Treetop Forest ProductsCase analysis

By

Mannan Rahim

Rida Hai

Humayun Khalid

Husnain Moazzam

Taimoor Akhter

Umair Hafeez

Outline

• Problems & Causes• Decision Criteria• Alternative Solutions• Recommendation• Implementation and Contingency Plans

Problems

• Short Term: Packaging department’s poor productivity

• Long Term: Packaging department’s quality and company’s cohesiveness

Causes

• Team Dynamics: • Group Norms• High cohesion, goals not in line with company• Social Loafing• Motivation :• Equity Theory• Lack of Leadership

Decision Criteria

• Decreases costs (1 points)• Can be implemented quickly (3 points)• Improves productivity of packaging

department (2 points)• Increases equity of work rewards throughout

the company (2 points)• Improves the quality of Treetop’s output (2

points)

Alternatives

• 1.Hire new managers for the Packaging department(Packaging) and hold a company meeting

• 2.Promote employees of Packaging into management and hold a company meeting

• 3.Transfer the manager from Planning and another manager to Packaging and hire a managers for Planning and the other department and hold a company meeting

Recommendation

• Alternative3 is the recommended course of action.

• Deals with the motivation and leadership issues directly and should help to change the norms of the group

Implementation Plan

• Hold a planning dept meeting within one week • Hold a company wide meeting within 2 weeks• Transfer the managers and hire the new

managers within 1 month• Display productivity results for each month• After 1 year review the current status

Contingency Plan

• If manage cant be transferd than hire a new manager.

• If there is no improvement within next yaer than try job rotation, re-arranging the facility,

• Try giving production incentives.