Tesla: Effectiveness of Work and Organization - HR4003 Report Analysis

This report examines the effectiveness of work and organization at Tesla, a leading electric vehicle manufacturer. It begins with an introduction highlighting the crucial role of human effort in Tesla's innovation-driven environment. Part 1 delves into the organizational context, exploring Tesla's core values, mission, and the importance of its skilled workforce, particularly in the context of its electric vehicle production. It analyzes the rational and social aspects of the organization, power dynamics, organizational culture, and leadership. The report also discusses groups and teams, comparing group work and teamwork, and the individual level, including motivation and job design. Part 2 provides a reflection on group work, using Kolb's reflective learning cycle to analyze experiences, focusing on the development of effective teamwork and communication skills. Part 3 offers a personal reflection on employment, discussing ethical issues, and the implementation of behavioral and motivational theories. The report concludes by summarizing the key findings and their implications for understanding work effectiveness within Tesla and the broader organizational landscape.

People and Organizations
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
PART 1............................................................................................................................................1
Organizational Context................................................................................................................1
The Whole Organization..............................................................................................................2
Groups and Teams.......................................................................................................................3
The Individual Level....................................................................................................................4
PART 2............................................................................................................................................4
Reflection on Group Work...........................................................................................................4
PART 3............................................................................................................................................6
Personal Reflection on Employment ..........................................................................................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Human efforts or work currently plays great role within the Tesla, because without
effective work of people this company can't achieve high growth in the world. Currently people
work is everything for Tesla. Reason is, top-level management is completely has focused on
innovation aspect, and without human efforts company will not able to innovate new products
and services. That's why work if too effective for this company. This report discusses importance
or effectiveness of work in Tesla. Reflection on group work and employment also has been
included in this report.
PART 1
Organizational Context
Currently Tesla is one the most popular vehicle manufacturing companies in the world.
Tesla's founder Elon Musk is very hard-working person, and it believes in hiring this people
within its company who are very talented and hard worker (Sundqvist, 2018). Mainly this
company is manufacture of electric vehicles, so it necessarily needs hi-tech within their daily
operations. Currently this company has very effective workforce, because these employees are
very skilful in innovating something new. Recently the company has launched its exclusive
Cyber-truck, which is completely runs on electricity. This is the major speciality of Tesla that, it
only manufactures electric vehicles not fuel based. During its production process, it is highly
needed skilled employees in their manufacturing plant who systematically complete its
production processes (Howarth, 2016). Currently employees are really like to work in this
organization, because its founder Elon Musk is very popular personality. He is inspiration for
their employees, means company's workforce get motivated through its founder. Innovation,
research and development, hi-fi technology, etc. are some major aspects of Tesla. In this case,
HR management of company only give priority to those candidates in its hiring process who
have very skilful in innovation, research and development etc. Means, if any person has great
innovation skills, then it'll able to work in this organization. Many times top-level management
of company provides various training sessions to their existing employees. With the support of
these training sessions, employees can easily improve their current workability and work
efficiency. With lots of human efforts and hard work, currently company is running its business
operations on progressive path.
Mission of Tesla
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The main mission of Tesla is to start the trend of electric vehicles in all around the world.
Tesla founder's Elon Musk says, fuel is more costly than electric energy, and we able to produce
electricity but not natural resources, because they are limited. According to company, people
need to move on from petrol and diesel cars to electric cars. This is necessary to save our
precious natural resources (Ball, 2016). The Tesla want to provide the best electric vehicles to
people on favourable prices. Its aim is to teach people the value of electric vehicles as well.
Core Values of Tesla
Tesla has great core values, because the top-level management of company can
understand the value of people. Currently employees feels valued by management of Tesla,
because its management give opportunity them for improving their work efficiency. Company is
believe in learning, that's why it has great brand value in the international market. It never gives
up when it has failed in any experiment. It is completely technology based company, so it needs
to do different experiments on daily for innovating something new. There is “To accelerate the
advent of sustainable transport and electric technology” is the slogan of Tesla. In this case, its
slogan completely show its vision and values. Company systematically adhere all business laws
in their daily operations (Wang and Hung, 2019). The management believes in provide an ethical
work place to employee, where they can easily put their huge efforts.
The Whole Organization
The Rational and Social organization
Tesla has very ethical work environment where people or employees are come together
for achieving their organizational goals. This company believes in equality and diversity,
because it respects the talent of an employee. Currently human work and efforts are everything
for thus company. Reason is, these hard-work and efforts are only main factors behind its current
high brand image. It always fulfils its corporate social responsibilities (CSR) on time. Many
times it runs various social campaigns where it works in social welfare. In its hiring processes,
company not has hired people on the basis of their religion, caste, colour, ethnicity etc. Reason
is, an employee's personal skills and talent are everything for the company. It only produces
electric vehicles, because these vehicles not promoting environmental pollution. This is another
step of Tesla towards social welfare.
Power and Politics
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Power aspect of organizational behaviour is completely existing in Tesla's business
environment, because there are different people have different power in this company
(Ishmuradova and Sibaeva, 2016). The management of company mainly use this power only for
building effective work culture within workplace. On the other side, Top-level management of
company always tries to avoid politics aspect within their daily operations, because politics is an
informal action of people. According to management, politics mostly put negative impact on
people behaviour, because politics conducted by a person for taking personal benefits. There are
CEO and MD of the Tesla has the highest power to take any big decision for whole company.
Power has distributed according to position of people in company as well. For example; leaders,
line managers, and HR manager etc. have power but not high as senior management and not less
than other employees.
Governance, Organizational culture and Organizational Leadership
Tesla has distributed their all employees in different teams on the basis of an employee's
speciality and interest. According to company, team building is a necessary step for making
healthy and happy work culture for all employees. Currently work culture of company is too
favourable for workforce, because each employee is currently satisfied with company's
employment policies. Governance or administrative bodies of company has never imposed work
pressure on employees. That's why people like to work in this organization. On the other side,
company gives opportunities to all employees for improving existing skills and workability.
There is leadership another aspect within this company which help to employees for
understanding “what to do”, “when to do” and “how to do” in the workplace. A leader is guiding,
directing, controlling their employees in a teamwork. These all factors are enough to show the
effectiveness of Tesla's work culture.
Groups and Teams
Groups and teams are such workplaces within company where some employees come
together for achieving common targets. But there are some difference between group-work and
teamwork, because a group is an informal version of teamwork. In a group-work, people are
come together on self-choice for working on a same task (Zidane and Olsson, 2017). On the
other side, a team is formulated by the top-level management of company for achieving different
targets in decided time period. An organization is always wanted to make an effective team
within their business environment. In this case, management give this responsibly to a team
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leader for making this type of teams. Then a leader has chosen different leadership methods or
theories like situational leadership, contingency leadership etc. to makes an effective team. A
leader uses different theories of organizational behaviour within the Tesla to positively influence
their employees. For example; motivation theory and team development theory etc. These major
theories of organizational behaviour are enough to a leader to makes an effective teamwork.
The Individual Level
The human resource management of company uses various techniques for identifying the
performance level of an employee. This management properly analyse major strengths and
weaknesses of their each employee (LORIA, 2018). It is necessary step of the management,
because company can easily maintain great performance level of an employee with support of
this step. Many times top-level management gives rewards and appreciation also to high
performers of company. These are major steps which management chooses for systematically
managing work level of individual.
Motivation and Job design: Motivation and job design two different aspects within company.
The management take various steps within company to motivate their employees in workplace.
For example; it gives rewards, promotion and appreciation to those employees which puts great
efforts in the daily operations. These steps are enough for company to motivate ether employees.
On the other side, job design is a major function of HRM, where through this design company
can hire skilled and talented employees within business environment.
PART 2
Reflection on Group Work
There are many methods which can be used to understand the experiences to increase the
efficiency. Kolb's reflective learning cycle help the increase the knowledge of individual or
group of individual based on their experiences. This reflective learning cycle provides better
understanding own self into four stages. Concrete learning, reflective observation, abstract
conceptualization and active experimentation. While making this project we were 4 people who
competed the projected individually. All the group members were more focussed on improving
their personal knowledge and growth. By using this learning model it will help to increase
knowledge from experiences effectively.
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Concrete learning
After completion of my group project I leaned that it is very essential for me to have
effective understanding and knowledge of leadership styles and theories to attain effective
working in group. As it helped me to understand that there is a big difference between a group
work and team work. A group is just the collection of people who work individually on their
assigned tasks to achieve their objectives. Whereas, team is integration with emotions and skills
with the vision and mission of the group to achieve theirs objectives effectively is a high
performance team. According to Talman, (2018) team work is very essential in increasing the
personal knowledge and experiences which also helps to make effective decision and improve
the performance effectively. This is very essential for me to understand that what was my issues
while doing the group work and analyse my strengths and weakness to provide an effective
change In my personal development plan to achieve high efficiency for the future tasks. I also
determined that assigning team roles in teams are very important which helps to reduce disputes
and provide better opportunities for team members to become effective in performing their task
without any interference.
Reflective observation
I observed that after we were in the group we started our work without any planning and
division on work which impacted the efficiency. This also helped me understand the team
theories like Tuckman and Belbin to gain better knowledge in team building. I observed that I
lack written communication skills which is impacting my performance in the group work. So I
developed some activities which increase my written grammar and knowledge effectively. I also
analysed for group productivity we need to improve our communication channel and develop
effective team structure which will also improve the perceived values of the group members to
convert it into a team. It is also very essential for us to understand each other tough process and
that can only be done when we have effective interpersonal skills. At the time of in a group
activity were not conducted to increase motivation and improve performance of the members. As
we were pseudo group which lack many aspects to become effective. In opinion with Reeves,
Xyrichis and Zwarenstein, (2018) pseudo team have the opportunity to become potential team if
they analyse their issues and ineffective activities. This can also help the group to become a team
with more effective vision to achieve their objectives with shared values effectively.
Abstract conceptualization
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I had experienced many ethical issues while working in a group which impacted my
personal development and also reduced efficiency of my group negatively. We analysed that it Is
very essential for us to implement behavioural theories to formulate effective motivational
theories to achieve high performance in attaining set objects effectively. I have also understood
that I need to develop research skills and have effective communication to make potential
decision in a group. This also help to improve information of group members to become more
effective and gain better opportunities of growth. This will also help to develop common group
thinking and support innovative ideas. Training and development with different digital tools
provide me with better vision and reduce asch effect from the group effectively.
Active experimentation
After gaining al the information I am more effective in making decisions and performing
group tasks effectively. I will use stages of group formation in first stage we will decide the right
team members with effective objectives. Then I will focus formulating structure by assigning
different roles and responsibilities to team members which will reduce the disputes. In the third
stage with the use of effective vision and cultural value I will integrate the value of members
with team objectives. I have also improved the efficiency to make better planning to achieve my
objectives with the team effectively. I will become more understanding and support my group
member by providing information about importance of self assessment and different skills to
increase their personal knowledge apply that in work to increase the potential of the company
effectively.
PART 3
Personal Reflection on Employment
Employment is very essential aspect of any business to attain growth in market and
improve the profit margins effectively. I have learned that employment is the key resource which
help business to achieve their objectives by performing effective management activities to
increase sales and maintain the quality of business organization effectively. It is also very
important for person to increase its personal knowledge and personal growth opportunities. In
my opinion person which have more experiences and knowledge as an employee also have
effective growth opportunity to earn more money and increase their personal satisfaction. I have
learned that to become effective in corporate world I have to evaluate my internal strengths and
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weaknesses to become more efficiency and removing all my weakness through effective theories
effectively. As per the view of Brockbank, McGill and Beech, (2017) High knowledge and skill
of employees help organization to develop positive culture to achieve company's objectives and
improving the quality of performance. High performance workforce increases the opportunities
of business to improve the quality of products and services to increase customer base by making
them loyal and increase profitability in the market to attain core competency effectively. This
helps the economic growth and improves the standard of living of the people with higher net
disposable income. I feel that countries which have highly skilled employees also have more
effective GDP and productive industries.
According to my experience and knowledge I will first analyse my job opportunity
options according to my resume which also help to me to match it with the job description of the
company. Apart from the job description I will identify the cultural value of the organization so
that I can understand that it can match my vision and mindset or not. I will be more engaged in
the organization which have better employment policies and benefits. The organization which
has effective and supportive Leaders and management and positive culture is best suited for me. I
am more effective and motivated in the organization which have healthy work environment
which will also help to increase my communication with other employees and gain better
information and experiences from them to make effective decisions for my objectives. Those
This organization which are more aware of new employee talent skills and are more active to
research and integrate new market trends to provide facilities to employees will motivate me to
work there. It is also essential for me to understand all the skills and knowledge which is more
effective to attain job opportunities. The organization which have low politics and power culture
is highly effective and also has better opportunity to grow with higher job satisfaction of
employees.
By developing interpersonal skills I will be more effective in understanding emotions of
people and supporting them according to their behaviour (Skendall and et.al., 2017). I will
develop effective leadership skill and characteristics to influence emotional people to increase
their performance and benefit the organization to grow effectively. Social skills have proven to
be more effective in achieving objectives with better reward. This also reduces coherent
activities and motivate positive behaviour of the employees to increase innovative thinking
effectively. I have analysed tat emotion impact the performance of a person in organization this
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can be both positive and negative emotion depending on the organization culture and policies.
Employees which are challenging and accepts challenges is the positive types of emotions of any
employees which can increase the potential of company effectively.
I ascertained that in has some positive and negative factors which impact my
performance and reduce my opportunity to grow in my career. I am effective in communicating
with other and provide them with clear information which is my strengths. I am ineffective in
completing my task due to lack to time management (Li and et.al., 2019). This also reduces my
overall quality and efficiency in the organization. I am effective in research skills and
interpersonal skills which help me to gain better information from any source and make effective
decision in my task. I will use balanced score card and benchmarking method to reduce the
weaknesses and increase y potential by various activities effectively. By develop time table and
schedule will help to manage time effectively. I will also develop plan and strategies to separate
the important work and finish them first.
CONCLUSION
It can be concluded that work is too effective aspect within the Tesla. Currently many
employees are effectively working in this company for achieving its goals. The company has
great brand value in global market, because of its employees' hard-work. The management of
company always tries to maintain a happy and healthy work culture for employees, because this
type of work cultures motivates employees to put huge efforts in workplace. Currently company
uses various business theories and strategies for improving workability and work efficiency of
their employees.
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