Recruitment and Motivation Strategies of Shell Plc

Human Resources
Management

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK...............................................................................................................................................3
1. Recruitment Strategies............................................................................................................3
2. Motivation Strategies .............................................................................................................6
3. Suggestions:-...........................................................................................................................9
CONCLUSION .............................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11

INTRODUCTION
Organisations need people to smoothly run, control and monitor their businesses. To have
people organisations recruit individuals at mass level through various strategies. Recruitment
strategies are the plans adopted by the companies to attract, hire and onboard the talents in order
to operate their businesses (Boronat-Soler, 2018). This report consist of a company named Shell
plc, which is UK based company having diversified business in Oil and natural gas sector. It is a
public limited company listed on the London Stock Exchange. This report presents the
recruitment as well as motivation strategies adopted by the management in order to recruit
people to run their businesses. Further this report includes the advantages and disadvantages of
the strategies used by the management.
TASK
1. Recruitment Strategies
Recruitment and Selection is the process where the need for a job is identified. It defines
the requirements of the position and the employee. Advertising the vacancy and choosing the
most appropriate person for the job is the key objective of management. The company Shell plc,
recruit their employees using the below mentioned ways:-
 Students and Graduate Hiring:- Shell have designed a program mainly for the fresh
college students and graduates. This course is basically knowns as Shell Graduate
programme. This program is a long duration course of 2-5 years. Depending upon the
background of the candidate whether technical or non-technical, company provides
formal training which systematically exposes all the areas of the company. Before
entering into the programme, applicants have to go through an apptitude based test. This
test studies the mental and analytical skillset of every individual.
 Experienced Professional Hiring:- This recruitment process is for the ones who are
having minimum work experience in a particular domain or industry. Generally,
experienced ones are hired via posting the jobs at job search platforms and official
website. Training provided to the experienced ones is comparatively of short duration
than of students & graduates (Callaghan, 2018). Experienced employees usually work at
a steady pace and their work remains highly effective for the company.

 Technical and Non- Technical Hiring:- Other than the graduate programme,
individuals are directly hired on the basis of their qualifications, followed by the
recruitment processes (Cantele, 2018). Hiring can be both for the technical and non
technical backgrounds. Technical areas include the manufacturing units such as
production department, quality check, electric system, etc. On the other hand, non-
technical areas include purchase department, finance and accounts department, store
section, marketing and sales section, etc.
 Tender Basis:- Company also hire employees on the tender basis. This is basically done
in case of any pending project and that can be performed in shorter period of time. The
remuneration of these workers is done as per the provisions mentioned in the agreement.
 Outsource Employees:- Whenever company expand its plant or manufacturing units, it
outsource workers from another company or country. This is done when the company
feels that it lacks skilled employees which are required for the purpose of expansion. The
workers that are outsourced are mainly the experienced ones in their domains.
Advantages:-
 Bridges the gap between University & Work:- College academics mainly deals with
the theoretical portion. These theoretical concepts can only be used in the industry when
proper training is provided to the employees. The graduate programme of the company is
meant to serve the purpose of bridging the gap. The graduate programme offered by the
company Shell fills the gap between the college academics and work expertise.
Candidates are trained to gain expertise via exposing different areas of the company to
the employees. This turns beneficial as employees stays for a longer period and became
trust worthy as well (Chowdhury, 2020).
 Strong Business Model:- Graduate program works as a long term, successful and trained
career development scheme for the employees as well as company. Investing time in the
employees will help improve staff retention rates and the development for the company
as a whole.
 Multi-skilled & Adaptable:- Individuals which have earlier work experiences are more
multi skilled and adaptable compared to the freshers. Reason behind is they are more
prone to the corporate structure and working style. They feel less inferiority at workplace