Engstrom Auto Case

How this system works is employees are paid a standardized salary which entitles extra benefits and or bonuses on the side. The main focus of benefits is to focus on stability, health, wellness, and lifestyle. These benefits are there to make the employees life’s more comfortable and enjoyable, not necessarily cash incentives. However, there are cash incentives offered as-well. Incentives are the drivers of employee performance, as short term incentives are cash bonus based on performance, or rather long term incentives being stocks in the company you work for. How we will implement this is through transferring your average paycheck to a salary. Meaning a 40-hour work week at 11.40 is $456 a week before deductions. The math equates to a base salary of 21,888. From there employees will be able to receive benefits or incentives based upon work efficiency. We will have assigned goals to achieve by set deadlines to determine employee efficiency. All employees in this system are inclined to do more work at a more efficient rate since they are now being rewarded further than their salary or prior their hourly wage. This business function being salary based with incentives and bonuses will take a greater toll on management. Management will be deemed in charge of bonuses and benefits. It will be their responsibility to determine whether said employee deserves certain benefits or certain incentives based on their work efficiency. As management takes on a heavier role in the company it is better for the greater good and is a sacrifice they will have to be willing to

Our task for the Engstrom Auto Mirror Plant case analysis was to identify the main problems of the company as well as it’s managers’ decisions and to find reasonable solutions by taking into account roots from where they have been appearing. This case is extremely relevant because it looks at organizational behavior everyday problems and analyses issues of building relationships with employees. All our assumption will be based on Organizational Behavior theoretical background in order to find solutions and alternatives for the particular company’s case. The main aim was to figure out how to increase company’s productivity, employees’ motivation and management strategy.

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.

The Scanlon Plan can be used as a major catalyst to turnaround the plant by emphasizing more on productivity. The more they work the faster they roll towards their bonuses; this magical spell is a win-win situation for both the employees and the management. The management can cruise steadily over the wave of bonus motivated productivity and the employees can reap the benefits from the high production rate in terms of bonuses. The plan can be redrawn and a slight change can be made by making the entire plan revolve around the concept of productivity. When productivity assumes a prime position in the plan, employees will strive hard

During May 2007, the Engstrom Auto Mirror Plant faces a low employee morale issue. The newly appointed manager, Ron Bent, sees a decline in work place productivity and culture throughout his recent years of working at the plant. When Bent joined the company, it was facing a similar issue of low morale. He then decided to introduce the Scalon Plan, an incentive program for the employees, to raise morale. The program was successful when it was first introduced but ran into problems time after. Bent was faced with many challenges with the Scalon Plan that caused him to ask many

A small privately-owned business that one year ago reached certified supplier status is now looking down into the face of another crisis. Engstrom Auto Mirror Plant is again showing signs of poor morale, productivity, and quality. Back in 1998, a newly hired manager named Ron Bent was hired on during a very similar crisis. With plenty of experience with different types of incentive programs, he introduced the Scanlon Plan. This plan would promote teamwork, communication, cost savings and psychological ownership with the employees. This case study analysis is going to be looked at in regard to organizational behavior. The paper includes identifying whether the Scanlon Plan needs to be abandoned or modified, employee communication and motivation.

Engstrom Auto Mirror Plant is facing an internal crisis which primarily is a motivational problem. Ron Bent, the manager, and Joe Haley the assistant has seen workplace culture and productivity decline over the years. Ron joined the company when it was going through a similar issue in the past. He came and implemented an employee incentive program which is general across the United States. The incentive program called Scanlon Plan was originally very effective in employee motivation and increasing productivity at Engstrom, but it is now failing.

The success of any business depends on the productivity and satisfaction of its employees. Employees need to be motivated to work. Motivation can be defined as the inner force that drives individuals to accomplish personal and organizational goals. Motivation can be either intrinsic or extrinsic. For an individual to be motivated in a work situation there must be a need, which the individual would have to perceive a possibility of satisfying through some reward. Intrinsic motivation stems from motivations that are inherent and arise from performing the task of the job itself, which the individual gets a feeling of either positive or negative motivation as a result of

The Scanlon Plan is a plan based on the idea that incentives for employees will build company morale and also increase sales and productivity by rewarding employees for their performance. This is exactly what the company needed because what the company was facing now was a direct consequence from management not being upfront and honest with their employees.

My review of the Engstrom Auto Mirror Plant: Motivating in Good Times and Bad case study allows me to identify certain organizational issues within the company.

The purpose of the policy is to establish a Reward Systems that places a direct relationship between an individual’s performance and personal compensation. Winning new contracts and retaining current work through a competitive procurement process is critical to the financial success of the company. The policy also adds intrinsic value to the employee as he or she earns a feeling of achievement and recognition when receiving the bonus check.

O’Neil (1998) suggests six minimal criteria for the design of a performance based pay system. The first of these criteria is that the reward system should be self-funding, that is, the performance increases should as a minimum offset the cost of the rewards provided. The second criterion is that the distribution of the rewards must be consistent, fair and justifiable. In addition reward plans must be transparent and clearly communicated. The third criterion

7. Wal-Mart has to provide great customer service. It can only be made possible if the reward system

Keeping employees motivated in addition to creating incentives and/or additional ways for employees to receive more compensation will create better performance overall within an organization. Contrary if company B gives their employees incentives to perform, without any motivational tactics they probably will not have as many top performances as company A, in addition the company may only seek short term rewards verses have long term success. Lack of motivation for employees within an organization, can cause long term damage for the company’s success. Different things motivate everyone; therefore there should be a system in place to keep employees motivated for the long term success of the company. In the MBM textbook under the concept of incentives, compensation, and motivation, there are a couple of different views of how it should be applied within an organization. We will discuss The Social Role of Profit, Personal Profit and Losses, and the way Market-Based Management view how incentives, compensation, and motivation should be applied and the things that effectively drive employees’ actions while at work.

Engstrom Auto Mirror Plant is a privately owned business located in Indiana, manufacturing mirrors for vehicles with over 200 employees. The Scanlon Plan was deployed in 1999 by plant manager, Ron Bent, to incentivize employees at a time when productivity of the company had decreased. It paid a percentage of all labor savings monthly with a complicated calculation scheme. However, after seven years of good business, another downturn hit, in 2006, the plant went though a reduction in roughly 20% of the work force and the remaining employees had not received a Scanlon bonus for seven months. (Beer and Collins, 2008, p.2). With decreasing productivity and increasing employee dissatisfaction, which in terms affects product quality, Bent is in a difficult position because he has to find ways to