10.1 The ultimate goal maintaining a Company and its integrity

Without question, we must assume that everyone understands the importance of keeping their Company in business. To maintain the Company reputation, one should put forth the best face possible and serve the customer in the most expeditious manner. Therefore, it is essential that programs to create well informed and developed employees who are trained and capable of serving their fellow employees and customers is beyond question. People who can maintain a Company s capability on the core competencies with the integrity to put their best impressions on the product development and manufacture are essential for Company survival. One cannot possibly support a policy (actual or implied) that cycles new inexperienced people into roles they cannot fill, especially function in; this would not achieve the ultimate goals of the Company. And as productivity deteriorates, the longevity and existence of the Company will be in doubt.

Training, education and experience develop people by methodically cycling them through the gradually increasing difficulty of planned rotations and mentoring in more responsible jobs. This imparting and development of Company history to the employee must be a standard process in a well run Company. Company history must be known, maintained, and recorded over time in a well structured knowledge database with a carefully thought out training process to support it. The gradual exposure of the employee to this knowledge base while learning through experience develops the person s capability to execute and improves their application to the...