Evaluation of HRM Practices in Nestle

Resource Management
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INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
PROJECT 1.....................................................................................................................................1
1. Overview of business including mission, purpose and core business objectives....................1
2. Explanation of purpose and key roles and responsibilities of HR function and the
contribution of these acquirement of talented and skilful candidates to meet business
objectives.....................................................................................................................................2
3. Assessment of the strength and weakness of organisational approach to recruitment and
selection along with suggestion of alternative approaches..........................................................3
4. Evaluation of the approach to HRM practices in consideration to the benefits of same
towards employer and employee and ascertaining their effectiveness in terms of raising profit
and productivity...........................................................................................................................5
5. Evaluation of the concept of employee relation and application of HRM practices that
inform & influence decision making in this organisational context............................................6
6. Evaluation of employment legislation and their application over organisational functioning 7
PROJECT 2.....................................................................................................................................7
1. Designing of a job specification for specific vacancy.............................................................7
2. Sample CV in relation to the requirements given in advertisement........................................8
3. Process to select most suitable candidate................................................................................9
4. Contribution above mentioned selection process in diction making within an organisation. .9
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10
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INTRODUCTION
Human resource activities are referring as those that will be performed within an
organisation for the purpose of workforce planning and building stable structure where functions
performed in most stable manner. The main authority to handle these activities is lies in the hand
of HR manager. There are number of functions performed by such manager includes recruitment
& selection, training & development, performance appraisal, workforce planning etc. The
organisation selected for completing this report is Nestle. It is multinational organisation and
provides its products and services in all over the world. This organisation has main business
activities in food and drinking sector (Amberg and McGaughey, 2019).
This report has two different projects named as 1 and 2. The aspects cover in project 1
includes purpose & key roles and responsibilities of HR function, strengths and weaknesses to
the approach of recruitment & selection, evaluation of HRM practices along with their benefits
to both employer & employee, effectiveness of same practises in determination of contribution
towards raising profit & productivity, concept of employee relation and evaluation of
employment legislations. The points covered in Project 2 includes designing of job specification
over specific vacancy, formulation of same CV on the basis of requirement given in
advertisement, explaining process that will help to select suitable candidate and contribution of
this process in decision making within an organisation.
PROJECT 1
1. Overview of business including mission, purpose and core business objectives
Nestle is multinational organisational and having business operations in food and drink
sector. It provides all different products and services in all over the world. It was founded in year
1866. The headquarter of this organisation is situated in Vevey, Vaud, Switzerland. He main
products in which this company deals includes baby food, coffee, dairy products, breakfast
cereals, confectionery, ice cream, bottled water etc.
The main mission of Nestle followed by management in providence of their functions is Good
Food, Good Life to provide best taste to consumers along with selection from the most
nutritional choices in diversified range of food and beverage categories (Brunstein and et. al.,
2016).
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The purpose for which Nestle is operating business activities in society includes enhancing the
quality of life and contributing to the healthier future of consumers and society. Behind this the
main aim is to provide help at worldwide in shaping a better or healthier society. Also, focus is
provided over inspiring of people towards living of healthy life. All this depicts the strategy of an
organisation towards contributing the society in case of ascertaining long term success of an
organisation market (Cascio, 2015).
The main core objectives of an organisation which are considered while operating business
functions includes;
 To establish organisation as world’s largest and best food manufacturer.
 To ensure the production of highest quality products
 To attain the position of leader in nutrition health and wellness
 To attain competitive edge in market with the aid of innovative functioning’s
2. Explanation of purpose and key roles and responsibilities of HR function and the contribution
of these acquirement of talented and skilful candidates to meet business objectives
Nestle is multinational organisation. It is must for them to ensure effective practices within
an organisation related to every aspect as per the need occurs in market. In this direction, change
is also required in the functioning of HR department for better performance in future.
The main work of HR department within an organisation is to plan about workforce in
accordance to the needs and deploy the approaches that will aid to provide support in completion
of organisational objectives. The main importance of HR department is to ensure effective
culture of working within an organisation along with presence of right amount of human capital
(Chukwuka, 2015). The different number of functions performed by HR department within
Nestle is defined blow along with their purpose, roles and responsibilities and ability to acquire
talented and skilful candidates;
Recruitment and selection: This is the main function of HR department where they
scrutinise candidates on the basis of job requirements and select the most suitable one. The main
purpose of this function is to have adequate amount of labour to perform work. The main role of
this function is to appoint candidate adequate for particular job on the basis of qualification and
work requirements. This aid in acquiring talented candidate through adhering the process of
scrutiny in recruitment and interview in selection.
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