On-site Reviews and Checks.

TM 38-400/NAVSUP PUB 572/AFMAN 23-210 MCO 4450.14/DLAM 4145.12

line supervisors should also make frequent checks of

use of an Incentive Awards Program has two basic

their particular activity.

advantages, one of which is that it encourages new

ideas.

Experience has shown that top level

(3) Reviews made by management personnel

management has no monopoly on originality. New

should include all administrative and operational

ideas can flow up as well as down and very often do.

functions bearing directly or indirectly on operations.

The individual actually performing a warehouse

More specifically, they should include the following:

operation is perhaps in the best position to recognize the

(a) Application

established

need or desirability for a change in procedure and to

operational policies, procedures, and instructions.

develop scientific methods for its improvement.

(b) Application of the most economical

administrative and technical methods for the utilization

b. The other advantage of this program is that it

of personnel, equipment, and storage space.

stimulates

interest

and

encourages

employee

(c) Suitability of space, MHE, and

participation in management. It serves as a means of

operational methods, as applied to a specific facility and

according due recognition to those who make

the type of material stored or handled therein.

suggestions. By inviting the attention of supervisors to

(d) Training of personnel.

those employees who are striving to improve the

efficiency of their organization, it is a morale builder of

(e) Information with respect to methods

major importance.

and procedures which do not conform to agency

regulations.

8-7. On-site Reviews and Checks.

(f) Labor difficulties being experienced

either within the operation or from outside sources.

a. General. Periodic on-site reviews are another

(g) Excessive

operational

costs

indispensable tool of management.

pertaining to personnel, space, equipment, and storage.

(h) Inaccurate,

superfluous,

insufficient documentation for required recording and

(1) By this means managers can determine

accomplishment of operations.

the extent to which instructions, regulations, and

operational procedures are being carried out.

(2) The manager should make a daily review

b. Supervisory checks.

Checks made by

of at least one phase or segment of the operation.

supervisors should normally be more frequent and more

These reviews should be planned on a cycle basis so

detailed than those made by the manager. To ensure

that at the end of a specific period they will have

that any deficiencies on reviews are speedily corrected,

covered all phases of the operations. In turn, key and

appropriate followup action must always be taken.

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