People Culture Contemporary Leadership: Hungry Jacks

Running head: PEOPLE CULTURE CONTEMPORARY LEADERSHIP
People Culture Contemporary Leadership: Hungry Jacks
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Executive summary
The purpose of this assignment is to understand and analyze one of the popular
employers of Australia, in order to conduct the study the organisation that has been chosen is
Hungry Jack’s, which a popular fast food chain in Australia. The company has around 390
restaurants and has been operating for a long time. The company wants to expand the business
within the country and do not have any international presence. It operates under the American
fast food chain Burger King. Form the analysis it has been observed that the company has some
unique HR strategies which work positively as well as negatively for the company. The HR
practices of the organisation are all based on the welfare of the employees and envisioning the
future that they hold with the organisation. With the triple bottom line business model the
company showcases benchmarking strategies and activities to not only engage the employees but
also offer the society opportunities of well being and prosperity. One of the major findings of the
assignment is that the HR employee engagement practices are based upon the training and
development of the employees; this can be improved with some more fun elements to the
engagement plan.

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Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Company overview..........................................................................................................................3
Identification and discussion of the organisation’s HR strategy.....................................................5
Evaluation of the existing HR practices..........................................................................................6
Overview of the current state of employee engagement.................................................................7
Structured plan of initiatives............................................................................................................7
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................8
Reference list:..................................................................................................................................9

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Introduction
The Human resource department form one of the most important departments in an
organisation as it takes care of the people who are responsible of the daily operations of the
business. The role of the HR department in brief is to ensure the safety and health of the people
associated with the company, recruitment and maintaining a work friendly environment in the
organisation as well as deal with the issues and grievances of the employees of the company. It is
also one of the duties of the HR department to ensure that the people who are associated with the
company have a scope of career development as well. Therefore, broadly the role can be divided
in three sections: staffing, employee compensation and benefits, and defining/designing work.
In this assignment the organisation that is going to be analyzed is Hungry Jacks. The assignment
will address a company overview followed by the HR practices that are adopted by the company.
Company overview
Hungry Jack's is iconic in Australia, over the years of establishment the company has
been through a lot of changes in the management and corporate divisions but then established in
1971, the organisation is a wholly owned subsidiary of Burger King Australia
(Hungryjacks.com.au 2018). The owner of the organisation is Jack Cowin. Hungry Jack's owns
and operates or sub-licenses’ all of the Burger King as well as Hungry Jack's restaurants in
Australia. Burger King wanted to expand their operations in Australia and the company did it
with aligning the company with a local organisation (Hungryjacks.com.au 2018). There are
almost 390 stores in Australia; the focus of the company is in the quality of the product Hungry
Jacks has over 16,500 employees in the current status (Thehungryjacksway.com.au 2018). The
company is associated with several games and activities of the community which indicates that