Strategic Alignment Worksheet: Operations and Production Functional Area

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Overview

Use this strategic alignment worksheet (SAW) to complete your management activities in planning, organizing, leading, and controlling for the Atha Corporation scenario. Refer to each course assessment for further instructions.

Checklist for the Operations and Production Area SAW

Mary Atha, CEO, has provided this checklist of overall organization goals for the operations and production area. Read the checklist and use it as a point of reference for your development of this SAW.

Double current production rate.

Add one production line.

Reduce scrap and waste.

Organize the newly increased staff to efficiently use resources and create a new organizational chart.

Lead the employees by providing a clear mission and goals through carefully crafted communications.

Create adequate controls and communicate performance to the company to ensure organizational focus.

Section 1: Goals and Activities

Develop goals for this functional area and create supporting activities for achieving each goal. (Add more rows if needed.)

Goals: Supporting activities:

1. Retain existing employees. What are the supporting activities? How will this activity achieve the goal? What is the achievement deadline?

2. Hire eighteen new employees. What are the supporting activities? How will this activity achieve the goal? What is the achievement deadline?

3. Create new organizational chart for the operations and production area. What are the supporting activities? How will this activity achieve the goal? What is the achievement deadline?

4. Improve employee performance. What are the supporting activities? How will this activity achieve the goal? What is the achievement deadline?

5. Social responsibility What are the supporting activities? How will this activity achieve the goal? What is the achievement deadline?

Provision of matching funds Increase support 3 months

Paying employees for extra hours Improve employee determination 3 months

Providing training to offer additional knowledge Provide necessary knowledge 3 months

6. Managing employee performance What are the supporting activities? How will this activity achieve the goal? What is the achievement deadline?

Providing necessary trainings Improve knowledge 3 months

Acknowledging efforts employed Increase employee output 3 months

Coordinating employee output Improve teamwork 3 months

7. Financial and physical resources What are the supporting activities? How will this activity achieve the goal? What is the achievement deadline?

Renovation and maintenance of equipments Maintain support of the project 3 months

Increasing flow of cash Provide support to the project 3 months

Providing assistance Improve output 3 months

Section 2: Purpose Statement

Write a purpose statement for this functional area of the organization.

Most of us are aware of the term purpose statement, but we may be unsure of what its real meaning is within an organization. It is a statement describing the organization or functional team’s purpose, or the reason for its existence. The purpose of an organization reflects a desired position in the marketplace. It should be a written summary that accurately answers the four questions outlined in the table below. The most effective purpose statements are short, concise, and direct. A good purpose statement should be between 2–3 sentences in length.

Purpose Statement

Who are we? What do we do? For whom do we do this? How do we know when we are getting it done?

Compile your answers to the four questions above into a concise (2–3 sentence) summary statement. This is your purpose statement.

[Insert your purpose statement here.]

Section 3: Performance Standards

Identify performance standards for measuring this functional area team’s performance. (Add more rows if needed.)

Performance standard: Rationale for including this performance standard:

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