Case Study Analysis II

CASE STUDY ANALYSIS II It is a common trend in business to create and utilize high performing teams in to maximize productivity of their workforce nowadays . Many companies now implement team-based organizational business set up . Studies conducted among Fortune magazine 1000 companies revealed more companies (68 ) want to utilize teams in their businesses . Only 1 among those surveyed have intended to reduce utilizing teams . A study have also been conducted by Training and Development Journal where employees were asked of their preference to work as a team or work individually ?Sixty percent

of the employees of the 1000 companies interviewed chose to work in teams

High performing teams are aimed to meet the demands of globalization Team working can bring about better business decisions . For one , more heads are better than one . It can also create more creativity and have been an effective tool in problem solving . Unfortunately , not all businesses can effectively implement the transition to create good high performance teams . When it comes to design and innovations , teams failed due to several factors as pointed out by the study in NYU Stern School of Business . One , the lack of managerial training and experience on the part of the managers in handling a team workforce can influence employee motivation . Second , some business do not have the right approach that is fitting to the needs of the company and its operations . Third , focus of the business is sometimes on how to make team members fit together according to their skills rather than focus on how to challenge the team to attaining their highest productivity like giving them incentives Fourth , lack of management support or the leadership failure to implement high performance cannot sustain the effectiveness of this style of business operation . On a final note , failures of the past must be taken into account and be avoided so history will not repeat itself

In the case of the Mantua Manufacturing Company and Levi-Strauss several of these factors can be pointed out . One of these factors as seen , is the leadership motivation to encourage productivity among its workforce . Weintraub , the company 's president , utilizes his managerial or leadership skills to influence his employees to meet their target quotas by giving them besides their basic salary of 12 /hour , an incentive of 3 or 25 bonus for targeted productivity . This kind of incentive challenges Mantua Manufacturing Company employees to produce what is expected of them and be paid accordingly commensurate with their performance

On the contrary , Levi-Strauss failed in comparison due to leadership failure to motivate the employees by giving them incentives to make them become more productive . Their implementation of a team-based organization was not well researched by management thus can be seen as a failure on their part . They have in fact misread the situation as that caused by misplaced skill levels of workers rather than giving challenges to their employees to be more productive . It could have made a difference if they have focus their research on to...