Case summary:
DrainFlow is a large residential and commercial plumbing maintenance firm that operates around the United States. It has been a major player in residential plumbing for decades, and its familiar rhyming motto, “When Your Drain Won’t Go, Call DrainFlow,” has been plastered on billboards since the 1960s.
Lee Reynaldo has been a regional manager at DrainFlow for 2 years, but Reynaldo isn’t happy with the way things are going. She notices the work environment just isn’t as vital or energetic as the environment she saw at Lightning. Lightning Plumber is the place Lee Reynaldo used work before DrainFlow.
Specialization cut costs significantly, Reynaldo is worried about customer dissatisfaction. According to her survey, about 25 percent of customer contacts ended in no service call because customers were confused by the diagnostic questions the order processors asked and because the order processors did not have sufficient knowledge or skill to explain the situation.
Characters in the case:
Regional Managers at DrainFlow Lee Reynaldo
Adequate information:
Customer service issues are the major push back for DrainFlow, employees are not informed or does not have sufficient knowledge to diagnose questions during the order processing. That means fully one in four people who call DrainFlow to hire a plumber are worse than dissatisfied. They aren’t customers at all! The remaining 75 percent of calls that did end in a customer encounter resulted in other problems.
To explain:
The reason that the present system of job design may be contributing to employee dissatisfaction and ways you could help employees feel more satisfied with their work by redesigning their jobs.
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