Ten Reasons to Implement Choice Theory in Your OrganizationWritten by Kim Olver
What is Choice Theory (CT)? CT is a theory of explanation of human behavior. CT has applicability to both a person’s personal and professional life. It teaches us about our five basic needs, how to meet those needs in a responsible way, and how to take personal responsibility for getting those needs met. I have assisted many companies with implementing concepts and principles of Choice Theory (CT) in workplace over years. Their reasons ranged from mere curiosity to desiring a total immersion of their company into concepts and principles of CT. Those companies that were committed to learning CT model and implementing it correctly received better than expected results. One of elements of implementing CT in workplace is to put three conditions of quality in place. Those three conditions are: 1. Create a need-satisfying environment for your employees. a. Employees need to feel connected to each other, management and mission and vision of your company. b. Employees need to feel empowered by having their opinions sought out and listened to and having their work respected. c. Workers need to feel safe on job. This pertains to their emotional, as well as physical safety. d. Workers need to have ability to make choices and exercise some independence within definition of their jobs. e. Workers need to experience some fun and learning on job. 2. Workers must only be asked to do useful and meaningful work. If this is not clear, management must take time to explain it if quality is what you are seeking. 3. Finally, workers need to be asked to self-evaluate their work. This self-evaluation component is far beyond scope of this article but suffice it to say that two main components are required for employees to be able to accurately and honestly self-evaluate. a. There must not be fear in workplace. If employees believe that management will hurt them with information shared during self-evaluation, then management can hardly expect honesty. b. Also, there must be a very clear and definite matrix of what quality looks like. The employee must have an ideal with which to compare their work. When these components and others are added to workplace, you can expect: 1. Increased employee satisfaction. Employees will be taught that they have potential, capability and responsibility to personally get their five basic needs met. This awareness will result in a decrease of a sense of victimization and complaining, because employees will be focused on solutions they can implement instead of problems that exist. 2. A unified approach to conceptualization of issues. Once all your employees understand CT, they will be conceptualizing problems in same way. This unified approach will decrease a lot of competition among your employees and will result in creation of a unified, cohesive and committed group of workers who believe in direction your company is headed.
| | Small Manufacturers Two Leasing Manufacturing Software Leader E-Z-MRPWritten by Rocky Smolin
E-Z-MRP, leading manufacturing software system for small manufacturers, announced effective April 15th, there will be a new pricing and product structure. According to Rocky Smolin, founder of Beach Access Software, makers of E-Z-MRP, “We see a distinction between those small manufacturers with less than five hundred parts in material resource planning, and those with a need for unlimited part numbers.”Smolin noted that some manufacturers will start with under 500 parts version of E-Z-MRP, priced at $2995, and grow into new unlimited version, priced at $9800. Beach Access Software credits $2995 for customers who later choose to upgrade. Other small manufacturers who presently have more than five hundred part will start right away with E-Z-MRP Unlimited version. To accommodate new pricing structure E-Z-MRP offers a Leasing program that ensure a rapid Return-on-Investment. •Lease E-Z-MRP with two full years of support for just $169.96 per month. •Lease E-Z-MRP Unlimited with two full years of support for just $495.00 per month. For more information visit company’s web site: http://www.e-z-mrp.com, or call 858-259-4334. Small manufacturers with more than one hundred parts can no longer manage manufacturing process on an Excel spreadsheet. Since more than 84% of all manufacturers have less than fifty employees, there is a remarkable opportunity for cost-effective manufacturing systems like E-Z-MRP. Despite extensive media coverage regarding ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning), in most cases these small manufacturers do not require all functionality offered, nor can many afford price point.
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