HR Strategies: Talent Acquisition & Development at Estate Diary, UK

This report presents a Human Resource business proposal for The Estate Diary, a UK-based small dairy company, focusing on its Human Resource operating model, resourcing, and development. It begins by outlining the company's business objectives, which include providing high-quality milk, expanding its herd and farms, and offering sustainable, cruelty-free products. The report then proposes a Human Resource operating model based on the Ulrich model, structuring Human Resource functions into strategic partner, change agent, employee champion, and administrative expert roles. It details how each role can contribute to achieving The Estate Diary's business objectives. Furthermore, the report discusses resourcing propositions to attract highly skilled talent through innovative approaches like employee recognition, maintaining employment relationships, and updating job postings on websites. Finally, it addresses development considerations to enhance employees' skills and abilities to execute the business strategy, including talent management theories and models.

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Contents
Contents...........................................................................................................................................2
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3
Human Resource operating model...............................................................................................3
Outline the resourcing proposition that can assist towards attracting highly skilled talent
through innovative approaches....................................................................................................6
Outline the development considerations in your proposal to enhance all employees’ skills and
ability to execute the business strategy........................................................................................8
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11
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INTRODUCTION
Human Resource function is an important organizational function specifically for small
business who aim to make rapid growth in their industry. This report includes Human Resource
Business proposal with specific focus on Human Resource operating model, resourcing and
development. The small business firms selected for this report is The Estate Diary. IT is a UK
based small scale dairy company which utilizes traditional milking methods with latest dairy
processing technology to provide consumers healthy dairy products (The Estate Dairy, 2021).
This report outlines Human Resource operating model which can support an SME, resourcing
proposition which supports in attracting skilled employees. In addition to to this, development
considerations to enhance skills and abilities of employees to ensure effective execution of
business strategy are also included in this report.
MAIN BODY
Human Resource operating model
Business Objectives of The Estate Diary
The primary business objective of The Estate Diary is to provide consumers milk with
bets quality and consistency. In addition tot his another business objective of the company is to
expand beyond 250 pedigree Guernseys and gain fresh farms to produce good quality milk at
large quantity. Another business objective of the The Estate Dairy is to offer consumer
sustainable milk which is produced without any type of animal cruelty. The respective
organization aims to expand their range of products and offer different dairy products along with
milk such as cheese, yogurt and Curd. The Human Resource operating model which can assist
the respective company ensure efficient deliver of Human Resource services to reinforce
business models is provided below.
Human Resource Operating model for The Estate Diary
Human Resource operating model is defined as they way in which Human Resource
function is organized and operates in the company to ensure delivery of effective outcome to
stakeholders outside and inside the company (Antony and et. al., 2019). It is not only limited to
the organizational structure of Human Resource but also the roles an responsibilities present in
the ultrastructure along with actors which enable completion of Human Resource functions such
as technology and governance. Creation of an effective Human Resource model is necessary for
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business firms as Human Resource needs to continuously add value tHuman Resourceough
services and people management initiatives which play an important role in attainment of
organizational objectives. The Dairy Estate is small size company and it is important to propose
an effective model which works in the environment of small scale company. This is because
small scale companies have different working culture when compared to large scale
organizations and should not be considered just a smaller scale version of large corporate
establishments. The Ulrich Human Resource operating model can be used by small scale
business firms in order to attain business objectives (Bratzke and Ulrich, 2019). The Human
Resource operating model provided by Ulrich structures Human Resource function into four
basic criteria which are strategic partner, change agent, employee champion and administrative
expert. The proposed Human Resource model for The Estate State according to the Ulrich model
is explained below: Strategic Partner: This element of the Ulrich Operating Model of Human Resource
focuses on alignment of Human Resource activities and initiatives with global business
strategies. The Responsibility of aligning Human Resource activities with global strategy
is given to Human Resource management and Human Resource business partners. This
element of the Ulrich Human Resource operating model will support The Estate Dairy in
achieving various business objectives (Nair, 2018). This is because the central focus of
this element of the Human Resource operating model is on aligning business strategy
with Human Resource activities and initiatives. This will help the firm increase employee
engagement and satisfaction. Aligning Human Resource activities and natives with
business strategy will help the respective organization take strategic approach towards
employee training and development. The Estate Dairy will be able to construct employee
training and development programmes which helps increase employee capability to
deliver accordingly with business strategy. By adopting the Ulrich Human Resource
operating model, the respective company will construct skilled and talented workforce
which is able to produce healthy and safe milk along with other dairy products. This will
help the company move towards attainment of business objective of increasing milk
supply and enhancing range of dairy products offered by the company. Change Agent: In this element of the Ulrich Human Resource operating model, the focus
is on supporting the change and transition of the company in relation to human capital of
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the organization. Influencing and steering business strategy are the two main attributes of
this Human Resource role. The role of Human resources in this model is to support
change activities during change implementation by ensuring capacity for change
(Prikshat and et. al., 2018). This is an important element of Human Resource operating
model as it builds capacity of the company to manage change and take steps towards
attainment of business objectives. The Ulrich Human Resource Operating model will
play an important role in attainment of business objectives of the company by building
change management capabilities. The Estate Diary will be able to prepare their
employees for various changes including the change of expansion of Guernseys and
farmland. The respective firm will be able to lower employee resistance with the help of
this Human Resource model. This is because change management capabilities of the
Human resource department will increase. The role of Human Resource function as
change expert will bring flexibility in the company. The Estate Dairy will gain
capabilities to face challenges which arise with introducing new dairy products in the
market and expanding farmland. Employee Champion: This is the most important Human resources role as the employee
champion understand the need of employees and plays the central role in communicating
the need of employees to Human resource management (Storey, Wright and Ulrich,
2019). The presence of this role in the Human Resource operating model helps the
company ensure that employee interests are understood by the company and are
considered during change implementation of the company. In addition to this the process
of change implementation and management is also improved because of this role as the
employee champion ensures that employee interests are protected during change. This
lowers employee resistance during change as every employee feels that their
considerations are taken into account by the company. The Estate Diary will be able to
gain employee supports during moments of change which will help the company attain
various business objective smoothly. The company will be able to manage workforce
requirements when expansing dairy products and increasing farmland. Every employee
will contribute to attainment of organizational objectives as their interests will be
represented by the company.
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 Administrative Expert: This is the final role of Human Resource according to the Ulrich
operating model of Human Resource Management has evolved over time. Initially this
Human Resource role focused on ensuring that the delivered services were of maximum
quality (Szierbowski-Seibel and Kabst, 2018). Currently this element of the Ulrich model
has expanded to also include focus on providing highest quality Human Resource
services to the company at lowest possible cost. In case of small and medium sized
enterprise this final element of the Ulrich model will play an important role in helping the
company gain effective Human Resource services and attain business objectives. This is
because it lowers cost of Human Resource services without affecting the quality of
Human Resource services gained by the company. Different Human Resource strategies
and innovative approaches are used by the company under this final element of the HR
operating model to minimize cost of high quality HR services. In context of the Estate
Dairy, this element of HR model will help the company create skilled workforce at lower
costs so that the capital can be used to attain business objectives of the firm. The
respective organization will be able to ensure that high quality HR services are delivered
to expand into new product categories and introduce change without heavy investment.
This will play an important role in facilitating the growth of small enterprise.
Outline the resourcing proposition that can assist towards attracting highly skilled talent
through innovative approaches.
This is important for each organization to have proper understanding about employee’s
needs and wants then provide kind of products as well as services. The aim of organization is to
identify vacancy and fill it by recruiting and selecting best people at the workplace. The
management plays important role as it come to know what problems facing by employees and
how to resolve it effectively (Buller, and McEvoy, 2012). Whenever there are new employees
are recruited by organization then it became challenging to get work done and manage the
workings. The HR management is responsible for all functions and activities that supports to
manage by employees as it helps to develop organizational productivity. The aim of organization
is to motivate and retain skilled staff who gets ready to work any time. The Estate Dairy is the
small organization in UK that operates its business by managing all functions and activities
effectively. The management understand requirement of their organization and select best people
by analysing their skills and abilities that helps to complete the business effectively. The
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organization is using innovation approach that directly affects business industry. This approach
is related to brining innovation and changes in their existing products that could help to develop
business productivity. The management conduct the environment analysis and think about what
new products and services should be provided to employees that would influence number of
people and increase sales. This can be effective task for each organization to bring innovation as
it supports to influence number of people and increase productivity. There are different ways
which can be used to resource proposition and attracting highly skilled people such as:
Employee Recognition is carried out either in form of reward or appreciation which help
to motivate the workforce in terms to carry out their job or task role effectively. Maintaining
employment relationship is a successful part of well-being that help employer to find creative
ways in terms to carry out their task (Chang-Richards, and et. al., 2015).
Identification of vacancy practice is performed by HR management where it also
identifies areas or department to fill empty position. For example, In Estate Dairy organization
having vacancy of finance management and delivery employees so that management will post
job description that could help to develop the business activities.
Updating on websites is another practice which is used by organization to information
applicants about vacant profile at the workplace that can help to influence the number of people
and encourage them to take participation in interview programmes. The candidates gets
information about vacant position and appear for interview round that can help to fill the vacant
position (Daley, 2012).
To select the best people is another activity which is performing by HR management of
Estate Dairy Ltd by analysing their skills and work experience on such profile that could help to
fill the vacant position and manage each function appropriately (Morley, Heraty, and
Michailova, 2016).
To create a comfortable working environment is the employees resourcing activity that
used by organization and human resource management for the purpose of develop business
activities and getting people for long period of time. This can help to manage the business
activities that encourage employees to work for long period and maintain higher performance
(Holmqvist, and Spicer, eds., 2013).
Talent management is the activity of attracting, influencing directing, and retaining the
employees at the workplace so that each work will be done time and helps to increase business
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performance. The management of Estate Dairy Ltd uses different talent management theory and
model to retaining their staff such as:
Training and development theory – This theory is related to providing training and
development programme to their staff that can help to develop the understanding of employees
and get them ready to work properly. This is important theory should be use by Estate Dairy Ltd
to provide training sessions to their employees and gets them ready to work complete. This can
help to develop the business understandings and increase performance.
Best practices – In relation to talent management, best practices such as open
communication channel, compensate employees fairly, reward and recognise employees, and
managing employee performance activities are used by companies for the purpose of developing
their business task and retaining their employees for long period of time. This can help to boost
the morale of their staff and make feel them good by managing all working and bringing
changing in their performance (Sauser Jr, and Sims, eds., 2013).
Performance appraisal – This is also a practice that used by organization for becoming
successful employees at the workplace and retaining employees effectively. The management of
each organization should be analysis the performance of new staff by allocating task, helps to
analyse the performance and make decision accordingly. This can help to develop business
productivity and performance by retaining employees at the workplace. In relation to Estate
Dairy Ltd, HR managers is responsible to arranging and organising employees by analysing their
performance and provide them right suggestion to work well. This can help to bring changes in
their traditional working and accept new challenges that could help to increase workings (Varma,
and Budhwar, 2013).
Maintaining positive attitude – This practice is related to keeping good behaviour and
attitude of their employees which can help to develop business productivity. If behaviour of
employer and HR manager is positive then it will be good for employee engagement, sourcing,
and retaining employees at the workplace. Estate Dairy Ltd is using such theory to make feel
good their staff and complete working (Wapshott, and Mallett, 2015).
Outline the development considerations in your proposal to enhance all employees’ skills and
ability to execute the business strategy.
The employees skills are the consider about to technical skills or hard skills are equally to
make some important within an employees for maintaining soft skills towards social skills. There
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are some of the skills which comprise about create effective approach to work and generate
productivity. For Estate Dairy company to make effective hard skills and highlight about those
abilities to skills and characteristics to make an assets for company. There are some important
skills and knowledge which creates important role to gain more role in Estate Dairy company:
 Knowing why as well as what: Some of employees who are potential enough for theirn
job existence. With this they productive known for with new suggestion and ideas to
improve their task. For Estate Dairy company employees are well adversed to enhance
their skills by get to learn and attain more opportuinity to develop their skills within
effective manner.
 Professionalism: This aspect plays an important role to being behave in professional and
creates more professionalism at work. In perspective of Estate Dairy of employees are
focused to behave in professional and discipline manner. To abide all rules and regulation
on which company work practises conducts effective working outcomes.
 Innovative ideas: Every employees are highly engaged with brining new innovative
ideas to make their business implementation and generate positive outcomes effective
manner. In perspective of Estate Dairy company employees are keen to bring their
innovative kind of ideas which effectively generate more positive outcomes to generate
performance productivity.
 Having problem Solving Abilities: In Human resource problem solving ability makes
important role as it creates flexible working environment and also reduces the work
process effectiveness. For Estate Dairy company their employees the HR manager
provide effective training and development where employee can enhance their skills to
reduce their risk uncertain within effective manner.
As per above skills and knowledge has been used to develop the individual skills and knowledge
to gain more productive and performance attainment to generate positive outcomes. Problem
solving, innovative ideas and other goals are placed to implement for make business strategy.
The development for Estate Dairy to make business proposal for quoting to generate relevant
theories and best practices. The Estate Dairy is usually provide quality of products and services
that attain to gain more competitive outcomes within effective manner. There are some of
managerial tools where employees of Estate Dairy company can implies their skills and
knowledge to gain more productivity and set their benchmark. Training and development is one
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of the part where employees can enhance their skills and knowledge. By using development
theory by Estate Dairy is set of collection about how much desirable can effectively change the
society. As the main objective of Estate Dairy company is to make their employees skills
efficient where individual can learn new skills and approaches to gain more positive outcomes
and performance effectiveness.
CONCLUSION
From the above report it is determined that creation of a Human Resource operating
model is essential for attaining organizational success. This is because Human Resource
operating model encompasses the structure of Human Resource functions within the company
along with skills which is needed to deliver the roles, technology and structure which supports
the role. Ulrich provides a Human Resource operating model which can be used by small
business firms. The four element of this Human Resource operating model are strategic partner,
change agent, administrative expert and employee champion. In addition to this it is beneficial
for small business firms to develop resourcing proposition which attracts skilled and talented
employees by usage of innovative approaches and enables new employees to be successful.
Business firms need to also consider various factors which are related with employee
development and support attainment of business strategy by developing employee skills and
capabilities.
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