Papua New Guinea seafood processing plant. (Picture / Retrieved from the Internet)
In Japan, there is a medium-sized fish processing factory called Papua New Guinea Seafood (パプアニューギニア Seafood), which recently detonated a topic on the Internet by relying on a set of super-Buddhist and super-free management methods. For example, they allow part-time workers in the factory to think You can go to work at any time. You don’t need to ask your boss for leave even if you have something to do or you are not in the mood to go to work. You can simply be absent. The company’s performance miraculously did not decline because of it. Not even half of them have offered to resign in the past 3 years!
According to reports from Japan’s Sankei Shimbun and ITmedia, the management of seafood processing plants in Papua New Guinea has recently become a hot topic on the Internet. Reports about the company’s unique initiatives have also been broadcast on TV many times. For example, Japan TBS TV’s variety show “がっちりマンデー!!” has recently attracted attention because of their special employee management model.
As early as the summer of 2016, Hokuto Muto, the director of the seafood processing plant, wrote an article in the Asahi Shimbun under the title “Respect what you like and make work easier”. The article reveals a special employee management model, that is, the shift system in general companies does not exist. This model allows part-time workers in factories to go to work at any time they want, as long as they are Monday to Friday from 8:30 to 17:00. It’s good to appear at any time of day, even if you have something temporarily or you are not in the mood to work, you don’t need to ask the boss for leave, you can be absent directly, so sometimes there is even a situation where no one comes to work.
In addition, employees don’t have to do work that they don’t like. The company conducts a survey about every 2 months, asking all part-time employees how much they like or dislike each job, including more than 30 types of work, including de-shrimp, gutting, and factory cleaning. There are 4 options and marking methods in the questionnaire: ◎ (I like it very much), ◯ (I like it), × (I don’t like it) and blank (I don’t feel it), the company will assign jobs according to the results of the employees’ filling in the form to prevent employees from being lazy. or inactive behavior.
The boss said that the company’s only commodity is the shrimp originating in Papua New Guinea, “but our annual turnover is as high as 130 million yen (about NT 28.66 million).” The reporter asked the boss what is the secret of its prosperous performance, he said Proudly said, the answer lies in treating employees well, “Our employees do not want to leave their jobs. In the past three years, no one has left. This is a miracle in the aquatic product processing industry, because most of them are part-time jobs. The turnover rate is low. , Everyone will become more and more proficient in doing things, and work efficiency will increase, so that as long as a relatively small amount of manpower is used, a large number of products can be produced.”