Analyzing Training Challenges for Managers at Aston Martin

This project proposal delves into the critical challenges encountered by Aston Martin managers when implementing employee training programs. It begins by outlining the background, aim, and objectives of the project, focusing on the rising importance of training in enhancing employee performance and productivity within the automotive industry. The literature review explores challenges such as limited resources, resistance to change, and lack of leadership engagement, while also highlighting the necessity of continuous skill development and innovation. The proposed methodology involves a positivistic research philosophy, a deductive research approach, and a quantitative survey strategy to collect and analyze data from a sample of Aston Martin employees. The project aims to provide insights and suggest better ways for managers to improve training effectiveness and employee motivation, ultimately supporting higher efficiency and productivity levels.

Foundation Project
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Table of Contents
Task 1: Project proposal...................................................................................................................1
PROJECT TITLE: The key challenges that might face by manager of Aston martin while
providing training to its employees..................................................................................................1
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
Background.............................................................................................................................1
Aim.........................................................................................................................................1
Objectives of the project.........................................................................................................2
Research questions.................................................................................................................2
LITERATURE REVIEW................................................................................................................2
To review the key challenges that might face by manager of Aston martin while providing
training to its employees.........................................................................................................2
To determine about the rising importance and necessity of training within a firm................3
To suggest some better ways to manager of Aston martin that would support higher efficiency
and productivity level in employees.......................................................................................4
PROPOSED METHODOLOGY.....................................................................................................4
PROPOSED ANALYSIS................................................................................................................5
Task 2a: Reflection essay.................................................................................................................6
Task 2b: Timescale and resources...................................................................................................7
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11
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Task 1: Project proposal
PROJECT TITLE: The key challenges that might face by manager of Aston
martin while providing training to its employees
INTRODUCTION
Background
The concept of the training tends to comprises and includes of the learning process that
aim at developing and improving the key skills and knowledge level of the individuals to meet
the specific competency level (Geng and et. al., 2021). Thus, training and development programs
tend to have and provide a host of benefits and have importance within a form as it helps in
enhancing the overall employee performance as well as boost employee productivity. Apart from
this, training ensures increase within the confidence level and required skill and knowledge to
perform a particular job thus supports reduce employee turnover and also tend to improve
company culture. Further, it has been also seen and analysed that the rising level of the
competition and dynamic wants of customer along with the innovation and regular technology
advancement are creating a higher need and importance of training within the firm. Current
project is based on Aston Martin which is a well-known English manufacturer of luxury sports
cars and grand tourers the man headquarter of which is situated in London, UK. Being operating
in an automotive Industry Aston Martin needs to have regular innovation and enhancement in its
technology level to design better quality cars (Washif and et. al., 2022). Thus, maintaining high
creativity and continuous innovation become essential for Aston martin. Along with this, a
higher level of demotivation and lack of skill development is also being seen within Aston
Martin created by global pandemic of Covid-19 which effected the level of communication and
interaction. Therefore, current study is undertaken to analysis about the key challenges that
might face by manager of Aston martin while providing training to its employees along with
determining the rising need and importance of training within a firm.
Aim
To evaluate about the key challenges that might face by manager of Aston martin while
providing training to its employees along with determining the rising need and importance of
training within a firm. A project on Aston Martin.
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Objectives of the project
 To review the key challenges that might face by manager of Aston martin while
providing training to its employees
 To determine about the rising importance and necessity of training within a firm.
 To suggest some better ways to manager of Aston martin that would support higher
efficiency and productivity level in employees.
Research questions
 Which can be the key challenges that might face by manager of Aston martin while
providing training to its employees?
 What are the main reasons and factors behind the rising importance and necessity of
training within a firm?
 What could be some better ways to manager of Aston martin that would support higher
efficiency and productivity level in employees?
LITERATURE REVIEW
This forms a vital part of research proposal as it provides and supports a systematic way to
analysis about the pre-existing source of information to set a base and framework for knowledge
creation on specific topic (Liu and et. al., 2021). The current literature review is tending to be
based on the topic of key challenges that might face within providing training along with its
related objectives. Use of the online article, books, reports, document, journals and other form of
e-literature is made to analysis about selected topic a discussion of which is provided as below:
To review the key challenges that might face by manager of Aston martin while providing
training to its employees
As per the view point of the Revanth Periyasamy, 2022, it has been seen and analsysed that
various challenges are being faced by the managers while providing training to its employees as
it not only comprising of the imparting the knowledge while it also includes ensuring that
training is engaging, learner centric as well as performance driven. The key challenges that might
face by manager of Aston martin while providing training to its employees are listed and
discussed as below:
 Limited resources- The key issue and challenges that is being faced the manager of
Aston martin while providing training to its employees tend to includes and comprises of
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the issue of limited resources. It has been seen that providing technical skill and creating
higher innovation and understanding level in employees require many resources such as
expert trainer, latest software and technical knowhow that can be costly in nature thus,
ensuring a proper budget and maintaining adequate availability of the resources is a big
challenge that is being faced by Aston Martin while providing training to its employees
(Rasulovich, 2021).
 Resistance to change - It has been seen that employees are always in favour of working
in traditional manner and carte significant barrier for change. Thus, a high level of
resistance is being faced while the manager of Aston martin as the individuals are tend to
be accustomed with the particular way of function that are doing over long period and
thus tend to avoid the dong and learning of new thigs
 Lack of leadership and employee engagement- It has been seen that ineffective
communication as well as lack of proper guidance has created an issue of lack of
employee engagement along with implicating of ineffective training method that also
hampers the motivation level of employees. Along with this it has been also seen that the
avoiding of the confrontation and awkward situation is also needed to be done by the
leaders of Aston martin. Thus, a challenge regarding the improper leadership is also
being faced by the manager of Leaders is creating challenges in training through leading
chaos and acts as a massive barrier (Jain, Sharma and Shrivastava, 2021).
To determine about the rising importance and necessity of training within a firm
With respect to the information provided by the McKenzie, D., 2021, it has been seen that
a rising need and importance of the training is being seen within the firm as it supports
continuous development of skill along with regular sharpening of knowledge level. Further, it
has been also seen and analsysed that the process of training tends to also improve and moulds
the thinking of the employees to lead and create quality performance by the employees that is
supporting a positive role in enhancing the overall productivity and performance level of the
firm. Along with this, training also tend to supports the continuous and never ending creativity
and improvement within a form based on acquiring new skill and know how that lead to higher
competitive strength and also ensures better quality and innovative products (Casey and et. al.,
2021).
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To suggest some better ways to manager of Aston martin that would support higher efficiency
and productivity level in employees
As per the view point of the Dixon, M.R., Yi, Z. and Chastain, A.N., 2022, the adopting
effective leadership style such as participative leadership is tend to be suggested for manager of
Aston martin that would support higher efficiency and productivity level in employees.
Participative leadership style would support and lead to proper involvement of all employees that
mitigate the issues of lack of engagement and also guide employees to have better participation
in training. Further, implication of regular performance appraisal is also effective way to
supports higher motivation in employees towards training and improvement in performance and
productivity level based on having proper control and check in their skill level (Neville and et.
al., 2021).
PROPOSED METHODOLOGY
It forms a vital part of proposal as it tends to supports and provide information about
proposed method that would be applied by the researcher to carry out and undertake research in a
systematic manner. The research method and approaches that are being proposed for current
study are provided as below with the help of research onion along with justification for their
selection:
Research Philosophy – There are two main forms and types of the research philosophy
comprises of the positivistic philosophy and interpretivisim philosophy out of which positivistic
is objective in nature while interpretivisim are more detailed and subjective in nature. In
accordance to the nature of the current study based on identifying key challenges faced in
training, use of positivistic philosophy is proposed. The making use of the positivistic philosophy
is justifiable and appropriate as it supports a practical way of the investigation along with
supports undertaking of study in systematic manner (Cohen, 2021).
Research approach- The two commonly used research method comprises of deductive and
inductive approach. In accordance to nature of current study the researched tend to values
deductive research approach that includes the creation as well as the development of the set of
the hypothesis from the implication of some of the existing theory and data or information that is
tend to be collected and needed to effectively test that hypothesis. Thus, it enabled researcher to
ensure that no mistake has been made in reasoning based on supporting and leading out a better
way of testing and scanning data.
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Research strategy- There are various forms and types of the research strategy that tend to
includes and comprise of the action research, experiments, observation, survey, interview, etc.
With respect to current study, use of the Quantitative nature of the survey strategy will have
proposed by the researcher for this study as it is the widely used strategy and ensures a time and
cost effective way of data collection through making use of the questionnaire as the research tool
(Huppert and et. al., 2021).
Choice of method- There are two main choices of research method comprising of the
quantitative and qualitative method of research. The qualitative method of the research is tending
to be detailed and theoretical in nature so it is more time consuming and complex in nature.
Therefore, with respect to current study making use of the quantitative nature of the research
method is being proposed which supports easy and time efficient way of data collection in
numeric form. Along with this, the quantitative method of research is also justifiable as it
supports better personation of facts as well as leading measurable set of the research results.
Data collection- There are two main method of data collection comprising of the primary
and secondary method. The primary method of data collection is proposed as it helps in
obtaining data from first hand sources. On the other hand, the use of the secondary sources has
been also proposed as it supports review of second hand information that is gathered through
existing sources and in this, the information is available already and the researcher analyses it.
For primary data collection, researcher will make the use of the questionnaire tool and the
secondary data collection will be done through using online articles and journals (Kalkhoven and
et. al., 2021). The main reason and justification for using both methods are that it tends to
supports to collect data in huge amount to ensure accuracy of study.
Sample size- A sample size of 44 respondents is selected from employees of Aston martin
with the help of random method of sampling.
PROPOSED ANALYSIS
The proposed analysis and findings of the current project would comprise and includes of
the analysis of the key challenges that are being faced by the managers of a company while
providing training to its employees. Further, the current study also tends to propose an analysis
about the rising need and importance of the training within current business environment. The
current investigation would tend to have a focus on the fact that the rising level of the
competition as well as the dynamic need of the customers has carted a pressure on firms to have
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regular improvement in their product and services (Liu and et. al., 2021). Thus, the current
investigation tends to supports and provide an analysis about the key factors and reasons that
supporting the need and importance of the training. Apart from this, the current study would also
determine and have the analysis of the issues and challenges such as lack of engagement and
leadership along with resistance from employees that is being encountered and faced by the
managers while providing and leading out training for its employees. Further, the current study
would also propose an analysis about the effective ways and strategies that can be adapted by an
organisation to support and bring out higher efficiency and productivity level within a firm and
its employees (Rasulovich, 2021). The key focus of current study also comprises of having more
effective leadership style as well as adopting other measures to motivate employees and have
higher performance level within a firm.
Task 2a: Reflection essay
The selection of the current topic that is based on challenges faced in providing training to
employees is seemed to be important and rationale for my skill development and also ensures
better knowledge creation. The current module is presenting important information about the key
challenges faced during the training along with analysing its risings needs and importance to
operate effectively in a competitive and dynamic business environment. With the help of the
undertaking of the current project I would gain a better learning about the various challenges that
might be faced by a manager while provoking training such as resistance to change along with
lack of engagement. Beside this, the undertaking of current project is also vital and important for
my academic and education purpose as it supports review of effective strategies and ways that
supports creation of higher efficiency and performance level in employees. Apart from this, the
making use of the research onion model went well during the current project as it supported
selection of suitable and most appropriate research method. Further, selection of quantitative
nature of research method is also went well as it supported and brings out a cost and time
efficient way of data collection. The challenges related with limited resources and time is being
faced by me as selecting suitable article and journal to conduct literature review is quite time
consuming. Further, selection of suitable sample size is also challenging as it comprises of many
ethical consideration regarding maintaining the confidentiality and privacy of selected
respondents. A more detailed discussion and analysis of research method would be made to
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supports selection of more appropriate method that lead to more authentication and reliability of
project.
Task 2b: Timescale and resources
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