Smrt Bus Driver Strike Case Analysis
SMRT Driver Strike
1 Our Company
Our company is a small-sized music studio providing services ranging from voiceover recording, music recording & production, post production/CD duplication & design to music production courses. The studio is located at the downtown area, which incorporates several recording rooms, function rooms and staff offices.
Our team is assembled by both local and foreign talents. Staffs are assessed and rewarded based on their performances. The administration division of the company is primarily made up of local staffs. The output business depends on the professional artists in our company, most of which are foreign talents holding special visas instead of employment passes (EP). The rest of the expatriates are low-skill workers who take care of the logistic, security and orderliness of the studio, while some of them act as personal assistants to the professional artists. For the low skill expatriates, the company needs to apply work permits (WP) from CIA. Moreover, housing is provided to their convenience.
Our company works towards ideas and innovation. It focuses on integrating ideas into creative media content, producing quality music that will lead the trend of the music market. Music producer and engineers are the principle part of the composition. Hence, close attention are paid to employees to boost their motivations. At the same time, the quality of the work is the key to maintain the image and reputation of the company. Therefore, work is also highlighted in the management to keep up with the booming technology and fashion trend. All in all, high people-high work leadership style [Khong, 2012] is implemented in the business function, where the professional artists are attended to and their works are examined closely. The Leadership Grid is shown in Figure 1. The (5, 5) managerial style will help the employees to achieve work life balance and assure business prosperity of the company. The managerial Grid is shown in
1 Our Company
Our company is a small-sized music studio providing services ranging from voiceover recording, music recording & production, post production/CD duplication & design to music production courses. The studio is located at the downtown area, which incorporates several recording rooms, function rooms and staff offices.
Our team is assembled by both local and foreign talents. Staffs are assessed and rewarded based on their performances. The administration division of the company is primarily made up of local staffs. The output business depends on the professional artists in our company, most of which are foreign talents holding special visas instead of employment passes (EP). The rest of the expatriates are low-skill workers who take care of the logistic, security and orderliness of the studio, while some of them act as personal assistants to the professional artists. For the low skill expatriates, the company needs to apply work permits (WP) from CIA. Moreover, housing is provided to their convenience.
Our company works towards ideas and innovation. It focuses on integrating ideas into creative media content, producing quality music that will lead the trend of the music market. Music producer and engineers are the principle part of the composition. Hence, close attention are paid to employees to boost their motivations. At the same time, the quality of the work is the key to maintain the image and reputation of the company. Therefore, work is also highlighted in the management to keep up with the booming technology and fashion trend. All in all, high people-high work leadership style [Khong, 2012] is implemented in the business function, where the professional artists are attended to and their works are examined closely. The Leadership Grid is shown in Figure 1. The (5, 5) managerial style will help the employees to achieve work life balance and assure business prosperity of the company. The managerial Grid is shown in