Doing the dirty work

Summary

In the case study we found that the employees who works in the chicken processing, they lead a very difficult at their workplace. Their work place is very unhygienic to work. They have to work for several hours. The space provided by the employers is not sufficient for the worker. We know that this business is spending a lot. So, we need a good number of employees. If we able to create a good working place then we able to have a good number of worker for this job.

             MAJOR ISSUES

  Ø  Bad working Environment.

  Ø  Health and Sanitation problems.

  Ø  Tight work space.

  Ø  Safety issues.

  Ø  Lack of back up of human resources.

               Solution

 v Providing large working space,

 v Scheduling regulator breaks during the work,

 v Providing health insurance scheme,

 v Establishment of shift system,

 v Recruitment of more competent workers,

 v Provide appropriate uniform and equipment's, such as gloves, Masks, light helmets, etc.

 SWOT ANALYSIS

 1.    STRENGTHS

 ü The chicken processing unit provides huge employment opportunities.

 ü The chicken processing plant generates large revenue for the economy.

  2.    WEAKNESS

 ü Inefficient supply chain due to a large number of intermediaries.

 ü Health and sanitation issues.

 ü Congested working space.

 ü Greater risk involved while using the instruments.

  3.    OPPORTUNITIES

 ü The growth of the industry ensures to minimize the consumer price gap, so that the poultry products reach the customer at a comparatively lesser price.

  4. THREATS

 ü Risk of diseases out break like-bird flu.

 ü Huge price volalility, lack of institutional markets.

 ü Protection to domestic poultry markets withdrawn.

Q.1 How relevant is the concept of competencies to the job in a chicken- processing plant?

Ans:-

concept of competencies is basically The ability to perform some task, Meeting specified qualifications to perform, implicit knowledge of a language’s structure or the ability to do something well, measured against a standard, especially ability acquired through experience or training so competencies is the skills ,knowledge, ability to do the particular task. So in chicken processing plant anyone can’t work or will be not able to work because of environment of plant and also because of some jobs in plant are dangerous like they have to fight the live birds when they first hang on chain, and the air inside the plant is difficult to breathe. Usually workers are provided mask for but most don’t use it because it is hot and confining.

Q.2 How might you try to improve the jobs in a chicken processing plant?

Ans: -

We can improve the jobs in chicken processing plants by:

v Hire or recruit those people who are non vegetarian so they will be more able to do and handle these type of work more efficiently,

v We can provide them any machine that will cut the chicken automatically so that we can overcome the safety issues like cut and injury etc,

v We can make the environment friendlier so that workers will enjoy the work.

v We will arrange more space on assembly line or moving chain so that workers can easily handle the work safely and by this we can reduce the dangerous jobs.

v Will provide cool and eco friendly paper mask to the workers so that those workers who don’t like the air inside the plant can work easily.

v If any workers want to go for bathroom they can go without the permission of supervisor and while other workers will handle his job.

So by all above decision we can improve the jobs in a chicken processing unit because number of poultry workers are increasing day by day.

Q.3 Are dirty, dangerous, and unpleasant jobs an inevitable part of any economy?

Ans:-

Yes, because chicken processing industry has became a major component of the many state economies like Georgia ,North Carolina, and Alabama etc and jobs such as these on the chicken processing are actually becoming increasingly common, and also because of growing appetites for lean, easy to cook meat. And numbers of poultry workers has almost doubled since 1980 in U.S. because meat is cheaper there compare to veg food.   And also because some unemployed workers in any economy doesn't have skills to do any other work and for their basic needs they has to do these type of dirty and dangerous jobs .