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Group 2Aayushi Garg
Arun VermaMeenakshi SavantRavi Pratap SinghShikha 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.
1. Increase in absentism rates.2. Increase in employee turnover.3. Increase in HR cost.4. Dissatisfaction of employees.5. Change in socioeconomic condition in
Sweden.6. Diversity in workforce.7. Financial problem.
Job enrichment experiments.1. Job rotation2.Management employee councils.3.Small work groups.4.Change implementation5.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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