Pain Points of Manufacturers Starts with Change Resistant Employees

Nov. 7, 2014 - PRLog -- Manufacturers’ Pain Points, a weekly newsletter, described strategies for overcoming hard-core change resisters on the plant floor. The weekly e-newsletter identifies manufacturing pain points that many industrial leaders are facing.

The newsletter change that enlightened change agents (often plant floor operations managers, shift supervisors, and quality control managers), need to understand paradigms that keep workers stuck in old ways of thinking, including background (what one has been taught and accepts as true); experience (“This is the way I have always done it,” or “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”); and knowledge (new information). When faced with a strong resistance to change, some of the best-practice strategies include:

The newsletter also discussed how blaming resisters is often pointless and can lead to destructive managerial behaviors. When managers perceive resistance as a threat, they may become competitive, defensive, or uncommunicative. They are sometimes so concerned with being right—and not looking bad—that they lose sight of their original goals. In stubbornly pushing things through without understanding the resistance, they sacrifice goodwill, put valuable relationships in jeopardy, and squander the opportunity to engage skeptics in service of a better plan. They don’t hear about missing pieces and faulty assumptions.

About People Driven Performance

People Driven Performance (PDP) Solution is a software development company providing an internal, innovative, and interactive communications system for manufacturing plant floor employees. Patented combination of software and touch-sensitive employee information kiosks bring vital and important information to the plant floor in a non-desk employee environment. PDP proves that Employee Engagement results in quantifiable productivity improvement.

The impacts of improved internal communications, via interactive design, delivers an employee-centric engagement system driving improved employee retention, best-practice lean productivity, and increased bottom-line profitability.

Unlike desktop solutions promising better engagement, The PDP solution (www.pdpsolutions.com) is uniquely suited to on-the-move plant floor production employees ensuring a simple and straightforward way to access key company metrics and other information.  The result is full participation and understanding of the functions, status, and standing of the company.  Employee communication ensures a personal responsibility for well-being of management and colleagues with whom they work each day.  Follow PDP Solutions on Twitter @ownyourculture.

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