People, Culture and Contemporary Leadership in Nestle

People, culture and contemporary leadership

Nestle
Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Performance related initiative..........................................................................................................2
Culture related initiative..................................................................................................................3
Engagement related initiative..........................................................................................................4
Recommendations............................................................................................................................5
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................5
References........................................................................................................................................6
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Nestle
Introduction
In this paper the discussion will be made on the Nestle Company. It is one of the Swiss
transnational food and drink company with headquarter in Vevey, Vaud Switzerland. The
founder of the company was Henri Nestle and the company was founded in 1866. It has been
examined that it is one of the biggest company on the global platform which is measured by
revenue in 2014(Nestle, 2018a). There will be different parts that will be discussed in this paper
such as performance related initiative, culture related initiative, engagement related initiative and
at the last phase of the paper the discussion will be related with the recommendations.
Performance related initiative
It has been examined that in the company, the performance of the workers has an important role
and it is the duty of the higher authority to manage it. It is important for the organization to
emphasize on bringing change in the performance of the workers so that growth can be attained
in the highly competitive market. Nestle emphasizes on controlling the performance of its
workers by taking into consideration the performance initiative (Nestle, 2018c).It is observed
that to maintain the performance of the employees, one of the initiatives of the organization is
concerned with training and development. Nestle focuses on the training and developing
programs and in the year 2013, the organization spends approximately 200 days in professional,
leadership and commercial training. The company has spent the amount of $750,000 on
professional and leadership training. Nestle considered different raining programs which were
completed I the year 2013 (Nestle, 2018a). The different programs are concerned with the
international training center, everyday coaching, feedback, leadership and mentorship and also of
product development. The programs or the courses helped to maintain the employee’s
performance as it can help in assisting give the best towards the organizational operations. Just
because of the training and development programs taken into consideration by the company
assisted in bringing improvisation in the performance and also it has boosted the confidence level
of the employees towards the assigned activities (Nestle, 2018a).
To enhance the performance of the workers in relation to the allocated task, Nestle emphasizes
on training and development initiatives that have strengthen the overall capabilities for leading,
engaging and also inspiring the workers to achieve positive results. It is necessary to offer
training to the workers so that efficiency can be maintained towards the assigned work. By
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