Treadway Tire Case Study
Unit 5 Treadway Tire Case Study Analysis
Kaplan University
Graduate School of Business
GB520: Strategic Human Resource Management
April 23, 2014
Treadway Tire: Job dissatisfaction and high turnover for the Lima Plant Introduction Treadway Tire case study is all about job dissatisfaction and high turnover rate at Lima Tire Plant. In 2007, half of the foreman at the Lima Facility had a turnover. The past ten year this been highest turnover rate for foreman. Ashley Walls the Human Resource Director have concern with high turnover in the Lima Plant. She have major objective for this Lima Plant are cost cutting, increase productivity, and reducing turnover. Next, I will present to some problems that the Lima Tire Plant had in this case study. I will give you my suggestions and solutions to Treadway Tire Plant,
Main Issues
The main issues with the Lima Plant are the job dissatisfaction and the foreman high turnover rate. I will analyze the situation with the individual foreman to the integration of the company.
Define the Problem
Treadway Tire Foreman Problems: First, concern is the daily production evaluation Lima Plant are too strict for the employees. The foreman did not have control for some variations of the productions quantity and qualities, such as its relate to the machine breakdown. The executive leaders of the Lima Plant was only focusing on the daily production. The Plant manager Bellingham thought the performance goals was the most important duty of the foreman. This gave the foreman too much pressure that affected them to have a clear picture of the daily issues in what happen in the production lines. Second, the responsibility of the foreman was too much on them, but the foreman did not have relative authority. The line foreman had to directly deal with each day was a long list of different personnel, resources, and administrative issues in a 12 hour shift. Foreman did not have any control over their
Kaplan University
Graduate School of Business
GB520: Strategic Human Resource Management
April 23, 2014
Treadway Tire: Job dissatisfaction and high turnover for the Lima Plant Introduction Treadway Tire case study is all about job dissatisfaction and high turnover rate at Lima Tire Plant. In 2007, half of the foreman at the Lima Facility had a turnover. The past ten year this been highest turnover rate for foreman. Ashley Walls the Human Resource Director have concern with high turnover in the Lima Plant. She have major objective for this Lima Plant are cost cutting, increase productivity, and reducing turnover. Next, I will present to some problems that the Lima Tire Plant had in this case study. I will give you my suggestions and solutions to Treadway Tire Plant,
Main Issues
The main issues with the Lima Plant are the job dissatisfaction and the foreman high turnover rate. I will analyze the situation with the individual foreman to the integration of the company.
Define the Problem
Treadway Tire Foreman Problems: First, concern is the daily production evaluation Lima Plant are too strict for the employees. The foreman did not have control for some variations of the productions quantity and qualities, such as its relate to the machine breakdown. The executive leaders of the Lima Plant was only focusing on the daily production. The Plant manager Bellingham thought the performance goals was the most important duty of the foreman. This gave the foreman too much pressure that affected them to have a clear picture of the daily issues in what happen in the production lines. Second, the responsibility of the foreman was too much on them, but the foreman did not have relative authority. The line foreman had to directly deal with each day was a long list of different personnel, resources, and administrative issues in a 12 hour shift. Foreman did not have any control over their
References: Beckham, H., & Skinner, W. (June, 2008) The treadway tire company: Job dissatisfaction and high turnover at the Lima tire plant (Case Study). Retrieved from Harvard Business Online website: Appendix Figure 1. SWOT Analysis.