Sime Darby is one of the successful company that have been operating in over 20 countries world-wide and has more than 100,000 employees. In 2009, Sime Darby take the initiative to introduction ‘Sime Darby’s Core Executive Program’, (CEP) this program is been encourage by the company for employee self-actualization. The aims of this CEP is to increase the self-awareness and personal mastery in their executives and senior executives. This CEP has reached out to Thailand and brings mixture culture of employees in Thailand to work together in peace.
Other leadership skills in Sime Darby are caring of employee. Sime Darby cares about employee safety by maintaining all safety features and the environment in working area. The company …show more content…
Sime Darby had contributed RM53 billion to the economy from a research. Recent years, the shortage of labour force had caused insufficient productivity. In this case, Sime Darby should hire more local workers or foreign workers to increase productivity. Besides that, they can purchase machinery items which are more advanced and modern to increase production.
Moreover, the Sime Darby Company should reward those workers who work hard and contribute the most to the company in order to achieve their company objectives, missions and goals. For example, Sime Darby can give a certificate to the excellent employee during company annual dinner. Besides, Sime Darby can give bonus annually, provide free vacation and promote their excellent employees to a higher position. This can motivate employees to work harder to get more rewards. Indirectly, the relationship between company and employee would be built and the company will achieve company …show more content…
Trait theory help us to identify the trait and qualities that are helpful to leading people and it assume that leader’s personal traits are the key to leadership success. Behavioural theories focus on how leader behave and Contingency theory help to deal with this additional aspect of leadership effectiveness studies.
Sime Darby Company used Trait theory as the main core of theory. Trait theory help them to discover the potential of their staff to make them a better and successful leader. But using this theory, there is not situation awareness. The trait based theory also means that people who do not innately have these traits do not have the ability to become leaders, this will cut out the opportunities to find out talented leader.
Palm Oil industry employs of Sime Darby is facing shortage of labour problem and their employees are not working as a team. In our opinion, we think that Sime Darby Company should hire more workers or increasing the number of machine to solve shortage problem. After that, Sime Darby Company should give some rewards for the employees who contribute the most to achieve the company goals. This will also increase the loyalty of the employees to the