Name: Bin Hong 3866743 Mikhail Adhisetya 3879732 Ziqiang Chen 3863735
Class: BMO 5572 Strategic Human Resource Management
Tutor: Dr. David Fan
Due date: 05/10/2011
* EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
This report analyses human resources issues and strategic plans regarding the relationship between Reboult, a fictitious French company, and Nissan, a Japanese company. Additionally, Reboult’s planned target market is Thailand. The report highlights the background of Reboult and challenges which they encounter in the automotive industry. Furthermore, it elaborates on the expanding strategic plans of the company to overcome these challenges. The plans include a merger strategy with Nissan and another strategy to enter Thailand’s market. A merger strategy with Nissan, especially in the technology sector, has some human resource issues, which need to be resolved, as well as some strategic planning issues. In order to enter Thailand’s market, Reboult needs to focus on company structure in the destination market and systems, in order to achieve a sustainable position in the target market. The report concludes that the operation with Nissan has advantages in the technology sector, can minimize cost and enhance the performance in the car industry. In addition, affiliation in Thailand depends on the company strategy to create the company structure, and completes systems to improve the performance.
* TABLE OF CONTENTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY i TABLE OF CONTENTS ii 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1 2.0 FRENCH COMPANY 2 2.1 Market challenge 2 2.2 Expanding strategic plan 3 3.0 FRANCE - JAPAN 4 3.1 Human Resource Management Issues 5 3.2 Strategic Plans 6 4.0 FRANCE – THAILAND 8 4.1 Structure 8 4.1.1 Top management 9 4.1.2 Department Heads 9 4.1.3 Supervisors 10 4.1.4 Operation employees 10 4.2 Training System 10 4.3 Rewards and