Motivating
employees and reducing wasted resources
Option A The People Package
Case study
Company A is a small manufacturing company in the North East of
England. Currently, they employ sixty people over three sites. There is
no HR department. Human resources currently fall under the remit of the
Managing Director. He tries to devolve as much as possible to his site
managers. None of the four individuals have any previous experience or
qualifications in the field of Human Resources. The managing director as
an all round knowledge of company law, however no one in the business as
experience of employment law.
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Option B The People Products Solution
Case Study
Company B, is a small publishing company, based in Liverpool.
The Company started with five employees, and the Managing Director
decided to process the payroll himself using an 'off the shelf' payroll
package. His payroll knowledge was non-existent and he had not given a
thought to sickness or holiday cover. He had no BACS facility so
couldn't process payments directly into employee's bank accounts.
Instead, each Friday, he gave every employee a hand written cheque made
payable to cash - and allowed them time to go to the bank to collect the
money.
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Option C People Project Management
Case Study
Company C are a traditional engineering business based in the North
West. Previously they employed up to 500 employees. They found
themselves in an increasingly competitive environment where they were
under enormous margin pressure from new entrants from the Far East.
Overheads in terms of headcount were fixed and ultimately they were
looking for a way forward which allowed them to retain a skilled labour
force but ensure maximum operating efficiencies.
