Project: Improving Nestle's Recruitment, Selection, and Training

This project delves into the strategies multinational companies, specifically Nestle, employ to enhance their recruitment, selection, and training processes to meet international requirements. The assignment begins with an introduction highlighting the significance of these practices in a globalized business environment, followed by the project's aim, objectives, and research questions. A project management plan is outlined, including cost, time, and scope considerations. The work breakdown structure and Gantt chart are presented to organize and schedule the project activities. The research methodology incorporates both qualitative and quantitative approaches, including primary and secondary data collection methods through questionnaires. The project aims to identify ways in which Nestle can refine its HR practices, offering recommendations based on the research findings to improve workplace productivity and achieve international standards. The project also includes a reflection, conclusion, and references.

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Table of Contents
Topic: ‘How do multinational companies improve the recruitment, selection and training of their
employees to meet International requirements?’.............................................................................1
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................1
P1 Aim and Objective............................................................................................................1
P2 Project management Plan..................................................................................................2
P3 Work break down Structure and Gantt Chat.....................................................................3
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P4 A small scale research to meet aims and objectives..........................................................6
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P6 Research recommendations.............................................................................................18
COVERED IN PPT..............................................................................................................18
P7 Reflection........................................................................................................................18
COVERED IN ANNEXURE 2............................................................................................18
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................18
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................20
ANNEXURE..................................................................................................................................21
Annexure 1 Log Book..........................................................................................................21
Annexure 2 Performance Review.........................................................................................25

Topic: ‘How do multinational companies improve the recruitment, selection and training of
their employees to meet International requirements?’.
INTRODUCTION
In the modern and hyper competitive era, to carry out expansion within new countries so
as to take business to global scale, it is essential for business entities to take into account certain
aspects (Carpenter and Agrawal, 2018). These comprise of recruitment and selection, training
and development procedures (Enkel, E., Groemminger and Heil, 2018). This helps in order to
facilitate the fulfilment of international requirements (Binz Astrachan and Botero, 2018). To
emphasize upon such requirements, the following research will acknowledge the manner in
which multinational corporations such as Nestle carry out enhancements in recruitment
procedures for successful execution of business activities. Nestle is one of the market leading
companies which is engaged in provision of food & beverages of a wide variety inclusive of
chocolates, baby products, breakfast cereals and many more (Hopkinson and et. al., 2018). The
operations of this entity is spread across 189 nations of the globe. In this assignment, discussion
is made upon aim and objectives, project management plan and data analysis. Also, effective
recommendations have been devised for the entity at the end.
P1 Aim and Objective
Owing to rapid and increased levels of globalisation, it has become imperative for all the
companies to carry out certain enhancements in the procedure of recruitment and selection. This
will aid in obtaining support from employees to carry out business operations at global scale in a
feasible manner. This is an entity that highly believes in facilitating the use of diverse workforce
for the brainstorming of ideas aimed at improvement of business operations within global
market. The main focus of this entity is upon collaborative working and development of a
positive organisational culture. The belief of the corporation is that best results can be achieved
only if all the employees work together towards the achievement of a common goal. Looking
upon the ideology that success and growth of enterprise can be attained only with optimum
management of human resources, Nestle is planning to introduce certain alterations which are
aimed at improvements of HR practices for better execution of business activities.
Aim:
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“To identify the ways by which multinational companies can improve their recruitment,
selection and training of employees to meet International requirement.” A study on Nestle.
Research objectives:
 To examine the significance of recruitment, selection and training within a multinational
corporation.
 To ascertain measures with the help of which Nestle can enhance recruitment, selection
and training of employees for accomplishment of international requirements.
 To determine the merits of betterment of recruitment, selection as well as training of
workforce.
Research questions:
 What is the significance of recruitment, selection and training within a multinational
corporation?
 What are the measures with the help of which Nestle can enhance recruitment, selection
and training of employees for accomplishment of international requirements?
 What are the merits of betterment of recruitment, selection as well as training of
workforce?
P2 Project management Plan
For accomplishing the business aim and objectives and applying certain charges, it is
important for the company to create an effective project plan. With respect to Nestle, it can be
said that the company is trying to make certain betterments within recruitment, training and
selecting procedures. Researcher made the competent Project management plan which is a blue
print of the whole chain of activities which are needed to be done in a satisfactory way. It
contains some of the most essential components such as scope, risk, cost, communication,
resources, time for carrying through the task. These points are discussed below:-
Project Plan:
It is an important written document which identifies the scope and goals of project and
also keeps project aligned with objectives.
Cost– It is major component of PMP plan which imply the cost required for completing
the task. Cost is major factor in project plan. Moreover, value is needed for accomplishing the
business project. Hence for completing the existing project, research needs approximately £100
Euro.
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Time– For completing the project time factor play an important role. Time helps to
determine the project layout and estimation of completing any task. It determines the duration
which required during the project accomplishment. To complete the present investigation upon
recruitment and selection, researcher took 7 weeks.
Scope- It outlines the developing changes in the organisation in reference to productivity
and profitability and competitiveness. In reference to the present research, the scope is limited as
the investigator will be able to execute investigation only upon one company.
Risk– The uncertainty which occurs into the business is called risk. The risk within
current project can be related to timely completion of study and/or collection of less number of
responses.
Communication– It is a two way process in order to transfer any information within the
organisation. There two types of communication that is formal and informal. The project
manager has to communicate with respondents, classmates and tutors. To facilitate this, verbal
and written communication will be used by investigator.
P3 Work break down Structure and Gantt Chat
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
WBS is a tool to organise work into manageable sections. It is mainly used for complex
and multi -layer projects to divide large amount of work into small groups. This can be assigned
to different teams in a hierarchy structure,that results in easy overall management. WBS
eliminates unnecessary work and provides help in time management, cost estimation and also in
determining risk factor. It clearly explain, responsibility and authority of each member so in case
of any deficiency or irregularity it become easy to fix accountability/answer ability, that
ultimately improves productivity of project. In the present research, division of activities is done
in the below mentioned manner:-
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GANTT CHART
Gantt Chart is developed as a tool for production control. This is basically a horizontal
bar graph showing, activities to be performed on vertical axis while time intervals on horizontal
axis. Duration of each and every activity is showed as width of bars. It is mainly used for
scheduling a task for timely completion of work and also managing team more efficiently. This
provides a timely status of work done and left, in the form of completed percentage of task.
Work in progress, pending and delayed task are also easily visible, therefore corrective course of
action can be taken on time.
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Illustration 1: WBS

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P4 A small scale research to meet aims and objectives
It is a set or sequenced used for the completing the research work. It is used for gathering
information and data of the chosen topic of research work. The data is collected for the specific
purpose, it is tool and techniques which are used by the researcher during the study. It is a
summary of the research work.
Quantitative Research
This research is done first time. It's fundamental aim is obtaining the knowledge and
motivating as well as getting the opinion about the research study. This study uses certain
methods which are based on observation to non- numerical data. However, this methods which
helps in improving better hypotheses for possible research. In this study the sample size are small
and the research is based on focus group. Also, qualitative data collection is unstructured
techniques. Under this research, the information are gathered in numerical manner which
represents in a graphical or tabular manner.
Qualitative Research
The research which is based on the market survey method. The data and information is
collected through open ended questionnaire. In this study the researcher has to do random
sampling are used. This study is on human perception and attitude regarding to the topic. In the
research study qualitative research help to select an individual among the group examples of
conducting this survey by interview, group decision, questionnaire and it forms descriptive data.
Under the present project, the researcher used qualitative method which are used for
collecting the data and analysing it in theoretical manner.
Primary Research
Data collected through primary resource is first hand data collected for first time by the
researcher. It is unused, original data and not already recorded anywhere. This require efforts of
researcher to collect it. Primary data can be collected from internal sources like employees,
managers of same organisation or even from external customers and general public. Main
techniques used for collection of data are interviews, surveys, questionnaire,focus group,etc.
Data collected through this method is more reliable and up to date. But this method is quite
expensive and also time consuming. But where authentication of data is must this method is
used.
Secondary Research
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This is mainly the stored data can be taken from books, journals ,literature and also
available in electronic form over various sites on internet. It is basically the data collected by
someone else but used by researcher. Main purpose of using secondary data is it saves a lot of
money and resources needed for conducting primary research. As it is a used data it is quite easy
to do research on basis of this. But it might be possible that data is outdated or not cover all
relevant aspects of research. One more issue is that it is typically related with quantitative
phenomenon and ignore qualitative factors some times.
Sampling
It is a process by which a researcher selects a representative group from the given
population having similar characteristic. It is very useful when the size of target population is
very large. For sampling , basis of selection for a sample is decided first after that an appropriate
method is applied like random sampling, systematic sampling, stratified sampling, clustered
sampling, etc. Sampling helps in saving time and resources both, as no need to check each item
of the population, you have to go through only selected sample.
The respondents for the below mentioned questionnaire are stakeholders of Nestle and
quantum is 10.
Questionnaire
Name of the candidate:
Address:
Age:
Email ID:
Gender:
1.) Does devising alterations within HR practices assist Nestle in accomplishment of
international requirements?
 Yes
 No
2.) Will alterations within recruitment procedures help Nestle in increment of workplace
productivity?
 Yes
 No
3.) Is there a necessity of carrying out training activities within Nestle while crafting
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modifications within HR practices?
 Agree
 Disagree
4.) What are the primary aspects which Nestle need to take into due consideration for HR
development?
 Rivalry
 International employment legislations
 Organisational culture
5.) In what way can Nestle incorporate alterations within recruitment, selection and
training procedures?
 Optimisation of hiring procedure
 Development of employer brand
 Recruitment marketing
6.) Do you think Nestle appears as more contending by incorporating alterations within
recruitment, selection and training?
 Yes
 No
7.) Which are the major disadvantages of alterations within hiring and training processes
for Nestle?
 Less return on investment
 Developing conflicts at workplace
 Increasing labour turnover
8.) Do you think that huge outlay on enhancement of training as well as recruitment
procedures is necessary for MNCs such as Nestle?
 Yes
 No
9.) Will changes within recruitment practices aid Nestle in accomplishing international
requirements?
 Yes
 No
10.) Any Recommendations for developing and initiating changes in recruitment process
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for Nestle.
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Q1. Does devising alterations within HR practices assist Nestle in
accomplishment of international requirements?
Frequency
 Yes 7
 No 3
Q2. Will alterations within recruitment procedures help Nestle in
increment of workplace productivity?
Frequency
 Yes 7
 No 3
Q3. Is there a necessity of carrying out training activities within Nestle
while crafting modifications within HR practices?
Frequency
 Agree 6
 Disagree 4
Q4. What are the main factors that Nestle need to concern for human
resource development?
Frequency
 Rivalry 4
 International Employment legislations 4
 Organisational culture 2
Q5. In what way can Nestle incorporate alterations within recruitment,
selection and training procedures?
Frequency
 Optimisation of hiring procedure 5
 Development of employer brand 3
 Recruitment marketing 2
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