【Weekly Topic】Can production workshops and functional departments coexist harmoniously?
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This post was last edited by LQ198619 on 2017-1-12 at 07:21. To boost the popularity of this section, a weekly topic activity will be held starting from January 12 (with updates every Monday). Participants will receive a reward of 3 Wealth points, while those who submit insightful responses will get 5–8 Wealth points as a reward； The topics discussed this time mainly focus on the following: 1. How does your unit (production workshop or functional department) handle its relationships with other units it interacts with regularly in its daily work? 2. Will conflicts arise due to work-related disagreements? 3. If you are an operator, would you dislike it if the functional departments gave you work instructions directly? 4. If you are a staff member in a functional department, would you directly give work instructions to the workshop employees? 5. Will there be resistance to the work instructions issued by the functional departments? 6. Is there any tendency to conceal from the relevant departments what is happening inside this device? Other issues can also be discussed ；
I currently work as a shift scheduler at a small to medium-sized private oil refining company. People say that a scheduler is like the manager of a production facility for an 8-hour period, with the authority to oversee everything. In my daily work, I interact with various production workshops on a regular basis. Perhaps because schedulers have the power to supervise, monitor, and evaluate performance, the relationship with these workshops seems to be relatively good on the surface. However, in practice, there are still cases where the workshops resist the work instructions given by us; they are especially reluctant to make any changes that could affect their own interests. Over the years of working as a scheduler, I’ve encountered situations where workshops hid problems from us or tried to shift responsibility. During evaluations, many people show favoritism out of courtesy, as we’ve all known each other for many years while working at the company. But when workshops handle things carelessly, it really irritates me.
As the 8-hour shift plant manager, the scheduler bears great responsibility, and every action of theirs has a significant impact. In addition to coordinating the production across the entire plant and considering the greatest possible efficiency for it, it is crucial to have strong professional skills and the ability to fully manage the plant’s production. Perhaps when you give an order and others carry it out, there are actually better solutions that can achieve the same result. Therefore, contradictions inevitably exist objectively.
This comment is very incisive! Although I’m a staff member from a functional department, I think the same way!
Look at the leader’s coordination skills and the company’s policies; psychologically speaking, it’s not easy to get along with them
Conflicts are certainly inevitable; it depends on the company’s management system as well as the quality and professionalism of the functional departments and frontline employees. It mainly depends on the attitude and communication methods used by the functional departments when issuing production instructions; what front-line employees hate the most are functional departments that are incompetent in their work, issue incorrect instructions, give arbitrary orders, and act in a condescending manner
I was left speechless, able only to laugh. . .