Task: Real-Life Creative Problem Solving
Come up with an original and creative solution for the following real-world problem:
The Upper Management of Acme Company has been holding wage increases to a 6 percent level. The decision to hold wage increases came about from an effort to reduce product twice in the past year due to increased shipping costs of materials, and upper management does not feel that Acme can remain competitive if there are any future increases in the cost of their product. Unfortunately, the engineering job market in the area stands at about 12 jobs for every one trained engineer. Because of this, recruiters are cropping up and are enticing Acme's engineers with better jobs and better benefits. As of late, turnover among Acme's engineers has increased and productivity has decreased. Also, there is a considerable grumbling among current engineers about Acme's policy on wage increases. Mr. Wentworth, an executive vice president, has directed Scott to improve the situation in the engineering department. Mr. Wentworth feels that much of the dissatisfaction is based upon the recruiters' enticements of better opportunities in other places. The concern at Acme is to maintain a quality group of engineers at a high level of productivity. Management at Acme does not know how to solve this problem..

Response: Acme may need to hire more people at a lower rate.
Human originality rating (0-100 scale): 10

Response: maybe meet in the middle with the wages and let the employees know they are heard. creating a credible well rounded work environment that is respected by many. host parties to show appreciation once a month. allow time off that is paid
Human originality rating (0-100 scale): 10

Response: Acme should solve this problem by rewarding their worker. Every time theu come in they get points and if they do something extra then they will get more points. These points will allow the workers to get products at a discounted price and motivate them to come to work.
Human originality rating (0-100 scale): 23

Response: Acme can hire more skilled people and sell less items until prices in the items can decrease
Human originality rating (0-100 scale): 23

Response: Many workers go where the benefits are; even with satisfactory wages, working conditions are necessary aswell. I propose Acme creates a new style of office with a variety of working conditions considering their employees needs. Some may perfer a quite, meditation style room with relaxing music, while others could perfer a pet room with animals. Because everyone works differently, Acme should survey incoming employees and understand their ideal working conditions, and from there, they could create glorified offices to introduce a new level of comfort for every worker.
Human originality rating (0-100 scale): 32

Response: Upper management at Acme needs to come back with a better option if their workers want to leave. They can make moves like increasing pay wages or overall giving them what they want. If they think the dissatisfaction is based on better opportunities in other places, then Acme needs to find out what they can do better.
Human originality rating (0-100 scale): 10

Response: increase lighting to improve productivity, and keep employees on a basis of how much they produce/ get done.
Human originality rating (0-100 scale): 32

Response: I think that Acme needs to just start over and change its high production standards. They need to get a better management team that knows how to keep workers satisfied even with other enticements around. They should lower the high productivity rates they deserve so they do not over work their employees but also downsize to keep the best of the best and pay them more than headhunters is advertising.
Human originality rating (0-100 scale): 32

Response: Acme should create a plan with better things to offer their engineers so that way they have better productivity and better incitement to work.
Human originality rating (0-100 scale): 10

Response: i can only think that if you want the workers, create a product that will pay them fairly
Human originality rating (0-100 scale): 10

Response: If they can pay that much for production they can pay the workers more as well. maybe that is why they are losing people. So they can pay the workers more even though it may hurt the company's money, it will, later on, help them later on as well.
Human originality rating (0-100 scale): 10

Response: they should increase their costs
Human originality rating (0-100 scale): 10

Response: Acme should ask workers to fill out a survey a bout job satisfaction and ask the workers what would make them more productive an happy to work for acme. They should then compare what they can offer vs the headhunters.
Human originality rating (0-100 scale): 23

Response: Acme should address the problem with their engineers and ask for suggestions; the more open they are able to be the more appreciative the staff will be toward them. Another thing the company could do is reevaluate its finances and find a solution to the wage issue that doesn't cause the downfall of the company while still retaining its brand. Most out there, buy one of the competitors or create a partnership and have their insight into business ontop of your own to create a better work environment for everyone.
Human originality rating (0-100 scale): 32

Response: create a reward system for the engineers. This will not only increase productivity in the engineers because of incentive, but in turn it will also keep them happy due to the reward. I would recommend rewards that are benifiting them such as an extra week of leave paid of maybe grocery bills payed for a month.
Human originality rating (0-100 scale): 10

Response: My opinion is that if Acme feels as if they cannot increase the wages for their employees they should not be in business, but I will still suggest a solution. Acme can target a certain age group for hiring practices such as teenagers. Most teenagers do not need a job to live more so just to have their own money. They must also give these teenagers flexible schedules and lots of work benefits. That doesn't mean let employees run all over you but listen to their needs a lot more such as taking breaks when asked, or food products when asked. There should be no such thing as an employee discount for someone that works for you. They should be getting those things for free because at the end of the day they're making those daily profits.
Human originality rating (0-100 scale): 41

Response: They should slightly decrease their cost and promote it as a sale to get costumers attention. Then once they make a lot from the sale, slightly increase the price because of how popular it has gotten.
Human originality rating (0-100 scale): 23

Response: Give more healthcare incentives to the engineers. Since the U.S's healthcare is very expensive, Acme can try to help out with paying healthcare costs for the employees.
Human originality rating (0-100 scale): 23

Response: Give them more motivation to work and more money or better works that are friendly so they have a good hardworking team.
Human originality rating (0-100 scale): 10