Recruitment and Selection Processes at Rowlinson Knitwear Report

This report provides an analysis of the resourcing strategies employed by an organization, specifically focusing on recruitment and selection processes within Rowlinson Knitwear, a UK-based manufacturer. The report highlights the importance of effective recruitment and selection in reducing staff turnover, emphasizing the need for skilled workforce acquisition and the division of roles based on employee skills. It explores various recruitment methods, including internal and external sources, and discusses the significance of employee retention strategies, such as providing monetary benefits and flexible working hours. The report also covers the selection process, including preliminary interviews, application reviews, written tests, and employment interviews, concluding that human resources play a crucial role in fostering a positive work environment and boosting employee morale. The report emphasizes that motivation, compensation, training, and development are essential for retaining employees and improving overall organizational productivity. The report highlights the importance of treating candidates with respect, creating detailed job descriptions, and utilizing various recruitment strategies to hire efficient and capable employees. Additionally, the report underscores the need for proper planning, transparency, and clear communication of workplace rules and regulations.

Resourcing the Organisation

Table of Contents
Contents
Contents...........................................................................................................................................2
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
Briefing A: Recruitment and Selection processes.......................................................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................3
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................4

INTRODUCTION
Organisation uses different types of resources such as human resources, physical resources etc.
as it helps in accomplishment of task in a proper period of time (Farndale, Nikandrou and
Panayotopoulou, 2018). In addition to this, it is necessary that there should be optimum
utilisation of resources for the better performance of employees. This report is based on
Rowlinson Knitwear which is a renowned brand in UK that deal with manufacturing of
scoolwear and corporate wear. This report comprises of recruitment and selection process so as
to provide assistance to an organisation to decrease the turnover of staff due to rigidity of
working hours of staff. This report also includes methods of recruitment and various retention
strategies to retain staff for a long period of time.
Briefing A: Recruitment and Selection processes
Recruitment and Selection is an effective process of an organisation as it aids in attracting
the workforce and play a major role in selecting the right candidate for a right job at a right place
(Holland and Jeske, 2017). The management of Rowlinson knitwear could reduce the turnover of
staff by hiring an efficient workforce and dividing the roles and responsibilities in according to
their skills so that they could work with greater zeal. It also helps in improving the quality of
employees and develop unity of command and team spirit in a respective workplace. An
effective recruitment and selection process would help to hire a skilled and talented workforce as
it fulfils the task efficiently. One of the major benefits is that it saves time and money on
recruiting new candidates and also ensure prosperity of success in a working place.
A Recruitment strategy help in achieving the goal by preparing an appropriate strategy on
the basis of planning and coordinating the activities of an organisation. There is turnover of staff
in Rowlinson knitwear due to the reason that there is no change in working hours of staff. One
importance aspect is diversity in case of hiring process and proper planning and transparency and
also to make sure that all rules and regulations regarding the workplace should be clear to
employees. It is essential that while hiring procedure, treat candidates like as they are customers
with great respect of time and to make them comfortable. Then, it is necessary to create a job
description by engaging qualified candidates and then by checking their resume to obtain
information like skills, educational level and so on. It is vital for an organisation that when using
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these recruitment strategies for hiring procedure, the HR manager has to think out of the box so
as to recruit an efficient and capable employee.
Employee Retention is very essential as it retain the right talent for long period by
motivating and inspiring them so as to improve the quality of work (Jeske and Shultz, 2016).
They can be provided with various monetary benefits and adaptability in timings to work as this
reduce the turnover of employees. Because turnover is considered as expensive as cost in
incurred in training and development of employees and also participate them in decision making
so that they feel that views and opinions are taken into consideration. This enhance the growth of
a company and thus help in achieving individual and organisational objectives.
Methods of Recruitment help in connecting the job seekers to find a suitable job in an
organisation as it considers various factors such as cost incurred in each personnel, policy of a
company and so on. Internal sources are regarded as a cost efficient method because a company
hire an employee within the organisation and motivates them for better performance. But at the
same time, it could lead to conflicts as one employee get promoted for higher position and others
does not which lead to dissatisfaction among them. In case of external sources, the organisation
hires new and fresh talent in order to survive in a competition. This method is regarded as fair
and transparent as it gives the chance to applicants to come up with new and creative skills and
also have ideas about technical skills which promote growth of the company. The drawback of
this method is that it involves enormous cost in advertisements and is regarded as lengthy
process.
Selection is the process of selecting a right person that match the skills and talent of
employees with that of job duties (Taylor, 2018). First step is to conduct preliminary interview
that fulfil the minimum eligible criteria and includes competencies, family background etc. then,
they are required to fill application that contain age, qualification and experiences. After this, a
written test is conducted that includes aptitude, intelligence and personality test so as to assess
the potential of candidate. An employment interview is done in two way process which require
time and money both. Then, medical examination is done to check the fitness of the employee
and finally an appointment letter is given to candidate that contain details about the timings,
details regarding salary and so on.
Recruitment and Selection help in recruiting right candidate for achievement of goals in a
proper time period. When a company recruit and select right people, it creates a favourable
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environment and develop a sense of team spirit among the workers. Therefore, this led to higher
satisfaction and boost the morale of employees (Turner, 2018). Rewards, training and
development and motivation increase the confidence of workforce that help them to retain for
long time and thus improves the overall productivity of an organisation.
CONCLUSION
From the above information, it can be concluded that Human resource plays an essential
role as it contain various methods such as recruitment, selection, training and development in
order to increase the knowledge and skills of an employees and thus improve inculcate
confidence and team spirit among them. It has been analysed that motivation, compensation and
monetary and sense of appreciation encourage employees to work hard and thus contribute
success in an organisation. It is determined that proper training help them to increase the
knowledge and prepare them for higher responsibilities.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Farndale, E., Nikandrou, I. and Panayotopoulou, L., 2018. Recruitment and selection in context.
In Handbook of Research on Comparative Human Resource Management. Edward Elgar
Publishing.
Holland, P. and Jeske, D., 2017. Changing role of social media at work: Implications for
recruitment and selection. Electronic HRM in the smart era, p.287.
Jeske, D. and Shultz, K.S., 2016. Using social media content for screening in recruitment and
selection: pros and cons. Work, employment and society. 30(3). pp.535-546.
Taylor, S., 2018. Resourcing and talent management. Kogan Page Publishers.
Turner, P., 2018. Attraction, recruitment and resourcing of talent. In Talent Management in
Healthcare (pp. 221-252). Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.
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