Daily line meeting

Daily line meeting Daily line meeting Bởi: The Online Management Training Company Daily line meeting Daily line meetings of each production line is a good measure to enhance internal communication within the factory in which workers clearly understand their daily work and are kept up-to-date with new changes in the policies, regulations or production procedures Prospective users: All members of the staff, management and workers need to be involved in developing and maintaining effective communication systems This practice can be applied to all kinds of factories ProblemS addressed • Lack of information sharing and bad communication among employees and between line managers and workers • Bad communication adversely affecting productivity and quality Process This can be done by holding regular daily line meetings for each production line to communicate the new policies This kind of meeting also help managers to keep infomed with any dificulties facing the workers in the production within the factory and provide instance support or helps Steps in implementation • Conduct daily line meetings between workers and supervisors to ensure workers understand production targets, requirements, discuss any issues from the previous day, and share general information • Daily line meetings can be held to: 1/3 Daily line meeting • • • • • • ◦ Communicate any updates on the company or factory which may affect the workers or the production progress ◦ Communicate the production targets and requirement to workers and make sure they understand ◦ Remind the workers of any regulations regarding the use of personal protective equipments or fire safety in the production ◦ Timely encourage any worker who just had a good performance ◦ Create chances for workers to raise the difficulties in the production and provide timely supports or guides When conducting the daily line meetings, the encouragement of the active participation of the workers in the meetings is very important Try to avoid making the meeting like one-way communication Create friendly relations with workers Keep the meeting short and directly go to the point To so, line managers should spend a bit of time preparing for the meeting before hand Have clear objectives for each meeting Do not try to integrate too many things into a daily line meeting Ask questions to make sure the workers understand the issues Ask them to explain the information communicated Listen to the workers and note down any ideas or opinions from the workers which may be helpful Ask other workers for the solutions to any problems raised by one of them Create a good habit for the workers by always start the meeting at the fixed time Resources required • Efforts of HR staff and line managers • Active participation of all employees • Time spending for the meeting 2/3 Daily line meeting Challenges and pitfalls • Human effects requires, especially for HR staff and line managers • Difficulty to implement in a working environment where managers not want to share information Positive impact • Better communication in the factories • Workers are more happy • Easy to know incurred problems to fix Indicators for monitoring • Regular meetings organized • Workers understand major factories policies, regulations, their working missions and contact persons, system of standard management forms and instructive signals • Worker satisfaction survey Funding for the Factory Improvement Programme is provided by the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs and the United States Department of Labor 3/3