Associate & Management
Performance
Program

Workforce motivation is the art and science of evolving your organization to a lean, performance-focused culture by optimizing operations, developing meaningful metrics and motivating your workforce with acknowledgement and performance-based incentives.

AMP™ (Associate & Management Performance program) is our full-featured workforce motivation framework that is designed to complement the major labor management systems (LMS) on the market. AMP goes well beyond typical engineered labor standards approach. We guide clients with change execution expertise, on-site technical leadership, performance and engineering tools (XCDerive) and a standards database (XCData). AMP improves the performance of everyone – direct labor, indirect labor and most profoundly - your management team.

AMP Approach

AMP is a tiered approach to labor management, consisting of four key elements, each tier building on the previous level. Productivity improvement increases with each tier in the pyramid, ranging from 10-50%.

AMP is structured to be flexible and conform to the needs of our clients. For example, there is productivity benefit in lean processes, and this is the foundation of a successful AMP program. However, developing engineered labor standards without first developing lean processes would result in inaccuracies and lack of fairness, which would negatively impact morale.

A similar situation occurs with incentives. While it is proven that pay-for-performance incentives motivate most people to perform highly, not all companies are culturally aligned with this pay strategy.