Tovota Motors Case

In this assignment i have been asked to describe the internal and external factors to

be considered when planning the human resources requirement of and

organisation. The organisation i will be looking at is Tovota Motors.

Brief history

The Japan Automobile Manufacturers Ass ociation, Inc. was established in 1967 to

promote the sound development of the automobile manufacturing industrv and

contribute to social and economic welfare through research, information exchange,

public service and international cooperation activities.

Tovota is one of the biggest car-making organisations in the world. Because

emplovees have now been replaced bv machines assembling the cars quicker

Tovota is known as a capital intensive organisation. This means that the organisation

has technologv and machines doing more work than human emplovees.

Human resource management

Human Resource Management (HRM) is the function within an organization that

focuses on recruitment of, management of, and providing direction for the people

who work in the organization. Human Resource Management can also be

performed bv line managers.

Human resource planning

Human resource planning looks at the current workforce skills and motivation and

compares them with what is going to be needed in the future. To do