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Ultimately, the success of any company depends on the skill, commitment and engagement of its employees. Wescast has its own unique system for management known throughout the organization as HEART (Helping Everyone Achieve Rewards Together). This Scanlon-based participative management system has been an indispensable ingredient in the success of Wescast.
At its roots, the HEART plan is a system for personal, professional and organizational development. It centers on a set of four key principles for the management of an organization. Driven by the people that subscribe to it, the plan aims at encouraging greater productivity and development.
At the foundation of HEART are four basic principles:
Identity - What Day Is It? Business Literacy - all employees must understand our customers' needs and what their role is in satisfying those needs.
Participation - The opportunity (which only management can provide) and the responsibility (which only employees can accept) to influence decisions within one's area of competence.
Equity - A fair and balanced return to Wescast's stakeholders - employee, customer, investor
Competence - Doing the right job. Doing the job right.
The Scanlon philosophy is based on achieving trust - throughout the organization - through constant communication and team-based leadership. It is estimated that Wescast has over 100 teams ranging from work teams (e.g. core making teams) to task-related ad hoc teams (e.g. teams for integrating accounting, purchasing and information systems) to cross-functional teams, (e.g.. teams ensuring the fairness of HEART for all employees).
Employees can see additional benefits from the HEART philosophy too. Besides gaining the intrinsic satisfaction of being challenged, motivated and better able to perform at one's job, employees are also eligible for profit and gain-sharing bonuses. The gain-sharing bonuses are based on specific plant targets - such as product scrap rates, safety statistics, schedule attainment, quality defects, supplies and labour- usage - which can ultimately affect the Company's bottom line.