People Power Brings Productivity Gains

A nature of the beast philosophy in the Navy was cross training. I try to promote this where I work because I feel it creates a more seamless transition from one department to another during production efforts. Workforce versatility is the key.

yes thst is true but companys like G.M., Ford, ect. have gotten their best production improvements from letting the contributing employee receive a portion of the savings that their ideal improved.

here where i work employees are always coming up with great ideals to make their job more productive. however they do not want to give up their ideals just so someone else can profit from it. we will develope an ideal and then the company will bring in a consultant @ $100.00+ to do work on the very same project and most times the consultants will end up doing it the exact way we planned. company $1000.00's, consultant-$1000.00's, employee-$0.00. why would someone improve a process, product with out some personal benifit??????

sorry on the last guest reply i am from a company in Hastings Michigan U.S.A

Sorry just can't help myself .... "Continue the beatings until moral improves".

When I was still employed by a large corporate giant, we were under constant threat of layoffs. I believe this threat actually did cause many workers to improve the way they worked, and it certainly made us all work longer hours and "do whatever it took" to get the jobs done.

A better approach is to treat the employees as people rather than "resources". The "Human Resource" department used to be called "Personnel"...I guess that was to personal.