Resource and Talent Planning : Assignment

Resource and Talent
Planning

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
PART 1............................................................................................................................................3
1. Overview of the organisation and types of labour requirements. ......................................3
2. Analyse the current labour market trend and factors that affect the trend.........................4
3. Legislation adopted by an organisation for workforce planning........................................4
4. Current skills required by an organisation..........................................................................5
5. Comparison.........................................................................................................................6
6. Conclusion and recommendation.......................................................................................6
PART 2 : Recruitment and Selection Documentation.....................................................................7
1. Developing a recruitment and selection process flowchart................................................7
2. Undertaking job analysis....................................................................................................8
3. Creating job descriptions for at least two different jobs.....................................................8
4. Producing a person specification for each of jobs..............................................................9
5. Reviewing and deciding on most appropriate methods of recruitment and selection to be
applied for different roles.....................................................................................................10
6. Recommendations on how to improve processes and documents....................................11
PART 3 : Human Resource Life cycle..........................................................................................11
1. Evaluate stages of HR life-cycle applied to specific HR contexts...................................11
2. Evaluation of integration of Stages of HR life-cycle within organizational HR strategy.12
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................13
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................14

INTRODUCTION
Resources and talent planning is an essential part of the management practices that help
to plan and manage the resources of an organisation. It basically include the activities like
forecasting the resources, building the network of adequate hiring channels, proper delivery of
resources as well as maintain the pool of future recruitment (Armstrong and Taylor, 2014). This
make sure that the organisation attract and retain the potential talent to gain the competitive
advantage over others. For the better understanding of report Morrison company has been
selected which has large network of supermarket that is spread all over the United Kingdom. The
company deals in items like clothing, books, food and beverages and so on. This report cover
topics like determine appropriated market trend that influences workforce planning. Analyses of
current as well as anticipated skill required to perform the different activities of business.
Further, produce appropriate documentation for effective recruitment and selection are covered
in this report.
PART 1
1. Overview of the organisation and types of labour requirements
Morrison is a leading supermarket in UK. It was founded by William Morrison in 1899.
This enterprise is started as an egg and butter stall in Rawson market which is located in
Bradford, England. Initially, the company opened their store in North England and also expanded
its business in different areas like South England, Scotland and Wales. Apart from this, in 2016
company formed partnership with Amazon to launch the same day delivery programme. The
main focus of this company is to train their workers in order to maintain best quality products
that help them in capturing larger market share and also sustain for long period of time.
Company has around 498 stores in over the world. Mainly, company serve various products like
food and drink, clothing, books, Magazines and many more to its customers for maximizing their
profitability level.
Types of labour requirements at Morrison
In Morrison, there are certain categories of labours that are required for the purpose of
accomplishing specific tasks of a company. These labours are elaborated as follows-
Skilled Labour- In a business entity, skilled and talent labour refers to the individuals
who are able to perform their job activities with more efficiency. Thus, it is crucial for company

to manage talent within the activities so that they can easily attain their set goals (Church and
Silzer, 2013). In context of Morrison, various skilled and talented workers are required for
managing its operational activities.
Unskilled labour- It is a type of requirement within the company who are employed for
fulfilling the transporting and lodging requirements within the company. These type of activities
are requires more energy to effectively performing these kind of job activities.
Physical labour- It is also a type of labour requirement in which they use their physical
exertion in order to completing the task. Along with this, they also physically strong. In this
regards, Morrison needs these type of labour for transporting, material handling, pulling and
many more task activities (Dessler, 2013).
Mental labour- In this organisation, mental labour is related to those workers who have
best mental knowledge and also abilities to handling or managing operations of the company in
effective manner.
All these type of labour requirements is important for company to running their business
at market place. As it support in improving overall performance of organisation at market place.
Legal formalities at Morrison
When employees are hired at Morrison, than they are hired by using various legal
formalities. These candidates must have their own identity and it must be made sure that they are
hired only after doing appropriate background check. It must be made sure that an individual
must not be involved in any kind of unwanted activity.
2. Analyse the current labour market trend and factors that affect the trend
For every business organization, it is important to analyse current labour market trends as
it related to changes in environment within a specified region. It directly affect the overall
performance of Morrison operational activities. In this regards, there are some trends that
influence Morrison are as follows:
Requirement of new and innovative skills: In digitalisation era, technology is one of the
crucial factor for business organisation. As company needs to employ workers who have
appropriate knowledge about how to handle and operate technology. In this regards, less skills in
workers may arise the negative influence at workplace due to which company products can
reduced. Thus, it is important for Morrison to resourcing more talent by adapting innovative