Treadway Tire Company Case Study

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The Treadway tire company employed almost 9,000 hourly and salaried staff in North America. The company was a major supplier of tires to the original equipment manufacturer. The Lima tire company was one of eight manufacturing plants operated by the Treadway tire company. The main problem in the Lima Tread way’s tire company is that there is no proper communication between the foremen and hourly employees and between foremen and managers. The managers will not be good with foreman and will not discuss with them. There is a lot of turnover in the company. 43% of the 23 foremen who left the company left voluntarily. Some foremen don't have idea what industrial engineering is. They don't know how to manage the dispute. Most of the problems can be prevented if they come to know how to get along with the hourly people. First we need to make sure that employees are not dissatisfied with their work culture. Foremen should be educated how to treat hourly employees. Then they can be motivated. We should motivate the employees by giving rewards for their performance. The foremen should get rewards based on their work and relationship with their managers and salary employees. They should be given training the importance of industrial engineering as it is very important when they get promoted to area manager. Next the relationship between managers and foremen should be better. The managers should have high expectations on foremen so that the work would be more productive. I would conclude that by motivating the employees and by having high expectations on foremen and salaried employees the turnover of the employees will

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