The Ford Motor Company is an automotive company founded in 1903 by Henry Ford. It employs over 225,000 employees across 90 manufacturing plants worldwide. Ford uses effective recruiting and selection processes. For recruiting, Ford encourages online applications and holds meet and greets for candidates. In selection, Ford reviews applications, assesses candidates, and chooses those with diverse backgrounds and skills to help the company grow. Training and developing employees' talents and skills contributes to a productive workforce at Ford. It increases productivity, safety, and employee motivation which benefits the company.

1. Recruiting, Selection and Training
LaTrice S. Ford
Professor
HRM – 534
Employee and Labor Relations

2. Briefly describe the company you researched.
The Ford Motor Company is an organization that produces cars and trucks and has so
since 1903 by inventor, Mr. Henry Ford, who started the company with $28,000 and a dream.
He was encouraged to have his own automobile company, while leaving his place of
employment to take on this endeavor. He gathered different individuals and investors together
to ensure the start of the organization.
Ford Motor Company is not only an automotive company but also has business in
financial services that include financing of car notes, leasing on different vehicles, and
insurance for individuals who are unable to purchase it elsewhere. The addition companies
are not only located in North America but in South America, Europe Asia and Africa that also
include real estate and holding companies.
The Ford Motor Company has grown to be one of the largest automobile companies in
the world. This company currently employees about 225, 000 employees for its ninety plus
manufacturing plants within the United States and across the world. For many years it has
been the number two automobile seller company in the world while Toyota took the place of
first. While the organization did all they could do to gain ground, their reward came in 2010
when Ford bypassed them as the number one seller in the United States.
The organization, as many other automotive companies, went through a rough financial
and reputation period beginning in the late 1990’s. In 1999, Ford went through a time when
they were having trouble with the tires on their sport utility vehicles exploding. Also in 2006,
Toyota, one of the organizations top rivals, surpassed them in sales once again and in addition
the organization had to deal with the falling economy.

3. Today, Ford has once again emerged as one of the world’s leading automobile sellers.
The made changes in their car lines and decided to discontinue some of their more formative
car lines such as the mercury in which they had been producing since the early 1970’s.
Production lines like the Taurus received a new makeover and face lift. The new models have
become very popular and big sellers for the organization.
Analyze the effectiveness of the company’s recruiting efforts and make
recommendations for improvement.
The Ford Motor Company has very effective methods that they use for recruitment.
The first method that is utilized nationwide recruiting when applicants are asked to meet at a
central location and are asked to bring a resume, employment history and educational
background. This gives the employee a chance to get to know the organization more and to
engage on a personal level. The Ford Motor Company is an organization that encourages
potential employees to go to their website and file out the online application for employment.
The organization employees a large number of new employees each year that they had pick to
join their company.
The Ford Motor Company has a two step method that they use as a recruiting tool to
promote, encourage and attract individuals to their company. The first step is that they ask for
applicant to complete the online application, along with the online assessment that is provided
on the Ford website. After the applications have been approved, a select number of
individuals are contacted and asked to attend a meet and greet with the company managers
and company employees from different departments. The reason for the meet and greet is to
give the managers and current employees an eye into the people that they may be working
understanding between both interested parties.

4. Analyze the selection process of the company you researched and make
recommendations for improvement.
Different organizations have selective methods as to how they chose new employees to
work for their company. Among the more popular ways of choosing individuals is to have
applicants come into a company and have a formal interview with the manager and three or
four other company leaders. Today companies are looking for more inventive ways when
searching for viable talent.
The selection process for Ford is very clear and begins with individuals applying for
their desired positions. The application is administered through the company website along
with an assessment and questionnaire at the completion of applying. After the applications are
submitted and managers have had the chance to look them over, they are then selected to
attend a meet and greet session with manager and current employees. The managers choose
individuals who are from different ethnic and cultural and educational backgrounds that have
the talent and skills that will help the organization grow and move forward into the future.
The selection process that Ford Motor Company has chosen is a method that seems to
be effective and well established. The organization is able to gather information from their
applicants that give them information the company can use to make a decision that will allow
them to hire the best applicant with the proper talent, skills and motivation to be a productive
asset to the company.
Assess the effectiveness of human resource planning and performance management
systems.
Since people are the number one and greatest asset of human resource departments, it is
fundamentally critical to have a strategy or plan that pertains to hiring the best individuals for

5. the job. Organizations have to ensure they are giving proper information to HRM so that they
can gather data to provide employers with employees who have what it takes to be placed into
certain positions. The effectiveness of human resource planning can be seen in the forms of
training and recruitment. These two areas are critical to the human resource planning strategy.
Training individuals to be more skilled and talented in their positions gives power to
organizations that employ individuals who have developed their talents and skills to help the
organization grow and succeed. Also organizations have a need or dependency for human
resource management to bring in individuals who are able to perform the job tasks and be
productive in their position.
Performance management can provide many different areas of improvement and
development that can maximize effectiveness by using tools such as assessments, ratings and
developmental process. Performance management is important because it also can help with
setting the work roles, flexibility, and aid in establishing goals for the organization to meet. It
also engages, develops and helps with employee performance to maximize the potential of
employees. Performance management also helps with development of talents and skills
through training that is provided by human resource departments.
Performance management is not only effective for human resource managers but also
for the leaders of the company. It gives them a better way of how to approach and speak with
their employees. There are certain criteria that are used to help leaders approach their
employees and speak with them about their work performances. These criteria are set up to
help leaders with providing effective and constructive feedback to individuals about their
work performances and how they can better improve on performance tasks as well as attitude,
behavior, and on how to obtain reachable goals. Also having individuals evaluate themselves

6. their performances is also a part of performance management. When employees are allowed
to evaluate themselves, they are able to notice things that may not have been evident to others
or better evident to the employee.
Determine how training and talent management contribute to an effective labor force of
the company you researched
Training and talent management contribute to an effective labor force for the Ford
Motor company because they have allowed themselves the correct tools to be able to hire
individuals to their organization who are educated, skillful and motivated to perform a good
job. Training individuals to do what is need to be done, contributes to the company in many
ways.
Talent management keeps organizations engaged in an ever changing workforce.
Colleges are graduating different individuals from different cultural backgrounds and
educational backgrounds who are looking to come into the work force and make a large
impact. Ford Motor Company is using their resources to bring in the most active, skillful and
talented individuals into the company. Organizations are going to have to continue to support
the development of their employees and keep encouraging them to do their best and help them
to in developing and growing.
First of all, having effective training for employees, increases productivity in the
organization which allows for more tasks to be completed. This means employees are able to
complete tasks and move forward to other project. When organizations increase productivity,
the organization is able to hire new employees and increase the organization finances. Also
productivity can

7. Secondly, having employees trained correctly, can also help organization have a safe
workplace. When individuals receive proper training, they are able to have a safe and clean
workplace where employees are following the safety rules, policies and procedures. Also
having a save workplace can help organizations by reducing risk and having to pay out
insurance policies on individuals getting hurt, instead those funds can be used for promotions,
rewards, supplies and other needed items.
Last, training and talent management contributes to the Ford labor force because it
shows the employee that the management cares about their development of skills and talents.
It gives employees a boost of motivation to do their jobs to the best of their abilities and
allows them to take constructive criticism and turn it positive to help better the organization.
In conclusion, organizations have to be aggressive and forthcoming when they are
recruiting, training and selecting individuals for their company. They have to ensure that they
are being able to give employees what they need to succeed, whether they are with them or in
another organization. The workplace of the future has come and the people that are being
brought into Ford Motor Company and other organizations are coming prepared and ready to
be a part of a company that they want to work for and some that is working for them.

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