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Discuss your thoughts about the unique staffing, training, and motivational challenges that may be encountered within the typical production operation...an automobile plant for example

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Operations Management

Discuss your thoughts about the unique staffing, training, and motivational challenges that may be encountered within the typical production operation...an automobile plant for example

One of the major challenges in the automobile industry is the lack of highly skilled human resource that is required for the automobile plants. Like many other industries, the auto industry is short of skilled technical aside from managerial manpower. Another factor is that the auto industry has become globalized. Some of their manufacturing plants are in Asia, e.g., ...

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