{"id":761,"date":"2007-09-10T01:00:12","date_gmt":"2007-09-10T09:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/?p=761"},"modified":"2007-09-10T01:00:15","modified_gmt":"2007-09-10T09:00:15","slug":"the-toyota-way-principle-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/?p=761","title":{"rendered":"The Toyota Way: Principle 4"},"content":{"rendered":"

Level out the workload (Heijunka)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I love what we do to some of our departments.\u00a0 We engineer processes so that they are optimal for us, but certain downstream participants in the process are not always considered.<\/p>\n

In many organizations, January is the perfect time for performance reviews and pay raises.\u00a0 Often the pay raises are executed at the beginning of the year or at least sometime in the first quarter.\u00a0 Often, those raises are backdated to the first of the year so that a retroactive calculation is required.\u00a0 At the same time, many organizations use a benefit enrollment period in the last calendar quarter of the year so that the new benefit premiums and the benefit plan years follow the calendar year.\u00a0 While many of us say that we don\u2019t care about payroll other than the fact that we get paid (a big deal), HR consistently compounds the problems in payroll by forcing additional workload during their busiest time of the year \u2013 year end.\u00a0 It is at this time they have significant compliance processes to run as they balance and finalize taxes and prepare employee W-2\u2019s.\u00a0 Now we\u2019ve also made them deal with a new set of benefit deductions which we\u2019ll be making ongoing corrections to and asking them to change, and we\u2019ve asked payroll to ensure that the compensation changes we\u2019ve made to almost all employees are reflected in paychecks properly.<\/p>\n

When you level load a process, it\u2019s important not only to consider the individual process, but all the consumers of that process.\u00a0 The entire organization as a whole must benefit from this effort or you\u2019re just offloading a problem onto someone else.\u00a0 Level loading helps the organization by creating efficiencies in process, thus saving significant cost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Level out the workload (Heijunka) I love what we do to some of our departments.\u00a0 We engineer processes so that they are optimal for us, but certain downstream participants in the process are not always considered. In many organizations, January…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-strategies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}