Changes the Old Culture in Formulation and Filling Department, PT Lifepharma
PT Lifepharma, a company engaged in sterile pharmaceutical industry having high
commitment to comply all the corporate values and culture as support effort for the
transformation of idea, from vaccine and sera production company into Life Science
product company. Some cultures were made simply so all layers of company can comply
the corporate regulation. One of the regulations is relation with working hours that the
employees have to work from 07.00 until 16.00.
I worked as staff in Department of Formulation and Filling (FF Dep.) which having a head
of department, 3 persons for 4 supervision position, and 30 operators. As junior staff, I
learned not about technically process in production but also the organizational culture in
department, the good culture and bad culture. One of the good cultures, the department
having good relationship between others even sometime ignores the formal authorities. As
new staff, I was very sensitive with some activities that do not comply with company’s
regulations. By using the visual observations, I saw most of operator came into locker and
prepared to start the activity at 8 o’clock or the worst at 9 o‘clock. In my conversation with
one of them, he said it had been started by one or two persons. Since there were not
warnings from the supervisors, other operators follow the activities.
To prevent decreasing of payment, I was very sure that the operators came into PT
Lifepharma before 07.00 and they fulfill the attendance list before 07.00. So, in their spare
