Fab Sweeta

Personal management skills (2000 words)

Terms of reference

I have been employed by Fab Sweets Ltd to analyse the production side of their business, and to suggest and develop solutions to the problems that exist.

Procedures

Analyse the company

* Organisational climate

* Organisational culture

* Job design

* Work restructuring

* Motivation

* Leadership

Apply theories and best practice

Recommend actions to be taken (future actions!)

According to Charles Handy (1991), the modern organisation requires us:

'To learn new ways and new habits, to live with more uncertainty, but more trust, less control, but more creativity.'

The shape of the current organisation

The organisation structure needs to be adjusted.

Peter drucker: operations of a manager

* Setting objectives

* Organising work

* Motivating employees

* Job measurement

* Developing people

It is clear that the management here are not doing all the operations which they should, especially as regards motivation.

"Effective organisations contain happy people. If organisations are run in a way that everyone can give of their best, then we will all be happier, more prosperous with greater security". (http://managementlearning.com/topi/mngtorgb.html)

In this case the workers are unhappy, this is because:

1. they have no responsibilities

2. they are not motivated

3. there is no job satisfaction

4. lack of communication

5. grading and payment levels are not implemented properly

The leadership is inappropriate,

It is clear that the production supervisor is only concerned with the production targets, she has no concern for the employees, this compares to the theory x manager by Douglas McGregor (1960). A better type of management would be the theory y manager.

Management models

MODERN TRADITIONAL

Theory y Participation Control Theory x

Co-operation Direction

Work is natural Communication Orders Work is a necessity

creativity security

(Hannagan Tim, page 58, 2002)

Job measurement

Maslow's needs hierarchy

Analysis of the company

Findings

* Identify problems (why is it a problem?)(reference)

* No responsibilities

* No motivation

* No job satisfaction

* Lack of communication

* Personal problems

* Grading and payment levels

* High labour turnover

* Unreached targets

* High level of scrap

* Attitude

* Atmosphere

* Climate

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* Support your findings

Conclusion

Overall summary of problem (holistically)

Recommendations

Solutions to the problem

Why suitable?(reference)

MOTIVATION

Applying Maslow's need hierarchy

Needs levels General Rewards Organisational Factors

1. Physiological Food, water, sex, sleep a. Pay

b. Pleasant working conditions

c. Cafeteria

2. Safety Safety, security,

stability, protection a. Safe working conditions

b. Company benefits

c. Job