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HRstrategiesPPT2.pptxLeadership Strategies
Introduction
General Motors (GM) is a company that designs, manufactures and distributes motor vehicles and vehicle parts.
The company’s brand name cars include; Chevrolet, GMC, Buick, and Cadillac.
The Headquarters of the company is in Detroit, U.S.
The chosen company was General Motors which designs, manufactures and distributes motor vehicles and vehicle parts.
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Mission Statement for GM
“To earn customers for life by building brands that inspire passion and loyalty through not only breakthrough technologies but also by serving and improving the communities in which we live and work around the world.”
GM’s mission statement is “to earn customers for life by building brands that inspire passion and loyalty through not only breakthrough technologies but also by serving and improving the communities in which we live and work around the world.”
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Mission Statement for GM
The mission statement for GM covers the four areas including; customers, technology, brand loyalty, and improving communities.
These features of the mission statement are developed to ensure the company satisfies the customer.
The mission statement for GM covers the four areas including; customers, technology, brand loyalty, and improving communities.
These features of the mission statement are developed to ensure the company satisfies the customer.
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Importance of HRM Function
The HRM function will ensure the smooth running of the organization (J & J, 2013).
The HRM function will ensure beneficial relationship between management and labor in the organization.
Employee training and development ensures growth of the employment in the organization.
According to (J & J, 2013), the HRM function will ensure the smooth running of the organization. This is done through their overal role of employee management.
The HRM function will ensure beneficial relationship between management and labor in the organization.
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Importance of HRM Function
The HRM function ensures that the workers stay productive and engaged through effective leadership, and open feedback.
Easy resolving of any potential conflicts due to good relations with unions.
Ensuring the personal wellbeing of the employees.
The HRM function ensures that the workers stay productive and engaged through effective leadership, and open feedback.
Easy resolving of any potential conflicts due to good relations with unions.
Ensuring the personal wellbeing of the employees.
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Leadership strategies on Conflict management
Conflict management ensures that disputes are resolved amicably.
Communication is a management tool and leadership strategy that the HRM can use in the organization.
Communication can be used in bringing effective change by the HR (Marlene et al., 1999).
Communication is a management tool that can be used by the HR is conflict management. Through effective communication various changes done by the HR can be effective (Marlene et al., 1999).
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Leadership strategies on Communication Improvement
Communication of vision will ensure the team communicates effectively.
The HR can use this strategy in ensuring the employees communicate effectively.
Encouraging feedback will help the HR in improving communication in the organization.
Leaders communicate their vision in order to improve on communication. This strategy can be used by the HR to ensure the team are on the same page when it comes to communication.
Feedback also ensure active communication within the organization.
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Leadership strategies on Employee Motivation
The HR can encourage recognition through a system of rewards.
The rewards system will make the employees feel appreciated by the organization.
A rewards system will also encourage innovation, productivity, and knowledge sharing (Kremer et al., 2019).
The HR can encourage recognition through a system of rewards. According to Kemer et al., (2019) one of the best leadership practices is promoting employee creativity, voice, and knowledge sharing. This is possible through a system that recognizes the achievements of the employees.
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Leadership strategies on Behavior Improvement
Promotion of a culture of ethics and integrity within the organization will help the HR in behavior improvement.
A strategy of discipline is used in reverse of the rewards strategy.
The discipline strategy is meant to discourage bad behavior like lateness and promoting good behavior.
Promotion of a culture of ethics and integrity within the organization will help the HR in behavior improvement.
The discipline strategy is meant to discourage bad behavior like lateness and promoting good behavior.
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Evaluating leadership strategies
Leadership strategies have an impact on the organizational outcomes.
At GM, any strategy that is applied by the HR will have an impact on the overall outcome of the organization.
This is through loss of productivity and revenue or improved productivity.
At GM, any strategy that is applied by the HR will have an impact on the overall outcome of the organization.
This is through loss of productivity and revenue or improved productivity.
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Evaluating leadership strategies
Improved staff performance (Madanchian et al., 2017).
The leadership strategies should be able to raise the performance of the employees.
This strategy will be effective in evaluating the rewards strategy.
Madanchian et al., (2017) suggested the effectiveness of a leader can be evaluated through observing improved performance of the employees. The strategies are meant to encourage the employees and raise their performance.
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Evaluating leadership strategies
The use of evaluation feedback can be used in evaluating the effectiveness of the leadership strategies.
Evaluation feedback will involve asking the employees to assess the performance of the HR in the areas like conflict management, behavior improvement, employee motivation, and communication improvement.
Evaluation feedback will involve asking the employees to assess the performance of the HR in the areas like conflict management, behavior improvement, employee motivation, and communication improvement.
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Evaluating leadership strategies
The use of external audits will also be used in evaluating the leadership strategies.
External audits can be used in ascertaining the effectiveness on the use of communication in conflict management, introduction of a culture of ethics and integrity and discipline.
External audits can be used in ascertaining the effectiveness on the use of communication in conflict management, introduction of a culture of ethics and integrity and discipline.
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Evaluating leadership strategies
GM sales and distributes vehicles and vehicle parts.
The customer can be used in evaluating the effectiveness of some of the strategies.
Customer feedback system will evaluate whether a culture of ethics and integrity is functioning in the organization
The customer can be used in evaluating the effectiveness of some of the strategies.
Customer feedback system will evaluate whether a culture of ethics and integrity is functioning in the organization
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Conclusion
The leadership strategies that have been developed include;
Communication
Rewards system.
Culture of ethics and integrity
Discipline
The leadership strategies that have been developed include;
Communication
Rewards system.
Culture of ethics and integrity
Discipline
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References
J. Arrowsmith & J. Parker (2013) The meaning of ‘employee engagement’ for the values and roles of the HRM function, The International Journal of Human Resource Management, 24:14, 2692-2712, DOI: 10.1080/09585192.2013.763842
Kremer, H., Villamor, I., & Aguinis, H. (2019). Innovation leadership: Best-practice recommendations for promoting employee creativity, voice, and knowledge sharing. Business Horizons, 62(1)65-74.https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0007681318301459
Marlene F. Drew Harris & Robert House. (1999). Charismatic leadership: Strategies for effecting social change. The Leadership Quarterly,Volume 10, Issue 3
Madanchian Mitral., Hussein N. Fauziah N. & Hamed T. (2017). Leadership Effectiveness Measurement and its Effect on Organizational Outcomes.
