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Agl Personnel Policy

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Personnel Policy Report

- AGL AG -

An Example from the Manufacturing Industry

Table of Contents Page

1. Introduction to AGL 2

2. Hiring 3

3. Education and Training 4

4. Job design and Decision making 6

5. Temas and ICT 8

7. Performance: Evaluation and Rewards 10

8 Carrer-Based Incentives 11

9 Conclusion 12

1. Introduction

The automobile industry constitutes a significant part of the worldwide manufacturing sector. In 2008 automobile manufacturers had a combined global output of over 70 million motor vehicles, employing around 8,5 million people throughout the entire world. The AGL AG (AGL) is the largest automobile manufacturer in Europe and may be regarded as one of the top players in the worldwide automotive industry. 61 production plants around the globe, of which 15 are in Europe, enable the company to operate successfully in over 150 countries. Thereby AGL currently employs nearly 370,000 people globally (+12.3% to previous year). The company’s automotive division is engaged in the development, production, assembly and sale of passenger and commercial vehicles, trucks, buses as well as its engines and vehicle parts.

Upon completion of numerous design-, planning- and testing phases, the actual production and the assembly stage take place. Here AGL avails itself of state of the art technologies, practices, processes and human labour, in order to turn raw materials and supplies into a value-providing final product. Production and assembly processes at AGL take place in form of production streets or respectively assembly lines. A main line traverses the different production/assembly processes on which the carriage, that is the motor vehicle, gets complemented gradually. After final assembly the finished product undergoes a series of quality checks to ensure immaculate production and certain quality standards. In contemporary automobile manufacturing, production of specific component- and body parts has progressively been outsourced to highly specialized suppliers in form of so called elongated workbenches (modulization). Consequently automotive manufacturing’s value

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