HRM Strategies: Recruitment, Selection, and Training at Vestey Group

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of Human Resource Management (HRM) practices at the Vestey Group, a leading global food provider. The report begins with an introduction outlining the importance of HRM in a globalized business environment, emphasizing recruitment, selection, and training. Task 1 focuses on the aims, objectives, and project management plan, including a work breakdown structure and Gantt chart to illustrate the project timeline. Task 2 delves into the methods of research, differentiating between primary and secondary data collection methods, including questionnaires and sampling techniques. Task 3 presents the data analysis, drawing conclusions and recommendations based on the research findings. Finally, Task 4 includes a reflection on the project, highlighting key learnings and challenges. The report aims to assess how multinational organizations like Vestey Group can enhance their HRM practices to meet global requirements, offering insights into improving recruitment, selection, and training processes. The research uses both quantitative and qualitative methods including questionnaires and surveys to gather data and draw conclusions. The report also provides a cost breakdown of the project and highlights potential risks and resources needed to complete the project.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
P1: Aims and Objectives ............................................................................................................1
P2: Project management plan......................................................................................................2
P3. Work Break Down Structure ...............................................................................................3
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................6
P4 Methods of research ..............................................................................................................6
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................9
P5: Data Analysis ......................................................................................................................9
P6 Recommendations and Conclusions....................................................................................16
TASK4...........................................................................................................................................16
P7 Reflection.............................................................................................................................16
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................18
APPENDIX....................................................................................................................................19
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INTRODUCTION
Globalisation is an effective process which is considered with the free movement of
people, companies and government worldwide and lead to the interconnectedness of the national
economies. Therefore, in order to sustain in this competitive world, it is crucial for the business
enterprises to attract and retain the prospective candidates so as to achieve higher profitability
and productivity. Chosen organisation for the assignment is Vestey group which is the world
largest food provider firm that offers wide variety of products so as to meet the demand of
different customer segments. This project will focus in the functions of HR which are
recruitment, selection and training (ajda, 2015). Therefore, it is the responsibility of HR manager
within the organisation to conduct these functions for enchant large no. of clients and attains
maximum growth and success of the business organisation. Therefore, this HR helps in
increasing productivity and thereby introducing labour turnover within the organisation. This
project will carry out the aims and objectives and describes the project management plan. It also
produces a work breakdown structure and Gantt Chart to illustrate the period of wind up of
project. It also analyses the data in a proper manner so as to draw valid conclusions and
recommendations.
TASK 1
P1:
According to Audra Bianca, (2019). Human Resource Management is considered with
the process of attracting, short-listing and retaining the prospective clients within the
organisation for a long time period. Therefore, HRM plays an important role within the
organisation discussed as follows. It assists in maintaining employee’s relations at the
workforces as reduces issues and conflicts and thereby creates harmonious environment at the
workplace. It increases the skills and capabilities of the employees by providing them with
proper training and developmental facilities which would assist them to work effectively and
meet the global requirements. Moreover, it helps the organisation to attract qualified workforce
by properly conducting the selection test and therefore maintain growth and success of
organisation. Therefore, it will help the business organisations to meet the international standards
of HRM as by retaining the talent workforce and supply T&D to Personnel it will assist the
organisation towards fulfil global requirements (Ariely, 2012).
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Aim- “How does the large multinational organisations can enhance their recruitment,
selection and training of their personnel in order to meet the global requirements”. A case study
on Vestey group. In present scenario most of the organisation are performing their operations at
multinational level. Therefore, Vestey group is focusing on achieving their goal in specified
period. So they aim to increase their performance through increasing capability of employee's.
Objectives-
 To implement internal as well as external recruitment methods to improve the fairness to
meet international standards of HRM.
 To evaluate both internal and external training methods to increase capabilities of
workforce to assist Vestey group in meeting global needs.
 To identify the problems or challenges that may come in the process of implementing HR
practices to meet international requirements.
 To determine practices through which recruitment, selection and training process at
Vestey group can be developed. The main aim to complete their work is to raise standard
at global level.
P2:
Projection is an activity which needs to be completed and accomplished in pre-
determined time frame. Executing and completing the project activities within a time frame has
high importance as it helps the manager to clear focus on the goals and objectives of the
company by working on the proper plan towards attaining strategic goals. Therefore, it also assist
the manager to analyse the data and draw valid conclusions and recommendations and necessary
changes can be made so as perform business activities in systematic way. Various essential
feature of project management plan includes-
 Scope- It is considered as opportunity which the researcher or the project will get while
performing the research activities. From the perspective of the researcher, it has a wide
scope as it will enhance the knowledge of the investigator towards the importance and the
role of HR within the organisation. Therefore, it enhances the scope of the investigator to
meet the project requirements in a better manner (Burns, 2017).
 Cost- It is a value of money that has been used up in delivering a project or a service in a
proper manner. In order to carry out company’s project to conduct recruitment, selection
and training programs £ 46,000 will be required to incur. On the other hand, estimated
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cost for carrying out research activities is £ 500. Here is the cost break down of project as
well as research:
Cost break down of project
Basis Cost
Investment £ 20,000
Cost of research and development £ 2000
Employees Training £ 10,000
Resources for Training and Development £4,000
Cost of implementing changes in HR
department-
£ 10,000
Total £ 46000
Cost break down of Research:
Basis Cost
Cost of data collection £ 200
Cost of communication £ 50
Cost of communication of results with stake
holders
£ 100
Any other cost £150
Total £ 500
 Time- It is considered with the appropriate time which is required for executing and
completing the project within the time frame. Therefore, researcher requires a time period
of 10 weeks to complete the research activities.
 Quality- It is the degree to which the project meets the obligation of the manager to
apply project action in a systematic way. This assist the researcher to collect and
determine data using qualitative methods of data collection by conducting surveys so as
to get quality data and fulfils the research activities in a proper manner.
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 Communication- It is the act of conveying and exchanging information between two or
more people using different mediums. Therefore, it is the necessary for the researcher to
communicate with the clients and customers through emails and telephone and therefore
project manager should also communicate to the stakeholders of the project regarding any
changes or any other information towards the project (Carayannis, Sindakis and Walter,
2015).
 Risk- It is a situation which causes exposure of danger towards the project. While
conducting the research investigator faces the risk of shortage of time and resources
towards collecting the appropriate information. Moreover, this will result towards not
fulfilling the research requirements and therefore leads to difficulty in completing the
task.
 Resources- It is refereed to proper amount of assets, tool and technology for completing
the research activities in a proper way. Therefore, as a way to finish the project researcher
requires higher experience, skills and capabilities and different equipments such as proper
access to the internet so as to get proper information towards finishing the project.
P3.
Work Break Down Structure- It is a deliverable oriented breakdown constitution of the
project which divides the whole project into tiny factors and form tasks of group of people in
directed components. Vestey group uses this tool to properly enhance the functioning of HR
practices within the organisation.
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From the above diagram of WBS it has been analysed that while enhancing recruitment,
selection and training of worker. That way project is divided into various components such as
first aims and objectives will be develop for the project along with the literature review. Then
researcher will collect the data through primary data in the form of survey and secondary data in
the form of writing and books. After wars it leads to proper analysis of data so as to draw proper
conclusion and recommendations and suggest on one's own reflection so as to determine the
challenges and the positive things learned from the project (Carkhuff, 2017).
Gantt Chart- It is a graphical tool that illustrates the project schedule with the help of
the bar chart. It provides information about the project components that necessarily to be
executed and absolute the projection activities within a proper time frame. This has a higher
importance as it will help the researcher to set standard time for each project component and
thereby motivates the employees to complete it within the specific time span.
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TASK 2
P4
It is necessary for the investigator to collect proper and applicable information so as fulfil
research activities in a proper manner. Their are different sources to collect data which is
described as follows-
 Primary method of data collection- Under this tool information should be gathered by
the investigator for primarily so as to gain potential outcomes of investigation. Here data
can be collected through interviews, and questionnaire method. This type of collection
collected helps the researcher to get better results and draw better recommendations
towards the project and lead to success of the research (Coker, 2014).
 Quantitative research – By this tool information should be accomplished by focusing
on the facts and figures as well as numerical and statistical information is collected and
determined. This has importance to project as it will help the researcher to determine and
analysis of the data can be done within a a short period of time and valid results can be
interpreted-
 Questionnaire- It is a research instrument which consist a series of questions in which
respondents opinions are considered for gathering the necessary information.
 Random Sampling method- It is a sampling method in which subset of the individuals
are chosen from the larger set.
Qualitative research - Under this method of information assemblage, information is collected
towards concerning underlying reasons and behaviour of the individuals. It is an exploratory
method acting of data grouping in which individuals opinions, views and suggestions are
concerned. This data collection method has higher importance to the project as conducting in-
depth study will provide the researcher about the knowledge of the views of the individuals and
helps in determining results in a proper manner.
 Interview- It is a conversion between the client and the manger in which set of questions
are asked to the client so as to judge its knowledge as well as draw necessary information
which would help in managing the research activities at Vestey group in a proper manner.
 Purposeful sampling- It is a sampling method which is used in qualitative research for
the proper identification and selection of individuals or the samples which have high
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interest towards the topic of the research. This helps in drawing valid information
(Kannan, 2018).
Hence for owed and analyse the content in a proper manner secondary data of collection
has also been used in the form of getting data from various journals and published surveys which
provides a proper support to the primary research and therefore assist in completing the research
activities in a proper style.
Questionnaire
Name:
Age:
Gender:
Add:
Mail ID:
Q1) Do you know about HR practices such as recruitment, selection and training?
 Yes
 No
Q2) Categorise the ways of recruitment which should be undertaken by the
management at Vestey group to meet international requirements?
 Internal approach to recruitment
 External approach to recruitment
Q3) How does Vestey group benefits by enhancing their recruitment, selection and
training activities?
 Getting maximum returns
 Enhancing goodwill of the company
 Retaining employees for long term
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Q4) What are the issues Vestey group faces while enhancing their recruitment, selection
and training programmes?
 Lack of knowledge
 lack of finances
 Deficiency of time
Q5) Is it possible to improve HR functions at Vestey group will help them to gain
competitive advantage?
 Yes
 No
Q6) What are the leading problems faced by Vestey group while globalising their
business?
 In effective work
 Cultural Differences
 Governmental rules and regulations
Q7) What kind of training methods are more useful to increase capabilities of workforce to
assist Vestey group in meeting global needs.
 Internal training method
 External training method
Q8) In view of you opinion what are the most effective HR factors and function should
be implemented within the organisation to reach at multinational standards?
TASK 3
P5:
Data Analysis- It is a activity of evaluating and analysing of the collection do as to get
proper inferences from the data collected which helps the researcher in proper business decision.
Coding Method- It is a analytical activity in that aggregation is evaluated in both
qualitative and quantitative form. Its main purpose is to transform the data collected into suitable
analysis form so as to draw proper results. This coding method is used by the researcher to
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covert raw data into tabular form in comparison to the percentage of the views of the
individuals. This helps in drawing proper recommendation to the project.
Sampling Size- It is concerned with the number of samples selected for collecting the
necessary information. Therefore sample size of 40 respondents has been considered in order to
owed the appropriate data.
Q1) Do you know about the HR practices such as recruitment,
selection and training?
Frequency
 Yes 25
 No 15
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25
15
Yes
No