http://pmpaspeakingofprecision.com/2012/08/08/what-is-companys-most-important-job/ Sensemaking for the precision machining industry Mon, 13 May 2013 22:18:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://pmpaspeakingofprecision.com/2012/08/08/what-is-companys-most-important-job/#comment-5694 Mon, 13 Aug 2012 16:24:20 +0000 http://pmpaspeakingofprecision.com/?p=6054#comment-5694 Thanks for your thoughtful response Sam!

]]> http://pmpaspeakingofprecision.com/2012/08/08/what-is-companys-most-important-job/#comment-5646 Sat, 11 Aug 2012 17:37:57 +0000 http://pmpaspeakingofprecision.com/?p=6054#comment-5646 My feeling is it is supervision at ALL levels. Good supervisors realize they are there to give those who work under them the tools and direction to carry out their jobs efficiently and effectively with little to no supervision. The tools are not necessarily the equipment but the education and whys and wherefores so they know why they are doing what they are doing and how it fits into the entire scheme of things. With that knowledge and the hard tools necessary the person should be able to perform his job properly. If he does no perform, the supervisor has not performed his job properly or has the right person in the wrong job. The supervisor must sit down the person and talk about it. This is not an adversarial conversation. It is a fact finding discussion to determine what is going wrong and how it can be corrected. There are many talented people who are not performing up to their abilities because they are in the wrong job, haven’t been provided with the tools, or just don’t know how their products or actions fit into the entire scheme of things. It’s the supervisors job to correct that.

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