Description

You can significantly increase—even double—the productivity of your workforce with the performance-based pay system described in Warehouse Productivity, by Pat Kelley and Ron Hounsell. This book offers real-world examples of how to apply the principles and strategies outlined, as well as overcome some of the inevitable stumbling blocks. If you’re ready to see quality and productivity soar while reducing your warehouse staff to a core of top-flight workers, read this book.

Extended Description

Warehousing Productivity describes a performance-based pay system that you can use to significantly increase the productivity of your workforce. This book provides detailed plans for implementing a Simplified Gainsharing approach to improve—even double—workforce productivity.

The book includes three main stages of implementation:

Stage I: Getting Started

This section explains the principles behind Simplified Gainsharing and details how to get started in your facility. Key sections include how to overcome objections and get employee buy-in, improve productivity and quality, set performance expectations, and more.

Stage II: Day-to-Day Management

Simplified Gainsharing impacts both hourly workers and their supervisors. This section focuses on the changing role of the supervisor or frontline manager and shows how to keep these key players motivated and focused so that they can continue to drive greater productivity gains throughout the warehouse.

Stage III: Continuous Improvement

Once your Gainsharing program is established, you’ll find that productivity is up, turnover is down, and quality and morale are both soaring. But there are still productivity gains to be made. In this section, you’ll learn how to implement and run a mentoring program that will ensure that each warehouse worker is operating at peak productivity.

Warehouse Productivity offers real-world examples of how to apply the principles and strategies outlined, as well as overcome some of the inevitable stumbling blocks. And, there are a wide range of sample documents to help you implement the program:

• Metrics and Baselines
• Simplified Gainsharing Plan
• Supervisors’ Checklist
• Gainshare to Free Time Poster
• Mentoring Plan
• Brainstorming Techniques
• Characteristics of a Good Corporate Program Sponsor.