Making a Difference in Chaos: Proving Yourself Isn’t Enough Taking on a management position puts you in a competitive arena, there are expectations to prove yourself, that you can outshine your colleagues; Consequently, it’s this external factor that no matter how good you think you are, there will always be someone else to try and steal your thunder. When you enter what seems to be utter chaos that requires an immediate solution, the only thing to do is put your genius hat on and make it personal. Even amid my finest hour, I became a victim of the economic woes. My response to being downsized has been a career change, by pursuing my degree, obtaining new experiences, and honing-in on old ones, I’m destined to prove myself yet, again. …show more content…
Doing good deeds comes with significant acknowledgment, I was promoted to the Inventory Control and Quality Assurance Manager. With this position, I was responsible for 10 million dollars of inventory and to ensure our customers received the correct items ordered. With that amount of stock, there are times when merchandise would be damaged or broken and need a location to gather and try to restore all items possible. Within this building, there was a salvage area where the forklift drivers would pick up damaged goods when necessary and drop it in a pile outside the salvage room, an absolute eye sore (chaos to the 10th power). It wasn’t until we had a visit from upper management that the urgency to straighten the chaos existed. I was sent to visit another facility, to learn all the things they were doing right and to bring information back to our location to implement. What I chose to bring back was to institute salvage tables at the nine modules, shipping and receiving areas to limit the amount of damage that would occur during transport. Making 90 percent of the items salvageable at the selection locations, making it available for immediate purchase opposed to having to discard items that would not otherwise be salvageable. Also, I moved the salvage department to the back of the building, where if we had visitors they would not go that far to see the inner workings of this department.
Ideally, his decision must maintain the firm’s no-layoff history, encourage the tight-knit company atmosphere, and draw as little negative attention as possible. As a new employee in his grandfather's business, he must prove himself worthy of the position he was recently controversially given. His first challenge is dealing with the declining performance of veteran employee, Russell Campbell, a strong-minded subordinate with a significant amount of influence within the firm. To make his dealings even more complicated, Russell is a
Owned equipment and supplies are often in need of repair and staff sometimes fail to keep accurate inventory and order on time of need.
I read the book, “First, Break All The Rules: What The World’s Greatest Managers Do Differently” written by Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman. The book explains their views and how they hang onto their gifted workers. You should consider reading this book if you are in management. Marcus and Curt describe the myths of normal management thinking. Some of the concepts that the two describe are people are capable of almost anything, treat others as you like to be treated, and a manager’s role is diminishing in today’s economy. The authors write, “Great managers are revolutionaries." ”This book will take you inside the minds of these managers to explain why they have toppled conventional wisdom and reveal the new truths they have forged in its place.”
Downsizing is a major problem faced by employees during tough times of recession. Apart from the economic reasons, they also have severe psychological effects on the employees. This project is about comprehending the effects of cut backs on employees. Employees suffer from severe self-esteem issues, due to which it’s very hard for them to jump back into the same mental stableness.
In the “New Vice President” case study, Mid-West University faced a hiring freeze and leadership dilemmas. With the change in executive positions, Jennifer Treeholm, Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs, acquired the new vice president role. At first glance, she was the perfect candidate. Jennifer dedicated her career to improve the overall culture and mission, and she was familiar with the vice president’s duties. Although Jennifer was highly qualified, her previous relations with the staff rendered her ability to lead and make decisions effectively. As a result the college faced stagnant progress from delayed solutions and preventative measures. Thus, the staff began to doubt her abilities as a leader, which caused the previous employee structure to weaken.
The story is told from the point of view of a bright young man in search of a manager who could successfully lead and manage change. He wanted to work for and eventually become one, and so he spent many years traveling all over the world. He spoke with a wide variety of managers, but was rarely pleased with what he heard or saw. The “tough” managers ran profitable organizations at the expense of its workforce, and the opposite for those who he thought were “nice”. Just as he began to lose hope, the young man heard a story of a local manager whose employees enjoyed working with him and produced great results. To his surprise, the young man was able to schedule an immediate appointment.
At the point when organizations slice midlevel positions, they regularly expand the weight on the remaining individuals without expanding their adequacy and impact—a mix prone to stir hazard disinclined unbending nature. Trimmed in by standards and regarded as insignificant, individuals get even by over controlling their own particular turf, requesting tribute before reacting to request. They vent disappointments on other people who are considerably more feeble.
Control, it’s a simple word that nearly everyone recognizes, but do we really understand what control is? Dictionary.com says simply to exercise restraint or direction over, while the Webster dictionary says it means to have power over something/someone. Ask anyone, me, your dad, your friend, that one guy over there; you can even ask yourself, answer will always vary. Everybody wants control, whether it be over there life, there bank account, or maybe even the world, but the fact is with everybody wanting control, it creates the polar opposite of control… chaos. What is control and chaos, how does the ender’s game show this so well, and what can you learn from this, all of this answered
A changed mindset and a single mindset maybe the key to MSCT achieving its objective of meeting completion and placement rates. Having a fixed mindset that is negative on a position does not help an institution purpose for wanting to change their present
Mid-career managers are better off learning applied strategic skills than earning an MBA. They are an endangered species! The end has come, not because Capitalism is doomed, but because of two related phenomena: technology and the millennial generation.
More often than not the complexity lies within the ‘how to’ and what criteria will
This report’s resources include academic articles written by Dr. Steven H. Appelbaum. Dr. Appelbaum is a professor at Concordia University, and has won numerous awards writing articles regarding organizational restructuring. Appelbaum’s articles discussing survivor syndrome are well-known and commonly cited by researchers to support evidence in other articles. This report also integrates the organizational downsizing opinions of Dr. Shreekumar Nair, a professor at the National Institute of Industrial Engineering. His
Companies and organizations with tremendous potential for success are using involuntary intention as a means of dismissing employees or eliminating positions (Ghayas & Siddiqui, 2012).In the past few years, however, organizations have used the economic meltdown and downturns in business to justify involuntary intentions as a necessity for organizational survival in today’s competitive environment (Mbah & Ikemefuna, 2012). Economic meltdowns and adverse recessionary trends are cited as major causes for creating and sustaining employment fear psychosis among non-managerial employees working for the City of Nashua Public Works Division, resulting in greater work turnover and job attrition losses, which are not replaced due to ostensible economic distress, thus creating major job demotivation, lowered morale and increased job dissatisfaction among current employees, impacting their job productivity, performance and profitability. Although the exercise is being done humanely, studies indicate that it can cause employment-induced fear psychosis and other negatives that can affect employees’ performance (Ali, & Jan, 2012; Farooq & Farooq, 2014). The
Outside and interior strengths make a struggle for employees inside the working environment. With a battling economy and perpetually expanding costs for sustenance, gas, utilities, and different items, these outer hassles place struggle on workers home lives. Employees convey those outside clashes to work. These outside hassles additionally put intense financial conditions on employers. The workforces also feel the boss working environment loads as well. Chatter, bits of gossip and dread of decreases in the workforce, cutting back because of changing innovation and outside exchange, diminishments and terminations in hours worked with the loss of advantages, and loss of business makes agitation and precariousness for both bosses and representatives. Indeed, even those employees who are sufficiently fortunate to keep their occupations amid a financial downturn are tasked with substantial workloads to compensate for the diminishments in the workforce and rare assets. These all in mix prompts the condition, where organizations are compelled to create more with darling measure of assets.
You can 't get to a job interview without reliable transportation. It makes sense for a family to always own at least one vehicle outright. 6) An Interview Suit - If a layoff rocks your world, the last thing you 'll want to do is shop for clothes using your dwindling severance pay. Gentlemen, get your interview suit, shirt, shoes, socks, and tie in order now. 7) An Updated Resume - This is a good time to quietly update your resume. Have some friends and relatives review it and check for misspellings and typos. There is nothing worse than sending out a flawed resume to dozens of employers. 8) An Backup Profession - If your job function was suddenly moved to a third world country where everyone apparently has five years of experience in your profession, what is your Plan B? It might be worthwhile to think of and lay the groundwork for alternative professions now rather than in the middle of a personal crisis. 9) A Training Plan - This economic downturn is a great time to skill up for the challenges ahead. When you take on new training, be wary of scams and look for something that will provide a verifiable return on your investment. 10) A Political Strategy - If your livelihood is being threatened by foreign competition, mass immigration, or Wall Street greed, you must make your views known to your political representatives. Instead of going quietly, go to Congress.org and lobby your elected officials.