Contests of Projects as Agents of Motivation and Continuous Improving Process: A Case Study at an auto parts manufacturer 2008-36-0019

The Contest is a corporate process that has several goals: To initiate outstanding performances within all areas, contributing to sustainable customer satisfaction, encouraging and supporting a continuous improvement process, stimulating an exchange of experiences within the group to learn better from each other. The Contest honors projects: which demonstrate an improvement regarding leadership, strategy, people motivation, partnerships & resources, processes, customer satisfaction, environmental protection or financial results which provide measurable improvements and do not date back for more than one year which are completed and show successful results, or at least are in deployment/implementation phase and show first successful results whose project content may be allowed to be shared with others. The results must have measurable improvements with Cost/Benefit analysis and the achieved improvements previously defined as project goals. The Contest promotes Knowledge transfer, Learning and Sharing and the Benchmarking Activity in organization, enhancing employee motivation by visible and official recognition from management