Multinational Companies: HRM for Global Requirements

This report delves into the crucial role of Human Resource Management (HRM) within multinational corporations (MNCs) operating in a globalized world. It examines how MNCs can enhance their recruitment, selection, and training processes to meet the evolving demands of international markets. The report begins by outlining the aims and objectives, emphasizing the importance of effective HRM policies in optimizing resource allocation and boosting productivity. It then presents a project management plan, including cost, risk, quality, communication, time, scope, and resource management aspects. The project's timeline is illustrated using Gantt charts and a Work Breakdown Structure. The report further explores the research methodology, including research philosophy, to gather and analyze data, incorporating both quantitative and qualitative approaches. The study aims to evaluate and suggest improvements for HRM policies, specifically focusing on Nestle, to ensure they align with global requirements, and to address the challenges of globalization, such as technological advancements and communication barriers. Ultimately, the report seeks to analyze the effectiveness and efficiency of HRM strategies in MNCs, providing recommendations for improvement and contributing to the understanding of global business practices.

GLOBALISATION

TABLE OF CONTENTS
TOPIC..............................................................................................................................................1
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
LO1..................................................................................................................................................1
P1 Discus the aim and the objectives.....................................................................................1
P2 Discuss the Project management plan that covers all the aspect of the cost, risk, quality,
communication, time, scope and resources............................................................................3
P3 discuss the time framework and the stages of the project through the Gantt chart and the
Work Break down Structure. .................................................................................................5
P4 perform the small scale research to the meet the aim and objective of the research report
using quantitative and the qualitative research.......................................................................7
LO3..................................................................................................................................................9
P5 DATA INTERPRETATION.............................................................................................9
P6 Finding and the recommendation-...................................................................................18
LO4................................................................................................................................................19
P7 Learning and the outcome of the report..........................................................................19
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................19
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................21
APPENDIX....................................................................................................................................22
Questionnaire .......................................................................................................................23
Project log book....................................................................................................................24
Performance Review............................................................................................................26

TOPIC
How do multinational companies improve the recruitment, selection and training of
their employees to meet the international requirement?
INTRODUCTION
Globalization refers to the interaction and integration among the economy of the various
countries in the term of their people, companies and the government al the worldwide. Today in
the world of the globalization every organization wants to prove their excellence in this
competitive world by delivery the best quality of their services and the products to their target
market. Globalization has provided the international platform to all the organization to expand
the business internationally around the world. So for the development of the type of the
international business the company should implement the strong human resource management
strategies to get the maximum efficiency and the effectiveness from the resources. The HR
policy has the responsibility of proper allocation of the resources of multinational companies so
that it increases the productivity of the company. So in the field of the international market the
HRM has to follow the various strategies in the development of the employees to meet the
requirement of the international market.
LO1
P1 Discus the aim and the objectives
Background
In the world of the globalization there are the various competencies and the challenges
that the company used to face in the development process for the international market. There
are various opportunities and the challenges that are faced by the company to compete in the
international market. The human resource management plays at important role in the proper
allocation of the resources. The most important resource management is the management
human resource or the employees of the organization. To compete in the international market,
the employee should be efficient to compete the challenges (Routledge and Stapley, 2019). So
the employees should be given proper training and development and the proper recruitment
process so that companies get the efficient employee. The purpose of the project is to evaluate
the ways in which the HR policies if the nestle can be improved as to compete in the
international marketing.
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Aim:
“To evaluate the ways in which human resource policy of recruitment, selection and
training of the employees in the multinational companies to meet the requirement of
globalization: A study on Nestle”
Objectives
 To determine the significance of the HRM policies in multinational operations of the
organization.
 To evaluate the improvement strategies required by MNC's in the recruitment, selection
and training process to meet the globalization changes.
 To analyse the effectiveness and efficiency of the HRM policy in the Nestle to meet the
international requirement.
Research questions
What is the significance of the HRM policies in multinational operations of the organization?
How the improvement strategies required by MNC's in the recruitment, selection and training
process to meet the globalization changes ?
What is the effectiveness and efficiency of the HRM policy in the Nestle to meet the
international requirement ?
Literature review
According to Axtmann, (2018) with the introduction of globalization, international boundaries
has been blurred. Globalization has brought up technological advancement along with
international platform to companies for expansion of their business. On the other hand the
Gems, Borish and Pfister, (2017) argued that the technological advancement can be turned as
most challenging for human resource management due to one way communication. The one
way communication created the artificial distance among the employee and organization. The
also stated that the involvement of anticipatory challenges are the major issues for HR
executives. As per the view of King (2018) the positive impact of globalization has reshaped
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the need of workplace . The companies need more of experts on handling the personnel issues.
The author also stated that there is the need for informed and skilled business persons as it
plays the key role to gain competitive advantage in the market place. On the other hand the
Stapley (2019) argued that due to challenges in proper recruitment and selection the company
is facing heavy demand to build the organization more effective and efficient to remain
competitive in global world.
P2 Discuss the Project management plan that covers all the aspect of the cost, risk, quality,
communication, time, scope and resources.
The project management plan refers to the schedule that consists about all the
information of the project. The plan is developed by the manager so that they can effectively
design the pattern of the task that has to assign to all the members working in the management
team. With the help of the project management plan the delegation of the authority is done
where every person is assigned with their respective work along with cost and the quality
management. The management of the resources is done with the respect of the scope of the
project.
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Task Mode Task Name Duration Start Finish Predecessors
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Identify research topic 2 days Tue 7/9/19 Wed 7/10/19
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Review of Literature 8 days Thu 7/11/19 Mon 7/22/19 1
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Drafting Methodologies 7 days Tue 7/23/19 Wed 7/31/19 2
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Complete Proposal 8 days Thu 8/1/19 Mon 8/12/19 3
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Designing questionnaire 9 days Tue 8/13/19 Fri 8/23/19 4
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Collection of data 9 days Mon 8/26/19 Thu 9/5/19 5
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Analysing data and
interpretation 3 days Fri 9/6/19 Tue 9/10/19 6
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Discussion and
Conclusion 3 days Wed 9/11/19 Fri 9/13/19 7
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Submission 3 days Mon 9/16/19 Wed 9/18/19 8
Cost- the cost refers to the amount of the finance required by the managers of the project
management team for the conduct of the research the amount will be distributed in the various
team performing the different task for the management and the successful completion of the
research project. The investigator of the research will require the amount of the £1000 in which
the 25% of the amount will be kept as the reserve for the miscellaneous expenses of the research
report.
Risk- in the execution of the research project there were many risks faced in the
completion. The company is facing financial risk well as the market risk (Routledge and Stapley,
2019). The human resource management risk along with technological risk. While conducting
the research report the investigator will face the risk of the management of the human resource,
technological risk and financial risk.
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Quality- the quality of the information that will be attained from the survey of this
research report should be cream in layer so that the authenticity of the report can be maintained.
The investigator should use the correct research methodology so the HRM department can
conclude the effective result for the training and development of the employees in the
organization to meet the international requirement.
Communication- for the effective report there should be the proper communication in all
the department of the project management so that the quality of the report can be maintained.
Proper communication will reduce the chances of the misunderstanding (Goldin and
Mariathasan, 2015). The investigator should pass all the information to all the stake holder of the
project for the effective completion of the project. Proper communication will lead to the
effective conclusion for the HRM practices.
Time – the time requirement for the completion of this project is of the 52 days. In the
next weeks the proper delegation of the work is done to the members of the management team so
that every person should know what work they have to perform in what time period. The
investigator has to pay attention for the effective completion of the work.
Scope- there is the wide scope in the completion of the project. As with the help of the
project, it will be helpful for the HRM department of the organization of the strategies they have
to take for the development of the employees for the international market. The investigator will
have the better scope of understanding the needs of the international marketing (Goldin and
Mariathasan, 2015).
Resources- for completion of any project it is important to have the resource so that the
work can be completed very smoothly. The investigator requires the financial, technological and
the human resources for the effective and successful completion of this project report.
P3 discuss the time framework and the stages of the project through the Gantt chart and the
Work Break down Structure.
Work breakdown structure- it refers to the breaking down of the complex work into the
smaller and the managerial parts. It is the hierarchical tree in which the complex work is break
down into the smaller part so that the work can be delegated to the different department so that it
can increase the productive along with the effectiveness of the research project.
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Figure 1: Work breakdown structure
Gantt chart- it is the pictorial representations of the task that is assigned to the different person
in the research project (Goldin and Mariathasan, 2015). In the Gantt chart the representation of
the delegated work is there so the person with the work delegated can know about hoe the work
has to perform in how much time and by whom. The colourful boxes make the chart look
attractive and the work interested so that effectiveness and efficiency can be increased.
Figure 2: Gantt chart
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P4 perform the small scale research to the meet the aim and objective of the research report using
quantitative and the qualitative research.
The research methodology refers to the methodology in which the various tool and
techniques are identified by the company during the performance of the research. The effect if
the research project can be very efficient in the working of the effectively and efficiently (Goldin
and Mariathasan, 2015). The implementation of the various tools is techniques are included in
the performance of the research methodology in the project research. The researcher should have
the clear understanding in the working and the impartation of the research methodology in the
project research (onato and Massey, 2016). The tools that tee used in the research methodology
are.
Research philosophy- it is the brief description on is to be collected and analyse and
what data has to be concluded. There are major two type of the philosophy positivism philosophy
and interpretivism. When the certain hypothesis is formulates in any research topic to for finding
the relationship in the working or the data interpretation of any answer then the philosophy is
known as the positivism (Feiock, Moon and Park, 2017). Another type of the philosophy that in
which the data and the fact is concluded to perform any research then it is called as the
interpretivism. In the following research report the second one is used by the researcher to
analysis the performance of the data collected and the conclusion is carried out by the researcher
if the understanding of the facts of the data.
Research design- the research design is basically carried out to be the 3 different types in
performing the any researcher such as the descriptive research, experimental reach and the
exploratory research. To understand the characteristic of the sample design collected, the
application of the descriptive research is applied (Gems, Borish and Pfister, 2017). In the
adoption of the descriptive research in the longer term the characteristic of the certain data
collects to improve the HR practice on the organization of the Nestle to improve its HR practices
as to compete the global world.
Research approach- the research approach re3fers to the approach in the way the
company has to complete for the research. There are the two types of the research approach the
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inductive and the deductive approach (Hirst, Thompson and Bromley, 2015). Under the approach
of the deductive the quantitative approach is formulated in which the formation of the hypotheses
is done along with various quantitative methods. The second approach is the inductive one where
the hypothesis is formulated along with the various theories and the research papers conclusion is
also implemented (King, 2018). In this approach major the researcher has used the inductive
approach of the as the data analysis and the interpretation is done by the researcher by fact and
figures.
Data collection- the process of the data collection refers to the term when where man is
the data is collected. In this heading the process of the data collection tom performs any research
is being discussed. In the data collection there are the two types of the data collection process,
the primary and the secondary. In the primary data the researcher collected the new data
regarding the searcher with the help of the questionnaire and on the other hand the data is
collected from the secondary sources is known as the secondary data (Lindberg and Sverrisson,
2016). In this report the primary data is being used as the searcher id collecting the data with
questionnaire.
Sampling- it is the most important and the crucial part of the research. The main
conclusion of the interpretation on the result is done in this part inly. So in the data analysis of
the company it is important to understand what is the sample of the reach that has to been or
conclude on the basis of the result. The company haws to understand the importance to the
sample size and the category of the sample. So in the particular report the sample size of 20
managers working in the different department of Nestle is concluded.
Data analysis- Another important party that has to been concluded in the part of the data
analysis the in how the analysis and the representation that the data (Panizza, 2018). The
researcher has used the thematic approach for the representation of the data for the easy
understating and taking out the conclusion of the data in the thematic approach the all the task is
breakdown into the smaller part and converted into the charts and the tables so that the easy
understanding of the data can be there and the more accurate conclusion can be concluded by the
researcher.
Ethical consideration- while analysis of the data in the research project the researches
should keep in the mind that how has to collect the data from the respondent without giving thee
baseness to any topic so the managers and the HRM department of Nestle can concluded the
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basic understanding in the report (Rinella and Charlton, 2016). The researcher has to been in the
keep in the mind that the data collected should not be forced keeping the level if the ethical
consideration.
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P5 DATA INTERPRETATION
THEME 1 Experience of the more than 5 years working in Nestle
1. For the years working in Nestle? Frequency
1-3 years 5
3-5 years 4
More than 5 years 11
Total 20
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4
11
1-3 years
3-5 years
More than 5 years
Data interpretation
As the data interpreted from the following data, there the employees that are working in
the organization NESTLE for the longer period. So they have the better knowledge in the
working of the organization and there answer will be more effective and efficient information.
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THEME 2 current recruitment strategy of nestle is internal recruitment.
2. What is current recruitment strategy in
the nestle?
respondent
Internal recruitment 14
External recruitment 6
total 20
Internal recruitment External recruitment
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
respondent
Data interpretation
As from the following data it can be interpreted that the company used the method of the
internal recruitment process in the developing and hiring the existing employees for the new
position in the organization. The company is paying more attention is developing the new
position from the exiting employees. The organization is somewhere hindering from the hiring
the new talent.
THEME 3 the internal recruitment strategy is cheaper
3. What is the benefit of the current
strategy?
frequency
Cost less 9
Reduce time to hire 4
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