Literature Review: Workplace Design Impact on Kia Motors Employees

This literature review examines the impact of workplace design on employees, with a special reference to Kia Motors. It explores various aspects including the organization of the workplace, communication strategies, performance and empowerment, and research methodology. The review covers strategic design, stakeholder perspectives, public relations strategies, and the importance of employee motivation and engagement. The research methodology includes a case study approach with data collected from books, journals, company websites, and social media. The study aims to understand the relationship between workplace design, employee satisfaction, and organizational performance. Key research questions address employee contentment, competitive forces, project significance, valuable business characteristics, reasons for leaving, interactive policies, and preferred communication plans. The review highlights the need for competitive assessment, strategic workforce direction, and effective communication to enhance employee engagement and organizational success.

THE IMPACT OF WORKPLACE DESIGN ON EMPLOYEES
(Special Reference to Kia Motors)

Literature Review
Introduction
The inventiveness of the motor-powered construction arena is accessible with the emphatic
appreciating technique and provisions to mature the missions of materialistic comprehension of
workplace supervision to present the appropriate interpretation of viewpoints and revelations. It
prescribes the decisive obligation of inspiring integrities for creative and the intellectual
reception of the ingredients contrived in the motorized fabrication and expands the insistence of
employee perception in the midst of the common setup, and the determinations. It consumes
tangible resources in the global regions when it recollects sustainable lead in the perspectives of
employee expenses (Cervone, 2010).
Organization of Workplace
The management and activities of a specialized workplace include the prolific dispersion of
responsibilities and the everyday jobs to the vivacious employees correlated to the real-world
concern. There are significant features of expert handling and observing the manageable assets
within the latitude of the proficiencies of the personnel that amazingly come across to formulate
the enforced attitudes of articulating, inspiring, fetching, opting for and checking the
implementing engagements of human capital (Armstrong, 2014).
The dedicated and enduring emphasis verbalizes the link between HRM along with premeditated
expansion. The anticipated systems concerning HRM plus operational performance impact on
the “bottom line” procedures for fruitful performances. The financial metrics such as, “market
segment, profits, and business assistance position as main consciousness” for the commercial
directors, as it elucidates by what means the premeditated expansion controls the persons,
society, on top of fundamental developments characteristically surmounts the sustenance of
occupational purposes. The optimism of profit strengthening motivates virtually all-positive and
effective investigation of the industry. "Constructive" examination positions as everywhere
irrespective of the essential resolutions of the presentation which exists or what influences in
accomplishing the cost-effective productivity. Captivating the full benefit of proceeds or “market
share” could arise at the “overhead of earnings postulating the augmented magnitudes” of

creation and transactions. Reducing values may worsen the remunerations as per the resources in
expenditures abridges the returns (Kirkpatrick et al. 2011),
Therefore the institute need to endeavor to get the most out of the revolution regarding returns in
addition to expenditures, not change to the maximum out of single or restrain the further
constituent. It signifies the complete turnover that achieves at the lowermost linkage, shadowed
by proceeds of value of share for each head. If the volume of dividends remains steady elsewise
automated, at that circumstance. Strategic association of human wealth has been delineated as
"the summary of planned human resource outlooks as well as measures projected to authorize an
institution to appreciate its purposes" (Machado, 2015).
Figure: Strategic Design of Workplace
(Source: www.otaru-uc.ac, 2017)
The manifestation of “line administrators” as per the trends of human reserve policy making
technique empowers them to play the role at three characteristic stages: strategic, dynamic plus

well-made facilities. The noteworthy actions encompasses the upkeeps of capability and
preeminence of individuals with effective methods in tempting, selecting and allotting
workforces with fruitful formulae of performance -- unfolding all HR events to display the
arrangements for leading and measuring the engagements of persons (Iqani, 2012).
Communication Strategies
In accordance with the stakeholder viewing platform, the certification of the stockholders,
financiers, negotiators, purveyors, delegates, the responsibilities, teams etc. comply with the true
quintessence of the establishment which links with the participants. The jurisdictional, common
and the ecological settings of the policies of the Management articulate a tremendous motivation
on the intensive care agendas of the unit in associations of regional, overall and multinational
societies. The globalized exertions of the deliberate beliefs of the course of social means endure
the cooperative strategy of public levels that offers authentic and collective justifications on the
assorted perspectives of the extents of feasible dimensions (Martocchio, 2014). The melodious
and additional bendable operative situation generates reachable environments for the
implementation of roles. The public negotiations, workspaces, seminars and opinions on
notorious fluctuating characteristics of the organizational procedures aid the quantifiable
perseverance of the recognition of the authorities of performances (Epstein, 2011).
This highlights a commanding need of precise method to resolve the response of the foundations
with the characteristics and exaggerate the solicitation to value to reap the possibility of the self-
controls of specialized missions. The powerful and interconnecting mediations can settle with
operative and simulated superfluities, billboard communications, Facebook, as well as YouTube
beside the Shared networking sites or twitter, agreement of business’s available sites, promotions
on TV linkage and so on There might believably stand the extensive assessments of offline
communications through functioning reviews, printed on the brochures of Business, stream of
marketing and factual publicity in official papers and substantially other foundations of public
relations (Harvey and Stanton, 2013). The progression of employments along with reciprocated
interactions over and done with appropriate effective offline public services; self-governing
working facilities also display the method of links with the diverse categories of individuals.

Figure: Strategy of Public relations
(Source: Priporas and Vrontis, 2014)
The psychological and physical inspirations of the enactment in addition to assertiveness are
adopted to permeate the various accomplishments in and outward to the functioning sectors of
the institution (Krome, 2014). The associates of the mass are vital to be reinforced with truthful
as well as communal enthusiasm in the positions of applicable rewards.
Performance and Empowerment
The talents and capacities should be branded to judge the “internal potentialities” to produce
the circumstances for the supervisors to empower them to outperform in their corresponding
employments. The innovative endowments manage to pay for individualism to extent the
abilities submerged in them. The mental condition represents self-consciousness, self-
sufficiency, with positive actualization to sense the purposes of priority and abolish the
tensions of the discrete personalities over focused life expectancy (Sousa et al. 2012). The
stressful milieus are honestly improved by the twosomes who experiment with demonstration of
cognizance to competently poise the wide-ranging liabilities and consistent programs of
existence. The sufferings on top of pressure remain the enhancing degree of the actions between
the static applications of workplace time..
A- Action
D-Design
I- Interest
A- Attention

(Source: Sikora & Ferris, 2014).
There are classes of arranging the entities to settle on the group of constituencies to recompense
the dissemination of state of affairs in possession with their desires. The various communities
may transmute to the grander statuses at explicit segments stipulating that they are placed to
remain conferred for allocation. (Banfield & Kay, 2012). These predictable designs of
changeover are judiciously desired to comprehend the situations of joblessness over and above
the profile-raising adjustments to build a course of action regarding motivational segments that
crafts complications for the outlying candidates. It devises emotional power on competitive
space to unveil the intrinsic worth. The conventions of the supervision borders the link to specify
the employees and teams from the reverting groups, secondary masses of principles, the reserved
implications, traditional cluster, as well as the economically subsiding team of the populace
As per the enthusiasms of Olsen and Stensaker, (2013), the governing wizard of subsequent
recompenses in the procedure of persuasive pursuits is being increasingly replaced by the
proactive heightening of performances and illustrations of executing schedules within the job-
related division that have advanced with prodigious industrial expansion. There are numerous

profitable and non-commercial incentive approaches being boosted up by the values to issue
ample introductions to the employees (www.hrwale.com, 2017).
(Source: Anastasia, 2014)
Research Methodology
The researcher aims to justify the research approaches, research organizations and methods
of inspection. The investigator determines to deliver clarifications for choosing realism study
of the viewing platform, explicit survey with descriptive application and deductive methods of
examination for the procedure (Saunders et al. 2009). Then, the surveyor decides to stipulate
the data sources encompassing the records of information published in books, exploring
articles available in journals, media issues in addition to the information accessible through
the Company websites, Linked In, You Tube and Facebook The secondary fundamentals
depict the vital evidences for meaningful Research (Harrison & Reilly, 2011). The researcher
proposes to collect the essential chronicles through involving those statistics by means of the
evaluation of literature

Research Aim
The researcher aims to find out the sequential development of workplace besides key concepts in
addition to the theories of organization of workplace, Communication strategies, Performance
Appraisal, motivation and empowerment of the workforces of varied spheres of actions. The
impact of workplace design on employees benefits the interpersonal relationship to achieve the
sustainable returns intended over productive performance of the functional enterprise.
Research questions:
 What stand as the preconditions of contentment of the personnel?
 Who remain the rival workforces for fulfilling the responsibilities?
 How stimulating and significant are the projects that are assigned for the workers?
 Which characteristics of the business do the staffs mostly raise the value of?
 What issues prompt the workers to quit the institute?
 What is the interactive policy within and outside the enterprise?
 What is the preferred communication plan that the employees intend to adjust or
transform in accordance with Global customs?
Summary
The group has requirement of fashioning the competitive assessment as a recognized
organisation with the service of consistent philosophies of invulnerable accomplishment within
the association plus at the peripheral dominion allied to the comprehensive division. The
advantage of the productive aspirations is vital to be dispersed on top of sophisticated
understandings of the manufacturing method of the products to stimulate and lift the outlooks.
The strategic directing of manpower enlightens the organizational procedures skilled in a
calculated method that persuasively arbitrates the talents as well as concealed proficiencies of the
natures and assigns the job databases to be affected in a committed time limit. The collection of
the employees with the flawless procedure of establishing the cultivated mechanisms of assertion
en route for the progressive procedures of effective sophistications and computing the
noteworthy apparatuses of demonstrations highpoint the eventual actions of the supervision.

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