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Case

Ashraf Silk & General Mills

James A Erskine , Arif Iqbal Rana

INDUSTRY : Textile

AREA : Production & Operation Management

ORGANIZATION : Ashraf Silk & General Mills

LENGTH : 13

LUMS No : 03-336-89-1

PUBLICATION YEAR : 1989

KEYWORDS:

Ashraf Silk,General Mills,Production,Operations Management,Textile,Turnover,Negligence,Optimization,Benefits

DESCRIPTION:

The case allows an analysis of employee turnover. The immediate issue at the mills was whether the Director, Ashraf Silk should re-employ the two weavers who had left his company. The weavers had left despite being paid double the pay by ASGM than its competitors paid. Losses in production because of weaver negligence and turnover were high, and the young Director had to think of some long term measures to attract, retain and motivate weavers and to optimize benefits from the already installed automatic looms. 

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

This case was written for the first year course in production/operations management at the masters level at Lahore University of Management Sciences. It will help the student to get a feel of the labour aspects of production, and the labour relations environment prevalent in a major production sector of Pakistan.

SUBJECTS COVERED:

Production, Operations Management