Return to 90 and start a career - Chapter 423 Adjusting the Structure

Flexible commuting time is still possible. Although you still go to work, the experience is completely different.

Li Manjun doesn’t need to turn on the alarm clock, he sleeps until he wakes up naturally.

If I can wake up before going to kindergarten every year, I will send my daughter to kindergarten.

If not, Zhao Yong will deliver it for her.

It would be easier if she got off work in the afternoon. In order to fulfill her promise, Li Manjun got off work at 4:30, drove straight to the kindergarten, and was the first to pick up her daughter from school.

Every year, I thought my mother would forget about it when she went to work, and I didn’t dare to hold out hope. But as soon as I heard the bell ringing for the end of school, I subconsciously looked towards the door of the classroom.

Unexpectedly, the teacher was the first to call her name.

Seeing her mother in professional attire and exquisite makeup appearing at the door of the classroom, Nian Nian rushed over happily, “Mom! You are the best mother in the world!”

The sweetness in Li Manjun’s heart was justified by her coming off work early despite the resentful looks of the researchers in the entire chip project team.

Xiang Lian’s chip project team has moved to another location. The previous location was small, but with Li Manjun’s continued financial support, they all moved to a public office building next to the local Academy of Sciences.

This building was originally a state-owned enterprise that researched link materials. It was later moved out and the house became vacant. It was perfect for the company to rent it for a long time as a research base.

Xiang Lian said that if conditions permit, it would be better to go to the capital and study with experts from the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

It’s a pity that the current economic strength is not enough. After all, personnel changes require a large amount of talent resettlement expenses. Without this subsidy, the scientific research team will not be able to take them away.

It was difficult for everyone, including Xiang Lian himself, to leave Rongcheng and go to the capital.

Simply because transportation is becoming more and more convenient now, we can get experts from the Chinese Academy of Sciences to come over and provide guidance.

Air tickets have also become one of the fixed expenses of the research team.

When Li Manjun arrived at the research group, Xiang Lian handed over all the chores to her and warned: “Don’t call me unless the sky falls.”

After leaving these words, he got into the research room and devoted himself to technology research and development.

Li Manjun raised his eyebrows, sat down at Xiang Lian’s original workstation, turned on the computer, and began to receive employees from the purchasing team and settle reimbursement forms for them.

Research requires a lot of materials, many of which need to be purchased from abroad. The company has arranged a special purchasing team to purchase raw materials for scientific researchers. These materials are plentiful and professional, and contain many professional English words. It is really difficult to do this without a certain level of education.

In the first three days when Li Manjun came to the project team, she did nothing. Just remembering the purchase order items on the computer consumed all her energy.

Well, I can somewhat understand Xiang Lian’s suffering.

A week after joining the project team, Li Manjun figured out the company’s operations.

There are only two groups in the company, a purchasing group and a research and development group.

As the name suggests, one is responsible for purchasing and the other is responsible for chip research and development.

The clothing, food, housing and transportation in the company are all included in the procurement. The clothing, gloves, shoes, socks, and three meals a day required by the Ru0026D team are all the responsibility of the procurement team.

This is just to allow technicians to devote every minute to chip research and development and strive to make progress as soon as possible.

To put it simply, the purchasing team is the all-round nanny of the Ru0026D personnel.

As the manager of the ‘nannies’, Li Manjun wished he had a computer brain.

“You can’t do this.”

After working for half a month, Li Manjun called the two team leaders of the purchasing team to his work station.

In the past half month, no matter how big or small, no matter how big the problem was, someone would still come to her, as if everyone had lost the ability to judge and execute, and could not bear any responsibility.

There are two team leaders, one is responsible for the survival procurement of food, clothing, housing and transportation, and the other is responsible for the procurement of raw materials.

Because their functions are different, their abilities and cultural levels are also different.

The leader of the survival team is outspoken and has a primary school education. He is a distant cousin of Xiang Lian’s mother.

The leader of the raw materials team is highly educated, can speak English, works vigorously and resolutely, often talks about efficiency, and has a rather arbitrary personality.

These two people rarely have a happy time when working together. Their temperament is one reason, but a more important reason is that the employees they work for are the same people.

Li Manjun discovered this unreasonable structure within a few days of arriving at Xiang Lian’s side.

How can there be two leaders in a flock?

If so, what happens?

Ordinary sheep don’t know which leader to follow. If the two leaders give orders at the same time, do they execute them at the same time or only one?

The sheep received confusing instructions and were spinning in circles, making it difficult to advance the work.

Xiang Lian is the company’s largest decision-maker, and he is required to sign the financial instructions before receiving them from the finance department.

This model is correct.

But for some things that already have precedents, this link can actually be omitted.

For example, the survival team’s standards for outsourced canteens actually have clear indicators. They are adjusted quarterly and only come once every three months. There is no need to talk about these things every week.

She didn’t want to know that tomorrow she would eat fried pork with bean sprouts and replace the apples with pears.

Or what kind of special clothing and protective gloves the Ru0026D personnel need.

She just wants to know whether daily food samples have been retained and whether the protective equipment meets the standards.

There is also the exchange rate of the raw material group. The exchange rate fluctuates a bit every time the purchase is made. Every time the exchange rate of the raw material group fluctuates, the leader of the raw material group has to ask.

But in fact, it is normal for it to fluctuate within a safe range. The team leader can just place the order at his own discretion, because there is time to place the order, and the exchange rate can be checked on the day, so there will be no confusion on the financial side.

Unless there is a sharp drop or a sharp rise, reporting is required.

Based on the needs of the Ru0026D team, there are more than a dozen raw materials that need to be ordered from foreign companies every day. Li Manjun really feels itchy when he sees these orders.

The exchange rate does not change within a day, so there is really no need to ask for instructions for every raw material!

If there is a problem with the structure, of course it needs to be adjusted.

Li Manjun thought that she wouldn’t last long, but Xiang Lian was really pitiful, so before she ended her work in the chip project team, she left a useful team for Xiang Lian.

So, the two team leaders were called in to redistribute work and responsibilities.

As a leader, you must know how to appropriately delegate power to your subordinates and maximize their subjective initiative.

Li Manjun first rearranged the employees and assigned them to the two team leaders.

The living group arranges four people to break down the basic necessities of life.

“You list the fixed expenses and submit them to the finance department for filing. From now on, you will directly contact the finance department without my signature.”

After talking about the survival team, Li Manjun looked at the leader of the raw material team again, “You have three people in your team. One is responsible for transportation, one is responsible for warehousing, and one is responsible for outgoing warehousing. They will do the data statistics. The team leader will check it before getting off work every day and upload the data. Come to the computer for easy query.”

“For exchange rate fluctuations, we will set a floating range. You don’t need to ask me to sign if it floats within the range. You decide by yourself.”

“Raw materials are very valuable, so we must do a good job of checking for deficiencies and filling them in!” Li Manjun warned seriously.

The two expressed their understanding, and because they were assigned manpower, their enthusiasm for work was unprecedentedly high.

This is like a group leader!

Li Manjun then assigned two supervisors to the finance department to keep an eye on the source and prevent corruption.

Both supervisors are generally recognized as honest people, who are single-minded and very independent in their work.

With them around, the leaders feel much more at ease.

The finance manager and the two team leaders were not happy, and they felt like they were being watched.

But Li Manjun just wants them to be wary, otherwise, with the decentralization of power, the company is likely to be stabbed in the back.