Challenges Faced by HR in Westonwich District Council

Westonwich District
Council

INTRODUCTION
Westonwich District Council or WDC is an organisation that serves local people residing
in rural areas with governmental services. They work for people residing in small towns and
villages of England. The organisation is purely focused on providing governmental services,
some of them are like collecting taxes, planning for infrastructural development, promoting
tourism and etc. The council even acts as tourist attraction and attracts a large number of
population, it is managed by an approx of 250 people who organises the process in a well
manner. To manage organisation, there is a team of HR that looks to management(Arnáez and et.
al., 2016). It even faces several challenges like all other bodies for instance regarding
reattainment of employees, their satisfaction, their pay, management issues, work related
conflicts, job security and others.
The report underneath is focused on challenges and hurdles that HR and team faces in an
organisation, particularly in context to Westonwich District Council, taking into light cost, pay
and benefits, job satisfaction, management of workforce by council and others. The confidential
survey was conducted in an organisation by administrator in which 81% of employees
participated which gave light on key issues faced by employees. It is also discussed as to how
such key contemporary issues and areas of concern can be addressed and rectified in
international and domestic organisations and what would be the ethical practices adopted by
human resource manager to work in that direction.
The HR team of Westonwich District Council is a small team with a group of four people
consisting of manager, an administrator and two officers who manages and deals with issues.
There are several issues faced by team which showed their areas of lacking like not recruiting
vacant places of employees at a priority.
AREAS OF CONCERN
From the survey conducted key challenges that can be seen are categorised as:
Theme 1 Operational Issues
Several employees face an issue coming early for work in morning due to distance and
transportation issues(Bhuvaneswari and Rajasekar, 2017). Facing this some of them are satisfied
and enjoy rewards that they get on better completion and execution of any work assigned top