Mankato, MN -- (SBWIRE) -- 04/30/2015 -- PwC's report recently published includes a special section on human capital, which reveals a continued shortage of skilled workers across the manufacturing sector as 64% of respondents cited a need to fill certain skill gaps in their business in the next 12-24 months. Further highlighting the issue, over the past year, two-thirds of manufacturers also reported having open positions that they were unable to fill with experienced or skilled employees. In order to begin filling the gap, 78% of manufacturers plan to hire new skill function employees over the next 12-24 months. Ironically if these new hires do not feel engaged they will not stay on the job, which is why more manufacturing executives are turning to third party vendors to assist in the communication process with plant floor workers.
Until manufacturing executive ensure the new workers are part of the team through consistent communication messaging, even new hires will not remain on the job.
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People Driven Performance (http://www.pdpsolutions.com) impacts improved internal communications, via interactive design, delivers an employee-centric engagement system driving improved employee retention, best-practice lean productivity, and increased bottom-line profitability.
Unlike desktop solutions promising better engagement, the PDP solution is uniquely suited to on-the-move plant floor production employees ensuring a simple and straightforward way to access key company metrics and other information. The result is full participation and understanding of the functions, status, and standing of the company. Employee communication ensures a personal responsibility for well-being of management and colleagues with whom they work each day.
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