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Atha Corporation

Strategic Alignment Worksheet: Operations and Production Functional Area

Your Name: Latoya Wilson

Overview

Use this strategic alignment worksheet (SAW) to complete your management activities in planning, organizing, leading, and controlling for the Atha Corporation scenario. Refer to each course assessment for further instructions.

Checklist for the Operations and Production Area SAW

Mary Atha, CEO, has provided this checklist of overall organization goals for the operations and production area. Read the checklist and use it as a point of reference for your development of this SAW.

Double current production rate.

Add one production line.

Reduce scrap and waste.

Organize the newly increased staff to efficiently use resources and create a new organizational chart.

Lead the employees by providing a clear mission and goals through carefully crafted communications.

Create adequate controls and communicate performance to the company to ensure organizational focus.

Section 1: Goals and Activities

Develop goals for this functional area and create supporting activities for achieving each goal. (Add more rows if needed.)

Goals:	Supporting activities:
1. Retain existing employees.	What are the supporting activities?	How will this activity achieve the goal?	What is the achievement deadline?
	Training and development programs.	This will keep employees motivated. Employees will not feel stuck or like they are not learning anything new.	End of the second quarter
	Mentorship programs. Encouraging teamwork


2. Hire eighteen new employees.	What are the supporting activities?	How will this activity achieve the goal?	What is the achievement deadline?
	Make a list of open positions. Draft job descriptions with the required skills, education and experience we are looking for. Work closely with HR to start the recruitment process.	Numerous resumes will be received. Interview candidates, hire and onboard the selected, most qualified.	End of the third quarter



3. Create new organizational chart for the operations and production area.	What are the supporting activities?	How will this activity achieve the goal?	What is the achievement deadline?
	Draft the career ladder for each production line. Compile the names of the employees according to titles.	Employees will have a visual of the reporting structure. Clearer direction of where to direct questions or concerns.	End of second quarter



4. Improve employee performance.	What are the supporting activities?	How will this activity achieve the goal?	What is the achievement deadline?
	Schedule one on one meetings with the employees to see how the conditions of the working area can be improved. Assign teams to certain projects so not one person seems overwhelmed.	Employees will feel engaged. Employees will not feel burned out and will perform better. Having teams will breakout the work and will get done quicker and more efficiently.	End of second quarter



5. [Insert new goal here.]	What are the supporting activities?	How will this activity achieve the goal?	What is the achievement deadline?




6. [Insert new goal here.]	What are the supporting activities?	How will this activity achieve the goal?	What is the achievement deadline?




7. [Insert new goal here.]	What are the supporting activities?	How will this activity achieve the goal?	What is the achievement deadline?

Section 2: Purpose Statement

Write a purpose statement for this functional area of the organization.

Most of us are aware of the term purpose statement, but we may be unsure of what its real meaning is within an organization. It is a statement describing the organization or functional team’s purpose, or the reason for its existence. The purpose of an organization reflects a desired position in the marketplace. It should be a written summary that accurately answers the four questions outlined in the table below. The most effective purpose statements are short, concise, and direct. A good purpose statement should be between 2–3 sentences in length.

Purpose Statement
Who are we?	What do we do?	For whom do we do this?	How do we know when we are getting it done?

Compile your answers to the four questions above into a concise (2–3 sentence) summary statement. This is your purpose statement.
[Insert your purpose statement here.]

Section 3: Performance Standards

Identify performance standards for measuring this functional area team’s performance. (Add more rows if needed.)

	Performance standard:	Rationale for including this performance standard:
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