- From the practice of production manager
- Planning and implementation of dedicated development programs
Volatility and uncertainty are the main factors characterizing modern business. Changes occurring in it often have a rapid course, and preventing such sudden returns has become the overarching goal of many organizations. The pillars of the company's organizational structure, which should be strengthened at a given time to ensure stability and minimize the degree of uncertainty, is the individual decision of the organization's managers.
- Employer branding in manufacturing companies - what influences the employer's image?
Hiring the right people has a huge impact on your business. Working with people who understand and respect the company's goals, who also want to achieve them, and have specific, desirable competences, is something that most manufacturing institutions strive for. Unfortunately, breaking through with your offer on today's labor market is not easy.
- Onboarding is not as scary as it is painted
Onboarding - a process that exists in every organization, but still raises a lot of emotions. Why? Because, although seemingly uncomplicated, malfunctioning can cause significant damage to the company. On the other hand, though well thought out and well adapted to the needs of new employees, it provides measurable benefits translating into both improvement of employee experience and direct support of business goals
- A spring like no other
The threats associated with the spread of coronavirus pose new challenges to us all. This applies to both entrepreneurs and employees. Today, we need to look at issues related to running a business, employee-employer relations, or OSH duties in a different way, and adapt existing rules to the new situation in which we find ourselves.
- Subject of the issue
- Leadership crisis, leadership in crisis - on leadership in difficult situations
When I started working on the text you are reading, dear reader, the Sars-CoV-2 koro-virus was still outside Poland, or at least it seemed so to us ... As I finish this material, the number of patients increases at the pace of interpretation - when schools are closed, and in response to the decision of Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki and the introduction of an epidemic emergency, the companies decide to close their branches or limit their activities. The theme of leadership in times of crisis (and probably global!) Therefore seems very timely, but the crisis in leadership could have been seen before, and also on a scale far beyond production companies.
- Visual management as a way to optimize and improve the quality of work
Although I would venture to say that not everyone who reads this article knows French, rather few Turkish, and certainly hardly Arabic, I am sure that each of us would perfectly understand the message of these words found on characteristic symbols scattered around the world in a specific color. The red sign in the form of an octagon, because we are talking about it, can only mean one thing - STOP! This is the power of visual management, which I call the most effective international language. It is not the word that plays a key role, but the symbol and color, thanks to which the message of a specific signal is clear to all recipients.
- How do Polish production companies work during a pandemic?
Announcement of a coronavirus pandemic affected the work of all companies in Poland, but only some of the employees could go into remote work mode. While office workers can do more from home, those in production still need to stay in the halls. To maintain supply chain continuity, factories cannot afford production downtime. The SmartLunch team decided to analyze the situation of manufacturing companies. Estimates of the number of employees who are present in the workplace are based on the number of meals ordered directly to factories.
- The art of motivating
- Employee sick leave - how to meet this challenge?
Employee absences, especially unplanned ones, are the bane of many manufacturing plants. Sudden sick leave can effectively hinder a production plan.
- How to effectively involve employees in internal communication and strengthen the positive image of the employer?
Issues such as: strengthening the sense of commitment and employee satisfaction, taking care of effective internal communication, building a good employer brand have a considerable impact on the current labor market, and at the same time spend many nights at night for many employers. Every now and then more publications appear on them containing tips and descriptions of various tools, the use of which is to ensure recruitment success and maintain the current level of employment.
- Inspector's eye
- How to safely organize the work of a disabled employee in a team?
Employment of people with disabilities is sometimes associated with the need for the employer to make a great organizational effort. Wrongly. A disabled worker is mostly subject to the same work rules as a non-disabled worker, and the facilities that the regulations give him are primarily related to the organization of working time.
- Hiring temporary employees
What you should know to start with, or what are the general rules for employing temporary employees by companies.
- Hall conflicts
- Barriers and limitations of the implementation of the Lean Management concept
The concept of Lean Management is like Old Chinese Go. Its rules can easily be explained to a child, but only a few achieve the master level. Comparing the concept of lean management to this extremely difficult game is intentional, because in both cases we are dealing with simple rules, a set of methods to behave in a given situation, and yet many give up during the game, because the barriers that they encounter when implementing new solutions are recognized impossible to beat.
Menedżer Produkcji (Production Manager) - the whole list