Cadbury HRM: Employee Recruitment, Selection, and Training Report

This report examines Cadbury's Human Resource Management (HRM) practices in the context of globalization. It explores how Cadbury modifies its recruitment, selection, and training processes to meet international requirements. The report includes an introduction to HRM and its roles in business, followed by a discussion of project management plans, including cost, time, quality, communication, risk, and resources. It also covers Gantt charts, work breakdown structures, and the application of quantitative and qualitative research methods, with a focus on primary and secondary data collection. A questionnaire is provided to gather insights on the topic. The report aims to analyze how Cadbury can improve its recruitment, selection, and training to achieve global standards, offering recommendations and reflections on the research journey. The report provides a comprehensive overview of the company's HRM strategies and their effectiveness in a globalized market.

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TOPIC
“Multinational organizations modify the recruitment, selection and training of their
employees to attain Worldwide requirements .” A case study on Cadbury.
INTRODUCTION
HRM generally used to identifying overall formal system for the people of management
within the particular organisation. Therefore, HR manager is responsible to manage few areas
like employee benefits and compensation. Staffing and designing overall work ( Boyle, 2017).
Wherein globalisation is the process of interaction between people across the world. Along with
it is much effective and helpful approach in which people can easily understand the overall
company growth and able to enhance productivity of firm. Therefore, HRM and globalization
plays significance role in an organisation that helps companies to recruit and select people in a
appropriate manner. For the better understanding of this topic Cadbury has been selected and this
company was formed in the year of 1824 and headquartered in London, England. It deals in
confectionery items and is an multinational company. Apart from this HR manager of this
company use different kinds of HRM functions like recruiting, selecting organising and directing
in order to make this firm better. Further discussion will be based on aims and objectives in
relation with given context. Work break down structure and Gantt chart will be discussed
(Difference Between Primary and Secondary Data. 2019).At last there are different
recommendations and reflection on investigating journey will described appropriately.
P1 HRM roles in business and international standards of HRM with appropriate aims and
objectives.
HRM is the function within the organisation which generally focuses on the different
functions like managing, recruiting, directing and selecting people for appropriate work. HR
management mainly deals with different issues in relation with performance management, safety,
wellness, motivation and so on. HR plays strategical roles in business to create effective working
environment to achieve appropriate goals and objectives (Clinton and Whisnant, 2019). Along
with this HR manager plays such roles by which they can maintain business operations and
international standards as well. There are some role within the present context, those are given
below:
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Developing skills for the future: As per this level of organisation HR manager of
Cadbury generate the professionalism in order to develop employees knowledge skills in a
perfect way. By having flexible environment in the working place respective firm can manage
their international standards or market share in a systematic way. Therefore, HRM plays an
important role effectively.
Building a talent pipeline: HRM always helps business entities in order to gain
competitive advantage which mainly includes in making the company capacity by which they
can offer effective goods and services to customers in a perfect way (Crane and Matten, 2016).
On the basis of this they can manage organisation functions and international standards
effectively.
Research Aim:
“To make improvement in the recruitment, selection and training of the employees to
accomplish international requirements.- A case study on Cadbury.”
Cadbury is operating in international market which impose certain international
requirements related to recruitment, selection and training of employees. It becomes mandatory
for it to cater these needs in order to survive successfully without any difficulty. Cadbury aims at
choosing right employee for the right job positions within the company. For this purpose it is
going to apply a suitable selection method and give adequate training to personnel. This will help
in meeting international requirements which is going to have positive impact on its business.
With the help of this aim the management of Cadbury can make development in its hiring
and choosing process at global level during the time of recruit international employees. With this
they can monitor the needs and requirement of international hiring and selection and also make
transformation within their existing process of recruitment and fulfil the needs of global
demands.
Research Objectives:
 To understand the concept of recruitment, selection and training for better application of
methods and processes in choosing potential candidates.
 To monitor the importance of training, recruitment and selection to fulfil the
international requirements (Westrenius, and Barnes, 2015).
 To determine advantages of making improvement in selection, recruitment and training
to accomplish global needs.
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 To integrate both on-job and off job training in employees training process to enhance
the productivity in order to meet international standards of HRM.
Research Questions:
 What do you understand by training, recruit and selection?
 What are the several issues that is faced by Cadbury during the time of organising
recruitment and selection process at global level?
 What is the difference techniques which can be used by Cadbury to minimise the issues
that are generated during the time of training at international level?
P2 Project management plan
It refers to the particular contract in which companies makes plan to develop new project
to deliver proper objectives and goals in a perfect way. According to this there are various
strategical plans and techniques in order to make proper contract (Deresky, 2017). It specifically
depends upon the risk, size, cost, fund etc. in context with Cadburythey are making effective
plan for particular project by which they can meet their targeted goals appropriately. There are
some particular aspects those are mentioned in beneath:
Cost: It refers to the valuable amount which is necessary to deliver products effectively.
For the researcher money is basic and natural thing in order to fulfil customer's needs. In the
present context there are so many firms which needs lots of fund that helps company to make
effective cost structure, those are given below:
Activities Amount
Research equipment 50
Travel 30
Research material 70
Total 150
Time: In order to make important project, timing is must necessary thing this is because
project takes few times to make and by which companies can get appropriate results in an
effective manner. As per the research scenario it can be said that researcher of this report take 2
or 3 months to complete specific project (Storey, 2016).
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Quality: It is very essential thing which influence the company's identity and image. By
having good quality company can face their competitors without any problems within the
working place. In relation with investigator quality is more important for them to make effective
manner.
Communication: It refers to the effective tools and techniques by which individual can
share their ideas and thoughts with each other. Therefore, it is very important which gives proper
scenario to people to think at higher level (Dutta and Bose, 2015). As per this current report
investigator has lots of strategies and ideas by which they can use different techniques like E-
mails, chat, phone etc.
Risk: While conducting the research investigator faces lots of issues by which they can
take risk and able to reduce lots of risk between the employees and encourage other people to
maintain and manage their work and risk towards the research in an appropriate manner.
Resources: There are different kind of resources which generally includes in labour,
machine, land, capital and so on. That's why these are the important term of this research in
which company can take risk while implementing on new thoughts of research in an effective
manner (Glukhov, Ilin and Levina, 2015).
P3 Gantt chart structure and Work break down.
Gantt Chart
It is also known as bar chart which is always defines about project schedule and it is
given by Henry Gantt in the year of 1910. Along with this it is basically design for charts by
which researcher can shows the relationship in between different kinds of activities and
scheduled status in an effective manner (Hillary, 2017)(Huntington, 2018). Apart form this is
very important tool for every project by which researcher or investigators can know that what is
going on their project it is the biggest benefit for them in which they can get each necessary
source within the working place. Along with it is the act of priority and visualize tool that offers
total interview of the project and offer lots of information to management that includes in time
duration, tasks, start to end dates and so on. Together with it improves the communication skills
for management by which researcher can make project easily because Gantt char provides
effective communication skills. On the other side, it is also provide crystal communication by
which management can get proper information to manage their work accordingly.
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Work Break Down Structure
In the part of project management along with it is a services deliverable oriented
breakdown structure of a particular project into the small components. On the other side it is the
key project within organise the team work and manager overall section of work in a particular
way (Julien, 2018). Apart from this WBS is total scope of work and carried out project team as a
members in order to fulfil objectives of projects in a systematic way. Its also offer essential
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framework in order to evaluate cost estimation and control schedule of project. It is very
important because it develop independent task and create effectiveness on the work . Along with
it reduces complicated issues from the work and measure overall limits. Therefore, it is much
significant for every project to achieve organisational goals.
P4 Quantitative and Qualitative research methods to meet organizational goals.
Primary data: It is gathered by the investigator from fist hand sources by using various
methods such as experiments, surveys, interviews and so on (Westney, 2017). It has aim to make
proper research project to gain appropriate goals. Therefore, it is effective for Cadburyby which
they can collected appropriate sources for their research project. It influence the research activity
in a positive way and motived them.
1. Secondary data: It identifies to those data that is collected and gathered through
an individual who can be other person or be the user. The main thing of this data
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is social science which includes in appropriate information and government
departments along with data and records. According to Nestle, this is effective
approach which influence their research operating system and able to make proper
analysation on research.
Quantitative research: It refers to the systematic empirical investigation in order to
follow different techniques and method like statistical, mathematical, computational and so on. It
is always shows in the form of numerical like percentage, statistics etc. in regards with Nestle,
they are applying this research on their work and able to make appropriate research (Kendrick,
2015).
Qualitative research: Generally it is prepared to have lots of opinions, motivations,
causes and so on. Along with this research offers various issues and helps to make hypotheses
for this particular research, therefore it influence respective company to make their research
decision in a perfect way.
Sampling: It determines the method of statistical analysis which is predetermined
number of analysation by interpreted some people from the larger population and growth. This is
totally depends upon the analysis which is being performed and includes in systematic or random
sampling. In this present report researcher has been take 40 respondents from larger population
that is random sampling.
Questionnaire
Q1. Do you have understanding about the concept of recruitment, selection and training?
(a) Yes
(b) No
Q2. Do you think that internationalisation influence the process of recruitment and
selection in Cadbury during the time of expansion?
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(a) Agree
(b) Disagree
Q3. How can training contribute to make the workforce to perform as per international
standards ?
(a) With development of programs for increasing knowledge
(b) By increasing co-ordination among employee of different units
Q4. Which kind of training should follow to the management of Cadbury to fulfil
international requirements?
(a) On the job training
(b) Off the job training
Q5. What are the major advantages for Cadbury while accepting selection and
recruitment strategy?
(a) Enhance profit margins
(b) Getting attention of new customers
(c) Increasing market share
Q6. Do you think that HRM department of Cadbury is required to formulate new policies
for diverse workforce?
(a) Agree
(b) Disagree
Q7. Which kind of strategies can be adopted by Cadbury to help it survive in global
market?
(a) Making improvement in technologies
(b) Hiring qualified candidates
Q8. Provide any suggestions to management team of Cadbury through which they can
provide effective training to employees?
P5 Data and Interpretation
Theme 1: Concept of globalisation
Q1. Do you have understanding about the concept of Frequency
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recruitment, selection and training?
(a) Yes 20
(b) No 20
Interpretation- As per the above mentioned graph, it can be analysed that among 40
respondents, 20 respondents are responded that they are aware with the concept of recruitment,
selection and training whereas 20 responders are not aware with it.
Theme 2: Influence of globalization on business expansion
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(a) Yes (b) No
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