Volvo Case Ppt

Group 2 Aayushi Garg Arun Verma Meenakshi Savant Ravi Pratap Singh Shikha Chaudhary

 Swedish

Car manufacturing company.  Founded on July 25, 1924  Founded by Larson & Gabrielsson.  Firstly they were manufacturing cars.  Later on they manufactures trucks, tractors, engines and grinders along with the cars.  Volvo closed down their plants in Uddevalla and Kalmar.  Volvo started facing labour problems by the early 1970’s.

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Increase in absentism rates. Increase in employee turnover. Increase in HR cost. Dissatisfaction of employees. Change in socioeconomic condition in Sweden. Diversity in workforce. Financial problem.

 Job

enrichment experiments. 2. Job rotation 3. Management employee councils. 4. Small work groups. 5. Change implementation 6. Employee oriented facilities.

Proper training to new employees.  Spreading company’s values and objective in all the employees.  Discipline and proper implementation of rule and regulation among the employees.  To make them responsible for their work assigned.  Welcoming their ideas and suggestions 

 Meaningful

involvement of unions and workers in the early planning.  Each assembly team is a small factory that controls and varies its work pace, and benefits from long work cycles.  Flat hierarchy, and organizational autonomy.  “do it right from the start” attitude development.  Unprecedented modular flexibility with no linear fixed sequences

 Decentralized

Final Assembly.  Any necessary corrections are returned to the team, thus providing excellent feedback.  Basic skills training continues within the team environment.  Additional stages of training that lead to “master”.  The skills and competence development system tied to promotions.

 Motivational

training.  Compulsory attendance.  Incentives and perks.  Employee friendly environment.  Career planning for employees.  Competency management.  Employee engagement at organizational level.

 Harvard

Business Review, 1977, Jul-Aug Issue  Business Horizons, 1992, Nov-Dec Issue  www.volvo.com  www.google.com  www.wikipedia.com  www.humanresources.co.in

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