Employee Management in an Automobile Manufacturer

This report discusses the importance of employee management in an automobile manufacturer. It covers topics such as leadership and management, training and development, and talent management. It explores the traits of a leader and manager, different leadership styles, and the talent management process. The report provides insights into the functions and attributes involved in managing employees effectively.

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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
Leadership and management..................................................................................................3
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................5
Training and development......................................................................................................5
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................7
Talent management................................................................................................................7
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................10
REFERENCE.................................................................................................................................11
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Introduction
Employee management basically is a process that is undertaken in organisations and is
related with overall Human Resource Department in every organisation. It is a function that is
very important to be performed with high amount of perfection as employees are one of the most
important aspects for any organisation and there is necessity to manage them in most effective
manner. Present report is based on this and that is an automobile manufacturer is dealing in
selling cars under their brand name since the year 1993 (Adebisi, Adejuyigbe, . and Amos,
2020). The headquarters of Nissan are present in Yokohama present report basically discusses
about. Ant functions of management in organisation further there is discussion on different
training practices that are used as a development approach and further how in a organisation.
TASK 1
Leadership and management
Leadership is the positive related with how leaders are in influencing a particular group and team
which are part of every organisation. Traits of a leader important role in helping leaders
contribute effectively to the overall objectives in an organisation. Every leader in organisation is
making a tense to maximize the contribution towards their subordinates by measurement of how
work is being done by the subordinates and their contribution towards a particular set objective.
On the other hand is related with the different types of Administrative functions that are
performed in a organisation (Banfield, Kay, and Royles, 2018). It is basically referred to as a
Process that consists of different four aspects such as planning leading functions organisation
directing functions and lastly controlling and the monitoring function,. All such functions are
performed in a particular series and their value added in each function so that the last function
results into overall effectiveness being established by the leader for functioning of whole
organisation and not a specific department.
Traits of leader:
There are many different characteristics and traits that have to be present success that has to be
achieved by a leader in order to perform different business objectives. These traits consists of
integrity, honesty, confidence, ability to influence others, innovative nature, empathy, humility,
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being a good listener, having effective communication skills, understanding skills, team
management skills and many such types of interpersonal skills and behavioural skills that are
very important for a leader to able to manage and lead their team (Comte, . and Pendleton,
2018.). In Nissan, leaders are present at different functional levels and operational levels that are
leading their specific teams for achievement of certain specific objective top management and
skills that are part of such leaders actually have them in influencing their team and leading their
team in the most appropriate manner.
Traits of manager:
There are certain traits that have to be compulsorily represented in a manager performing their
assigned duties and responsibilities (Deac, Dobrin. and Gîrneață, 2016). These traits consist of
leadership capabilities, experiences, time management, delegation of responsibilities and duties
in the most effective way, reliability and all other different types of functions that contribute
towards achievement of different laid objective and management of all such functions that are
related to words working in order to achieve these objectives Nissan.
Leadership style: There are different types of leadership styles that can be used in an
organisation each style has their own associated benefits and demerits (McGill, . and Ambrose,
2018) . In case of Nissan it can be said that the most suitable leadership style is the participating
style of leadership of the democratic type in which there is more contribution or equal
contribution by all the subordinates and team members at time of different types of decisions that
are being made by managers and leaders. This style has so many benefits as it helps in enhancing
the overall moral and motivation of employees and helping them in taking participation in by
giving some innovative and creative thoughts so that there is complete effectiveness that is being
laid down and achievement of certain specific goals.
Analysis of style of leadership:
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Each style of leadership has their own merits and demerits. In present scenario of Nissan the
participating style of leadership has large number of benefits such as it leads to more motivation
part of employees and they are willingly more contribution towards organisation decision
(Pushkar and Pandey, 2019). But at the same time it can sometimes create high number of
conflicts as there can be different opinion of each individual regarding a particular decision and
such differences in viewpoints can lead to high number of conflict that can positivity of the
overall working environment can possess direct impact on the contribution level and productivity
of each employee.
Recommendations and suggestion: It can be for a brand like Nissan that they must adopt a
particular style of leadership but the culture prevailing in their organisation. Every style of
leadership will have a very significant impact on the prevailing culture of organisation and the
process of decision making by top management in the organisation. Every leadership style can
have both negative and positive impact so there must be more efforts to adopt such a style that
can amount of positive impact on employee’s mindset and they are willingly making High
contribution towards their duties and responsibilities.
TASK 2
Training and development
Meaning:
Training and development is one of the most significant functions that is performed by the
Human Resource Department of every organization and is one of the major responsibilities that
is performed by leader. Human resource managers have the responsibility to work towards
improvement of knowledge skills and abilities of their workforce (Reidand et. al., 2017) .
Different training programs are being organized and undertaken so that overall development of
employees can take place to enhance their capabilities that can in turn lead to high individual
development of a particular employee to increasing amount of competence and potential while
working towards their regular job responsibilities.
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Employees’ performance:
Employee performance is referring to the way that is used by employees and they are behaving at
the workplace. Human resource managers have to determine the overall contribution that is made
by individual in order to achieve certain objective and goals of the organization by measurements
of their overall performance level.
Tools used for the measurement of performance level of employees:
Different types of tools that can be applied and adopted by an organization for the
measurement of performance level of employees it consists of productivity test, 360 degree
feedback and management by objective. There are several other tools that can be adopted by any
organization. These methods are very helpful for measuring employees’ performance level.
Mumford and honey learning style theory:
In this theory it was proposed by Alan and Peter honey. In this theory there is suggestion that
there are basically four different types of learning activist, pragmatist, theorist and reflector.
Based on such styles or individual has the opportunity to learn and increase their level of
knowledge.
SMART objective: Some of the objectives to maintain the overall turnover of employees by 12
percent as compared to last year (Syam and Sharma, 2018). It will help the organization in
retaining their employees and also maintaining the overall cost of procurement of employees for
a longer duration of time.
Engagement and its importance:
Employee engagement basically is a concept where employees have to feel passionate and
willingly motivated to contribute more towards their present level of job responsibilities. In
Nissan employees have to be committed and so that to maximum of their present level of
potential and capabilities. Human resource managers are making discussions with other
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employees helping them in finding different ways that can increase and enhancing the present
level of employee productivity as the individual unit that can contribute towards more
profitability of their organization. Employee engagement is a tool that can facilitate managers in
overall environment more optimistic and positive.
TASK 3
Talent management
Management of employees is related with workforce management that can help in increasing the
effectiveness of the contribution made by overall workforce as a total unit. In, Nissan there is
management of employees so that various internal and external factors affecting employees can
be managed properly:
Internal factors:
These are the factors that are part of internal management of organization and related with
different initiative that have to be taken by Board of Management (Tapping, and Shuker, .,
2018). Nissan there are different internal factors that are considered affecting the employee
performance level.
External factors:
Factors that are part of dynamic external environment as legal, social, etc. there Are certain
factors that can affect the overall policies of organization and employee performance.
Process of talent management:
Talent management process that consists of different steps used for managing of employees these
steps are mentioned below:
Identification of goal: There is setting of different goals that can help in getting a vision or
omission that have to be achieved by employees in the course of their functioning.
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Attracting talent: In this tab there are right candidate that have to be attracted by the
organization with help of different recruitment sources.
Recruitment of right talent: It is a step in which competent and efficient employees have to be
attracted to fill up various vacant positions.
Retention: This is a step for employee has to be retained for a longer duration of time training
programs that have to be carried out in order to retain the employees for longer period.
Promotion: This is a tool that is associated with motivating of employees it can be done by
various monetary and non monetary techniques such as performance appraisal can be used for
retaining employees and increments compensation help in performance of employees.
Succession planning: It is part of the overall process of talent management that is completely
different from the replacement planning.
Performance development decision: In this there are different developmental decisions that have
to be taken by workforce management. It helps in providing Employees with various learning
and training programs.
How to select a right candidate:
Selection process is defined a series of steps that are used for selection of right candidate
according to available profile in organization. There are certain steps that are part of overall
selection process in organization:
1) Interview: This is preliminary interview state where formal conversation takes place between
interviewer and the interviewee to just assess candidate on some of the basic criteria.
2) Receiving applications: In this type different applications are received by some potential
candidates who are eligible to apply according to required criteria.
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3) Screening: in this step all the applicants those are not eligible are rejected.
4) Employment test: It is a test where candidates overall knowledge and present level of skills
are assessed.
5) Reference: In the step different references that are being provided by employee are verified to
clear their doubts according to reliability of the candidate.
6) Medical test: In this the overall physical fitness of a candidate is assessed based on their
mental state and physical state.
7) Final selection: This is the last step where candidate is finally selected according to all the
above discuss steps have been successfully passed by the employee.
Importance of assessment of candidate’s accordance with their applications:
Writing a candidate is based on the requirement of different weekend positions and
specific competence of organization. In every organization there is requirement of candidate
after detailed analysis of their qualifications, skills, capabilities and present level of knowledge
base. Nissan all the weekend positions in the organizations are identified and based on the
available applications the most suitable candidate is selected by the organization. The overall
process of recruitment and selection helps in placing a right candidate according to required
position.
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CONCLUSION
It can be concluded from the above discussed there are different types of functions and
attributes that has to be considered by Human Resource Department in an organization for
management of employees. Management and leadership are the two crucial tools that help in
increasing the employee effectiveness and the level of their motivation for achievement of over
organizational objectives. Training and development session also play a different making
employees more competent to accept the innovation and changes taking place in the
organization. Further, there is a Requirement to retain the competent talent for a longer duration
of time with the help of effectively conducting the selection and recruitment process.
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