Sikachelela Ltd is into the business of manufacturing bicycle spare parts/components and of lately, Sikachelela Ltd has been expanding due to increased bicycle spare parts. At the same time, the competition has been increasing. To keep the market share, Sikachelela Ltddirected its employees to do overtime and that led the company into many problems. Due to increased stress from work caused the efficiency of employees to decline. Occasionally, the junior employees had to work under more than one superior/s as a result, the employees were becoming indisciplined. Additionally, teamwork which the company enjoyed previously had begun to diminish.
Furthermore, the production manager for the company asked the foreman to achieve a target production of 100bicycles a day, but she didn’t give the foreman authority of requisition tools and materials from the stores department.
Questions
a) What should the management do to remain competitive with a good market share?
b) How can the management address the issue of employee stress and declining efficiency?
c) What steps can the management take to improve discipline and teamwork within the company?
d) How can the production manager and foreman work together effectively to achieve the production target?