Introduction to People Management

Introduction to people
management

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3
Leadership and Management.......................................................................................................3
Training and Development..........................................................................................................5
Talent Management.....................................................................................................................8
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11

INTRODUCTION
There are some major areas in the organisations which has a great impact on the productivity
as well as the processes. These areas include the Leadership and Management, Training and
Development and talent management which supports the performance management at the
organisations. These areas are mainly focussed on the well-being of the employees as well as
aiming at enhancing their skills and talents. Nissan motor manufacturing Ltd which is also
known as NMUK is basically a manufacturing plant in Sunderland, England (Nissan, 2021). The
company is operated and owned by European division of Nissan which is a manufacturer of
Japanese car. It has almost 7000 employees working in the company. The company deals in the
automobiles products. The report will research about the above mentioned three major areas
which underpins the performance management in context of Nissan in UK.
MAIN BODY
Leadership and Management
Leadership plays a major and active role in managing the performance as the leaders are
the people who help in dictating the performance culture of organisations. The reviews from the
performance management help the leaders which lead to improved team performance. The
leaders are responsible for promoting high standards of performance by taking the regular
feedbacks and setting certain goals. Nissan also focuses on the leadership and management of the
organisation and therefore manages the performance of the employees effectively (Tseng and
Levy, 2019).
This is also observed that there are many ways in which performance can be managed and the
most effective one is keeping the employees on track. The leaders focus on the team and the
tasks they perform. The responsibility of the leaders in Nissan is motivating, coaching and
mentoring by using the effective ways of recognition and communication. The company
considers two major leadership theories which are transformational and transactional leadership
(Kremer, Villamor and Aguinis, 2019). The leaders of Nissan being transformational leaders
help in stimulating and inspiring the followers for achieving the extraordinary outcomes. The
main focus of these leaders is paying attention to the needs of the followers which helps them to
look at the problems and putting extra efforts for achieving the goals of the team as well as the
organisation. Furthermore, the leaders of Nissan also follow the transactional leadership which is

also referred to as managerial leadership under which their focus is promoting the compliance of
the followers by giving them punishments and rewards according to their performance and
activities. The transformational leadership where focuses on changing the future, the
transactional leadership is keeping the things same but to bring improvements in them (Gipson
and et.al., 2017). It focuses more on the activities and processes going on instead of thinking
about the forward ideas.
Figure 1: The 5 Leadership Mindsets at Nissan
Source: The 5 Leadership Mindsets at Nissan, 2020
The leaders of the company are also responsible for aligning the employees, coordinating the
goals and working on the strategies but if the leaders do not focus on the integration of
performance management then these things definitely suffer. On the other hand, if the leaders of
Nissan focus on managing the performance then the leaders become able to develop and
motivate the employees to implement the strategies because through this the employees can be
on track along with achieving their organisational as well as personal goals (Pasha and et.al.,
2017). The managers of the company also take the accountability which helps in aligning the
overall team along with rectifying and correcting the issues in the performance as soon as they
arise. The leaders and managers of Nissan also focus on developing and implementing the
strategic performance plan which helps in keeping the entire team focused on the one end goal
which helps in the employees’ personal as well as professional development.
Leaders of Nissan also track and analyse the data after managing the performance of the
employees. By using the talent management systems in the organisation, the leaders become able