Perfect Pottery Case Study
Perfect pottery’s imperfect strategic change
Perfect Pottery, an autocratic, tall business was just bought out by HBGC. The company has recently made an irreversible switch to using machines in the production line, resulting in the company laying off almost half of its workers. The company is now suffering from staff absenteeism and a spike in defective items.
Because of these changes in the company, several problems have arisen, such as the lowering of morale, as well as the aforementioned absenteeism and defective items. It is also very clear that the businesses tall, autocratic style is a part of the problem. The biggest problem, however, is the switch to using robots in the production line, because that sparked the layoffs that lowered morale. The robots, however, cannot change, so the company is going to have to work around that to fix the …show more content…
This obviously is a problem, because each defective item is materials and time wasted towards a product that cannot be properly used, so it must be discarded. This waste of material can decrease profit made and business.
A rise in defective items is a big problem for the employer. A rise in defects means material and money is being wasted. While this could be bad for the employee, because they may make less money if the company is earning less revenue, overall, this problem will mainly come back on the employer.
The rise is defective items is mainly caused by the employees. But it could also be a part of the robots problem. If the staff does not know how to properly operate the robots, more problems could occur with manufacturing. By giving the employees proper training to operate the new robots, there could be a decrease in defective items. This isn’t to say the robots are the only reason that products are coming out defective, poor morale could also be giving employees less of a reason to put their full potential into their
Perfect Pottery, an autocratic, tall business was just bought out by HBGC. The company has recently made an irreversible switch to using machines in the production line, resulting in the company laying off almost half of its workers. The company is now suffering from staff absenteeism and a spike in defective items.
Because of these changes in the company, several problems have arisen, such as the lowering of morale, as well as the aforementioned absenteeism and defective items. It is also very clear that the businesses tall, autocratic style is a part of the problem. The biggest problem, however, is the switch to using robots in the production line, because that sparked the layoffs that lowered morale. The robots, however, cannot change, so the company is going to have to work around that to fix the …show more content…
This obviously is a problem, because each defective item is materials and time wasted towards a product that cannot be properly used, so it must be discarded. This waste of material can decrease profit made and business.
A rise in defective items is a big problem for the employer. A rise in defects means material and money is being wasted. While this could be bad for the employee, because they may make less money if the company is earning less revenue, overall, this problem will mainly come back on the employer.
The rise is defective items is mainly caused by the employees. But it could also be a part of the robots problem. If the staff does not know how to properly operate the robots, more problems could occur with manufacturing. By giving the employees proper training to operate the new robots, there could be a decrease in defective items. This isn’t to say the robots are the only reason that products are coming out defective, poor morale could also be giving employees less of a reason to put their full potential into their