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.
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.
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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