Recruitment & Selection of Woolworths: Policies, Practices and Recommendations

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Executive Summary –
Recruitment, selection and induction are the important elements for every organization
because it helps the organization in acquiring new talents and innovative skills within the
organization for continuous increment in their performance and productivity. Woolworths
also use effective process for recruiting new employees in their organization. They use
various policies related to recruitment process such as equal employment opportunity act,
privacy act, merit based selection, treat equally to every candidates who want to apply job in
their organization. There are various legislation and regulations related to recruitment and
selection in Australia such as public services act 1999, privacy act, anti- discrimination act,
equal employment opportunity act and fair work act 2009. So, the above acts related to
recruitment process have to be followed by every organization while acquiring new
employees within the organization. Woolworths also use various practices related to
recruitment and selection such as advertising, proper job description of vacant position in the
organization, adoption of proper selection process and implementing various training
programs for increasing the knowledge and performance of the company. Company should
focus on the controlling the cost for the incentives, attractive policy related to recruitment and
training programs such as conducting regular meeting and face to face communication
sessions with their employees. Company can implement the above recommendation by
effective communication strategy, effective channel and proper process has to be followed for
implementing new procedures in the organization.

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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................3
Recruitment, Selection and induction policy for Woolworths –................................................3
Recruitment, selection and induction practices at Woolworths –..............................................5
Conclusion & Recommendation –.............................................................................................6
Implementation of the above recommendations –.....................................................................7
References –.............................................................................................................................10
Appendixes –............................................................................................................................12
Appendix 1...........................................................................................................................12
Appendix 2...........................................................................................................................12
Appendix 3...........................................................................................................................14

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Introduction
Woolworths is an Australian company which is engaged in retailing and the Australia’s
second largest company due to higher revenue and incorporated in 1924 in Sydney. Company
has many products such as food, general merchandise, liquor, home improvement, petrol and
hotels (About US, 2019). These include Australia food segment and New Zealand food
segment. There are more than 2015000 employees within the organization and more than
3000 stores in New Zealand as well as Australia. Its competitors are Avenue, The Best
Things and ASMC Industrial. They work directly with the Australian farmers and cultivators,
so that they can supply best products to their customers (Keith, 2012). Woolworths follow
hierarchical structure in their organization where director controls all the managers of all
departments within the organization and they set their organizational structure as per the
needs and requirements of their employees as well as their customers and for achieving the
overall goals of the organization. They follow bureaucratic system in their organization, it
means rules and regulation for management of the organization has to be follow strictly
within the organization. Main goal of Woolworths is to customers prefer them than its
competitors. So, for achieving the above goal, company has various strategies such as
adoption of E2E processes, which help the company in delivering better services to their
customers, try to create differentiation in their products and services than its competitors,
innovation and technologies & connected and convenient and personalised shopping
experiences for their customers (Strategy and objectives, 2019). Changes in the organization
are an essential tool which is managed by the change management of the organization and it
helps the organization in growing continuously in long run and in achieving organizational
objectives. There are various changes which are implemented by the company such as
implementing various training programs, innovative strategies and structure of the
organization (Weichhart, et al, 2016). The report consists of recruitment, selection and
induction policies and practices of Woolworths and recommendations for improving
recruitment and selection procedure for the company.
Recruitment, Selection and induction policy for Woolworths –
Recruitment, selection and induction are important elements for every organization which are
managed by the human resource management of the organization because organization
requires new talent and skills as a new employee in their organization in the dynamic
changing environment (Adams, 2019). HR manager of Woolworths also use recruitment and