to be a drop in the motivation level and reduced team work
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As the owner of a small business of fifty employees, there are situations that can occur that can ultimately either cause the business to be successful, or to fail. My company creates widgets; cloned from a widget that is known nationally. The WooWoo is a less expensive widget and is also more readily available to obtain, whereas the original widget is not. Our company’s sells are high which is great for the company, but unfortunately there are a lot of defects in our widget, which has cause costs
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Teamwork and Motivation Teamwork and Motivation Job satisfaction within the work place is becoming the most important factor for employees these days. However, many employers are finding that over time due to the lack of satisfaction within a particular job position the company is having a high turnover rate, less production of work and the quality of an employee’s work is poor. This is where the challenges come into play for many employers and finding ways to increase job satisfaction
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build and create the best widget for which they will get compensated accordingly. In order to complete such a task to break fully into the market you must have employees that are motivated to get the job done, and in the best possible manner. Our WooWoo widget is the product in question, and through our new motivational plan and added concepts we will be able to succeed in taking more market share. Elements of a Motivation Plan to Encourage Our Employees Our company is small but our company
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people holding themselves collectively accountable for using complementary skills to achieve a common purpose (schermerhorn, 2012, pg 147). With this information I will pull together my employees in order for my company to make sure that our widget “WooWoo” be a success. My company is based upon 50 employees which include five departments: sales, assembly, technology, and administration. Each department has there own section of the widget to make sure that the product will be productive in the manor
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motivation plan that can ensure employee satisfaction and growth of the business. This paper therefore attempts to design an appropriate motivation plan for Danquah and Sons, a small manufacturing company based in Baltimore, Maryland that produces WooWoo, a widget. The motivation plan will encourage high employee job satisfaction, reduce turnover rate, increase productivity and improve quality of work. The paper proposes two methods for all employees at Danquah & Sons and looks at ways to motivate
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You’re The Boss I am the owner of this small manufacturing company that manufactures a commodity, widgets. My widget is a clone of a nationally known widget. My company’s widget, WooWoo, is less expensive and more readily available than the nationally known brand. Presently, the sales are high; however, there are many defects, which increase your costs and delays delivery. Your company has fifty (50) employees in the following departments: sales, assembly, technology, and administration. Motivation
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