People Resourcing and Development in Biscuit Manufacturing Post-Brexit

This report examines the national training infrastructure and competitive advantage within the UK biscuit manufacturing industry, comparing people resourcing and development strategies with those in the Netherlands. It considers the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and Brexit on people resourcing and development practices, highlighting key changes such as remote training, remote hiring challenges, technology implementation for communication, and machine maintenance issues. Furthermore, it explores strategies for UK biscuit manufacturing companies to enhance their employer brand in the post-Brexit marketplace, including attractive employee packages, innovative job advertising, and focusing on skilled engineers and technicians. The report concludes that COVID-19 and Brexit have significantly influenced the performance of biscuit manufacturing companies, necessitating effective strategies to navigate these challenges and maintain competitiveness.

National training infrastructure and
Competitive advantage in Biscuit
Manufacturing

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK...............................................................................................................................................3
What are people resourcing and development strategies used in biscuit manufacturing
companies in the UK compared to those of The Netherlands?..............................................3
Considering the external context of the current Covid-19 pandemic, what are the key changes
likely to impact the people resourcing and development practices for biscuit manufacturing
companies in the UK?............................................................................................................4
What people resourcing and development activities can UK biscuit manufacturing companies
use to increase their employee brand in the post-Brexit marketplace?..................................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
The project is based on National training infrastructure and Competitive advantage in
Biscuit manufacturing company in which the case study is given to understand the role of
national training infrastructure and government policy in determining company practice. It
covers people resourcing and development strategies which are used in biscuit manufacturing
companies in UK as compared to Netherlands, the external context of the current Covid-19
pandemic and the key changes which are likely to impact the people resourcing and development
practices for biscuit manufacturing companies in the UK and people resourcing and development
activities can UK biscuit manufacturing companies use to increase their employee brand in the
post-Brexit marketplace are determined (Stojceska, 2017). The case study is all about the biscuit
manufacturing company in which they have do inter-country comparison in four European
companies such as UK, Netherlands, Germany and France. The manufacturing systems were
systematically compared on the basis of various factors such as technology, productivity levels
and workforce skills.
TASK
What are people resourcing and development strategies used in biscuit manufacturing companies
in the UK compared to those of The Netherlands?
Resourcing and development is an important concept which is used by the organisation so
that they can obtain and retain the people, there needs in a very efficient and effective way. The
main objective of using this strategy is acquiring the most talented workforce according to the
needs of the organisation (Rahman and et. al., 2020). The employees which are retained in this
possess appropriate qualities, knowledge, capabilities so that they can train them for future
uncertainty. By using the strategy of resourcing and development companies gain competitive
advantage as they employ those people which possess more capability than the rivalry. They also
provide better career development options for them (Sethi and Bafna, 2018). The resourcing
strategy has three components which are financial strategy, workforce strategy and assets
management strategy. There are two types through which people resourcing and development
can be done. These are internal resourcing and external resourcing.
A good resourcing and development strategy of employee are determined by:
 Determining the accurate number of people according to the business need.

 Business strategy helps in achieving and supporting the skills and behaviour of the
people.
 The impact of organisational restructuring as a result of decentralisation, delayering,
mergers, product or market development, or the introduction of new technology.
The people resourcing and development strategy that are adopted by the UK biscuit
manufactured in comparison of Netherlands are:
Planned workforce strategy plan: The UK biscuit manufacturing adopt the strategy of
planned workforce where they first identify the vacancy and then identify what kind of vacancy
is there, the need of the people, the correct number which are required for manufacturing the
biscuit, the skills and the source where they can get them (Gulland, 2017). A key part of the
workforce planned is to have a detailed view to get succession.
Right place for Advertising: the biscuit manufacturing of the UK adopts one strategy
that is advertising the roles in the right place which is not adopted by the Netherlands
manufacturer. They acquire the marketing people which analyze all the channels of marketing
then they adopt the best one and then place their vacancy role in the ad so that they can have the
best employee for their organisation. Before hiring the marketing manager they also critically
analyze the right people who will be a good fit for them.
Robust selection strategy: The UK manufacturer builds a very tough selection process for
the candidate so that they can reflect the employee potential. They implement the effective test
skills for the candidate so that they can reflect if the person can do the specific role or not. They
not only rely on the interview method instead of that they build the recruitment assessment
process. In which they take the aptitude test, telephonic test etc. so that human capabilities can be
seen. This selection process is not applied by the Netherlands biscuit manufacturer where they
only believe in the interview round (Davidson, 2018).
Considering the external context of the current Covid-19 pandemic, what are the key changes
likely to impact the people resourcing and development practices for biscuit manufacturing
companies in the UK?
COVID 19 has created a great impact on the performance and profitability of business. The
government of UK has imposed lockdown due to which the businesses get shuts and also the
earning source of business also gets low. Companies and industries were temporary closed due to
the spread of disease. The pandemic has created a negative impact on the performance and

growth of business due to which organisations are not able to survive in competitive
environment. Covid 19 has changed the way of working of companies they have to adopt digital
technologies in order to run their business in effective and efficient manner. The government has
also imposed various laws and policies which must be followed by manufacturing company in
order to stay away from any legal conflicts and disputes. Biscuit manufacturing companies in
UK also faced severe loss from the spread of disease (Hassan Khattak, Oates and Greenough,
2018). There profitability and productivity get influenced by the pandemic due to which they
have to create strong strategies that helps in dealing or coping up the impact of disease. The
pandemic has brings various changes due to which company can run their business. The key
changes that are likely to impact the people resourcing and development practices for biscuit
manufacturing companies in UK are:
 They have to provide training and development opportunity to their staff due to which
they can give productive outcomes while working remotely. It is important for biscuit
manufacturing company to provide effective training programs to their staff so that they
can learn something new and develop their skills remotely. Through training sessions,
managers can also boost the morale and motivation level of employees due to which they
give better results to company.
 Biscuit manufacturing company in UK have to focus on hiring their staff remotely by
scheduling interview through video conferring or any other mode. They have to recruit
the highly skilled and specialized employee for their biscuit manufacturing by identifying
their skills and knowledge remotely. It is important for company to hire right talent by
identifying their qualification and knowledge so that they can give their better outcomes
in achieving the goals and objectives of company. It becomes difficult for biscuit
manufacturing company to hire the employee via online mechanism as they cannot
analyze and judge the candidate through video conferencing. In UK, the biscuit
manufacturing company mainly have highly skilled engineers workforce.
 The biscuit manufacturing company also focus on implementing the right technology in
pandemic that can help in communicating and interacting with employees in smooth and
effective manner. It is essential for company to implement the effective technology that
reduces the gap between employees and managers and also helps in running business in
effective and efficient way (Konstantas, Stamford and Azapagic, 2019).

 The technology must fulfil the need and requirements of employees and employers. In the
tough time of pandemic, it becomes difficult for company to interact with their staff and
solve their doubts quickly. Thus, the technology must helps in solving the queries and
issues of employees quickly.
 The other problem which is faced by Biscuit manufacturing company is maintaining
machines and equipments. It is necessary for biscuit manufacturing companies to
maintain the machines and equipments of manufacturing the biscuits so that after
lockdown they can run the business in smooth manner without buying any new machines.
As government imposed lockdown, it becomes complicated for the organisation to
maintain the machine and equipments of manufacturing process.
 The way of working of biscuit manufacturing company also changes as they have to
provide remote working facility to their engineers and workforce in order to maintain
social distancing and preventing employees from the spread of disease (Parasar and
Bhavani, 2018). Due to government regulations, biscuit manufacturing company have to
shut their business and focus on working remotely.
What people resourcing and development activities can UK biscuit manufacturing companies use
to increase their employee brand in the post-Brexit marketplace?
Brexit is a situation which has influences the performance and productivity of business due
to the separation of United Kingdom with European Union. The biscuit manufacturing company
get affected by Brexit due ti the potential economic impacts and workforce issues. In order to run
the business in effective and smooth manner, it is essential for biscuit, manufacturing companies
to attract and retain workforce so that they can contribute their productive outcomes in post
Brexit marketplace (Moore and Fielding, 2019). There are various resourcing and development
activities which can be use by biscuit manufacturing companies in order to increase the
employee branding in post Brexit marketplace.
 UK biscuit manufacturing company must focus on creating an attractive package for their
employees so that they can attract more and more candidates towards the brand. The
attractive package must include various benefits that fulfil the need and requirements of
employee. Biscuit manufacturing companies in UK can increase their employee branding
by using attractive packages that satisfies their wants and desires (Liddle and Shutt,
2019).

 Diversity and add innovation to job advertising is another way through which UK biscuit
manufacturing companies can increase their employee branding in post Brexit
marketplace. Through adding innovation in job advertising helps in attracting more and
more qualified candidates and also the job advertisement reaches to maximum number of
audience (Erken and et, al., 2018).
 In order to increase the employee branding of UK biscuit manufacturing company, it is
important to hire skilled engineers and technicians so that they can contribute their best
efforts in making business successful in post Brexit marketplace.
 The other resourcing and development activities which can be used by UK biscuit
manufacturing companies to increase their employee brand in the post Brexit marketplace
is developing effective strategies that helps in prompting their employer brand (Meyer,
Prescott and Sheng, 2021). It is important for biscuit manufacturing company to focus on
prompting their business due to which they can attract highly skilled workforce and
remain competitive in marketplace after Brexit.
CONCLUSION
It is being concluded from the above information that COVID 19 and Brexit have created
a great influence on the growth and performance of Biscuit manufacturing company. It has
brought some negative as well as positive impact. It is important for biscuit manufacturing
company to focus on building the effective strategies that helps in dealing with the impact of
negative situation and also make business profitable at the tough time of crisis. In order to
overcome the impact of Brexit it is necessary to remember that UK labor market is strong and
company can focus on attracting the workforce so that they can run the business in effective and
smooth manner in post Brexit. The biscuit manufacturing company can also focus on protecting
the UK employer barding so that they don’t switch to another country. The COVID 19 impact
can be reduced by relying on remote working and boosting the motivation and morale level of
employees die to which they give better results in making business profitable at the tough time.
Pandemic has drastically changed the way of working and also the organization is focusing on
adopting new technology in order to communicate and exchanging the information with
employees. The biscuit manufacturing companies in UK can focus on providing effective
training and development opportunities to their staff so that they feel confident and reduce the
stress and anxiety while working from home.

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