Slade Company Essay

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Case 4 - The Slade Plating Department Introduction The Slade Company was a small but prosperous manufacturer of metal products designed for industrial application. It was located in central Michigan with 500 employees. The plating department of Slade had formed certain informal team in which some employees had dishonest behaviors. There were 7 departments in Slade with 485 employees (excluding President and Production Manager). Be specific to the plating department, there were 38 people. The culture of this department was different from the others. Informal groups were formed among the employees. Certain members of the department tended to seek each other out during the free time on and off the job. These informal associations were built upon common activities and shard ideas about what was and what was not legitimate behavior in the department. Major issues in this case The major issue in this case is the dishonesty that was seen among the employees in the Plating dept., which lead to abusing the punch out system for logging in the work hours. It also outlines the working conditions, lower wages, which are present in the company that ultimately led to the low morale among the employees. The reason the case has been assigned is to study the group behavior and the common activities that are present in the group and to identify how that affects the productivity and satisfaction. Group norms There are two different behaviors that can be seen in the plating dept. • Sarto's group - all the members were culturally bonded got together after work to have social activities. This is mainly because of the shared interests they had • Individual behaviors - attributed by Pearson's and Herman', who were deviant and did not like to work as a group. The group norms and the individual characters developed because of the shared working conditions, same level,

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