General Mangement

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4.MANAGEMENT STRATERGY TO IMPROVE ORGANISATION PERFOMANCE SUCH AS CREATING LEARNIG ORGANISATIONS FOUND GEMINE UNION INVOLVMENT CRUCIAL TO ACHEVING OUTCOMES . THE EXISTENCE OF STRONG INDEPENDENT REPRESENTATIONS OF EMPLOYEE INTRESTS REDUCED MISTRUCT .

BELOW MENTIONE ARE THE SOME OF THE DEMERITS :

1.UNION APPEARS TO INSISTS ON PROMTON FROM WITHIN AND THE RELATD USE OF INTERNAL POSTING AND BIDDING .THIS IN TURN CAUSE MANAGEMENT LIMIT IT S CHANNEL OF RECRUITING THE EMPLOYEES

2. THE COMPANY WILL INCUR LOSSES BECAUSE THE COMPANY CANNOT PRODUCE ITS PRODUCTS ON TIME DURING STRIKE

3STRIKES ,AGITATIONS WOULD BE FATAL TO THE UNION MANAGEMENT .

2.MUTUAL TRSUT PLAYS A VITAL ROLE IN THE GROWTH OF ORGANISATION AS WELL INDIVIDUALS . IT CAN BE EXPALINED WITH THE FOLLOWING POINTS :

1.RASIING PRODUCTIVITY :TO RAISE PRODUCTIVITY TO A HIGHER LEVEL IN A ERA OF FLULL EMPLOYMENT BY LESSENING THE TENDENCY OF HIGHER TURNOVER AND FREQUENT ABSENTEEISM

2. ENHANCING ECNOMICS STAUS : TO ENHANCE THE ECONOMIC STATUS OF TH WORKER BY IMPROVIDING WAGES , BENEFITS AND BY HELPING THE WORKER IN EVOLVING SOUND BUDGET .

3. AVOIDING OF CONFLICT : TO AVOID INDUSTRIAL CONFLICT AND DEVLOP HARMONIOUS RELATIONS WHICH IS AN ESSENTIAL FACTOR IN THE PRODUCITVITY OF WORKERS AND THE INDUTRIAL PROGRESS OF THE COMPANY .

4.GOOD MANAGEMENT RELATIONS : TO PROMOTE AND DEVLOP CONGENIAL LABOUR MANAGEMENT RELATIONS.

5.IMPROVEMN=ENT IN WORKERS STRENGTH : TO IMPROVE WORKERS STRENGTH WITH A VIEW TO SOLVE THEIR PROBLEM THROUGH MUTUAL NEGOTATIONS AND ONSULATTIONS WITH THE MANAGE MENT.

6. ENCOURAGEMENT: TO ENCOURAGE AND DEVLOP TRADE UNIONS IN ORDER TO IMPROVE THE WORKERS STRENGHTH.

7.INDUSTRIAL DEMOCRACY : TO EXTEND AND MAINTAIN INDUSTRIAL DEMOCRACY.

ABOVE MENTIONED ARE THE PONST WHICH STATES THAT MUTUAL TRUST PALYS A VITAL ROLE IN BUILDING UNION MANAGEMENT RELTIONS

CASE STUDY IV)

1 .THE ENVIORMENTAL FACTORS INFLUENCED MANAGEMENT STYLE AT DISNEY IS AS FOLLOWS :

A. THE COMPANY BEING IN THE ENTERTAINMENT SECTOR

B. HUGE SIZE OF THE COPANY

C. DISNEY’S REPUTATION

D. MULTI CONTINENTAL OF EMPLOYEE’S DIASPORAS

E. OUT OF THE BOX THINKING.

2. THE ORGANISATION IN DISNEY IS DECENTARLIZED ORGANISATION STRUTURE .THERE KINDS ARE AS FOLLOWS .

- LIBERATED APPROACH TOWARDS EMPLOYEE INVOLMENT.

- IMORTANCE TO INDIVIDUAL CONTRIBUTION THROUGHOUT THE COMPANY HIERARCHY.

- MOTIVATION GIVEN TO NATURAL INCLINATIONS OF EVERY EMPLOYEE FACULTIES ORIENTED TOWARDS THE GROWTH OF COMPANY .

- EMPOWERMENT OF SENIOR MANAGERS AND INCULCATION OF AN APPRECATION SYSTEM IN RECOGNITION OF EFFORTS

3. THE INFORMAL ORGANISATION CAN BE A REAL ASSET TO DISNEY BY IMPLEMENTING THE FOLLOWIG POINTS AT DISNEY:

- REDUCTION OF STRSSFUL RELATIONSHIP DYNAMICS AMONGST LEVELS OF MANAGEMENT

- CONDUCT OF EMPLOYEES WITHIN THESE GROUPS

- IDENTIFYING KEY BEHAVIORAL RULES

- SMOOTHERING OF IMPLEMANTATIONS STAGE CONCERING SOCIAL RELATIVES OF THE COMPANY

(CASE STUDY VI)

- ROLLERBLADE THE POPULAR SKATE MANFUACTURER BASED IN MINNETONKA , MINNESOTA . ROLLERBLADE HAS BEEN ONE OF THE LEADING FIRMS IN THE FAST GROWING HIGH PERFOMANE ROLLWER SKATE MARKET PLACE.

ROLLERBLADE WAS IN A BIND . THE PRODUCT LITERRALLY COULD NOT BE SHIPPED OUT THE DOOR THE MANAGERS FOUND THAT WORKERS WERE NOT ABLE TO SHIP PRODUCTS BECAUSE AS A RESULT OF POOR STOARAGE STRUCTURES , THEY COULD NOT FIND THE PRODUCTS .ONCE THEY WERE FOUND , OVERCROWEDED AISLES , IN ADDITION TO OTHER SPACE CONSTRAINTS , STILL PREVENTED EFFICIENT SHIPPING BECAUSE THE WORKERS COULD BARELY MANAGE TO GET THE PRODUCTS OUT THE DOR . WE WERE OUT OF CONTROL BECAUSE WE DIDN’T KNOW HOW TO USE SPACE AND DIDN’T HAVE ENOUGH OF IT SAID IAN ELIIS , DIRECTOR FOR FACILITIES AND SAFETY. BASCIALLY , THERE WAS NO MORE USABLE SPACE LEFT IN THE WAREHOUSE , A SEVERE BACKLOG OF CUSTOMER ORDERS AND PICKING ERRORS WERE CLEARLY IN THE UNACCEPTABLE RANGE , ADDED RAM KRISHNA , PRINCIPAL OF NRM SYSTEMS BASED IN ST PAUL , MINNESTOA

WITH THE RETAILERS AS THEIR PRIMARY CUSTOMERS THE CUSTOMER COMPETITIVE IMPERATIVES THAT ARE BEING AFFECTED BY ROLLERBLADE’S INVENTORY PROBLEMS ARE MAINLY OF SERVICE I E DELAY IN DELIVIERS AS STATED ABOVE THEY WERE FACING PROBLEMS IN MAKING DELIVERIES ON TIME, NO SHIPMENT WAS REACHING ON TIME . THESE DELAYS WILL EFFECT A LOT IN THEIR CUSTOMERS AS THE RETAILERS WANT TO SELL THEM AND IF THE PRODUCTS WERE DELAYED THE RETAILERS WILL ALSO HAVE TO SUFFER IN LOOSING THEIR CUSTOMERS WHICH IN DEED RESULT IN BACKING OFF FROM THE ROLLER’S BLADE ONLY .ROLLER’S BLADE WERE LACKING BEHIND IN TECHNOLOGY SO AS TO MEET THEIR CUSTOMER DEMANDS THEY NEED TO IMPROVE THEIR TECHNOLOGY.

- JUST IN TIME (JIT) MANUFACTURING IS A PRODUCTION AND INVENTORY CONTROL SYSTEM IN WHICH MATERIALS ARE PURCHASED AND UNITS ARE PRODUCED ONLY AS NEEDED TO MEET ACTUAL CUSTOMER DEMAND (STEYN, 2010). THE BASIC PRINCIPLE OF JIT IS THAT EVERY COMPONENT NEEDED IN THE MANUFACTURING SYSTEM ARRIVES JUST IN TIME FOR IT TO BE USED. STOCK HOLDING FACILITIES ARE NOT REQUIRED WITH THIS SYSTEM BECAUSE THE NEEDED PRODUCTS ARRIVE WHEN NEEDED. AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRIES, LIKE TOYOTA MOTOR COMPANY, ARE WELL KNOWN FOR USING JIT. NEVERTHELESS, THERE ARE COMPANIES OF VARIOUS SIZES THAT ARE CURRENTLY USING AND SWITCHING TO JIT MANUFACTURING. THIS TYPE OF MANUFACTURING MAY APPEAR SIMPLE, HOWEVER, EMPLOYING IT CAN BE A VERY COSTLY AND DIFFICULT UNDERTAKING. THEREFORE, COMPANIES WHO MAKE USE OF THIS INVENTORY SYSTEM MUST CONTINUOUSLY SEEK WAYS TO REDUCE WASTE AND ENHANCE VALUE. ADVANTAGE .JIT MANUFACTURING IS AN ADVANTAGEOUS SYSTEM. THE MANY ADVANTAGES OFFERED BY THIS SYSTEM DIFFER FROM COMPANY TO COMPANY. OVERALL, JIT MAKES PRODUCTION OPERATIONS MORE PROFICIENT, COST EFFECTIVE AND CUSTOMER RECEPTIVE. MANUFACTURES WHO UTILIZE JIT RECEIVES COMPONENTS