People, Culture and Contemporary Leadership | Assignment-1

Running Head: PEOPLE, CULTURE AND CONTEMPORARY LEADERSHIP
People, Culture and Contemporary Leadership
Name of the student
Name of the University
Author’s note

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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Performance related initiatives........................................................................................................2
Culture related initiatives.................................................................................................................4
Engagement related initiatives.........................................................................................................6
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................9
References......................................................................................................................................10

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Introduction
In the following assignment the chosen company is Ansell Limited. Ansell Limited is a
multinational Australian company that produces, distributes, and markets caring merchandises
and services associated with trained, professional and customer healthcare. Company’s product
line includes medical and examination gloves, domestic gloves, manufacturing hand protection
and condoms. The company was formed in the year 1899, as the tyre manufacturing company
known as Dunlop Pneumatic Tyre Company. The company changed its name to Dunlop
Australia because of its expansion into rubber products in 1948 (Chung, 2017). Due to its
acquisition of medical industries like Sandel, Trelleborg Protective Products, Midas and more, it
made its mark in the healthcare industries all over the world. The objective of the assignment is
to explore the performance and culture related initiatives taken by the company. The paper also
includes how the company takes initiative to engage its employees.
Performance related initiatives
Ansell Limited offers a number of opportunities for its employees to develop and
enhance their performance as well as excel in their career. The company is focussed in engaging,
encouraging and training its employees for creating a committed and high performing workplace.
The Ansell University of the company is the global resource for its employees learning and
training needs. This offers programs through videos and presentations that include technical and
leadership programs to assist the co-workers. The company offers opportunities to its employees
in developing leadership skills that includes online training, flag leadership programs and the
company also offers 360 degree tool that help the employees in providing feedback. The
company’s new on boarding program guarantees smooth and positive incorporation of new

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group members of the Ansell Limited (Friedgut and Mannion, 2019). The company’s leaders
specifically the executive leaders help the workmates by mentoring them. In some
circumstances, the company hire executive trainers for providing training to improve their
performance and help them develop. The company emphases on evolving its employees through
numerous tutoring and multi-lateral feedback in order to gain high performance.
Most of the development of the employees occur at on job in the company. The company
arrange openings to assist employee progression like job replacement, job change and project
assignments. One of the benefit of all these performance initiatives of the company is that the
employees are aware of all the universal opportunities provided by the company which help them
in their career development. Ansell not only focus on the physical performance of its workforce
but it looks into the mental health of its employees as well. The company provides physical and
training that boost mental health to help the workforces develop a sound and creative mind and
body.
Ansell Limited has a diverse workforce, therefore, its diversity enrichment initiative
focuses on creating a workplace that have an environment that is free from discrimination to
work. The environment at the Ansell makes the employees feel welcomed, feel safe and
appreciated for their performance. The company engage in suitable labour force anticipation that
helps the company in anticipated workflow by having enough number of workers in the
premises. The company sets clear goals about the targets and the standards, in order to achieve
best performance and high production by the employees. The company provides incentives
through merit based system and measure productivity of the employees through proper human
resource analytics system. This also helps in managing the workforce of the company (Bardorf et
al., 2016).