Toyota Human Resource Management: Doc

Human Resource
Management

Table of Contents
Human Resource Management ........................................................................................................1
Introduction ......................................................................................................................................3
Part 1..................................................................................................................................................4
1.Overview of the organisation:...............................................................................................4
2.Purpose of HR and key roles and responsibilities of HR :...................................................4
3.Benefit of HRM practices to employer and employee..........................................................5
4. Different approaches of HRM.............................................................................................7
5.Approaches and their effectiveness on employee relation and employee engagement :......9
6. Employment legislation.....................................................................................................10
Part 2................................................................................................................................................12
1. Job Specification................................................................................................................12
2. CV of student :...................................................................................................................14
3.Interview questions asked by HR :.....................................................................................16
4. Offer letter:.........................................................................................................................17
5.Rationale for conducting appropriate HR practices:...........................................................18
Conclusion ......................................................................................................................................19
REFERENCE ................................................................................................................................20

Introduction
Human resource management is a process of recruitment, selection, training, development,
motivation of employees. It is the process of effective management of employees to gain the
organisational and individual goal. Toyota is a Japanese Auto mobile multinational company. Its
headquarter is in Toyota city, Aichi, Japan. Toyota is world second largest company in
automotive manufacture. This report highlights the role and purpose of HR manager. It explains
the benefits of HR practices to the employer and employee. It also explains the different
approaches of HR and their applicability in Toyota industry. It emphasis the legislative structure
of Toyota and the different law. It explains that how this law is helpful to HR manager in their
decisions. This report also highlights the job specification of HR and there required skills.
Part 1
1. Overview of the organisation:
Toyota was incorporated in the year 1937 on 27 August, during 1960 and 1970 the
company start to sell large number of automobiles in the foreign market. In the year 1999 the
company is listed in London stock exchange and new york stock exchange. After the world war II
the company was forced to shut down due to bad economy state. It became the largest automobile
manufacturer in 2008. The company provides its services across 190 countries. The company got
its present name after the merger of the Toyota motor company with the Toyota motor sales
company Ltd., in the year 1982. The company partnered with “General motors corporation” for
the creation of “new united manufacturing Inc.” in the year 1984 in California where Toyota starts
its U.S. production in the year 1986.The headquarter of Toyota company is in Toyota city of
Nagoya, Japan. It holds the capital of 80.4 billion as on 31 Mar,2019. The company is into
automotive operations, financial services and various other services. In automotive operation, the
company designs, assemble, manufactures and sell the vehicles to the customers, it also provides
minivans, vehicle parts, trucks and related vehicle accessories. The financial service means
providing finance to the customers who want to purchase the vehicle on lease, it includes retail
financing, retail leasing, wholesale financing and insurance. It incorporates its financial services
in approximately 40 countries. It also provides its financial services in 30 other countries with the
help of its subsidiaries. Today the Toyota company also provides various other products such as
steel, synthetic resins, automatic loons, wooden and cotton goods(Rose and et. al., 2017).

2.Purpose of HR and key roles and responsibilities of HR :
Human resource means the department of business or organisation that deals with hiring,
training and administration of staff.
Purpose of HR : HR department focuses on increasing performance and productivity of the
organisation which can be done by proper training and motivating the employee to give the
desired outcome. To recruit the skilled employee is the priority of the HR. The HR department
has to plan various CSR activities for the organisation.
Roles and Responsibilities of HR function: HR plays an important role for the organisation as it
find the eligible and skilled candidates for the organisation. Recruiting the right people for the right job: The recruiters designs the job profile, source
candidate, conduct interview and coordinated with the manager who will finally make the
decision regarding selection of the candidate the Toyota follows a strict recruitment
process and multi layered recruitment technique. The Toyota recruits the candidates if
they meet the required standardized behaviour set by the company. Performance appraisal: Toyota believes in total system efficiency rather than individual
efficiency. It is important to look beyond individual work when it comes to the
organisation performance. It has the structure in the work place which allow employees to
be engaged in their own work and not get distracted from other issue. This helps in
evaluating the performance of the employees. Role and responsibility of performance
appraisal is that it assists the workers in achieving the objectives given to them.
 Training and development: As the Toyota says “ we do not just built cars we build
peoples”.Toyota has opened a three regional training centres known as global production
centres in Thailand, Europe and north American plants. It is the responsibility of HR to
provide proper training to the new employees in order to help them to understand the
organisational culture and develop accordingly(Noe and et.al., 2017).
3.Benefit of HRM practices to employer and employee
Toyota company apply different HR practices to the organisation. Some HR practices are
recruitment and selection, training and development and motivation etc.