Oilwell: Team Management

Oilwell production line subdivision peckerwood Russell was acting general manager of TRW and at iodin time he is being appointed as general manager with an assignment of lay out off twenty passel orachieves an equivalent reduction in advertise cost. The Oilwell Cable Division is part of the industrial and Energy Segment of TRW that represent 24 portion of its sales and 23 pct of its operating profits. The Oilwell Division is a acquired melodic phrase by TRW what was Crescent Wire and Cable Comp either of Trenton. The four reasons for moving the Oilwell cable (Crescent Wore and Cable Company) from Trenton to Law arnce are Lawerence is advantageously closer to the customer Lawerence has a more(prenominal) fend forive labor environment. The wage identify for the Lawerence area are real conjectural in that respect is an already existing grammatical construction Gino stripoli, formal general manager, was gien the task to bulge operations in Lawrence and he conventio nal new trouble administration. He effected eleven police squad relating the activities and all teams were doing their jobs very well. There is in like manner a co-ordination team. The team is successful. Though there were slightly problems initially.There was a good deal of mistrust among employees regarding focal points motives. There were also some technical problems. But after both years Gino solved the problems. Though TRW has decennary competitors in the cable market, its market mainly depends on the demand of the submersible pumps. Because the introductory product produced by the Oilwell Cable Division is wire that provides power to submersible pumps utilize in oil drilling. Question 1 Evaluate team way at TRWs Lawrence plant. What organizational bearing system is it most similar to? Does it reflect surmisal X or theory Y assumptions? Answer There were in occur 11 teams where five production teams are formed around the production carry out. from each one team meets on a weekly basis or as essential and resource team meets every two weeks. That increases the coordination between the team and team members. There was no formal agenda scarce the meeting on production process and labor scheduling which increases the production. Team also build descent between variant level of the organizations Collegial organizational behavior system is most similar to. It reflects speculation Y assumption. Question 2 analyze the results from team management at Lawrence.Do they support a satisfaction causes productivity or a productivity causes satisfaction relationship? Explain. There were some initial start-up problems, alone late it seems to be a success. In the beginning there was a good deal of mistrust among employees. But later(prenominal) it being solved. First there was a lot of frustration with a tall level of turnover. Because there was only one union employee brought from Trenton. To solve the problem a compensation scheme was developed that boost employees to master the various pieces of equipment in the plant. disorder dropped from in excess of 12 percent to a range of 2 to 4 percent. Also employment had dropped from a lavishly of 132 to what seemed to be a more best level of 125. They support satisfaction causes productivity. From the workers point of view, the major benefit of team management is their ability to overlook their jobs. This control has resulted in a high level of commitment by the employees, as manifest by the numerous suggestions made by the teams that have resulted in significant improvements in quality and productivity. Question 4Can participative and team management climb upes work equally well during time of organizational crisis and during normal times? Explain. NO, from my opinion, though during normal times participative and team management approaches work equally but during organizational crisis it cant work equally. The debt instrument of the team management is to sol ve any problem equally and help former(a) team members to solve the problems. But in participative approach people can turn away to help others. Beside this when contradiction between the people exist the situation also live on more complicated in participative approach