A case study on Nestle Assignment

Globalisation

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TITLE..........................................................................................................................................1
Background..................................................................................................................................1
Aim..............................................................................................................................................1
Objectives....................................................................................................................................1
Research Questions......................................................................................................................1
Rationale or significance..............................................................................................................2
Project Management Plan............................................................................................................2
Breakdown structure and Gantt chart..........................................................................................2
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY.....................................................................................................2
DATA ANALYSIS..........................................................................................................................5
RECOMMENDATIONS...............................................................................................................11
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................12
REFLECTION...............................................................................................................................12
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................13

INTRODUCTION
TITLE
“How do multinational companies improve the recruitment, selection and training of
their employees to meet International requirements?”
Background
Globalisation is very popular concept and its significance has grown in recent years, it is
referred as the process where people, people and government are integrating at the global
platform (Atkin, Faber and Gonzalez-Navarro, 2018). There has been various reasons for the
process of globalisation which is mainly due increase in transportation, process of
communication and technology, these are the factors which has played an important role in the
process of globalisation. Globalisation has increased movement of people within the countries
which has provided a huge option for companies in order to select the appropriate staff to fill
their staffing needs.
Aim
To assess various improvements in, selection, recruitment and training process
followed by MNCs for their employees to meet international requirements- A case study on
Nestle.
Objectives
 To evaluate importance of recruitment, selection and training in MNC's.
 To analyse the international requirements for training and selection process within
MNC's.
 To assess the ways for improving training, recruitment and selection process in
globalised organisations
Research Questions
 What is the significance of recruitment, selection and training in MNC's?
 What are international requirements for training and selection process within MNC's?
 How training, recruitment methods and selection decisions can be enhanced in globalised
organisations?
Rationale or significance
With the increase in the process of globalisation, most of the companies have gone global
with the help of this research it will help in analysing the what are the improvements in the
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process of recruitment, selection as well as training that are implemented by the firms at global
level. This topic also proper understanding of importance these process for Mnc's which can help
MNC's to enhance their training, selection and recruitment process.
LITERATURE REVIEW
Theme 1: Importance of recruitment, selection and training in MNC's.
According to Dany and Torchy (2017) the process of hiring, selection and training plays
an important role for growth and success of multinational firm. There are various methods that
can be used by MNC. If, firm is recruiting domestic workers to office that are located abroad, it
helps to maintain culture of the organization. Chang and Chin (2018) suggested that when
multinational company recruit employees from local talent pool it helps the firm to connect with
customers in better way. Training and development of employees plays an important role in
developing new skills and abilities of workers. This will help to improve sales and profitability
of MNC.
Theme 2: International requirements for training and selection process.
According to Jouda, Ahmad and Dahleez (2016)while hiring employees for international
operations, Human Resource Manager must assess the competitiveness of the candidates while
hiring them. It is essential that human resource of Nestle should have the awareness of the
significance of the company. Knowledge and experience of performing business should be a
criteria while recruiting workers.
ΟΙΚΟΝΟΜΟΥ (2018) pointed out that, there are various methods of international recruitment
like ethnocentric, polycentric approach etc. There are various practises that MNC uses for
providing training to employees that helps to fulfil international requirements. Such as life long
learning etc. This will help to fulfil the requirements of training to employees of Nestle at
international level.
Theme 3: Ways to improve training, recruitment and selection process.
According to Dany and Torchy (2017)there are different ways that can be adapted by MNC to
improve the process of hiring, selecting and training employees. To improve hiring process,
Nestle should develop a committee that include department manager and other staff. It will help
to improve the process of selecting candidates for vacant job position.
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Barton, Tucker and Lough (2017) in their paper suggested that, there MNC should consider
different ways to improve training process for workers. Nestle should adopt flexible training
options like eLerning etc. Moreover, Manager should provide cross-department training to
employees. This will help to achieve individual as well goals of the company.
Project Management Plan
Project Management -
It includes the process of planning and organizing the resources of the firm to accomplish
a particular task or an event. It may e a continuous activity or one time project. It can be
described as initiating, executing, monitoring etc. of a team to achieve specific objectives in a
particular period (Larson and Gray, 2017).
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Task Name Duration Start Finish
Identify research
topic 7 days Thu 6/13/19 Fri 6/21/19
Review of Literature 12 days Mon
6/24/19 Tue 7/9/19
Drafting
Methodologies 9 days Wed
7/10/19 Mon 7/22/19
Complete Proposal 8 days Tue 7/23/19 Thu 8/1/19
Questionnaire
Desigining 10 days Fri 8/2/19 Thu 8/15/19
Data collection 15 days Fri 8/16/19 Thu 9/5/19
Analysis and
interpretation 12 days Fri 9/6/19 Mon 9/23/19
Discussion and
Conclusion 11 days Tue 9/24/19 Tue 10/8/19
Submission 3 days Wed
10/9/19 10/11/19
It is the approved document which helps in stating how a particular project is done and
controlled. Management plan for project of the researcher is as:
Cost: It is the important factor which is to be considered by the researcher and it should be
within the budget (Larson and Gray, 2017). For this research to complete it will approximately
£10,000.
Resources: It is important for researcher to allocate the proper resources to conduct research.
For present study resources required are internet, books and journals, human resources, etc.
Risk: One of the major risk which is associated with this study is risk of privacy breach and
ethical conduct and risk of plagiarism (Newton, 2016).
Time: it is the important factor for this research and it is essential for researcher to complete the
research on time. This report will complete in 87 days.
Communication: There should be an effective communication among the people involved in the
research, as it can help in achieving the aim of the research easily.
Scope: Present research has got huge scope it can be used at international levels by national and
international companies in order to improve recruitment, training and selection process.
Quality: To maintain the quality of this research, researcher should try to gather relevant and
authentic data (Turner, 2016).
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