Employee Self-Management Axioms…

Workforce competence, to be fully realized, requires precise definition and consistent measurement. People use skills each day to effect positive change, but habits tend to run on their own. Unchecked, an unconscious habit can easily lead to wrong action. Skill improvement is only possible when accurate, immediate & consistent feedback is provided.

1. Common Purpose:
• Integrate Organizational Mission Statements with Individual Mission Statements for each area of responsibility and person within those areas;
• Identify & clearly define both upstream "vendors" and downstream "customers" thoughout the organization;
• Establish & define Time-Bound Goals at each level, each branch of service, and each person;
• Clearly define the ideal end result re: time, cost, fit, form and function, to include key performance indicators (KPI's), that inspire continual improvement;


2. Establish transparent Data & Data Acess:
• Clearly define GET-DO-GIVE Cycles for easy access, and visibility of performance results;
• Key Metrics: Look for Root Causes of both "successes" and "failures" to track the phrenomenology of improvements & mutual alignment of Goals, Methods, and Results re: Lines and points of Responsibility;


3. Individual Authority:
• Allow your people the freedom to Inspire, Innovate, Collaborate, Re-imagine, and Re-design their processes within existing Financial Constraints;
• Encourage and support "Micro-Proposals" as well as "Macro-Proposals" as Continual Improvement Strategies ;
• Allow Implementations of new and better Strategies to be On-Going and Continuous;


4. Open Architecture:
• An open, transparent organization and architecture is vital for inspiring everyone to do more and be more;
• This can dramatically increase the full involvement of everyone related to each upstream and downstream process;
• Allow the old patterns of hierarchy and control to dissolve and recognize that loyalty is a not so subtle form of mental and emotional slavery;
• Understand that the freedom you give to others is how you free yourself from outmoded methods and habits that dorectly control your bottom line.

Employee Self-Management is a systematic way to transmute skill into competence. It can be used to revolutionize any company’s ability to deliver unique, high quality products that meet or exceed customer requirements at the lowest possible production cost. Employee Self-Management is a philosophy developed by MCTS that is comparable in many of its principles to Total Quality Management (TQM) coupled with axioms related to Total Preventative Maintenance (TPM).

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