Human Resource Plan for Ecological Wastewater Solutions Pty Ltd (EWS)

Organizational Behavior and People
Management

Table of Contents
1.0 INTRODUCTION................................................................................................................1
2.0 DEVELOPING A PROJECT HUMAN RESOURCE PLAN...................................................1
PART-A...........................................................................................................................................1
2.1 TEAM BUILDING COMPONENTS........................................................................................1
2.1.1 Drafting an organizational chart for the project team.........................................................1
2.1.2 Developing strategies for a recruitment plan......................................................................3
2.1.3 Preparing a team building plan...........................................................................................4
PART-B...........................................................................................................................................5
2.2 TEAM MANAGEMENT COMPONENT................................................................................5
2.2.1 Staff management plan.......................................................................................................5
2.2.2 Communication plan...........................................................................................................6
2.2.3 Assessment plan..................................................................................................................6
2.2.4 Improvement plan...............................................................................................................7
3.0 CONCLUSION..........................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9
List of Figures
Figure 1: Organizational chart for EWS company..........................................................................2

1.0 INTRODUCTION
Human Resource Management refers to the management of employees by using strategic
approaches to achieve competitive advantage (Rao, 2010; Harzing & Pinnington, 2010). Further,
also helps to maximize the employee’s performance and attain the organization’s objectives by
using effective leadership styles. In this context, the current report is based on Human resource
plan with respect to Ecological Wastewater Solutions Pty Ltd (EWS). The company offers the
eco-friendly wastewater management systems. Currently, the company has entered into Chinese
market through a joint venture with Chinese manufacturing organization for the expansion of a
business. Apart from this, the report has been completed on the basis of two aspects such as team
building and team management components for achieving the objectives related to sustainable
supply chain, legalities and changes internal organizational structure. Furthermore, different
types of plans involving recruitment, staffing, communication, assessment and improvement plan
etc. have been prepared for the achievement of the company’s objectives.
2.0 DEVELOPING A PROJECT HUMAN RESOURCE PLAN
PART-A
2.1 TEAM BUILDING COMPONENTS
According to case study, EWS is going to expand the business in China, for this purpose
the company will focus on the change in organization structure with support of sustainable
supply chain and involvement of legalities. In this context, EWS will build a team and prepare
the organizational chart, recruitment and team building plan as follows-
2.1.1 Drafting an organizational chart for the project team
Organizational structure has an important role in the expansion of business in remote as
well as local countries. According to the case study, for changing the organizational structure,
the manager of EWS company will implement the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and
technological systems in the organizational hierarchy so that successful expansion will take place
on a large scale. Moreover, dynamic structure, dependency on electronic devices, cultural
diversity will be helpful to enhance the trust among virtual teams. In this regard, all the team of
EWS will work on virtual basis and it will be possible through ERP system in management. On
the other hand, many organizations which are operating the business through outsourcing are
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using the relatively both unstructured and structural structure to manage the virtual teams
(Gibson & Gibbs, 2006).
To manage the virtual teams, the manager of EWS will change the structure in a
systematic manner by involving different departments such as human resource, accounting,
administration, marketing, finance. For the integration of teams and achievement of objective of
effective organizational structure, manager will assign different roles to each department in EWS
as follows-
Figure 1: Organizational chart for EWS company
(Source: Researcher’s own diagram)
 Role of Human Resource (HR) department- HR department of EWS company will be
responsible to frame strategic policies and frameworks to operate the business in China.
In this context, the HR manager will hire new skilled employees, suggest the policies for
employee benefits and also recommend the training and development strategies for the
employees etc. so that an effective ERP can be implemented in the organizational
structure and that would be helpful to maintain a sustainable supply chain in the
organization so that effective deliveries can easily take place from different locations.
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Management
Financial
Budgeting,
auditing, billing
etc.
Human Resource
Recruitment, tarining
& development,
policies, strategies
etc.
Marketing
Market research,
marketing
strategies,
Different
departments