Conflicts Between Mcwane And Employees

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One of Mcwane’s philosophies is cutting down expenses as much as possible in order to maximize profitability and benefits. Conflict may occur in an organization due to contradicting goals. When social entities have different preferred results or decision outcomes, conflict may also result. (Elsevier B.V. 2001) Under such a principle, the company devised Mcwane’s way of doing business, which lead to fierce conflicts with employees. Specifically the conflicts can be found expression in unsafe working environment and bad working conditions and irrespective of employees’ rights. Unsafe working environment is one of the main causes of the conflict between Mcwane and employees. As we found from the article, the company does not care about the safety of their employees. Actually, they are already aware of the bad situation of the working environment, but the company does not want to have any expense on it, such as protective aprons, respirators, safety boots, face shields and so forth. Furthermore, equipments are failing to check the safety, that machines are missing the safety guards. Employees are not professional. All of the causes lead to conflicts with employees. However, Mcwane did not provide any measure to help employees, he was claiming restrictions rather than providing safe working environment. What he wants is shift the responsibility to the employees. As Sheppard, Lewicki, and Minton (1992) pointed out that there is the process of naming, in which one party identifies a particular experience that has been harmful. Assuming that harm is perceived to have occurred, the next step is the process of blaming, by assigning responsibility for the harm to another party. (p. 47) He makes a system of “workers compensation cost control techniques” to transfer responsibility of accidents to the employees themselves. This system is trying to tell the workers

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