Developing Human Resource Report 2022

Running head: DEVELOPING HUMAN RESOURCES
DEVELOPING HUMAN RESOURCES
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Executive Summary
This report focuses on the need analysis for Woolsworth to gain competitive advantage in the
global market. It determines the importance of need analysis, the company recognised the
need for training the employees and increase effective performance management system. The
performance management of the organisation helps to increase the proficiency in enhancing
the skills and understand the job role to provide accurate result. The need for training that is
identified from need analysis is a prior topic that is addressed in the report for addressing all
the issues of employees and managers to handle the employees effectively. The purpose of
the report is to analyse the need analysis that can eradicate the issues of Woolsworth. This
can help the company to enhance the operations in performance and career of employees for
high productivity approach.

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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................3
Objective of the HRD plan.........................................................................................................3
Resources and Costs...................................................................................................................5
Program Schedule/ Agenda........................................................................................................6
Career growth Cycle:................................................................................................................7
Models and Theory of performance management system.........................................................8
Participant Assessment for performance management..............................................................9
Responsibilities of HRD plan...................................................................................................10
Conclusion................................................................................................................................15
References................................................................................................................................16

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Introduction
The report focuses on need analysis of Woolsworth. Woolsworth is a supermarket or a
grocery store chain in Australia. The need analysis design helps the organisation to analyse
the need of the organisation, on the basis of training the employees for effective performance.
The performance management and career development approaches can be achieved
effectively when the organisation develops a human resource development plan to address
these two approaches (Ahmed 2016). The HRD plan helps to develop the performance and
enhances career growth. The purpose of this report is to develop an effective and efficient
HRD plan that can help Woolsworth to achieve competitive advantage by improving
performance management system and career development approach through various training
programs. Woolsworth and Coles are now a duopoly in the Australian market of about 80%
(Anitha 2014). The Woolsworth is now trying to expand its business so need analysis of this
organisation can help to analyse which need is to be addressed for leading in the Australian
market. The human resource plan of Woolsworth will help in gaining a systematic
enhancement of human resource efficiency and improvement in performance (Armstrong
2014). This will also ensure all the financial optimization and feasibility criteria. The most
important aspect of human resource department is its assets, they are the people working in
Woolsworth. So there is always a need to analyse their performance and train them for
improving their efficiency. The employee’s ability and competency is determined and issues
related to them is solved through HRD plan (Bednall 2014). The aim of HRD plan is to
increase the productivity and profitability of the organisation.
Objective of the HRD plan
 To ensure the performance of the employees is up to the mark for gaining
competitive advantage.

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 To determine the competency level and improve the efficiency of employees.
 To ensure the HRD plan will solve the issues of management with regard to
managing the employee performance and enhance their career development
approach.
 To minimize the cost to the company by increasing the efficiency of employees and
all other financial operations.
Need analysis design
The main purpose of need analysis is to provide satisfaction to the people
working in the organisation. As the need analysis focuses on the needs of human
resource.
These are the following steps that employer must follow for conducting need analysis-
Step1: Determine the desired business outcome
Step2: Relate both employee behaviour with business outcome
Step3: To identify training programs for competency
Step4: To evaluate competency level
Step5: To determine performance gaps
Step6: To prioritize training needs
Step7: To analyse the training mechanism
Step8: To conduct cost benefit analysis of the company
Step9: Planning for training evaluation
The Human Resource Development Plan is the key aspect for increasing the
performance of the employees by effective training and development program. Human