Mahindra Group
The Mahindra Group is an Indian conglomerate spread over various countries, headquartered at Mahindra Towers in Mumbai, India, operating in over 100 countries around the globe. The group has a presence in farm equipment, agribusiness, aerospace, automotive, construction equipment, defense, energy, finance and insurance, aftermarket, industrial equipment, leisure and hospitality, logistics, real estate, information technology, retail, components, and two wheeler industry. It is considered among one of the most reputable Indian industrial houses [with market leadership in utility vehicles as well as tractors in India.
HR Practices at Mahindra Group
1. Talent Acquisition
• Under Capable People (which emphasizes behaviors and abilities of Mahindra People),
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They are put through 3 distinct ‘stints’ in the chosen career path which could be Sales & Marketing, Operations or Technology & Product Development
• Auto Quotient or AQ is a unique platform that drives ‘auto passion’ among employees through interactive quizzes and simulations. For instance, Mahindra AQ launched VIRTUALITY an interactive ‘do it yourself’ application allowing employees to learn and virtually assemble XUV500 by dragging and dropping over 40 parts over three major stages picked up from our own manufacturing plants. The application brings the entire design and manufacturing process to an employee’s desktop through an interactive and engaging setup
• The company is first few in the country to use the concept of Master Class for leadership training and development. Master Class is an executive Vipassana, where people detach themselves from the daily routine in order to get things into perspective. European boutique firm-Business Psychologists International (BPI) has developed this concept that focuses on customized leadership
First published in 1987, The Leadership Challenge is a guide for becoming leader. The book received many awards and its above two million copies are internationally sold. The book teaches principles of leadership that apply whether the leader is running a sports team or a fortune 500 organization. The book includes stories and examples of many leaders from micro to macro level (Founders and Authors, 2013). The basic leadership principles can be adopted by anyone to challenge status quo and increase leader productivity multifold. The book tells about the flow and hierarchy of values too (Machedo, 2013). One can use the guide without an instructor to develop leadership traits.
Leadership at times can be a complex topic to delve into and may appear to be a simple and graspable concept for a certain few. Leadership skills are not simply acquired through position, seniority, pay scale, or the amount of titles an individual holds but is a characteristic acquired or is an innate trait for the fortunate few who possess it. Leadership can be misconstrued with management; a manager “manages” the daily operations of a company’s work while a leader envisions, influences, and empowers the individuals around them.
Leadership is the elaboration of group inspiration. One person entrusted as leader can implore the aid, and support of supporters in the accomplishment of a common mission. According to Gurdjian, Halbeisen, and Lane “Becoming a more effective leader often requires changing behavior. But although most companies recognize that this also means adjusting underlying mind-sets, too often these organizations are reluctant to address the root causes of why leaders act the way they do” (Gurdjian, Halbeisen, and Lane, 2014) However, today abundant businesses engross importance on the improvement of leaders. Some of the ultimate leaders were formerly followers, such as in instructive businesses. One aspect as leaders many have to contemplate in striving
This class addressed vital issues impacting the business world from the position of a leader. It explored the standards of relational leadership and how to create group and individual leadership skills to influence lives groups and organizations. Content of the course- included effective communications, setting goals, decision making service leadership and many more leadership styles, and effective ways to implement change. I covered some basic concepts that are important to personal skills development and some leadership behaviors.
This theory makes the managers realize their strengths and weaknesses and they can also get an understanding of how to develop their leadership qualities
In Phase 1, pre-training, Campbell’s CEO Institute teaches participants about leadership, formulating ideas and experiences and take time to reflect on what they have learned and apply it to all aspects of their lives. As the CEO, Conant was a motivator, “Doug is personally involved in all aspects—developing content, teaching, communicating with class members, and sharing lessons from his more than 30 years in business…….He’s all in. An active instructor, he’s fully present during the entire two-year journey” (Reardon, 2011). The program is developed internally which helps employees can build on their skills. The Institute accepts 20-24 participants per year and they must be nominated by their unit president or functional leader (Newell, 2011).
Organizations—irrespective of their sizes and areas of businesses—always take on their leaders’ personality. So, leadership development programs gain prominence in every organization. Research says that leadership training and development programs assist in maximizing productivity, promoting harmony within the organization, and shaping up a positive organizational culture. It is; therefore, said that the future of an organization rests on recognizing and identifying leaders.
Leadership and come to mean different things to different people. One of the biggest reasons that I took this class was to become a stronger leader in my personal life, as well as professional. I did not take this class because I have a desire to me in management at this point in my career. What is important to me was to look at this way to be a better employee, in reacting to management styles. I also wanted to take different aspects of management and implement them into being a leader in my family. I have had several managers that I have respected during my career and certain attributes I wanted to emulate. My current manger David Taggerty took the time out to discuss his role as a leader and how he got into leadership. We took a look
Before this class, I had a very primitive and vague definition of leadership. Not only did I define it as per my views and ideologies, but I also said that each individual has their own definition of leadership. My initial belief was that leadership does not have a clear cut definition, but there were well defined leadership traits which made an individual. I also initially believed that personal traits did not translate into leadership traits with no strong correlation. After going through the various modules this class offered, it is safe to say that I have significantly redefined leadership and underwent a strong personal assessment. This paper talks what I took back from each of the class activities, assignments and how my self-assessment compares to the perception of others.
The Harvard Business School (HBS) has developed a novel Business Model Innovation (BMI), by creating an alternative to the traditional Executive MBA (EMBA) format entitled the “Program for Leadership Development” (PLD). Deviating from typical Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC’s), the PLD is an intensive 28-week program that combines online and on campus training with a highly selective admissions process. HBS Alumni Status can be obtained through the completion of 2 additional weeks of their open enrollment or custom programs. PLD Alumni can contact HBS with specific needs, which can be fulfilled with custom course content. They also routinely receive questionnaires, through which HBS offers specific resources and courses, that are subsequently heavily marketed to them as a target audience. In doing so HBS employs push to talk, automated hovering, and tweak behavior connection strategies to various degrees.
When I started the course I was excited to learn different qualities as like leader the assumptions was there will be having some exercises to buid some leadership qualities which I did not have. I assumed that I will learn how we can motivate others and some special capability how we can develop in myself like great leaders and as I assumed I get same thing that great leaders are not born with leadership skills ,they develop that skills .
In corporate America the term used to describe a person in a position of power is “Manager”. A leader can be a manager, but a manager is not necessarily a leader. Leaders motivate, challenge, and influence others to achieve goals. Great leaders have the necessary skills and attributes which allow them to connect with the team and organization. Being a leader is not the same as managing an organization. Leader’s posses the interpersonal skills needed to influence others to achieve a goal willingly. Leading is a major part of a manager’s job. Leaders do not need to be a manager to lead people, but managers must know how to lead as well as manage.
* Physical infrastructure like roads, highways and bridges affect the use of automobiles. Better these infrastructures better will be the growth opportunities in this sector.
The characteristics of the global motor vehicle industry are a boom in certain places and a bust in others all due to economic conditions in different nations. Four years after tow of Detroit Michigan’s big three went into bankruptcy American car makers are going “full throttle” with sales in August hitting an annual rate that if substantiated can take them back over 16 million and that is a rate that was last hit before the economic crisis and 80% higher than 2009 when GM and Chrysler went into bankruptcy. The opposite is happening in Europe being in its sixth year slump now and with a weak economy, high petroleum prices and an aging