Dassault Aviation, a French industry group, accounts for 8000 collaborators, including 3000 with a site in Saint-Cloud. As a major player of the world aircraft industry, the group posts its specificity: the support of its customers. The manufacturer civil-soldier bases its strategy on products of high technology, which proposes a control of key technologies as well as costs to preserve its competitive advantage.
The Dassault Aviation group underlines the strong values which makes its force and which influences the policy of human resources of the company. The policy RH of the group seems however very centered on the social aspect within a company where technicality remains as the key. To redefine this activity and to support its strategic aspect could, however, serve the interests of the company.
Dassault Aviation is one of the major players in the global aviation industry. It is the only group in the world to design, produce and direct fighter planes, vectors of political independence, and business aircraft, work tools and economic development. The group is the only aircraft manufacturer of business jets in Europe is the world leader in business aircraft upscale. Its flagship products are the Mirage, Rafale, Falcon and neurons.
Dassault Aviation and mastery of strategic technologies, including knowledge of complex air weapon systems. The group has a turnover of 3.3 billion euros in 2006. Since 1975, 75% of sales of Dassault aircraft were made for export. For Falcon, the figure exceeds 90%. For 5 years, the Falcon, on average, 60% of sales.
The Dassault Aviation is present in over 70 countries on 5 continents. In the United States in particular, Dassault Aviation is present since the early 70s through its subsidiary - Dassault Falcon Jet - which has four offices in Teterboro (New Jersey), Little Rock (Arkansas), Wilmington (Delaware) and Aero Precision Inc.(Florida). This French group owned 50.21% by the private group Groupe Industriel Marcel Dassault, owned by the Dassault family.The other shareholders are EADS France (46.30%) and public (3.49%).
The Company has been profitable since its inception in 1936.These benefits help ensure the future by funding research and development, investment and industrial computing, the development of internal competencies, the marketing effort and the reward shareholders and staff. The Group has cash which reinforces its investment capacity.
With its research department, its industrial base, the expertise of its teams and its product line, Dassault Aviation offers its customers, from design to operation, a wide range of know-how based on strong entrepreneurial values. These core values are more important in a context of economic globalization and stronger competition. Dassault Aviation develops team spirit, sharing knowledge and know-how, creative initiative and respect for ethics.
Dassault Aviation is at the forefront of global technology innovation and control of embedded systems. Of aircraft manufacturer known for over half a century, its role has now become the industrial architect of complex systems integrator. The objective now is to provide customers with innovative solutions at the lowest cost in the areas of business aviation and military. To maintain this advance technology, engineering offices and workshops are the latest organizational and technological progress. Dassault Aviation is also partner of the largest providers of packaged software (SAP, Dassault Systems, IBM, Microsoft, etc.) With which the group participates in the development of future tools.
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[...] In this sense, the HR function is currently too "fragmented" to influence the strategy in a more "corporate" group. Its function is currently limited to a function for supporting employees and their concerns. The role of Human Resources, which is to clear every step of the recruitment process, seems to have to changed substantially in coming years, to meet the multiple challenges that the world of work and industry groups are confronted with, especially since it is part of a real demand from its own employees. [...]
[...] A pragmatic human resource management It is first in the recruitment of staff that this pragmatism is visible. While young engineers just out of school are sometimes hired, it is primarily experienced people who are recruited. Indeed, sophistication and experience are essential criteria. Effectiveness in recruiting is really the key word. Dassault Aviation mostly hires engineers, given the technical aspect dominant in the industry, even in the area of sales. In civil cases, sellers are in direct contact while in the military wing of Dassault Aviation, the sellers are in contact with the end user: The Air Force and Naval Aviation. [...]
[...] The Dassault Aviation Group highlights the strong values that are its strength, which influence the human resources policy of the company. The HR policy group seems focused on the social aspect, in a company where tech is the key. Redefining this activity and supporting its strategic aspect may yet serve the interests of the company. I. Dassault Aviation: business description Description of activity Dassault Aviation is a major player in the global aviation industry. This is the only group in the world to design, produce and direct fighter planes, vectors of political independence and business aircrafts, and tools and economic development. [...]
[...] This maintenance system is very flexible indeed, but is little or not at all widespread. Directors can decide independently to conduct the interviews or not. The measures are very heterogeneous in different services. The interest of these interviews does not seem actually to be received by Human Resources. Corporate culture and values (including internal promotion is an integral part) seem not to fully take into account the tools of performance measurement. Combined, these two examples are representative of the HR function as it currently exists within the group Dassault Aviation. [...]
[...] Indeed, only 14% of employees of Dassault Aviation are women. However, this fact is by no means the result of HR policies to the extent that we find the proportions of women behind, that is to say, in engineering schools. In addition, our interlocutor HR within the company told us during the interview we had in our study that any woman working at Dassault Aviation, with the requisite skills and able to make the sacrifices induced by res responsibilities, shall be denied a position of responsibility. [...]
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