study by Thompson, Baughan and Motwani indicates that company such as General Electricity, Proctor & Gamble, Xerox Corporation had huge increase productivity as high as 250 percent and double their profit (1998).
员工是任何组织成功的关键。裁员将导致通用汽车失去有才能的员工，进而失去竞争优势。为了在不断变化的环境中生存，公司必须依靠员工的创造力、独创性、解决问题的能力和强大的团队合作。工人能够自行决定完成工作的最佳方式。共享的知识和技能将创建一个高绩效的工作系统。例如，通用汽车公司的一位工程师正在开发一种燃油效率高的发动机。工程师A可能需要工程师B的助手，但当通用汽车决定裁员时，工程师A将面临开发发动机的困难。通过团队合作可以提高员工的绩效。Thompson、Baughan和Motwani的一项研究表明，通用电气、宝洁和施乐公司等公司的生产率大幅提高，高达250%，利润翻番。
The use of technology is another feature in High Performance Work System. All managers in every department of General Motors must be able to identify the technology they use in their organization. The application of Human Resource Information System that can store information on workers that can assist managers in deciding which employee is performing and which is not. The use of technology without human operating it is also meaningless. Managers in General Motor must identify whether the qualified workers are able to operate the tools or not.
技术的使用是高性能工作系统的另一个特点。通用汽车每个部门的所有经理都必须能够识别他们在组织中使用的技术。人力资源信息系统的应用程序，可以存储有关员工的信息，从而帮助管理人员决定哪些员工在工作，哪些员工不在工作。在没有人为操作的情况下使用技术也是毫无意义的。通用汽车的经理必须确定合格工人是否能够操作工具。
Layout of General Motors production plants and office be required to properly design in order for them to increase workers performance and productivity. This involves careful job designing by HR managers. According to Aghazadeh and Seyedian, layout plays a role to ensure success by using space, people and equipment effectively, increasing the flow of information and materials, boost employee’s morale and utterly encourage flexibility (2004). Managers in General Motors may have to come out with proposals to change the existing layout to a improved, sustainable working layout.
通用汽车生产工厂和办公室的布局需要进行适当设计，以提高工人的绩效和生产力。这需要人力资源经理精心设计工作。根据Aghazadeh和Seyedian的说法，布局通过有效利用空间、人员和设备，增加信息和材料的流动，提高员工的士气，并完全鼓励灵活性，从而确保成功。通用汽车公司的经理们可能不得不提出建议，将现有的布局改变为一种改进的、可持续的工作布局。
If all of the three factors are taken into account, General Motors can recover from their huge financial losses just and can avoid retrenchment of employees. Although to implement HPWS is costly, uncertain success and time consuming but in the long run this can benefit General Motors.
如果将这三个因素都考虑在内，通用汽车可以从巨大的财务损失中恢复过来，并避免裁员。尽管实施HPWS成本高昂、成功不确定且耗时，但从长远来看，这将有利于通用汽车。
Recommendation for Human Resource Activities 人力资源活动建议
Training and development programs should be given to employee to ensure increase in productivity. Offshore training in Japan car manufacturers to learn various methods to make better cars.
应为员工提供培训和发展计划，以确保提高生产力。在日本汽车制造商进行海外培训，学习各种制造更好汽车的方法。
Mangers are required to make research and human resource planning on the best methods to do a particular task.
经理需要对完成特定任务的最佳方法进行研究和人力资源规划。
General Motors would have to find a partner to form a strategic alliance to recover from the huge financial loss. From this alliance, both companies are potential to learn from each other on the technology and trade secrets.
通用汽车将不得不找到一个合作伙伴，组建一个战略联盟，以从巨大的财务损失中恢复过来。通过这个联盟，两家公司都有可能在技术和商业秘密方面相互学习。
Develop a module which to help retrench workers to find a new job. This will avoid them from paying more money for their compensation of retrenchments 开发一个模块，帮助裁员找到新工作。这将避免他们为裁员支付更多的钱
Outsource to countries like China or India. Cheap labors will benefit companies to recover them from financial loss.
外包给中国或印度等国家。廉价劳动力将有利于公司从经济损失中恢复过来。
Create a reward programme where employees are rewarded by their managers based on their ability to work in a group 创建一个奖励计划，让员工根据其在团队中的工作能力获得经理的奖励
Create a talk to all employees at least once in 3 months to explain the company’s vision, strategy and objective. This will make employees feel a sense of belonging and may be able to work extra for the company.
每3个月至少与所有员工进行一次谈话，解释公司的愿景、战略和目标。这将使员工感到归属感，并可能为公司额外工作。
Competitor Analysis 竞争对手分析
Sheer size and market share make new entrants an unlikely to be a threat 单纯的规模和市场份额使新进入者不太可能成为威胁
Vertical integration of GM does not encourage purchases from suppliers hence they lose
