CASE STUDY ANALYSIS

Case Study Analysis

Case Study Analysis

Situation Analysis

Finder Industries was established in the 1930s as a high precision engineering manufacturer. It has grown on the basis of high quality and technological innovation. Today it employs over 20,000 people with operations in 70 countries, manufacturing its own patented medical equipment and technologies used in hospitals around the world.

In Britain Finder employs 2,000 people at a state-of-the-art facility in the Midlands. The facility is a global centre of excellence with 200 professional staff employed in the research and development of new medical technologies that assist with sight and having procedures. Another 1500 staff are employed in manufacturing and assembly operations. The remaining 300 employees work in various support and clerical roles. Manufacturing workers are represented by the trade union UNITE, while other staff are non-unionized at the UK facility.

Finder Industries has emerged from the global financial crisis in a relatively healthy position. Demand for its products is strong and new products manufactured by the company have been at the forefront of some of the latest non-invasive medical procedures. The competitive standing has also been strengthened because of a year-long lean management programme that has been introduced across Finder Industries. This has significantly reduced waste during the production process, improved manufacturing productivity while eliminating defects in support of total quality. As a result the UK facility was ranked third of all Finder plants owing to the lean manufacturing improvements, something the site manager is extremely pleased with and proud about. However, the UK site was ranked as 'very poor' in some areas and demanding targets for immediate improvement have been set by head office.

Importance of Employee Relation

Manifestation of man's relation to man's relationship to labor work is an important factor in the organization of interaction between staff and improving efficiency of production / employee relationship to his work is characterized by motivation, self-employment success and satisfaction with the labor of human behavior / self-employment success of satisfaction and motivation, in turn, are characterized by internal (personal) factors of the employee. The external manifestation of the relationship to work related labor behavior and social activity card / main criterion affecting the expression of the relationship of the employee to work; is motivation, which is a set of internal and external driving forces (Bohlander & Snell, 2007, Pp. 32-102).

Social and labor relations between workers and employers cover a wide range of issues, including the reproduction of the labor potential of the employee, his productive employment, working conditions, quality of labor, use of time, labor costs (Bohlander & Snell, 2007, Pp. 32-102).

Analysis of the socio-labor relations is of fundamental importance because they determine the basis of social stability. Under the previous political system, social and labor relations, defined by the dominance of state ownership, were highly formalized, and tightly regulated. The totalitarian system excluded the possibility of social unrest, and therefore there was no need to develop methods for their prevention and control of their consequences.

In the former conditions the model employee behavior was easily predictable: being ...