Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Quality Circle - A two-way communication tool to resolve problems in organisations

PodUniversal Edition 133
'Quality Circle' is a tool developed by Japan in early 1980s, to involve the employees and to develop two way communication model.  Many of the Indian manufacturing Companies in India, like TVS Group, Ashok Leyland, Maruti, etc. started encouraging 'Quality Circle' in their companies even in the early 1980s.  
Quality Circle is a two-way communication tool, to identity and resolve the problems in the organisations.  The commitment and involvement of the management is higly essential in the formation of Quality Circle. Quality Circle is a small group of voluntary members coming together to identify and resolve the problems in any organisation.
Quality Circle can be formed for any purposes, where identification and resolution are needed.  Maximum number of members in the Quality Circle can be 10, to be more effective.  There will be a 'facilitator' on behalf of the management to be the bridge between the top management and the quality circle.  The members will elect a 'leader' and 'deputy leader' among themselves to coordinate the activities.
Quality Circle meetings will be held during 'office hours' only.  An organisation can have any number of Quality Circles, depending on the need.
In the first stage, management encourages the formation of 'Quality Circle' in every department, out of the volunteers.  Nobody should be compelled to be part of the Quality Circle, and it is purely voluntary, irrespective of their cadre and position.   Then the Quality Circle members will elect their leader and deputy leader.  
In the next stage, they will identity the problems in their own department and prioritise the issues.  After identification of issues and prioritisation  they will take the problems one by one for solving.  Through brain storming techniques, the group will try to find the best solution for the problems. 
V K Venkataramani
Many of the traidtional companies have been encouraging this Quality Circle concept.  It is a bottom-top approach and it involves the employees.  The new generation companies also have similar project meetings.  But in most of the cases, they are only 'top-down' approach.  The new generation companies also can try to introduce Quality Circle Concept to resolve their problems.
In an exclusive interview with PodUniversal, Mr V K Venkataramani, one of the Quality Consultants explains the concept and the step by step procedures. Please listen to his interview (5 minutes) by clicking the 'play' button in the player.

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Saturday, March 12, 2011

Dr Tamara Gillis speaks on 'Employee Communication'

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Presently, almost all the corporates consider HR as the most challenging one.  Public Sector organisations face the problem of 'lack of motivation'.  Private Sector organisations face the challenge of 'retaining the talents'.  Eery organisation wants to be a 'preferred employer'.
Dr Tamara L Gillis
Many times, the Corporates consider a celebrity (actor or sports person) as their 'Brand Ambassadors'.  Seldom they realise, that their own employees are the real brand ambassadors for their products and services.
Right from CEO, all are too busy and  unable to find time to look at the 'Employee communication'.  Unless the 'employee communication' is strengthened, the companies would find it difficult to manage the competition.
With this in mind, on behalf of PodUniversal, we interviewed Dr Tamara L Gillis, Professor of Communication, Elizebethtown College, Pennsylvania, USA.  She is one of the experts in Employee Communication and she has written a book, to be published shortly on the organisational communication.  She was on a short visit to Chennai recently and she was invited to interact with the participants of PR workshop in Indian Overseas Bank.  The interview was recorded during that time.
Please listen to her interview by clicking 'play button' ( 4 minues)

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