System to Solicit and 
Implement Improvement Ideas

Reward What We Value


A critical component of Gainsharing, you MUST devise a successful and efficient method to solicit, capture, and implement ideas for improvement from all levels of the organization.

A successful system to capture and implement ideas for improvement will inevitably be something more complex than a suggestion box, however, it must fit within existing corporate institutions and culture.

Remember, improved communications combined with a shared reward system will produce extremely slow, if not nonexistent results. If your people do not have the tools and means to communicate their ideas for improvement and the authority and responsibility to follow through on those ideas, your Gainsharing process will wither on the vine.


  

System to Solicit and Implement Improvement Ideas


All employees should have the opportunity to actively participate in the improvement process.

In the past, conventional solutions to a productivity improvement included:
  • More capital (throw money at the problem)

  • More technology (get the latest innovation)

  • Bigger, better equipment (newer, faster, bigger, more)

  • More tons . . . raw output (produce more . . . show me an operation with massive output, and I'll show you an operation with serious problems being masked by volume)

  • Reduce employment levels
Some of these "fixes" haven't produced long-term desired results. We must move to the next level-- it is vital that we address the productivity improvement challenge by putting people center stage.


Any serious improvement effort through employee involvement demands that we have a process or system to solicit, evaluate, and implement employees' ideas.  If we don't put a system in place, the Gainsharing process won't work at all!! If we don't have a system that works well, Gainsharing will not achieve its full potential.

 


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