If communications is so important why has this be conveyed to the minds of corporate managers and CEO's that have been in there jobs for so long that they have forgotten to effectively communicate with a group or organization. A well run group can get stagnate, because it is running so smoothly there are no meetings with anyone, there are no discussions with anyone. The engineers and team leaders feel like mushrooms who are keep in the dark a great deal, and only told what they need to hear or know. This is very true and disastrous with managers in defense contracting industries.
Many defense projects go over budget, and extremely over the allotted time such as many projects that companies such as Lockheed, BAE Systems, ITT Systems, Raytheon, General Dynamics, amongst the largest. These company have meetings and communications all week long, but many of the upper management doesn't "Listen" to lower management or the engineers who are told to be quiet, and don't complain about anything if they want to keep their jobs. I have been at too many defense contracting companies, and let go as a contractor because I saw flaws in their system due to 20 plus years working at dozens of different companies. I could tell within a week if the company was run well, and treating their employees with dignity and respect. Many employees in today's market are fearful to say anything about anything.
Tomorrow's new business rule as companies will be: NO P.I.E. -- No personal cell Phones, No personal Internet, No Personal Email at work. Already many corporations are implemented this plan, cellphones are being banned because of their abuse. A cellphone today is no longer a simple phone, it is a communications tool, gaming systems, mp3 player, and movie player.
Many bored employees have new areas to waste time at work. Most websites are banned because companies don't trust their employees, or they abuse the privilege of being able to access the internet at lunch. Many companies have url tracking that records what websites everyone in the company goes to and how long they are on every day. I have know many people who were fired due to the fact they didn't think anyone would notice them spending hours a day on the internet looking at sites that some would think improper for the work environment.
Today's Project management books have addressed these areas and why some companies have a gestapo, hardline attitude on these issues.
Many people get bored with their jobs and can't change because of the state of the economy. They are fearful of saying anything at work, so they all Twitter and Facebook to vent their frustrations about not being listened to anymore.
Hey, we have millions of homeless and starving in this country and not the president or anyone running for presidency, or congress has ever addressed a Solution to this growing problem.
Saturday, October 15, 2011
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
Human Resources Today
Human Resources is often overlooked as the psychological pulse of a corporation. Development of performance feedback and employee training programs are essential for the evolution of an organization. Performance appraisals are great as long as constructive advise and encouragement is given to the employee. Top management in upcoming and evolving companies realize the better trained and educated their employees are, the happier, more productive, and contributory they can be to the corporate culture. Coordination of team leaders and succession planing is essential for planning of the long term objectives of the organization. When selecting employees based upon personality can be very prejudicial I have found. My corporate cultures select people based upon the cliche concept. Some may consider the "right" employee as a type of profiling for the type of employee for the work environment. I feel that diversity of personalities, regardless of person-organization fit gives a diversity of perspective of how a corporation should be run. There are many very kind managers and executives in an organization that can be "two-faced" and have their own agenda in regards to hiring passive and obedient employees.
Being a non-conformist and contractor engineer for 20 years I have seen a very wide diversity of corporate culture as to the type of people hired direct in an organization. Many times prejudice in regards to race, color, and religion are illegal but still occur due to people's comfort level of emotional, intellectual, and cultural diversity.
We are in a sense taking the concept of integration from the 60's and implementing it on the national level in corporations.
Do we want a company full of sheep or wolves, obediant, subserviant employees who can't hang anything personal on the walls or customize their computers to their needs.
Today, you have to be carefull what you say, what you do, what you put on your walls of your cubicles at work. We have lost the meaning of what it means to be a true American. We express ourselves and sometimes offend someone, but they will "GET OVER IT". There are so many special interest groups in Washington D.C. our corporations and government can't seem to make any decisions for change without offending someone.
The advent of psychological in depth analysis of American is that we are insecure, we rather do nothing to offend someone, instead of people learning tolerance for diversity of ideas, since have insourced people from cultures who are emotionally and sexually immature by 100 years compared to the United States and more so in Europe.
Corporations today have to be on their guard of offending someone from a different culture or religion from another part of the world. I think they should adapt to our thinking instead of we adapting to ours, we need to think forwards and not backwards.
By implementing cross-cultural classes as to how and why Americans act the way the do and why cultures in India and China perceive us and vice-versa is essential to breakdown the cultural gap and barrier that exists between our fellow employees in an corporate environment. Education, continued education, regardless of the economic climate is essential to soften the cross-cultural barriers that exist.
Mandatory English programs in all Fast Food and Service jobs would help improve the efficiency of and communications for employees of Spanish, European, Indian, and Chinese descent. We are a large melting pot of diversity that needs bridges between each of us, thereby creating a more effective cross-cultural understanding yielding better communications.
References:
Spector, B. (2010). Implementing organizational change: Theory into practice (2nd ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall. ISBN: 9780136074281
Lowe, G. (2004). Healthy workplace strategies: Creating change and achieving results.
Kotter, J. (2005). Change Leadership. Leadership Excellence, 22(12), 3-4. Retrieved June 8, 2011, from ABI/INFORM Global. (Document ID: 951864841).
Being a non-conformist and contractor engineer for 20 years I have seen a very wide diversity of corporate culture as to the type of people hired direct in an organization. Many times prejudice in regards to race, color, and religion are illegal but still occur due to people's comfort level of emotional, intellectual, and cultural diversity.
We are in a sense taking the concept of integration from the 60's and implementing it on the national level in corporations.
Do we want a company full of sheep or wolves, obediant, subserviant employees who can't hang anything personal on the walls or customize their computers to their needs.
Today, you have to be carefull what you say, what you do, what you put on your walls of your cubicles at work. We have lost the meaning of what it means to be a true American. We express ourselves and sometimes offend someone, but they will "GET OVER IT". There are so many special interest groups in Washington D.C. our corporations and government can't seem to make any decisions for change without offending someone.
The advent of psychological in depth analysis of American is that we are insecure, we rather do nothing to offend someone, instead of people learning tolerance for diversity of ideas, since have insourced people from cultures who are emotionally and sexually immature by 100 years compared to the United States and more so in Europe.
Corporations today have to be on their guard of offending someone from a different culture or religion from another part of the world. I think they should adapt to our thinking instead of we adapting to ours, we need to think forwards and not backwards.
By implementing cross-cultural classes as to how and why Americans act the way the do and why cultures in India and China perceive us and vice-versa is essential to breakdown the cultural gap and barrier that exists between our fellow employees in an corporate environment. Education, continued education, regardless of the economic climate is essential to soften the cross-cultural barriers that exist.
Mandatory English programs in all Fast Food and Service jobs would help improve the efficiency of and communications for employees of Spanish, European, Indian, and Chinese descent. We are a large melting pot of diversity that needs bridges between each of us, thereby creating a more effective cross-cultural understanding yielding better communications.
References:
Spector, B. (2010). Implementing organizational change: Theory into practice (2nd ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall. ISBN: 9780136074281
Lowe, G. (2004). Healthy workplace strategies: Creating change and achieving results.
Kotter, J. (2005). Change Leadership. Leadership Excellence, 22(12), 3-4. Retrieved June 8, 2011, from ABI/INFORM Global. (Document ID: 951864841).
Thursday, June 2, 2011
Contractors Today - American Revolution 2 Today
Finding someone who has worked 2 or 3 firms in their careers is a direct employee just being laid off from a company or looking for a new job. We contractors are a misunderstood bunch. We come in to clean up the mess of direct employees due to our range of skills, then after we fix the problems, we are let go and the project is given back to the direct employees. Contractors are Gypsy Engineers, going from city to city, state to state, learn a dozen lifetimes on how various leadership and team, management methodology can be effective or disasterous to the success and failure of a corporation. What is stable during this depressions, whereby corporations are paying people pre-1995 levels, and adding the burden of medical and dental costs onto the employees. With 20 million and rising of outsourcing in this country all the efforts of those who fought for civil rights, labor laws, unions, and better working conditions have all been in vain. When we created "Iceberg" corporations with 20% in the United States and 80% underseas, we have lost all control to those workers for their civil and human rights, safe working conditions, and reasonable wages. NAFTA has allowed the U.S. to become a services and corporate nation, with a loss of quality and design control to other countries. At this rate the national debt should reach 20 trillion by the end of the decade. With servicing of aircraft sent overseas to pay plane mechanics $2/hr you will see an increase in plane crashes this year and next. We need a centralization of world standards for work conditions, labor laws, labor acts. When a country outsources labor, those labor laws should have to be tied to the outsourcing to protect the rights of the works.
Is today's constitution saying:
FOR THE CORPORATIONS BY THE CORPORATION SO HELP YOU GOD
Is today's constitution saying:
FOR THE CORPORATIONS BY THE CORPORATION SO HELP YOU GOD
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Risk Management
Companies like yours need to consider the ethical and moral issues of outsourcing and what impact it will have on the lives of the workers, share holders and community at large. When we start insourcing technical agencies from other countries who are totally unfamiliar with how business is run here, we need to reexamine our priorities and abilities to let companies come over here from India provide temporary help, by letting those here on H1 Visas and driving down the wages of American workers, due to the cost of living, and value of the dollar differential between the U.S. and India or China.
Risk management or risk mitigation are keys issues to the success of decisions being made on how to manage a project. The risk is only in the understanding of the complexity of the economy and where to get quality and reliable goods from suppliers that you can trust that have a good record of delivering on time and a low and consistent cost to the company. In project management, communications is key to understanding what is going on in the company and its individual organizations. The risk strategy is having an educated and "gut" feeling of how the prices of equipment, products, or services with fluctuate in prices over the quarter. Due to fluctuations in gas prices due to the greed of oil companies, and lack of governmental monitoring of price gouging, we are subject to higher costs of all food goods, and anything delivered on a truck with diesel. Diesel is actually cheaper to produce than gasoline, but due to its high demand in the trucking industry it is higher. These higher costs are added to higher delivery costs for all goods, thereby the costs of the goods have to go up as well. It is an inflation spiral in costs and inverse lower costs of wages to employees due to insourcing of employees that will take $10/hr versus $40/hr due to shared housing of Indians in the United States to share costs of 6 people in an apartment so they can afford to live here and make 75% less wages than their American counterparts.
Risk management or risk mitigation are keys issues to the success of decisions being made on how to manage a project. The risk is only in the understanding of the complexity of the economy and where to get quality and reliable goods from suppliers that you can trust that have a good record of delivering on time and a low and consistent cost to the company. In project management, communications is key to understanding what is going on in the company and its individual organizations. The risk strategy is having an educated and "gut" feeling of how the prices of equipment, products, or services with fluctuate in prices over the quarter. Due to fluctuations in gas prices due to the greed of oil companies, and lack of governmental monitoring of price gouging, we are subject to higher costs of all food goods, and anything delivered on a truck with diesel. Diesel is actually cheaper to produce than gasoline, but due to its high demand in the trucking industry it is higher. These higher costs are added to higher delivery costs for all goods, thereby the costs of the goods have to go up as well. It is an inflation spiral in costs and inverse lower costs of wages to employees due to insourcing of employees that will take $10/hr versus $40/hr due to shared housing of Indians in the United States to share costs of 6 people in an apartment so they can afford to live here and make 75% less wages than their American counterparts.
Outsourcing Today
As i said in my response that the outsourcing has destroyed all unions and achievements in fair employment in this country by outsourcing to countries where the labor conditions and pay rate is that of slavery. We find outsourcing a method to bypass human rights, employee rights and all the Labor Acts and achievements made in the 1960's and 70's for labor groups. There may be a comprehensive and competitive process by outsourcing but we should only outsource if the employees rights and working conditions are the same as in the United States. There are a growing lack of environmental issues. Part of our $14 trillion deficit is due to outsourcing and borrowing money from India and China who we have outsourced our clothing, electronics, food, and too much of the things we treasure. Quality was made in Japan whom I respect as a quality outsource. But China, India, Philippines, Nova Scotia, and Middle East don't provide for the same human rights, work conditions, environmental consideration, Labor Laws, Labor Acts that we passed in the 1960's to protect workers rights. We need to impose tariffs and give tax incentives to companies to reverse ALL of their outsourcing. We need to reverse the trend, spend $50 billion on 100 desalination plants all around the United States to provide clean and low cost water to people and farmers. This would allow farmers in the United States to compete with foreign countries. If we have lower energy costs, which is a prime component in manufacturing costs we could actually compete with other countries. Instead of trying to compete with other countries, we give up, and give away trillion of dollars in potential revenue by having good manufactured in the United States. It effects our Gross National Product, quality of life.
I was assigned to outsource electronic components to China for a semi-conductor firm. The cost was $50,000 to have the parts machined locally, but only $15,000 to be made in China or South Korea. But, by the time the parts came here, the additional costs of shipping and reworking the parts made the cost almost null and the same as having them made here. Why should we continue to outsource goods to China when they have horrible human rights violations, environmental neglect, poor working conditions for their people, ignore protocols for handling of hazardous recycled goods, they ship toys with poisonous lead paint, plastics when ingested are psychedelic drugs, poisonous mothers milk, poisoned dog food, defective goods.
The other danger in outsourcing I have found is the increase in counterfeit goods coming from China and other countries we outsource. They would make the goods for a while, close their doors and open a new company, entirely Chinese, to manufacture the same product under a different names with all profits creating many billionaires in China. They spend trillions on new cities, new skyscrapers, $500 billion on high speed trains thorough out the continent, while we can't even get one high speed train built going 100 miles. Caps studies on outsourcing don't consider the global impact of giving away manufacturing of good overseas so that we create iceberg companies in the United States, 10% visible with high paid executives and 90% of the company overseas, for windfall profits for the United States company. When will it end, how will it end, only by electing congressmen and a president that believes in protectionism philosophy to safeguard the Gross National Product of the United States.
I was assigned to outsource electronic components to China for a semi-conductor firm. The cost was $50,000 to have the parts machined locally, but only $15,000 to be made in China or South Korea. But, by the time the parts came here, the additional costs of shipping and reworking the parts made the cost almost null and the same as having them made here. Why should we continue to outsource goods to China when they have horrible human rights violations, environmental neglect, poor working conditions for their people, ignore protocols for handling of hazardous recycled goods, they ship toys with poisonous lead paint, plastics when ingested are psychedelic drugs, poisonous mothers milk, poisoned dog food, defective goods.
The other danger in outsourcing I have found is the increase in counterfeit goods coming from China and other countries we outsource. They would make the goods for a while, close their doors and open a new company, entirely Chinese, to manufacture the same product under a different names with all profits creating many billionaires in China. They spend trillions on new cities, new skyscrapers, $500 billion on high speed trains thorough out the continent, while we can't even get one high speed train built going 100 miles. Caps studies on outsourcing don't consider the global impact of giving away manufacturing of good overseas so that we create iceberg companies in the United States, 10% visible with high paid executives and 90% of the company overseas, for windfall profits for the United States company. When will it end, how will it end, only by electing congressmen and a president that believes in protectionism philosophy to safeguard the Gross National Product of the United States.
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