Rivethead and Organizational World By Mansur Boydaş Mansur Boydas Vahdi Boydas By Mensur Boydas Vahdi Boydas Mansur BoydaşRivethead is Ben Hamper's autobiographical report of life on the General Motors' assembly line. It documents the problems in union-management relationship that illustrated the auto industry in the 1960s, 70s and 80s. The book is filled with examples of General Motors manufacturing employees taking extremely...more
Where Stress And Disorganization Collide As a professional speaker, I travel constantly. That means that I go through airport security all the time and, as a consequence, am witness to myriad methods of successfully and not-so-successfully navigating the process. This microcosm of activity is a terrific example of how being disorganized generates tremendous and unnecessary stress. The Cattle Call We travelers converge on airports...more
Disciplined Recruitment Process Leads To An Efficient Work Force Of An Organization How important is the employee to an organization? This question would have different answers when it is received in a candid manner. On the outside, everybody would agree that the employees are the back bone of any organization. But how far is this fact brought into practice in real life? Employers are well aware of this fact, but still make mistakes when hiring the employees. The most common mistake that occurs during the hiring process is about recognizing the mindset and attitude of the person who is appearing for the interviews. Most companies try to shift the hiring process on to another consultancy or job recruiting agency. These people shortlist a number of candidates and send them for the final round of interview, get their commissions on the successful selection of the candidates send by them and then go off. The mindset of the candidate, the attitude towards the job, and the sincerity is something that is given a miss. This process of recruitment gives onto the company a person who might not be completely dedicated to the working affairs. This person might be in the job for...more
Why do organizations use the ID holders and charity merchandise? When you have the laminated plastic IDs and get the holes to be done in these for passing the lanyards so that these can be worn around the neck, what is the need for the ID holders? While it is true that most of the identity cards do not require the holders and hole in...more
The Function of Chief Portfolio Officer, (CPO) in an Organization To succeed, executives need to come to recognize that worth creation opportunities of organizations are shifting away from managing tangible assets, such as inventory, plant,property and gear, to managing expertise-based techniques, deploying the organization's...more
5 Employee Engagement Barriers in a Matrix Organization Systems deteriorate without attention. They lose entropy. Order and predictability will naturally deteriorate into chaos. Therefore senior management must continuously lead any employee engagement initiative or it will surely deteriorate. We all know that change must come from the top. Senior executives play an especially significant role because they must lead the managers who must then provide effective leadership to the employees.This is especially true in a matrix organization. In a recent interaction with organization development professionals it became clear that the matrix organization has not met expectations for performance improvement. Performance in matrix organizations depends more upon cooperation and trust than on authority and control. Employees may be assigned multiple projects and often need to work cross functionally without having authority to command people on their team. They need influencing skills not command and control. They require trusting relationships and not reporting relationships.In my work I have found it necessary to remove hidden barriers preventing the...more
Small Organizations can Play with the Big Boys In the movie "You've Got Mail", the sub-plot aside from the love angle is that the heroine (played by Meg Ryan) was forced out of business when the big-time bookstore owner (played by Tom...more
Effective Recruitment Process of an Organization Recruitment process is the backbone of an organization. Of course, workforce is the main strength of a firm. Nature of workforce is directly proportional to profits and developments of...more
Extended Distance Relocating Organizations Quotes - How to Create a Matrix to Negotiate a Superior Agreement There are dozens of reliable very long distance transferring firms to pick from in your neighborhood cell phone book.For much...more
Managing the Change to a Lean Organization (2) How do we engage the organization to develop the solutions-the new way of doing things-that we want? Fundamental change is invigorating but also difficult. For some people it is a great...more
Organizing User Accounts Password and additionally recovering lost Password Do everyone share COMPUTER with your family and friends? You lack one devoted laptop or Desktop for your own personal personal usage? Are other users are good...more
Increasing an organization's Revenues with Six Sigma Typical waste found in factories is almost similar in nature. Thus the strategies to reduce or minimize waste may also be same with slight differences according to the situation...more