The Treadway Tire Company
Job Dissatisfaction and High Turnover at the Lima Tire Plant The Treadway’s Lima, Ohio, tire plant has a severe problem that out of 50 foremen at the facility, 23 had a turnover in 2007. Ashley Wall, Director of Human Resources at Lima tire plant had a meeting with Brandon Bellingham the plant manager to present the projected year-end turnover. Wall knew that the turnover rate in Lima was higher than at other plants in the division. Wall’s recognize it was now November 28, 2007, has almost one month before Christmas to give her recommendation to the plant manager on January 2. She might need to work during the plant holiday shutdown from Christmas to New Year for annual maintenance and re-tooling. Wall wanted to develop overall analysis and identified a plan to solve these issues. The main reason for high turnover of foremen at the Lima Tire Plant is the responses to the negative events such as work responsibility, the nature of the obligations a person has to other, in example a foreman said, “what am I supposed to do if I’m missing machine? What if half a dozen workers don’t show up for work? Sure, I scramble, looking for folks with the right skills to fill in”. Work complexity the degree to which the work requirements exceed the …show more content…
The first option is to reduce the scope of job responsibility like dealing with the union, absentee’s hourly workers by providing them ready replacement workers, solving payroll issues, by transfer these duties to the HR department. The advantages of this option include allowing foremen to concentrate on production, improve product quality, rises foremen motivations which lead to good task performance, excellent communication with management and increase their working trust. The disadvantage of this option financially by increasing the cost by hiring new employees to do these works means increase
Job Dissatisfaction and High Turnover at the Lima Tire Plant The Treadway’s Lima, Ohio, tire plant has a severe problem that out of 50 foremen at the facility, 23 had a turnover in 2007. Ashley Wall, Director of Human Resources at Lima tire plant had a meeting with Brandon Bellingham the plant manager to present the projected year-end turnover. Wall knew that the turnover rate in Lima was higher than at other plants in the division. Wall’s recognize it was now November 28, 2007, has almost one month before Christmas to give her recommendation to the plant manager on January 2. She might need to work during the plant holiday shutdown from Christmas to New Year for annual maintenance and re-tooling. Wall wanted to develop overall analysis and identified a plan to solve these issues. The main reason for high turnover of foremen at the Lima Tire Plant is the responses to the negative events such as work responsibility, the nature of the obligations a person has to other, in example a foreman said, “what am I supposed to do if I’m missing machine? What if half a dozen workers don’t show up for work? Sure, I scramble, looking for folks with the right skills to fill in”. Work complexity the degree to which the work requirements exceed the …show more content…
The first option is to reduce the scope of job responsibility like dealing with the union, absentee’s hourly workers by providing them ready replacement workers, solving payroll issues, by transfer these duties to the HR department. The advantages of this option include allowing foremen to concentrate on production, improve product quality, rises foremen motivations which lead to good task performance, excellent communication with management and increase their working trust. The disadvantage of this option financially by increasing the cost by hiring new employees to do these works means increase