Chapter 278 Salary Setting
Three days passed in a flash.
Under the pressure from Wang Yuanchao, Accountant Yu, and the team leader, Yu Zhaolin burst out with 100% of his potential.
I counted the materials, looked for manufacturers, placed orders, and used connections to ship the goods. In just three days, I managed to purchase all the office supplies for the office building as expected.
Through the brigade headquarters' loudspeaker announcement, Wang Yuanchao and other leaders of the Red Brick Factory finally moved into the office building and started working.
Early in the morning, Wang Yuanchao called HR manager Zeng Lijuan to his office and asked with a smile, "Manager Zeng, you just took over the HR job. Is your work going smoothly now?"
Zeng Lijuan sat respectfully across from Wang Yuanchao's desk. When she heard Wang Yuanchao's question, she answered carefully, "Director, I have found a lot of information on human resources and consulted several friends who work in human resources at other factories.
Now the human resources work has been basically straightened out.”
Wang Yuanchao nodded with satisfaction after hearing Zeng Lijuan's answer. As expected, opportunities are reserved for those who are prepared. So he continued to ask: "The machines in our red brick factory will be fully installed in the next few days.
The technicians from Dongfanghong Machinery Factory will stay for three days to provide production training for our employees.
How are your discussions with the village committee regarding employee recruitment going?"
Zeng Lijuan organized her words and said:
"Director, the opinion of the village committee is to allocate one quota to each household. Secretary Kong and the team leader both said that we set up this red brick factory to benefit all the people in the Red Flag Brigade, so every household should enjoy the benefits brought by the establishment of the red brick factory.
As for the allocation of employees’ jobs, the factory is fully responsible. The factory can add people but cannot fire them.”
Zeng Lijuan finished speaking and sat still, waiting for Wang Yuanchao's instructions.
After thinking for a while, Wang Yuanchao tapped his fingers on the table from time to time and fell into deep thought.
After a while, Wang Yuanchao sighed and said:
"Okay, Director Zeng, our red brick factory can agree to the village committee's request, but the production of our red brick factory requires manual labor.
The people that each household arranges to come here must be mainly strong laborers. Don’t let every household send me some old, weak, sick and disabled people. If that’s the case, our red brick factory will have no one to work and the enterprise will go bankrupt, understand?”
Zeng Lijuan's face instantly turned serious when she heard this instruction, and she said firmly: "Please rest assured, Director, I will emphasize this issue repeatedly with the village committee to ensure that this problem will not occur."
Wang Yuanchao's expression eased a bit, and after taking a sip of tea from the enamel pot, he continued to ask, "Regarding employee salaries, how does the HR department plan to design it?"
"Director, regarding the salary of the red brick factory employees, I have referred to the salary settings of many provincial and county towns.
It is mainly determined by the employee's length of service, ability and level. The salary settings for ordinary workers, technical staff and management positions are different.
Ordinary worker positions are divided into apprentices and formal workers. Formal workers will be assessed and upgraded according to the national eight-level worker system, and their wages will be determined according to their work level.
Apprentices have to go through three years, with monthly wages of 18 yuan in the first year, 20 yuan in the second year, and 22 yuan in the third year.
For regular workers, the monthly salary for a first-level worker is 36 yuan. The salary for an eighth-level worker is 99.6 yuan.
For management positions, the monthly salary of a team leader is 41 yuan, the salary of a supervisor is 58.5 yuan, and the monthly salary of a factory manager is 126 yuan.
Director, this is the salary system I have envisioned based on the salary settings of other brother units. Please correct me."
Wang Yuanchao drank tea while tapping the table with his fingers. He nodded slightly at Zeng Lijuan, making sure that he understood.
Lost in deep thought, Wang Yuanchao was able to confirm that Zeng Lijuan had indeed spent a lot of time studying after taking office as the head of HR.
However, Zeng Lijuan's salary setting is almost copied from that of other companies, without any of her own ideas.
In Wang Yuanchao's mind, such a setting would inevitably be a bit out of place when applied to the Red Brick Factory.
After thinking for a while, Wang Yuanchao said:
"I was in charge of some state-owned enterprises in provincial and county towns, most of which were technology-based industries that the country valued.
The work of these enterprises is relatively high-tech and has clear requirements for the skills of the employees.
However, our red brick factory is different from these state-owned enterprises. The jobs in our red brick factory do not have any technical requirements and it is a completely labor-intensive industry. Therefore, it is inappropriate to use the eight-level worker grade system in our red brick factory.
Because the work in our red brick factory does not involve technical skills, we cannot evaluate the employees.
Therefore, I personally think that the salary setting of our employees should be based on the principle of distribution according to work stipulated by the state under the framework of the national planned economy, and the wage system of the red brick factory should be optimized. "
To be honest, Zeng Lijuan is far inferior to Wang Yuanchao in terms of knowledge. After listening to Wang Yuanchao's request,
Zeng Lijuan felt like she was listening to a foreign language. She understood every word and the meaning, but she just couldn't understand it. She didn't understand it at all.
So I quickly asked: "Director, what do you think is the most appropriate optimization method? Can you tell me in detail?"
Wang Yuanchao thought for a moment and said, "Okay, let me give you an example. The work of our red brick factory is that the employees pull iron carts to transport the produced bricks to the brick drying ground and stack them. Does this kind of work have any technical content?"
Zeng Lijuan answered casually: "No."
"Yes, the daily work of the employees is just to transport bricks and dry them repeatedly.
This is a labor-intensive job, and there is no way to conduct a work-level assessment, right?"
"Yes, Director."
"Since there is no way to conduct performance appraisals, does that mean every employee, regardless of how much they work, can still get 33 yuan a month?"
Zeng Lijuan realized the problem, swallowed nervously, and said:
"Yes, Director."
"Yes, anyway, I can earn 33 yuan a month by pulling a cart of bricks every day.
I haul 100 truckloads of bricks every day, and I only make 33 yuan a month.
In the long run, will there still be people in our red brick factory who are willing to work hard and do their best? "
Zeng Lijuan's face was already pale, and she said tremblingly:
"Director, if this is the case, the workers in the factory will slack off every day and won't work their best."
"Yes, that's the problem. So when we set our salary, we must think of ways to improve employees' work enthusiasm.
Manager Zeng, what do you think? "
"Yes, Director, I understand.
I would like to ask you, do you have any good suggestions on salary setting?"
(End of this chapter)
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