Introduction to People Management: Leadership, Training, Talent Management at Nissan

4 INTRODUCTION TO
PEOPLE
MANAGEMENT

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................4
Leadership and Management.......................................................................................................4
Training and Development..........................................................................................................5
Talent Management.....................................................................................................................7
Recommendations........................................................................................................................9
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................1

INTRODUCTION
Personnel management refers to the obtaining, utilizing and maintaining a well satisfied labour
force which plan, manage, compensate, integrate and maintain people according to their
purposes regarding their contribution to organization in order to fulfil their societal and
individual goals. In order to illustrate the topic in detail, Nissan Company will be chosen which a
multinational Japanese automobile is manufacturing company headquartered in Nishi-Ku-
Yokohama in Japan. Company sell its vehicles with in house performance including cars labelled
Nismo. There are total 136140 employees working within the firm according to which company
ensures that all of their employees respect the human rights of others and forbids discrimination
or harassment of others based upon any reason which is caste, race, age, religion etc. (Wilkinson
and et.al., 2019). Company offers diversity of background and varied perceptions, team work
abilities by motivating their employees to uplift their willingness to do whatever it requires in
order to achieve their common goals.
Makoto Uchida is a Japanese businessman who is the current CEO of the enterprise.
Establishment offer their products and services in more than 160 countries all across the world
having a hierarchy of diversified level of executives and committees which has been shown
below:
Nissan Corporate Hierarchy

This report will describe the thoughts with the help of different theories in order to study
people management, leadership and administration with the help of different theories and
examples, training and development characteristics along with talent management analysis with
the help of diverse studies. Apart from this, the study will also highlight the concepts in detailed
manner with the help of certain recommendations to identify any kind of gaps in each related
topic.
MAIN BODY
Leadership and Management
A leader is a person which influences employees to complete their tasks in highly productive
manner. They are the ones who help group of individuals to achieve their goal. On the other
hand, leadership is an art of motivating that group of people in order to act them towards
achieving their common goal as well as objectives. Basically there are varied leadership styles
that have been utilised by different leaders in diversified companies which impacts drastically
over the firms. The leader has to choose the most effective one approach of leadership style as
per the situation because it is vital for the success of the whole team. By understanding these
leadership styles as well as their impacts everybody within the firm are able to become more
flexible in nature (Dorji and et.al., 2019). There are certain leadership styles such as
transactional, autocratic, transformational, servant, charismatic, democratic, laissez faire and
bureaucratic.
Management approaches are certain techniques that are utilised to control and direct any
establishment that has been adopted by the firm or their managers in their style of leading and
managing the people. There are four major types of management approaches such as classical
approach, human relation approach, system approach and contingency approach. The examples
of classical management styles are Professor Dolores Umbridge as they are the ones who focus
towards the centralised authority, labour specialization and more incentives in order to optimize
productivity within the firm and in return derive profit maximization. Generally any
workplaces are divided into three major levels such as business leaders which are acts as top
management people, middle management and supervisors. Human relation approach is based
upon the communication while handling conflict which automatically helps in order to create