What Do You Do When The Unexpected Happens?
Our group just received the results from the 6th Quarter HR Simulation in our MGMT 250 class, and we were rather surprised with the results. It turns out that our productivity decreased immensely, not because we didn't have sufficient training methods, but because we had too many employees. How does this work? I would think the more employees hired, the more work would get done. However, in a world with limited space and responsibilities, employees are restricted to the production parameters that they are given. In other words, if you need to produce 50 bottles of Ambesol (a common oral numbing medicine) and each employee can produce 10 bottles an hour, it would be most beneficial to hire 5 employees. If you hire any more than that, the production of each employee will be limited to how many need to be produced. Ten employees will only produce five bottles each not because they aren’t as efficient as the average employee, but why should they produce 10 bottles when the goal is only 5? It also could be due to limited space. An office that holds 100 people will be overcrowded if 120 employees are working, creating bottlenecks within the workplace and therefore decreasing production.
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