Initial post While in industry, I frequently saw management hound the workforce

Initial post

While in industry, I frequently saw management hound the workforce to get a task done quickly, often foregoing adequate planning. Their primary reasoning for the rush was the time to market issue and competitive pressures. More often than not, the result was a less than satisfactory an ended up being done over: sometimes multiply times. Using between 325 to 500 words, discuss how quality, or the lack thereof, has affected your job or if you have never held a job then your school work.

Two Replies between 150-200 words

Ryllie

Over the summer I worked as a Human Resource intern for an electrical construction company. The construction industry is very chaotic at times, and you have to be able to get work done very quickly. Often times, when we had a site that was not performing at the rate that was projected, our HR office was instructed to get as many people out to the job site as possible. When recruiting for candidates it is ideal to make sure that each applicant is qualified and has the credentials to work in the field you are hiring for. However, when we would get these requests from the project managers and clients, we were working on an extremely tight time frame. This forced us to hire anyone that said yes to the job and could pass the job site requirements. Our office would do mass hires that would typically hire in about 45-60 people a day. Even with these massive numbers, only half would actually make out to the site. New hires would not show up to the site due to their pending backgrounds, failed drug tests, failed safety classes, and other unforeseen events. If our office would have had the opportunity to select better applicants at a slower rate, I think we would have eventually been able to get the amount of workers needed to complete the job. Instead, out office was pressured to get as many people as possible and this caused the job site to receive less qualified individuals who ended up leaving the job. Due to our lack of quality in the hiring process, our company slowed on productivity out on the job site and most of the time it extended our projected end date for the project. 

William

I have been in the construction industry for 15 years building and expanding refineries all across the world. Most of the refineries are in Southeast Texas that you pass every day. I remember my first day in the industry, I was greeted by a safety man that talked about the importance of safety and going home the same way you came to work the only difference is more money in your pocket. When the safety man finished talking a quality inspector took over the class explaining that safety includes quality because if we do not do quality work, we are setting people and the refineries up for failure. Quality is one of the important factors we face in the industry. everything that we work on as a contractor is checked by a person with certification on the specific task we are working on. Once the quality inspector deems the task done completely to the specification a QA or quality assurances inspector is called out to look at the job and specification. The quality inspector and quality assurance inspector work for entirely two different companies to ensure the client and the job is done without biases. As a manager in the construction industry, we are training our employees on doing the job correctly and not in a hurry. In the past the rush to get task done quickly costed companies more money due to re-work and people getting hurt due to the lack of quality produced in a single shift. The focus is more into training how to property work on a task while having a trained person check every step of the work being performed.