Background of the company
Scania is a world’s leading manufacturer of heavy trucks, buses, coaches and international marine engines which was established in the year of 1891. Currently the company is operating in around some 100 countries with having 34,000 employees allover it’s branches. Since it’s establishment, the company is offering it’s product for more than 80 years which has produced and delivered around 14,00,000 trucks and buses for heavy transportation work across the world. At present, the company looks very attractive to all of it’s employees for the continuous development in it’s production process which ensures the safeties of it’s employees in their workplace and that made the company to become one of the leading brands. Now we will know how the company is ensuring their development with their employee’s health satisfaction which follows and supports the World Health Organization’s five key health issues.
Main objective of the study
findings from the case how this case study was useful to address 'workplace health promotional issues.
Critical review and analysis of 'work place health promotional activities' at Scania 1. Scania - SPS and the ‘New Employee’
From the very beginning of Scania’s establishment (80 years before in 1891), it was not very conscious about it’s employees health issues, but later on, when the company recruit it’s new new chairman of the board, Marcus Wallenberg Jr., and a new CEO, Carl-Bertel Nathhorst, the company started to turn from it’s current position of craftsman-oriented medium sized company to a well recognized company and from then, the transformation started to took place in the company in late 1940. But Until 1980, the employees of Scania was not satisfied with their job as they didn’t get any health and work related support from the company which leads the the company to face several problems of recruiting peoples to work for their company and whomever have been recruited, their