ASDA: Recruitment, Selection, and Induction Policies for Expansion

This project delves into the strategic and operational aspects of ASDA Stores Ltd, focusing on the development of recruitment, selection, and induction policies for new regional stores. It emphasizes the importance of analyzing existing strategic and operational plans to ensure alignment and effectiveness in the new locations. The project identifies relevant legislation and regulations, such as the Association Incorporation Act and the Act of Food and Regulation, highlighting their crucial role in policy formation. Furthermore, it examines existing ASDA policies that can be leveraged to meet staffing requirements and align with strategic management objectives. The project proposes new recruitment and selection policies, outlining necessary supporting documentation and procedures, and suggests modifications to existing policies to enhance their effectiveness. Finally, it underscores the significance of senior management support for new policies and explores how formal recruitment processes contribute to HR consistency across all ASDA stores. The document is available on Desklib, a platform offering study tools and solved assignments for students.

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1. Describe the organisation and its core business then explain how and why you would
analyse strategic and operational plans and policies before developing recruitment,
selection and induction policies and procedures for the new regional stores.
Answer – ASDA Stores Ltd is supermarket retailer at England. The organization sells all kind of
daily products that and goods that are necessary in daily life. The organization has their
headquarters located at Leeds of West Yorkshire. The company was founded in the year of 1949.
The company is owned by the Asquith family. The organization have their expansion in the
south of England as is merged with the Associated Dairies Company located at Yorkshire too.
The analysis of the strategic and operations plans are need before the development of
recruitment and selection policies. There is also a need to analyze the policies of the organization
and the induction procedures before the opening of new regional stores. It is done to understand
the flaws and the defects in the strategic plans and operations. The strategic and operation plan is
needed to be analyzed before the new recruitment process as it is necessary to make sure that the
new recruits are following and falling on the strategic plans that have been developed by the
organization before. Before developing the recruitment and selection process, the strategic plans
are also analyzed to understand that working, needs of the customers and the sales of the new
region. Depending on that, the recruitment process have to be set. The organization cannot be
taking activating the same strategic and operation plans in the new region as same as the old
region as the place and the people would be different. This is the reason why the organization
have to analyze the strategic plan before the development of the recruitment and selection
process and procedure.

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2. Make a list of the legislation and the regulations that are relevant to the policies and
procedures. Discuss why these laws and regulations are important to be included in the
policies
Answers – There are plenty of legislation and regulation that are relevant to be included in the
policies and procedures that could be included in the development of the recruitment and
selection process.
Legislation and regulations such –
a. Association Incorporation Act of 1991
b. The Act of Food and regulation 2001 and 2002
c. Taxation Act of 2003
d. Act of annual Leave 1973
e. Act of long service leave 1976
f. Safety and occupational health act 1989
g. Act of collections and charitable 2003
h. Young people and act of children 2008
i. Crimes Act of 1900
j. Act of service of disability 1991
k. Act of discrimination 1991
l. Act of Human rights and commission act 2005
These above mentioned acts are needed to be included in polices and procedure of the
recruitment process. These legislation and regulations are important as these act were meant to
be followed at the workplace. These regulations follows the laws that bounds people working in

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the organization to follow the laws. Polices and the procedure in the organization comes together
and form the roadmap that is needed for the operations that is conducted in ASDA day by day.
There regulations and legislation are helpful for ensuring the compliance needed to get along
with the laws that guide the system of the law enforcement. These laws and regulation included
in the policies are important also it provides the necessary guideline that is needed for ASDA in
the decision making regarding the welfare of the organization and the business operation of the
organization. The laws and the regulations are also important for providing the stream line that is
needed for the internal processes at ASDA.
3. Identify policies and procedures that already exist in the organisation which can be
used to ensure staffing requirements are met and can aid in meeting the requirements
identified from the strategic management policy.
Answer – There are policies and the regulations that was adopted previously by
ASDA are regarding the recruitment, selection and the induction process. The policies
regarding the recruitment process is made accordingly so that it is ensured that ASDA is
meeting all the regulation and the legislation regarding the functioning of proper recruitment.
It also follows that regulatory obligations that includes the policy of EEO in ASDA and the
policy of equal employment opportunities at the provision of well managed of operation at
ASDA. The policy also makes sure that the culture of excellence and the mix of workplace
and the profile of appropriate business is needed and the sustainability is maintained by the
new recruits.
The policy and the procedure related to the induction process states a very distinctive
regulation at ASDA. The policy of the ASDA regarding the induction makes sure that the

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new recruits or the new employees are greeted and make sure that they feel welcomed in the
organization. It also makes sure that the new employees feel safe in the workplace and are
also ready for the competently. The policy also ensures that the new employees are
introduced to the proper process of induction. The procedure that is followed by ASDA
during the induction process are basic and quite simple. The new employees are introduced
and then welcomed with tea. They are also provided a complementary tour of the workplace.
After the tour comes the OH&S evacuation and its procedure. The business overview is given
to the employees. Then they are introduced to the employees that are working before and are
introduced with their superiors and managers. After that, they are provided with a copy of the
Fair Work Statement Information and the process is ended with the equal employment
opportunity introduction.
4. Develop and list the supporting documentation or forms you will need to create new
policies for the regional stores around Australia, explaining the function of each. These
support documents and forms should be industry relevant. These will include a new
recruitment policy including procedures, a new selection policy including procedures,
an induction policy for the regional stores, a job application form
Answer – There are plenty of documents that are needed by ASDA for creating new
policies for the new regional store that would be opened. Documents such as the job profile
documentation, documents required for creating the hierarchal structure of ASDA, plan of
business staffing, documentation of the creation of a new system is also required. Other
documents such as devising a salary development structure that would help the new recruits
understand the pattern. Documents such as benefits and the compensation, the roster and the
off sheet and training and development plan is also required.

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New Recruitment Policy
ASDA always appoints employees that are highly decorated toward their job and are
ready to compete in the competition environment.
The position for which the current recruitment is done could be demonstrated as the
requirements that is needed for the performed position. The selection policy criteria is
demonstrated by the qualification shown by the recruits regarding the skills and knowledge
based and experiences.
Recruitment Procedure
The new recruitment procedure includes –
a. Identification of evaluation and new position created
b. Replacement of old staff is required
c. Vacancy is made for recruitment
d. Processes are made for new recruitment by providing the job description
e. A new plan of the recruitment is to be done
Selection procedure
The new selection procedure would be –

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a. The analysis of the recruitment of employees for number of days.
b. Advertisement is to be done for claiming the job profile
c. Selection process id verified and selected on the basis of the vacancy.
d. Generalized interviews are conducted.
5. Develop and or modify recruitment, selection and induction policies and procedures
and provide all supporting forms to enable the staffing strategies
Answer – The policies regarding the recruitment, selection and induction and their procedure at
ASDA have become common and needed to be modified. The policies of recruitment of ASDA
states that the appointment is done on the basis of performing and competitive process. The
policy should look forward and explain more regarding the scopes and benefits for being
recruited by ASDA. The recruitment procedure could also be changed or modified. Before
identification of new recruits, there should be an analysis of the need of position, Problems like
why it would be solved by new recruits only and not be old employees should be solved at first
before the recruitment. After only that, new recruitment plans are to be made.
The selection policy should be stating the scope and the perks of processes that are led by
ASDA. It should clearly mention about the criteria and the qualification but also should mention
about the acquired experience at the expense of minimum qualification also.
The selection process should be simple but effective. Processes were experience and
acquired knowledge is measured rather than the learned book experienced id analysed has to be
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provide the recruits with hypothetical crisis moment and have to know there experience or
answer at that moment.
The induction process should be modified and new process should be introduced which
would help them in understanding the job more perfectly. There also should be mandatory
training with the induction process that would help the new employees in getting familiar with
the new job.
The strategic plans are met with new procedures and policies that are made by ASDA.
The new and modified procedures would be helpful for ASDA as it would be enabling the
staffing strategies and making sure that the process is carried out as a part of the strategic
plan. It would also enable the plan to successfully meet the operational plans.
6. How will formal recruitment, selection and induction policies assist ASDA regional
stores in achieving its strategy of HR consistency across all the stores
Answer – The process of formal recruitment and selection of new candidates would be helpful
for ASDA is achieving success and also the regional store would be enabling ASDA in achieving
the strategy of HR consistency at all the stores of ASDA.
Recruitment is done by organizations to access more man power for their existing
business or new franchises or enabling and expanding the business. ASDA have been planning to
open a new regional store. Old employees would not be able to handle the new store as they are
trained with the strategic plan and customer handling techniques of their respective department
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enable ASDA in enacting a new strategic plan for operating in the new regional store. It would
also be helpful for ASDA in understanding the needs of the local customers better as the old
employees would have treated them as old customers. New recruits would be handling the new
customers as they would be trained by the new strategic and new training plan.
7. Why it is important that senior management and store managers support and endorse
the new polices. How will you convince them if they do not support them?
Answer – It is important for both the senior management of ASDA and the managers of the
stores of ASDA to support the new policies. It would be necessary as the new policies would be
changing the working and the concept that is followed by the management and the manager
earlier before enacting the new policies. It would be necessary of the management of ASDA to
support the new policies without the approval of the senior management of ASDA. After all the
new policies have to be followed by the managers and the senior management. This is the reason
why their support is needed for the approval and endorse of the new policies at ASDA.
The support of the apex management of ASDA and the support of the managers is needed for
enacting the new policies regarding the recruitment, selection and the induction process.
However, if they are not willing to agree to with the new policies, as being the new HR, it is the
utmost duty of the HR to make them understand the perks of the new policies and how these new
policies are different for the old ones in better way how it would be helpful for them in following
the strategic and operational plans.

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