Hierarchical Issues From The Contextual Investigation Of Engstrom Auto Mirror Plant

In May 2007, the Engstrom Auto Mirrors plant was facing the crisis. The business was doing badly and the sales had started to decline in 2005. Thus, there was a steep reduction in plant productivity and employee morale was all time low. The company used Scanlon Plan as an incentive for staff. The core element or foundation of the plan was concept of participative management, where management and staff together will decide the bonuses based on revenues for that year.

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The Engstrom Auto Mirror plant is located in Richmond, Indiana and employs around 200 or more people. The plant has been going through some changes over the last few years and has seen a decline in employee motivation. The focus today will be to determine some of the root causes of the problems facing the plant from an organizational view and a human behavior issue. The bottom line is determining how to solve the issues the company is facing and move forward. Some of the questions that will need to be answered is, “why is motivation at an all-time low, is the Scanlon plan benefiting everyone in the company and can the plan be revamped with

Engstrom Auto Mirror Plant is experiencing productivity and quality problems arising from the organizational effects of the Scanlon Plan, an incentive plan that is tied to individual performance. As a consequence of the highly economic-centered nature of the Scanlon Plan, employees have already adapted to the custodial model of organizational behavior where the main basis is the use of economic resources, and the managerial orientation predominantly relies on money to improve performance. Consequently, employees are oriented around security and benefits which developed their dependence on the organization for their financial welfare. Though the Scanlon Plan has supportive model dimensions because as a form of upward communication, employees

All organization goes through issues during a period of time. The majority of the time they exist because management did not identify them on time. Whether or not if they are minor or malignant, these issues, if they are not solved in a timely manner can have a detrimental effect on the organizational structure of any company. As stated earlier in this case study, Engstrom Auto Mirror Plant faced organizational issues (lack of trust and employees’ low morale) that are clearly disturbing their social structure. They were too focus on implementing the Scanlon plan that they forget on how to prevent other issues from arising. There are a few measures that the plant could have taken to either avoid the issues from existing or improve their outcomes. By applying human behavior theories and concepts, organizational improvement outcome and strategic action for the plant will be

Engstrom Auto Mirror, a successful privately owned plant since 1948 in Richmond, Indiana, reached one of their biggest productivity setbacks in May 2007. In their near 60 years of business this was the company’s second cross with unprofitability since the 90’s, when technology was surfacing and causing tension between the company and their customers. The manager at the time was unable to adjust, deciding to resign in 1998. Nearing the end of the 90’s, Ron Bent was hired as plant manager. Leading into the new millennium, his plan was to implement an employee incentive plan to increase productivity with the employees using bonuses to allow their business to continue to thrive. That was the introduction of The Scanlon Plan, it reinforced

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To answer these questions, the recommendation is the Ron and management team work with employees to comprehend the underlying issues behind their dwindled productivity, identify likely solutions to the issues and make changes to the Scanlon Plan to enable the incentive plan effectively motivate the employees. It is important that employees are involved throughout the entire process and that any adjustments, no matter how small are presented honestly to the employees.

Engstrom Auto Mirror Plant is a privately owned company in Richmond, Indiana that manufactured mirrors for trucks and automobiles. This privately owned business was successful in the beginning of its business and later the management encountered problems with its employees. Engstrom Auto Mirror Plant faced production delay issues and unprofitability in the late 1990's. The company implemented the Scanlon Plan in late December of 1999 in order to solve the problem they were facing with production. This plan helps paid bonuses to workers for increased productivity and this brought fast positive feedback for the employees and the organization. After five years of the implementation, the enthusiasm within the company gradually

Engstrom Auto Mirror plant, as a privately owned business, it manufactured mirrors for trucks and automobiles. The managers aimed to increase productivity for sustainable development of the company. Back in 1998, to pursue highly productivity, the plant was redesigning its production lines to incorporate new technology, however, the transition was not smooth, some problems had emerged, such as the staffs' moral and efficiency declining and the internal contradictions being intensified between the managers and employees. As the result of it, the previous manger resigned in 1998. After that, the new manager, Ron Bent believed in the power of worker incentive programs and wanted to establish one at Engstrom. Eventually, the plant adopted the

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