Description
Ford Motor Company is the selected company
Body of report should be 8-10 pages excluding title, references page(s), and any appendices
Step 1: Assess the Company’s Human Resources Competitive Position
Leveraging the work completed in the Individual Assignments for Units 2 and 3, assess the company’s human resources competitive position. Be sure to evaluate the company’s position within the industry and among its comparator group.
Step 2: Identify and Evaluate Human Resources Risks and Opportunities
Leveraging the work completed in the Individual Assignment for Units 1–3, identify and evaluate the company’s human resources risks and opportunities. At least 3 risks and 3 opportunities should be included in your evaluation.
Step 3: Assessment of the Company’s Human Resources Competitive Position
Based on analysis of information obtained in Steps 1–3, prepare a professionally written report assessing the assessment of the company’s human resources competitive position, risks, and opportunities suitable for presentation to the senior executives of the company. Your report should present the information listed below. The body of the report should be 8–10 pages excluding title, references page(s), and any appendices.
- Industry Competitive Position
- Comparator Group Competitive Position
- Human Resources Risks (minimum of 3)
- Description
- Analysis
- Human Resources Opportunities (minimum of 3)
- Description
- Analysis
- Overall Assessment of the Company’s Human Resources Competitive Position
Explanation & Answer
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Running Head: FORD HUMAN RESOURCE ANALYSIS
Ford Human Resource Analysis
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Introduction
Ford Motor Company is the third largest maker of vehicles in the world based on the
number of units sold (Uysal, 2017). The company manufactures and distributes cars in various
markets in over six continents. The organization's primary products include trucks, buses, vans,
passenger cars, extended repair services, and after-sale vehicle parts. In this firm, the Human
Resource department is the primary driver of success.
Ford Motor Company assumes that its agents are the drivers of a considerable number of
achievements of the company. It does all that it can to choose the best representatives as part of
its labor force. Moreover, it carries on with the improvement and preparation of the present
employees to ensure that the association has the best representatives. The company similarly
ensures that its customers are fulfilled and continuously happy (Uysal, 2017).
The motor vehicle industry includes firms that assemble, design, manufacture, engineer,
and market motor vehicles and also give services that involve leasing and financing (Uysal,
2017). Performance in the business is strongly associated with general financial performance.
The company's principal comparator firms include General Motors and Chrysler Automobiles.
Industry Competitive Position
Depending on the company’s human resource division to enlist the best workers, outline
fitting and compelling programs for training and organization fruitful maintenance programs
gives the organization an upper hand in the industry (Nishii, Lepak & Schneider, 2008). While
comparators battle with keeping up with a motivated and experienced workforce, Ford Motor
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Company concentrates more on increased sales and productivity while its Human Resource
division assumes an essential part in the development of the workforce.
Professionals in human resource vary in the experience and the sorts of skills they bring
to an occupation (Nishii, Lepak & Schneider, 2008). Many are executives who are more than
capable of executing benefits programs and handling finance issues. However, they have little
more authority status than the clerical employees. Along these lines, Ford Motor Company
updated its Human Resource division to incorporate enrollment specialists who additionally
understand the organization's key roles and can have an indispensable influence on forming its
overall achievement in business (Uysal, 2017).
Human resource professionals on the executive level in the organization help chart out
training programs and job descriptions, advise the management on where to locate the best
applicants and partake in defining compensation levels that will bring about the best new
contracts (Nishii, Lepak & Schneider, 2008). Ford Motor Company is rated highly among its
comparators because of its policy on bringing its human resource supervisor into the hiring
procedure all the more utterly. The organization's board allows Human Resources to play a part
in deciding fitting recruitment tactics and pay, inform the firm the amount it takes to select top
talent, and how organizational policies can be revised to ensure only th...