Challenges in Employee Attraction and Retention in Retail Industry

Running head: HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
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1HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
The management of the human resources within the organization refers to the strategic
approaches that are implemented in order to manage the activities of the various workers who
have been serving at the various hierarchical levels within the organization. The proper
management of the human resources within the organization might help in the matters related to
the overall management of the organizational performance as well as the improvement of the
competitive advantage within the given industry (Kramar et al., 2011). The department of human
resource is employed within the organization in order to assist in the maximization of the
employee performance within the company. The department is also known to implement the
conditions that are helpful in the matters that are related to serving the various strategic
objectives that are set by the concerned employer of the organization. The employers generally
face major challenges in the matters that are related to the attraction of the proper potential
employees towards the concerned organization. The employers as well as the management of the
concerned organization face further challenges in the matters that are related to the management
and the retention of the employees of the organization.
The following essay aims to discuss the various challenges that are faced by the
companies that have been operating in the retail sector. The following essay opens with the
discussion of the various challenges that are faced by the retail industry in the matters related to
the attraction of the employees towards the industry and then proceeds with the discussion on the
retention of the employees within the industry. The essay further proceeds to put forth certain
recommendations that might help in solving the various issues that are faced by the concerned
business organization.
Issues in employee attraction

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The attraction of the employees within the workforce of the organization refer to the
implementation of the various strategies that are needed in the allocation of the various potential
employees within the organization (Kramar et al., 2011). This also helps in upholding the
concerned business organization to be a potential place of work for the concerned employees of
the organization. The attraction of the employees to the concerned organization might help in the
matters that have been pertaining to the improvement of the organizational performance. The
major element that is affects that organizational performance is the issue of attraction of the
potential and related employees to the concerned organization and the industry.
The concerned employees of the organization serving in the human resources department
consider the attraction to be a major challenge. The employee attraction might face several issues
like the improper advertisement regarding the job vacancy (Terera & Ngirande, 2014). This leads
to the confusion among the potential employees of the organization. This in turn might lead to
the decrease in the number of employees who might have served the organization in a beneficial
manner. The concerned organization might also face challenges due to the unavailability of the
required talent in the given market (Idris, 2014). This might lead to the conditions of
unemployment in the given society as well as the concerned organization. the employee
attraction within the given industry remains a challenge to the department of the human
resources due to their inability to locate the talent that is required and is the most suitable for the
concerned business organization in discussion (Anitha, 2016). The multitude of business
organizations tend to recruit the talent from the pool of talent within the territorial boundaries
wherein the concerned organizations have been operating. This might lead to the conditions
wherein the cost of the recruitment of the concerned company might face a huge increase.

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The concerned industry might further face problems in the recruitment of the concerned
employees due to the changes faced by the economy of the country. The high cost of living
within the given area might also lead to the difficulty in the attraction of the employees of the
organization (Bode, Singh & Rogan, 2015). The concerned organization might fail to attract the
potential employees of the organization due to various reasons inclusive of the remunerations
that are extended to the concerned employees of the organization (Ahammad et al., 2016). The
competitor organizations that have been operative in the similar market tend to compete on the
various factors like the matters that are related to the implementation of the proper remuneration
to the concerned employees of the organization.
The other barriers to the attraction of the potential members of the workforce of an
organization refer to the matters that are related to the various legal matters within the given
political territories wherein the given organization has been functional. These political factors
might include the matters pertaining to the laws of the land regarding the immigration of the
concerned employees from the foreign lands to the concerned country (Al-Emadi, Schwabenland
& Wei, 2015). These laws might at times be influential in the matters that are related to
employment of the various residents of the country who have been belonging to the other
nationalities (Prokopowicz & Żmuda, 2015). Thus, the attraction of the employees of an
organization might be influenced by the various socio-political factors that are active within the
given organization in discussion.
These might include the various factors like the various immigration laws within the
country. This might lead to the conditions wherein the concerned employees of the organization
might be difficult to attract due to the implementation of the various strategies within the given
organization (Choi & Chung, 2017). These recruitment strategies within the given organization