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I'd like to pick your brains about your workplace politics. Let me paint a picture for you first.
About two weeks ago, I started a job at a cable manufacturing firm as a manufacturing engineer primarily but have been given a jack of all trades set of responsibilities to include improvement of communications between production floor staff and engineering, efficiency improvements, standardization, BS and tantrum tolerater and terminated personnel escorter.
The organization is my first strictly civilian workplace and is full of interdepartmental hostility and clique behavior. There are a few supposedly secret alliances trying to tip the balance of power in their direction without taking into account the best interests of the company's mission while reducing their workload.
The first week I was there was spent talking to and learning from key personnel on the production floor. I was tasked with routine patrols of the production floor and interaction with the workers. The workers very quickly picked up the pace and created the appearance of being too busy to talk. This was a very strategically played move by my supervisor and what followed was the termination of two individuals who were hampering the productivity of the organization and directly impeding work completion of two worker leaders. The terminations took place on Monday and since then, it seems like the rest of the staff is somewhat reluctant to engage in conversation with me. There is lot's of whispering going on and our goal is to unify the team into supporting the mission of the company, thus shedding the infighting. I am fully aware that my role was intelligence gathering and the workers know this too.
The upside to this is a comment made by the company president to my supervisor that went like this "I'm hearing good things about your section". He was speaking about output numbers increasing by the end of the week.
So, how does this compare to your organization? Is this lack of cohesion common?
By the way... I know I spelled the title wrong.
About two weeks ago, I started a job at a cable manufacturing firm as a manufacturing engineer primarily but have been given a jack of all trades set of responsibilities to include improvement of communications between production floor staff and engineering, efficiency improvements, standardization, BS and tantrum tolerater and terminated personnel escorter.
The organization is my first strictly civilian workplace and is full of interdepartmental hostility and clique behavior. There are a few supposedly secret alliances trying to tip the balance of power in their direction without taking into account the best interests of the company's mission while reducing their workload.
The first week I was there was spent talking to and learning from key personnel on the production floor. I was tasked with routine patrols of the production floor and interaction with the workers. The workers very quickly picked up the pace and created the appearance of being too busy to talk. This was a very strategically played move by my supervisor and what followed was the termination of two individuals who were hampering the productivity of the organization and directly impeding work completion of two worker leaders. The terminations took place on Monday and since then, it seems like the rest of the staff is somewhat reluctant to engage in conversation with me. There is lot's of whispering going on and our goal is to unify the team into supporting the mission of the company, thus shedding the infighting. I am fully aware that my role was intelligence gathering and the workers know this too.
The upside to this is a comment made by the company president to my supervisor that went like this "I'm hearing good things about your section". He was speaking about output numbers increasing by the end of the week.
So, how does this compare to your organization? Is this lack of cohesion common?
By the way... I know I spelled the title wrong.