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In Basket Exercise: Action Plan Summary

This document contains an in-basket exercise assessing an individual's responses to various issues at an organization. The organization is facing three main issues: [1] a shortage of safety gear which the individual plans to address by obtaining additional gear from other plants and immediately ordering more, [2] a machine breakdown creating a production bottleneck which reduced Goku SUV production, which the individual will work to resolve and utilize resources for alternate production in the meantime, and [3] labor issues which the individual will address by having an open discussion with the union head about employment practices and conduct expectations.

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Topics covered

  • employee feedback,
  • training programs,
  • employee training,
  • performance metrics,
  • Panthera production,
  • employee communication,
  • employee morale,
  • training and development,
  • safety incidents,
  • workforce management
119 views4 pages

In Basket Exercise: Action Plan Summary

This document contains an in-basket exercise assessing an individual's responses to various issues at an organization. The organization is facing three main issues: [1] a shortage of safety gear which the individual plans to address by obtaining additional gear from other plants and immediately ordering more, [2] a machine breakdown creating a production bottleneck which reduced Goku SUV production, which the individual will work to resolve and utilize resources for alternate production in the meantime, and [3] labor issues which the individual will address by having an open discussion with the union head about employment practices and conduct expectations.

Uploaded by

Abhijit Panda
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
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Topics covered

  • employee feedback,
  • training programs,
  • employee training,
  • performance metrics,
  • Panthera production,
  • employee communication,
  • employee morale,
  • training and development,
  • safety incidents,
  • workforce management

IN BASKET EXERCISE: ANSWER SHEET

Name of Assessee:______Pavan kumar Name of In Basket:________Goku_____


Code of Assessee:___P3-A_______

Item No. Your Action/Decision Rationale


Item 1 Place the equipment replacement Uncertainty in temporary overhauling
order immediately of equipment may lead to safety
incident
Immediately place the order for faulty
equipment and for rest, place the order As the R&D report, some equipment
after 2 weeks should be discontinued immediately
and the rest need not be replaced
immediately. We can place the order
for non-faulty equipment 2 weeks later
to avail festival discount
Item 2 Ensure that uniforms and safety Let everyone understand that there is
equipment of existing workers are in no specific preference for any worker
proper condition and replace them if and the decisions are purely objective
not. Communicate to the workers that
uniform and equipment kit would be
changed when needed

Item 3 Implement Panthera production Sales of Panthera Is expected to rise as


technology demand is high. If new implement is
equipped with Panthera production
technology, it can be utilized for
production. Also, the efficiency of this
technology is high

Item 4 Training and Development of the Contractual workers involved in


workers and the management production of Panthera should be
trained effectively to ensure the
smooth production. As the acquisition
impact impacts processes, culture and
people, managers should be skilled
enough to handle them
Item 5 Ask Amit to introspect the fluctuations Due to the acquisition, company has to
in manpower and bring up strategy for operate at full capacity utilization to
full manpower utilization achieve the production targets. In
order to cope with the demand, plant
has to achieve 100% production target
each day.

Item 6 Immediately replace all faulty safety Any kind of safety incidents should be
equipment avoided as they may lead to legal and
union troubles

Item 7 Invest in Training and Development As per the overall trend, investment in
T&D are leading to increase in
production

Item 8 Analyze why the achieved production Achieved units of Goku SUV are less
units of Goku SUV are falling drastically than half of the target unit over last 1
since 25/07/2017 week

Item 9 Request for safety equipment from As welding task involves safety hazard,
other plants and allow the group to workers safety has to be ensured
work only with safety equipment
Item 10 Get the reports showing discrepancies Organizational citizenship behavior has
and consult the operations team for to be ensured
clarification

Item 11 Request for safety equipment from Other plants may have required safety
other plants gear in store

Item 12 Get the required information from Involving all required teams gives the
operations and finance teams and send precise data and let the information
the required reports flow smoothly

Item 13 Meet Pranav singh and let him know Open discussion will resolve the
Organization is strict about the behavioral issues effectively
behavior at work and explain the
rationale behind employing contractual
workers

Item 14 Utilize the resources allocated to Resources will not idle and as demand
production of Goku SUV for production for Panthera SUVs is high, increased
of Panthera till the machinery issues production will help
are resolved

Item 15 Evaluate the profiles of recommended Ensuring transparency let other party
workers and recruit if they are understand the process
competent. If they are incompetent,
reject them and communicate the
same to union head and local MLA
Question: Please identify the three most critical issues this organization is facing. What will be
your specific plan of action to address these issues?

Issue # 1 Safety gear shortage

Action

Try for additional safety gear from other plants as a first step. Next, order the required quantity
immediately from vendors.

Issue # 2

Machine breakdown is creating bottleneck

Action

Production of Goku SUV is reduced drastically over last week. Get the issue resolved as soon as possible.
Utilize the resources allocated to Goku production for production of Panthera till the issue is resolved.

Issue # 3

Labor issues

Action

Have an open discussion with union head and let him know the rationale behind employing contractual
workers and warn him on the implications of breach of conduct. Maintain the organizational citizenship
behavior.

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