Strategic Alignment Worksheet: Operations and Production Functional Area<\/p>\n
Your Name: <\/p>\n
Overview<\/p>\n
Use this strategic alignment worksheet (SAW) to complete your management activities in planning, organizing, leading, and controlling for the Atha Corporation scenario. Refer to each course assessment for further instructions.<\/p>\n
Checklist for the Operations and Production Area SAW<\/p>\n
Mary Atha, CEO, has provided this checklist of overall organization goals for the operations and production area. Read the checklist and use it as a point of reference for your development of this SAW. <\/p>\n
Double current production rate.<\/p>\n
Add one production line.<\/p>\n
Reduce scrap and waste.<\/p>\n
Organize the newly increased staff to efficiently use resources and create a new organizational chart.<\/p>\n
Lead the employees by providing a clear mission and goals through carefully crafted communications.<\/p>\n
Create adequate controls and communicate performance to the company to ensure organizational focus.<\/p>\n
Section 1: Goals and Activities <\/p>\n
Develop goals for this functional area and create supporting activities for achieving each goal. (Add more rows if needed.)<\/p>\n
Goals: Supporting activities:<\/p>\n
1. Retain existing employees. What are the supporting activities? How will this activity achieve the goal? What is the achievement deadline?<\/p>\n
2. Hire eighteen new employees. What are the supporting activities? How will this activity achieve the goal? What is the achievement deadline?<\/p>\n
3. Create new organizational chart for the operations and production area. What are the supporting activities? How will this activity achieve the goal? What is the achievement deadline?<\/p>\n
4. Improve employee performance. What are the supporting activities? How will this activity achieve the goal? What is the achievement deadline?<\/p>\n
5. Social responsibility What are the supporting activities? How will this activity achieve the goal? What is the achievement deadline?<\/p>\n
Provision of matching funds Increase support 3 months<\/p>\n
Paying employees for extra hours Improve employee determination 3 months<\/p>\n
Providing training to offer additional knowledge Provide necessary knowledge 3 months<\/p>\n
6. Managing employee performance What are the supporting activities? How will this activity achieve the goal? What is the achievement deadline?<\/p>\n
Providing necessary trainings Improve knowledge 3 months<\/p>\n
Acknowledging efforts employed Increase employee output 3 months<\/p>\n
Coordinating employee output Improve teamwork 3 months<\/p>\n
7. Financial and physical resources What are the supporting activities? How will this activity achieve the goal? What is the achievement deadline?<\/p>\n
Renovation and maintenance of equipments Maintain support of the project 3 months<\/p>\n
Increasing flow of cash Provide support to the project 3 months<\/p>\n
Providing assistance Improve output 3 months<\/p>\n
Section 2: Purpose Statement<\/p>\n
Write a purpose statement for this functional area of the organization. <\/p>\n
Most of us are aware of the term purpose statement, but we may be unsure of what its real meaning is within an organization. It is a statement describing the organization or functional team\u2019s purpose, or the reason for its existence. The purpose of an organization reflects a desired position in the marketplace. It should be a written summary that accurately answers the four questions outlined in the table below. The most effective purpose statements are short, concise, and direct. A good purpose statement should be between 2\u20133 sentences in length. <\/p>\n
Purpose Statement<\/p>\n
Who are we? What do we do? For whom do we do this? How do we know when we are getting it done?<\/p>\n
Compile your answers to the four questions above into a concise (2\u20133 sentence) summary statement. This is your purpose statement.<\/p>\n
[Insert your purpose statement here.]<\/p>\n
Section 3: Performance Standards <\/p>\n
Identify performance standards for measuring this functional area team\u2019s performance. (Add more rows if needed.)<\/p>\n
Performance standard: Rationale for including this performance standard:<\/p>\n
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