I am the type of person who wants to know everything and be the best at every task I perform, and doing the necessary work to identify the appropriate source of information will make that task just a bit easier. Conclusion I believe that the role of the knowledge worker has changed, thanks mostly to technology. Most people have become so reliant on technology that they have become lazy. But the true knowledge workers do what is needed in search of more knowledge, and those are the real assets to the organization. It has been proven that knowledge workers cannot be effective if they are micromanaged or told how they need to complete their tasks (Hammer, 2004).
Choosing to use specialty task assignment the specialization will be maximized and lower the cross-training costs. That is allowing the company to match employees with jobs considering their skills and training. Employee will be limited to performing one function and are not flexible to perform other task and fill the gaps when need it. That also mean the company has to hire more staff depending on the productivity rate and production technology. In specialized task assignment we observe functional myopia, meaning workers are concentrated on the function they perform instead of the whole process.
As we see today we are still seeing changes in our military and defense system. Another aspect about the post war that changed the way the U.S. functions today was the changes in the American workforce. The amount of jobs during WWII was scarce especially following the great depression. The government wanted to make sure this would not be a continuing dilemma post-war to ensure that the economy would not be stuck at a stand
The cost of training a worker is also reduced as the worker does not have to be trained in every aspect of the company only what he is going to be doing. The immediate drawback to this however is that he will not be trained in the jobs of the other workers, and if he is not there to perform his duty no one else will be able to. For this reason, broad assignment while usually less efficient allows for flexibility in its workforce, which allows the company to pivot for loss in workforce of changes in tasks. Grouping the teams based on function allows for the teams to have higher team coordination and again increases the flexibility of the individual worker. Workers within the function become much more knowledgeable about the function because they work amongst many different products performing the same task in each.
The industrial revolution has helped the nation and economy grown so much over the time but we know, nothing is perfect. With large factories come environmental hazards and with large buildings come migration issues for all animals. Over the years, we have learned that maybe we took too much too fast. The importance of the industrial revolution is endless. But looking back on it today, the world seems to be at a much quicker less wasteful speed.
Even though many of the employees are able to start employment with little training, this has led to the differences in human resource practices among regional managers which counter Tanglewood’s original philosophy. • Hire Yourself or Outsource Tanglewood should ultimately focus on “hiring yourself” for their human resource functions of hiring activities such as recruiting, selecting, and employment. At the rate in which Tanglewood is growing, it will ultimately be cheaper in the long term as Tanglewood becomes a large organization. By hiring yourself, Tanglewood will also be able to build on the centralized corporate/company culture in which they are looking for. By hiring yourself the company would be more familiar with current and past experiences the company has faced with different staffing situations and they would be able to improve on any mistakes they may have had.
There is no direct supervisor to report to, and individuals are provided with the capacity to make important decisions that would previously be handled by a supervisor in a conventionally structured organization. Due to the lack of organizational levels within the department (as in a traditional hierarchal administration), self-managed team configurations are often responsible for all aspects of the job; hiring new employees, termination of existing employees, and overall decision-making. There are many advantages to incorporating a self-managed team arrangement. The goal of this approach is to achieve a sense of mutual responsibility among the members, as well as to enhance overall productivity and efficiency. If Dalman and Lei successfully created these types of teams within each of the Sandwich Blitz stores, it would allow them to devote the much-needed attention to their expansion project.
As the employees continued to develop their own positions as they saw fit, each person’s responsibilities changed and altered away from the initial role of the position in order to better mold to the person fulfilling the position. The rules and responsibilities of these positions were not standardized or formally written down in order to establish the position. This case study demonstrated a possible outcome which could be generated due to a very low level of formalization. This case study demonstrates a company on the precipice of taking the step from the collectivity stage to the formalization and control stage of life-cycle forces. Life-cycle forces are the predictable and natural forces and pressures that build as an organization grows which forces the organization to change as it grows and which usually need to be addressed in order to continue growth (Hitt, Miller & Colella, 2011).
The learning curve will present challenges in that, employees will maintain the need to refer to the old system to proceed with business as usual. Possible struggles presented by the learning-curve are expected from several employees. Some will adjust more than others, but the main challenge is in the adaptation or orientation phase. Technologically, since the system is equipped with back up software, it should eventually eliminate the need for hard copy records and files. This will save time in the long run, which should encourage most employees despite their initial frustration with the management system change.
Running head: STAFFING SYSTEM MANAGEMENT Staffing System Management Staffing an organization can vary greatly from one company to another. How the staffing function is structured depends on the company's size, type, strategy, budget, and staffing needs. Generally defined, staffing is the process of determining human resource needs in an organization and securing sufficient quantities of qualified people to fill those positions. Staffing is not, however, as simplistic as that definition would have one believes. Staffing is actually a complex endeavor involving a number of diverse tasks, ranging from job analysis to performance appraisal, from employment interviewing to career development, from hiring to termination.