Marina Gana Vida
PROBLEM:
What could Jonah Nobleza do to balance the employment and production of MGV?
OBJECTIVES:
To be able to find an alternative way to scale-up the production without sacrificing the mission of MGV.
To prove to the investors that MGV is a successful social enterprise with viable economic.
To be able to spot the best possible solution balancing employment vs. production.
AREAS OF CONSIDERATION:
Strengths
The staffs of MGV are all professionally trained.
Providing health products to consumers
Promoting environmentally friendly fishing practices
Well-developed facilities
Provides healthy fish farming
Women are skilled in fish processing
Opportunities
Providing business opportunities to Muslim women in Davao community
Having more loyal customers
Adopt technology
Weakness
Limited capacity of production
Lack of investors
Not using chemical pesticides that reduces the quantity of fish
Threats
Competition of other fishing industries
Natural or man-made calamities
ALTERNATIVE COURSES OF ACTION:
Stick to their goals to hire more workers by adding another processing plant
Merge machine labour and manual labour in production process
Replace the manual labour into automated labour process while the workers will serve as indirect employees.
RECOMMENDATION:
The best alternative course of action is the second solution, which is merging of manual and automated labour process which is in production there will be a machine to help fasten their production for better labour process and to maintain the employment, there should also be a manual process forthe workers to help manipulate and monitor the machines.
Adding more machines also means hiring more workers and as a result of having faster production. As their goal is to provide employment to many poor household they were able to maintain their social enterprise.