Sentences with phrase «of line workers»

Even in Taylor's efficient dystopia, where the physical motions of line workers were timed to the millisecond, time measurement was a management technique, not a pricing model.

By and large, the business model doesn't model leadership of the line workers — Toyota, Saturn, a few companies have tried — but mostly the job of the line worker is, know what's expected of you and do it fast and well.

What's the attitude of the line workers toward «corporate?»

This is an actual resume example of a Line Worker who works in the Criminal Justice Industry.

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Ten weeks after team - building activities began there, workers, line supervisors, and managers speak of a workforce transformed.

Increased consumer spending will grow the top line of businesses, and increase the need for more workers to meet the higher demand for goods and services... and earning better pay.

On average an employee will spend a total of three months recuperating, bottom line; you'll lose money and quite possibly, a great worker.

«While organizations may be aware of the lost laptop problem, it became clear as we conducted our research that most organizations, including workers, IT and CFOs, do not fully understand the adverse affect it can have on their bottom line.

For example, front - line caisse workers have expressed irritation with having to juggle different protocols and technological systems for each of the company's various service offerings — personal banking, credit cards, investment accounts, insurance and so on — while serving a single member.

The line workers in manufacturing strive to minimize «hours per person per pair» of snowshoes.

A spokesman for PetroChina said the company was trying to keep salaries of front - line workers stable, but declined to comment on this particular case or recent salary trends for back office staff.

Guggenheim fellow and Detroit native Clemens was there for much of the year - long decommissioning process, as workers stripped the plant's salvageable parts and carefully disassembled its press lines for shipping to booming factories in Mexico and Brazil.

Delivering good customer service requires that a front - line worker receive supportive assistance from an entire network of co-workers — in effect, a chain reaction of teamwork, one that is consistent from beginning to end.

That's only a three percent increase from last year, and more or less in line with general inflation (two percent) and the average increase of workers wages (2.3 percent).

-- Jay Jamison, SVP of strategy and product management at Quick Base, maker of a no - code tool that enables workers to build apps without needing to know how to write a single line of code and that is used by more than half of Fortune 100 companies including Google, Kayak, and Southwest Airlines

The era of automation, which has seen robots replace workers in routine jobs in warehouses and on manufacturing assembly lines, is shifting to «knowledge work.»

«The disappearance of the good - paying jobs of assembly - line workers is likely occurring faster than the addition of new jobs developing artificial intelligence and robotics.

Earlier this month, the House passed a bill along party lines that would de-fund the president's recent executive actions to delay deportation of up to five million undocumented workers and grant them work permits.

«Do you take tours of the plant, see the production line and talk to workers?

Go inside a fascinating and disturbing crime story, set in one of the most lawless places on earth: our oceans, where perpetrators traffic in an illegal product and front - line workers are modern - day slaves.

Joining a picket line of the telecom company's striking workers, Sanders told them that Verizon is «just another major American corporation trying to destroy the lives of working Americans.»

There is a 58 percent figure mentioned, but it has to do with the racial makeup of restaurant workers affected: 58 percent of workers below the poverty line, according to the report, are people of color.

The software, in addition to offering customer histories, provides social media data for each customer, giving workers a better overall picture of the person at the other end of the line.

No one knows better than front - line workers what skills and knowledge they need to bone up on, and learning is most effective when it can be applied right at the moment of need — something L&D can't keep a pulse on from their corner of the organization.

This is a managerial position requiring several years of experience as a front - line worker, so be prepared to pay your dues.

Workers may have a sense of belonging but are also encouraged to fall in line and to «take on the values of the workplace,» whether they agree or not, as a prerequisite to hold their jobs and be considered to be «performing at work,» he says.

He lined up 76 of the messed - up fridges on the shop floor and gave sledgehammers to the workers.

Augmented reality, which overlays information onto the real world (think of that yellow line shown during televised football games to indicate the location of the first down marker) will now help truck drivers, warehouse workers, and management keep track of products from the second they leave the factory until the moment they arrive at your door.

The couple — she was a social worker, he was an engineer — took out a second mortgage to set up a brewing operation and made liberal use of several $ 10,000 - limit credit lines.

Bignall stresses that Americans» perceptions of robots is altered by a cultural lens which depicts them as an existential threat — one that costs blue - collar workers their livelihood and down the line could endanger society as a whole (think the dystopian future in «Terminator»).

I don't mean harming or killing in the same way that policemen and women are harmed or killed in the line of duty, obviously, or people who handle hazardous chemicals, or aid workers in war - torn countries.

Jets fans rejoiced as arena workers finally brushed crimson lines onto the bluish ice of Winnipeg's MTS Centre on Jan. 8.

When electrical line worker James Young lost both his arms in 2010 in a workplace accident, he had joined the long, grim list of those people who lose a limb — up to a million a year according to the World Health Organization.

Known to practitioners as «holacracy,» the model empowers employees to make decisions on behalf of the company without consulting supervisors — as long as their actions are in line with a corporate constitution and framework of rules that all workers commit to.

They are inhuman jobs — people in the role of machines, like assembly line workers of yore.

This autonomy not only leads to a more positive guest experience — a must in the ruthlessly customer - centric hospitality business — it also reduces internal bureaucracy and bestows a greater sense of empowerment on front - line workers.

Like many of Hazard's roughly 5,300 citizens, he hails from a long line of coal workers.

Chrysler Group LLC assembly workers lower an engine on to the frame of a 2014 Ram 1500 pickup truck on the assembly line at the Warren Truck Plant during a tour of the plant's redesigned work stations in Warren, Michigan, September 25, 2014.

PALO ALTO — Tesla fired hundreds of workers this week, including engineers, managers and factory workers, even as the company struggles to expand its manufacturing and product line.

FPL line workers install an automated feeder switch, a piece of smart technology that helps isolate problems and re-route power, in 2015.

Some PDVSA offices now have lines outside with dozens of workers waiting to quit.

We now seem to have both major parties who accept that a large portion of the necessary, hard, unglamorous, and productive, but unskilled, jobs that keep the economy going every day; janitors, warehouse workers, gardeners, busboys, cooks, assembly line workers etc should work for poverty - level wages.

An unspecified «limited number» of workers who build those vehicles will have the option to work on the Model 3 line on those two days and Saturday, he said.

Tesla Inc. exhorted its factory workers to prove wrong the «haters» betting against the company and is letting a small number of volunteers join the effort to ramp up output of the crucial Model 3 line.

Front - line workers know best where operational inefficiencies exist and how to fix them, and equity ownership lets them share in the fruits of their efforts.

In a pair of internal memos last week, the heads of engineering and production spelled out measures to free up workers for the Model 3 line and challenged them to reach production goals.

I would argue that the mechanism that forced up the savings rates in the Soviet Union and other Warsaw Pact economies seems to have been the scarcity of consumer goods: income levels among workers were generally not too bad, but these workers could only convert income into consumption with great difficulty, if they got in the right line at the right store early enough.

During the temporary shutdown of Model S and Model X production, Hochholdinger said workers who don't move to the Model 3 line will have to take unpaid time off or can use paid vacation days.

He said while there were some disturbing signs — the loss of 165 administrative jobs in August and construction of a new hot dog line at an Oscar Mayer plant in Missouri — Madison plant workers had been told they were doing a good job.

For workers, the bottom line is that, in the absence of sound policies, there is no guarantee new environment measures might not cause even more harm to a battered manufacturing sector in Canada.