Case Analysis: RL Wolfe

Introduction RL Wolfe is an engineering and manufacturing company specializing in the manufacture of plastic pipes. Our head office is located in Houston, Texas. It is worth $ 350 million and there are three branches, including the company's latest branch which was acquired by Wolf Austen, Texas, Columbus, Ohio, and Corpus Christi, Texas. The company is working hard to adopt new Human Resources Management (HRM) practices to improve productivity. The new HR management strategy is voluntary team (SDT).

Once - in 2003 when RL Wolfe acquired Moon Plastics, a family-owned small company of Corpus Christi 's customs plastic manufacturer, they found an opportunity to introduce the concept of voluntary teams into a new factory. Surprisingly, after introducing a voluntary team, the voluntary team improved motivation of employees, reported that productivity and product quality improved about 40% compared to conventional manufacturing methods Reported satisfied Degree John Amasi, Director of Production Technology at RL Wolfe, proposed the idea of ​​introducing a voluntary team into the organization. In 2007, evaluation of voluntary team implementation was done. Again, the productivity level is 82% higher than the other RL Wolfe Columbus and Austin plants, but it still needs to reach 95% of the target.

For example, "RL Wolfe Case Study: Implementing a Self-Management Team" shows the performance of a self-created team in creating a successful organization and the degree of implementation throughout the organization. In 2003, RL Wolfe acquired Corpus Christi's family-owned small custom plastic maker Moon Plastics, and Armai (Director of Production Technology at RL Wolfe) got the opportunity to introduce a self-management team. New factory business school Since joining the Executive Education Program, he has been interested in the team he created. Amashi is interested in reporting that productivity and quality of the SDT business division is improved from 30% to 40%, and the return on investment is more than three times the industry average, compared with the conventional manufacturing factory. In his view, high productivity is over 95% of design capacity.