3HRC Understanding Organisations and the Role of Human Resources

The operations and production department is responsible for manufacturing the company’s products in a timely and efficient manner while striving for quality and perfection. Our dedicated team works around the clock in order to meet production needs as our company steadily grows; due to both the hard work of our marketing and sales department which is then complemented by our products to receive high customer satisfaction and retaining customers for future business.

They provide verbal and written technical support to a variety of assembly manufacturing processes. They often work under the supervision of a manufacturing engineer in managing equipment builds. For every project, they read schematics and interpret assembly drawings in order to arrange components and properly assemble them into final products. They determine the appropriate tools, materials and processes to build equipment. They may be required to develop new work parameters and develop troubleshooting procedures for mechanical and electrical

I have been asked to prepare a briefing note for a new employee who will be joining the company soon as a line manager. Below is information which will give this new starter a more in depth look of the organisation, what we do and how we operate.

Manufacturing- to be able to manufacture and create the designs we have produced, also each part of the final product should be fully functional and contribute towards the finished product.

Research and Development Department is at the core of a jewelry company such as Tiffany & Co. at Tiffany & Co., this department is constantly working to make the company an international trend-setter. Thus, the team constantly develops new collections for

“The task of drafting a product was no longer left with the craftsmen, thus the creation of the design profession.” (Hauffe, 1998, p.11)

* Product-level: product group management team of technical & commercial representatives meeting once a month to review results, suggesting corrective actions, resolving interfunctional differences

5. Organizational/administrative – these designers are tasked to simplify and minimize the amount of effort required (for example, creating a excel template for accountants)

In-process inspection and test to determine the status of the process (rather than for product acceptance). .

Understand design from a technical perspective, i.e. producing patterns, toiles and technical specifications for designs;

The product design department states ‘once a product is developed it is thrown over the wall to manufacturing. Lack of communication between departments can cause problems with product quality, increase costs and lower productivity. One way to resolve this is to create a quality and safety position. This position would be responsible for gathering suggestions from the manufacturing and product design managers regarding new product challenges and/or reservations. After analyzing this information it would be shared with the designers to improve the product prior to it going to market.

Dedicated Engineering and Research & Development Activities – the company has a very strong R&D having over 3000 engineers and scientists

Inside the company communications are promoted between the different areas. At the time when the company is developing a new project they promote a team of different departments working together to have the better outcome of the project. As the company involves employees in product development, the result will be not only in a better product design, but also it “adds impetus of an immense pride of association factor: We came up with this as a team. Everyone wins, including customers and shareholders."

Through staff induction we ensure that each of our new employees receive our company handbook which includes each of these three documents. The new employee’s team leader takes the employee through handbook and given the opportunity to ask questions and give feedback based on each of the topics. This is done as it forms an instant bond and understanding between the employee and organization.

This stage of the testing is important to the finished product, as it verifies whether the project meets the functional, technical and system requirements. The testing must be conducted in a similar environment in which resembles the production