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Improving Coordination on Tanker Ships

Joe is the chief officer of a ship responsible for maintenance and cargo systems. His departments have increased workloads due to new regulations but he cannot hire more workers due to budget constraints. He needs to better coordinate his departments and make more efficient use of existing resources. Some strategies include: having department team leaders meet regularly to collaborate, cross-train workers in multiple skills, and share resources between departments as workload allows. This could improve overall performance within the limited budget.

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Improving Coordination on Tanker Ships

Joe is the chief officer of a ship responsible for maintenance and cargo systems. His departments have increased workloads due to new regulations but he cannot hire more workers due to budget constraints. He needs to better coordinate his departments and make more efficient use of existing resources. Some strategies include: having department team leaders meet regularly to collaborate, cross-train workers in multiple skills, and share resources between departments as workload allows. This could improve overall performance within the limited budget.

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Joe is chief officer of a tanker ship.

Joe is responsible for all the ship maintenance and cargo systems on ship. He has a number of departments to accomplish the assigned workload. He has to co-ordinates with various other departments and persons of his own department. The workload for his department has increased in the last several years implementations of additional rules and regulations . Joe requested to hire additional workers, but the budget did not allow for it. It became apparent that Joe needed to find more creative ways to better utilize his current resources in order to get more accomplished. Joe had observed that his department was working together well, or even at all, in some cases. But it was observed that overall performance of the ship was drastically down. Analyse the situation and plan the corrective actions What could Joe do to better coordinate the work of his departments and make better use of the resources he has, so that more work can be accomplished with the limited budget? Allow your groups to discuss this and come up with strategies. After discussion of the case, ask the question: How could these same ideas be applied in our organization?

Possible answers (for the Trainer or Facilitator). Joe could: Have each department select a team leader to represent them Call a meeting of all team leaders, share his budget numbers with them, and explain that they will be expected to work together more closely Have each team leader identify what he could do to help each of the other departments Continue to hold weekly meetings with team leaders so they get to know each other better, to share information, and to hear requests from each department for what they could use from others Begin cross-training people in more than one trade in order to promote sharing of available workers between functions when the workload permits this

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