Workforce Planning for NetApp: A Comprehensive Approach to Meeting Business Goals

BSBHRM513
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Table of Contents
Skills and Knowledge Activity..............................................................................................................3
Major Activity.......................................................................................................................................8
Workforce Plan..................................................................................................................................8
Questions.............................................................................................................................................11
References...........................................................................................................................................20
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Skills and Knowledge Activity
Choose an organisation.
The organisation that has been chosen by the author in order to outline the skills required in
the TESCO. TESCO is a leading retail manufacturer in the industry of UK and has diverse
business in various parts of the world such as USA, Australia etc. In this activity, the business
industry of Australia has been considered.
Outline the skill requirements of the organisation.
The skill requirements of the company have been stated below as follows:
 Communication: It is required that the employees of the company have effective
verbal as well as nonverbal communication skills. These skills can help them to
express themselves in a clear and efficient manner.
 Teamwork: It is also required by TESCO that the employees of the company have
effective team leading and managing skills. This helps in early and successful
completion of the tasks.
 Analysis and investigation: As the background of the company are technical in
nature, it is required that the workers of the company are able to effectively identify
and analyse the issues such that not only these issues can be solved but smooth
working can be ensured (Sanghi, 2016).
Outline the relevant industrial relations.
The industrial relations can be identified as the entitlements and obligations that are related to
work and are set between the employers and the employees of the company. In the business
industry of Australia, the industrial relations are governed by the Fair Work Act 2009 and the
Queensland Industrial relations Act 2016. These acts administer the work relations for public,
private as well as for the local government sector. The relations that are included in the Fair
Work Commission have been stated below as follows:
 Minimum wages
 Awards and agreements
 Industrial relation
 Dispute resolution (Regan & Lee, 2015)
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On the other hand, the relations that have been included in the Queensland Industrial
Relations have been stated below as follows:
 Ending employment
 Employee awards and entitlements
 Flexible working arrangements
 Anti-discrimination and equal opportunity
 Apart from this, various other relations such as public holidays, retail trading hours
etc. are also included in this (Watson, 2017).
Demonstrate forecasting techniques for your chosen organisation.
In order to forecast the labour demand in the company, it has been identified that TESCO
uses qualitative and quantitative techniques for the same which enables the company to
identify the requirements of labour in specific areas. Apart from these techniques various
other techniques that the company uses have been stated below as follows:
 Trend Analysis: In this technique, the historical data of staffing is analysed in order
to make the predictions of the future. This helps in creating a relationship between
past and future needs of staffing.
 Ratio Analysis: Ratio Analysis is the technique used by companies which have a
historical staffing data of less than 5 years. Here the elements called casual factors are
analysed in order to forecast future needs.
 Supply forecasting: Techniques of supply forecasting helps I identification of the
candidates that are competent and are effectively able to fill the demands of the
company. Here the charts are made which is inclusive of a hierarchical diagram which
is inclusive of the information in reference to employee performance, education and
identification of how ready an employee is to move upward in position (Sing et. al.,
2016).
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Put down on paper an outline of a 5-minute oral presentation on the above.
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