Developing Holistic Strategies for Age Neutral Hiring in Marks and Spencer

Holistic strategy

Contents
INTRODUCTION.................................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY........................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION.....................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES......................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
It is important for organisation to develop holistic strategy as this will help in gaining
competitive advantage over other rival companies (Chen, Chi and Fu, 2014). This report is
based on Marks and Spencer company and this organisation is considering age neutral hiring
process in its organisation. This report will includes different strategies that is used by
company. In this training program is developed for different employees.
MAIN BODY
Marks and Spencer operate their functioning as a British multinational retailer with
having headquartered in London, United Kingdom. Company offer wide range of product and
services to customers all around the world. For this there are different type of departments
globally that involve number of employees who dedicatedly perform their activities and
operations in order to maximise overall production level of entity with an aim to increase
overall profitability of organisation. In order to manage them there is a re-designing of
company policy which is being undertaken by organisation. It has been evaluated that
workforce structure of company include employees of younger workers, middle age workers,
older workers employees who deals with issues like young workers may have children,
middle workers may deal with issues of aging parents and children’s in colleges while old
age workers many time off to deal with their health issues (Felix, Rauschnabel and Hinsch,
2017). For this it is essential to take advantage of different training and knowledge
management program in order to restructure, project based work, phased retirement, less fast-
paced work or flexible schedules. In this age neutrality is also one of the most important
factors through which company can effectively able to ensure their workplace efficiency in a
well define manner. In context with this, strategy and policy is being defined below that will
include succession plan for knowledge transfer from older worker to younger worker and age
neutral hiring:
Offer mentorship opportunities
With the help of this Marks & Spencer can effectively aid succession planning. In this
company can provide effective mentorship program in which older employees of entity can
mentor younger employees. With the help of this type of interaction company can effectively
able to prepare younger workers to take responsibility as already established workers may be
near to retirement. Along with this in order to save cost on training, formal mentorship