Farmfoods: People and Organisation Report - Retention Strategies

This report examines key aspects of people and organizations, using Farmfoods as a case study. It begins by exploring the characteristics of an effective work group, emphasizing clear direction, open communication, defined roles, and team trust. The report then delves into retention strategies, discussing on-boarding, mentorship programs, employee compensation, perks, and communication feedback. The importance of performance appraisals for new employees is analyzed, highlighting performance feedback, training decisions, validation of selection processes, promotion, and transfers. Finally, the report outlines different types of organizational culture, including clan, adhocracy, market, and hierarchy cultures. This report provides valuable insights into people management and organizational dynamics.

People and Organisation

Table of Contents
Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
What are the characteristic of an effective work group..........................................................1
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................2
Which retention strategies can organizations use?.................................................................2
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................4
Discuss the importance of performance appraisals for managing the performance of your
newly recruited employee.......................................................................................................4
TASK 4............................................................................................................................................5
What are the different types of organizational culture?.........................................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
People and organisation are the two different collective forms that compensate each other
in order to make more effective outcomes that help to gain higher advantage within the limited
period of time. organisation can’t get developed without the contribution or on the same people
also need the organisation as from where they could imply their different strategy in order to
achieve better and effective outcomes (Dawson, 2018). This report is based on the Farmfoods
that is the British frozen food chain supermarket that is based on Cumbernauld, Scotland. This
report includes the different characteristic of an effective work group, retention strategy,
importance of performance appraisal and the different type of organisational culture.
MAIN BODY
TASK 1
What are the characteristic of an effective work group
An effective teamwork creates better collaboration among all actions and activities of an
organisation that leads management to gain top position in market. This refers that better
chemistry among employees makes a great team with learn and adopts similar characteristic. It
also leads to make an business more successful through increasing overall productivity for
organisation. Some effective characteristic for team group is as follow:
 Clear direction- There are various complex task are managed by Farmfoods and to
manage them all it is essential to recruit trained and skilled employees. So the first
characteristic that is used by management is to manage and complete work through
making and guiding clear direction to all employees. This results all employees perform
their work within a same direction (De Sousa Sabbagha, 2018). From the perspective of
fast foods it is used by team leader to prepare right products by demonstrating simple and
clear direction in order to match goods with customer requirements.
 Open and honest communication- The term communication is a key that work as
foundation for completing all work in an effective manner by generating chemistry
between all team members. Moreover, communication plays an essential role that is
boosting performance of team members by providing right and accurate information to all
individuals. Active Listening and transferring right information are key aspects for
farmfoods which is improving product quality. This also provided reasons to make a
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business successful through collaborating between all individuals and re-state work by
completing role as per provided information.
 Defined roles- once the work and role of all individuals is delegate to them as per their
skills and capabilities then it is each for each member to perform their work in an
effective manner. According to this characteristic all group members identify and learn
their skills in order to improve them as per goals and objectives. In context of Farmfoods,
group members utilise the characteristic of defined roles for exploring new areas that
boost performance of organisation in minimum time period.
 Team trust- Colleagues who can't confess with each other or who don't trust on other
team members impacts on of the group. Successful groups centre, around taking care of
issues to solve them with collaborative approach. Trust is an aid for practical
correspondence; there Farmfoods develop trust between colleagues just on the off chance
that they are permitted to air their perspectives openly. This is the motivation behind
associations to frequently attempt group building practices that put colleagues in places
of trust (Erthal, 2018).
Reflection- With the experience of completing work within a group or team it is identified that
various are generated at time implementing viable options completing the project. In terms of my
learning it is monitor that major barrier is to make collaboration between experience and new
employee. Like, at time of performing work employee’s input new learning but existing
members are not flexible for completing task as per new approach because it consumes time for
them to learn current knowledge and fresh skills. Therefore, communication characteristic is
implemented to interact and solve issue which generates barrier for them to complete their role.
TASK 2
Which retention strategies can organizations use?
A retention strategy defines the different policies that will get followed by the company
in order to retain the employee for the longer period of time. It helps to reduce the turnover rate
and the attrition by which more surety will get developed that is related to the employee
engagement (Holbeche, 2018). The major goal and the objective behind the retention strategy is
to meet the employee expectations to get ensure that maximum return of the different investment
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that will get invested by the business. There are different retention strategies that will get used by
the Farmfoods and that are as defined below as:
 On boarding and orientation: The fresh candidate must get more important for the
company and they have brought the business to the newer heights and more success. The
on-boarding is the processes through which the employee will get learn the new culture
of the company with more easiness. Whereas orientation is the process through which
employee get more clarity about the different process that is performed within the
Farmfoods.
 Mentorship programs: It is programs through which the employee will get worked
under the mentor who have always provide more guidance and that helps to make more
effective outcome (Noe, 2018). In this the experienced employee will get provide
couching to the fresher candidates by which it creates more easiness for the employee to
make better understanding in between the employee and the company.
 Employee compensation: It is the most essential aspect for the company and helps to
make competitive advantage as it includes the salary packages, bonus, health and
insurance benefits to the employee to get secured their future. It imparts the full
understanding in between the employee and thus has always worked with full
competency.
 Perks: It has been paid by the Farmfoods to their employee in the form of voluntary,
occasional benefits, snacks and coffee for daily basis. It imparts the effective feeling in
which employee feel more relative with the business.
 Communication and feedback: It is the most efficient process that is must for the
company and in this the employee are more certain and get easily make their interaction
with the company. The open end communication will get used within the Farmfoods as it
enhance the formal way and it is more important to get retain the employee for the longer
period of time. The feedback also provides more accurate information by which the
employee gets more certainty and help to improvise the working performance that
motivates the employee.
Farmfoods must have use the communication and feedback by which the better relation will get
developed in between the employee and the company by which more clarity will get circulated
and that is more needed to make employee more satisfactory (Odor, 2018).
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TASK 3
Discuss the importance of performance appraisals for managing the performance of your newly
recruited employee.
Performance appraisal is the process through which the performance of the employee will
get more developed. In that the Farmfoods will provide the adequate benefits to the employee as
per their working performance and in that the yearly work will get analysed. It helps to get
measure the positive feedback that will get provided to the employee by which the weaken areas
will get more strengthen. The Farmfoods will provide and create the performance path to the
employee by which their skills and the abilities will get more developed and that will bring more
motivation and zeal within the employees (Randel, 2018). There are some different importances
of the performance appraisal in order to manage the performance of the fresh recruited employee
that is as defined below as:
 Performance feedback: It is more important for the employee that their performance
will get recognised and they will get to know about their loopholes by which they could
develop their performance. In that the Farmfoods will provide the relevant information to
the employee by which they themselves make more positive difference in their working
style.
 Employee training and development decision: The performance appraisal has been
used to training to the employee that helps to develop the skills and the ability of the
employee. The training and the development will help to make the satisfactory decision
that will help to make the positive change and helps the company as well to achieve their
target with more sufficiency.
 Validation of selection process: The performance appraisal will help to make the
internal as like transfer and the promotion and the external sources as like hiring and
selection of new candidate within the company. The Farmfoods will have provided a lot
of time to develop the working efficiency of the employee or to get recruit the selection
and the recruitment of the employee. Thus the performance of the employee will get
developed more and in a systematic manner.
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 Promotion: Performance appraisal will help the Farmfoods to provide the promotion to
the employee by which they have felt more comfort and better suitability by which the
employee will get more motivated and get satisfied from the company and remain for the
longer period of time (Rosenbaum, 2018).
 Transfer: The transfer is more useful as the Farmfoods and they get make that with the
help of performance appraisal and it brings more job role and responsibility by which the
employee feel more superior. It impart the feeling of connectivity under which the
employee will get more beneficiary result thus they have get the recognition by which
more sufficient outcome will get attained.
TASK 4
What are the different types of organizational culture?
Organisational culture is a system through which the Farmfoods must have shared their
values, belief, attitude, working abilities, performances as it reflects the behaviour of the
company. It reflects the culture that is used by the company to get perform the certain
involvement and engagement of the several employee through which more effectual outcomes
will get collected.
(Source: 4 types of organisational culture, 2020)
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There are some different structure that is used by the company in order to maintain the
sufficient culture that manages the decision making process by managing the working role and
ability of each and every department. There are some various organisational cultures that are as
defined below as:
 Clan organizational culture: It is organisational culture that is more oriented as the
family like structure (Waddell, 2019). It is the structure that will get followed by having
more focus on the nurturing and the mentoring. By following this structure the company
must have doing different things all together and provides more flexibility and have focus
to make an integrated outcome.
 Adhocracy organizational culture: It is the culture that gets followed by the company
with having the dynamic orientation and have mainly used by an entrepreneurial
business. It has been used to make the focus by taking more risk and with that gain more
profit with adequate period of time. It is the culture that is more used to make more
innovation and with that always try to implement the different aspect for the first time to
make effective change.
 Market organizational culture: It is the structure that is mostly used by the culture
orientation as with this the business must have work while maintain more focus on the
market competition in order to get the better achievement within the particular period of
time and have try to get work with more efficiency.
 Hierarchy organizational culture: It is the culture orientation that get followed the
adequate structure that is controlled by the different department of the company. It is the
culture that has more focus on the different efficiency in order to make more stability
within the company and always try to do the right thing and right time (Wiener, 2018).
Reflection- As there are Some different organisational cultures that gets used by the
company in order to gain the better and achievable outcomes. In that while developing the
business the hierarchical organisational structure will get used by which all the different roles
and responsibility will get assigned to each and every individual that are working within the
company by which more clarity will get imparted and helps to make more beneficiary outcomes.
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CONCLUSION
It has been concluded from the above report that the people and the organisation and
more supportive and interrelated to each other by which the performance and better profit will
get gained. There are some of the different effective work group that will get used to enhance the
productivity and the performance of the employee. The company must use the communication
and the feedback to get retains the employee for the longer period of time. In addition to this
there are some of the different importance of the performance appraisal that get used to manage
the performance of new recruited employee and the different type of organisation culture as well.
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