Human Resources and Talent Planning: Present Trends and Legal Requirements

Resource and Talent
Planning

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
P1. Evaluate present workforce trends which influence workforce planning and talent
management ...........................................................................................................................3
P2. Various legal arrangements on company which consider workforce planning ..............5
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................6
P3. Present worker market trends and legal requirements which include anticipated skills with
an organisation .......................................................................................................................6
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................8
P4. Illustration of job description and individual specification .............................................8
P5. Various applications of recruitment and selection ........................................................10
TASK 4..........................................................................................................................................11
P7. Examine the stages of HR life-cycle within organization .............................................11
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................14
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INTRODUCTION
Talent planning and Resource is considered as one of most important and critical
functions within which there is an involvement of coordination from business and recruitment
team in different aspects such as, selecting proper channel of networking, forecast of required
resources, maintaining of skilled individual for future recruitment and delivery of schedule
resources (Armstrong and Taylor, 2014). In simple terms, it is a process in which organisation
attracts and identify talents from large base of market those who aid organisation to gain more
competitive advantages. Present report has been conducted on Argos Ltd. Argos operate their
functions in retailing sector with having headquartered in Buckinghamshire, England. In this
report formative discussion has been made on diverse form of legal requirement within
workforce planning. Further this report includes different methods and process of selection as
well as recruitment. Lastly, HR life cycle is also included in this report along with Human
Resource strategy.
TASK 1
P1. Evaluate present workforce trends which influence workforce planning and talent
management
HRM is defines as an essential role in business administration which is engaged in
performing various functions and framing effective policies & plans for individuals. By framing
strategies and planning, HR department aim towards combining organisational culture,
synchronizing different functions of organisation. Along with this, Human resource department
also helps in resolving issues, conflicts and focuses on maintaining happy & healthy working
conditions within office premise for achieving organisation mission, goals and vision. In context
with Argos company, top level management can adopt latest and current market trends and
strategies that helps HR management to increase and enhance knowledge and skills of their
employees in order to develop productivity and performance of workforce.
Henceforth, labour plan is a vital and systematic business activity which implements
changes in strategies in order to modified working environment. This aid will help management
of Argos company in providing more stable way for understand different industrial disputes and

challenges for adopting long term changes with purpose gaining more competitive advantage and
sustainability in market.
Overview of the organisation:
Argos conduct their operation in retailing sector and was founded in the year 1972.
Company operate their functioning with having more than 29,768 employees and offer consumer
goods. It has been identified that organisation offer qualitative goods and services in order to
effectively increase profitability and productivity.
Types of labour
Semi-skilled labour:
Workers within this category posses best effective form of mechanical abilities and skills
in order to operate machinery.
Skilled Labour:
It include labour like Typist, Dishwasher, toolmaker, carpenter and etc.
Unskilled Labour:
Unskilled labour include individual those who perform their work mainly with their
hands. They mainly lacks in training and skills that are required for tasks.
Such current labour trends are disused below:
Ageing Populations: Many countries has observer that population is increasing day by
day. The UK, Germany, US and Japan has predicted to hire thin labour workforce in next 15
years due to employees fast ageing population. Thus, it can pose a recruitment problem that can
occur in future. Although, pool of individual with skilled and talented worker which belongs to
developed countries which have been hired. Furthermore, some of country will encourage and
support their citizen and labour force.
Industry: Today, fourth industrial revolution has lots of job and most of jobs are rapidly
increasing day by day and job are being computerized. Just an example market, there is drastic
reduction in numbers of store sales. However, they are being replaced by streaming and moving
services. This means that, supplying channel id changed where demand of consumer is not
reducing. Thus, its a method of supplying of goods and services, which is modified and
upgraded. Thus, staff numbers of stores will also decrease but corresponding, there is rapidly
increase in demand of people for streaming companies.