Balfern Products plc - Case Report from Aberdeen Bus. School SCM Dept.

Coursework The critical evaluation of changes in organizational behavior at Balfern Products Plc Case Study: The Company Balfern Product Plc. produces hand crafted wooden puppets. In order to increase the production level and meet new quality standards a new conveyor belt system is introduced by the management and a bonus pay is offered to the workers. But the workers have problems to adopt themselves to the new system so that the management experiences difficulties in …

…be analyzed in the case in detail. Thus, to sum that paragraph, the management has to look at the task allocation along the process chain, look at the tasks whether they are routine/non-routine and high variety/low variety. Thus, our focus need to be on intraorganizational scheduling and planning, which calls for the concept of 'Lean System'. Lean Systems are designed to create efficient processes by taking a ''total system perspective'' (Krajewski and Ritzman 2002).