Managing_the_Work_of_Individuals_and_Teams

Managing the work of Individuals and teams Review the performance of teams – Assignment 4 Task 1 I have chosen a Production team (Foundry) to base my answer on. I am going to explain why it is important to praise team’s performance; Team effectiveness – It essential to know if teams are hitting targets that have been set for them and if there are any. If you cannot measure the team’s contribution in some type of way you won’t be able to manage what they are doing. The management need to know if they are working at the best level and production does not decrease. The effectiveness might influence cost. An example of this may be, the Production team has a target of to cast 50 tonnes in one week, but they only cast 40 tonnes, therefore they have lost 20 % of production (10 tonnes) Contribution to the business – This is similar to the above and is strongly linked to the productivity of a team. This is something that can be seen and actually measured efficiently and effectively like the amount of scrap produced by a team for a particular project task/component. e.g. 5 components (1 tonne each) are programmed to cast but 3 are scrapped for chemical analysis. The Make-up of the team – This linked to the structure of the team. The production team for a foundry would be as follows. Individual’s contributions – Within a team every individual has their contributions to complete a task. The Production manager overlooks everything within the production team; they manage the manning within the team. They forecast the casting programme for each week and aim to get the most production out in least amount of time successfully. If he/she manages the team well all members of the team will have a similar amount of contribution where necessary. The technical team are not a part of the production team but do influence them, by having a say on if they want to change something on a casting and they need to stop production to do this. The foundry charge hand ensures all his men are doing their tasks and doing them correctly. They will oversee all the decisions within the production and report to the production manager All the shop floor workers have the responsibilities to get all their tasks done within the time allocated to the best of their ability without producing scrap. Review the team’s membership criteria – Based on the production team, the production manager would each week make up a program for the moulders to mould and then the casters to cast the day after. This then would be distributed to both departments chargehands at the end of the week for the following week, the production manager should then make sure this is achieved. The chargehands of the foundry and the moulding must report back the work to the rest of the shop floor, also report if any problems occur and ensure the work objectives get done. All the shop floor must then complete the program to the best of their ability. Each individual’s performance can be appraised, this is important to check the production is running efficiently. Review the team’s objectives – It is important to review the team’s objectives because within the production team there is the moulding and casting. They both have the objective of to complete the program given, but the moulders make a mould the day before it gets cast, so one team could be performing better for example the moulds might build up in the foundry because the casters aren’t able to keep up with the program. Once these are reviewed the objectives can be changed to achieve the best production. Task 2 Here I have paired up with a class member and exchanged my Task 1 results. I am comparing the criteria of a ‘team ones’ performance and bullet pointed how the two team’s performances would be measured. Lewis Nicholson – Inspection team Team effectiveness – The difference between my production team and the inspection team is that the production team aim to get as much production out as possible and only stop anything is they are unable to cast, where as the inspection team are stopping any product/component if it doesn’t meet criteria and carry to do so till the problem is sorted. Contribution to the business - The production team actually produces a product/component for the business, whereas the inspection team contributes in a way that ensures quality, so that nothing goes out of the door that doesn’t meet criteria. The make-up of the team – The make up of a team of the production team and the inspection team are very similar as they are both managed by a certain individual like a line manger, also the shop floor is a flat structure in both teams as the members work together and report to someone higher within the team. Individual contributions – Within the teams of both the production and inspection the individual contributions are the same in the case of they all aim to complete the targets outlined. The difference is that all the individuals’ targets are different on what they are doing. So the production individuals all aim to produce as many casting as possible whereas the inspection individuals aim to inspect as many products/components as possible. The line managers of both teams are similar in the case that they set the targets the team to need to complete and they manage the individuals of the team. Review the team’s membership criteria – The team’s memberships in both teams are very similar as they both have a team manager that plans the work and delegates to the rest of the team. One difference maybe that the production team has a chargehand that delegates the work with the shop floor and the team manager. Review the team’s objectives – Reviewing the team objectives in the 2 teams can be different, because the production teams objectives can be reviewed from the production output, whereas the inspection teams objectives would be reviewed on the completion of inspected products/components. Task 3 Here I have conducted a performance review of my production team talked about in task 1. 1.