Globalization's Impact on Unilever's HR: A Project Report

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION........................................................................................................................3
LO1........................................................................................................................................... 4
PROJECT REPORT AIMS & ITS OBJECTIVES...........................................................................4
Report plan *(cost)...............................................................................................................4
LO2........................................................................................................................................... 7
Work break down the structure...........................................................................................7
Gantt chart........................................................................................................................... 7
SMALL SCALE RESEARCH IS BEING USED FOR THE COLLECTION OF INFORMATION AS WELL
AS DATA................................................................................................................................9
Questionnaire.....................................................................................................................11
LO3......................................................................................................................................... 14
LO4......................................................................................................................................... 33
Reflecting on the value of undertaking the result that provides the support for meeting
the stated goals and the self-performance........................................................................33
REFERENCES........................................................................................................................... 35
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INTRODUCTION
Globalization is a wider term that has become an important aspect of different
organizations. The term globalization means interrelationship of the various economies of
the world that shares many things and rely on various factors. The project report is being
prepared as it will help in finding out various major impacts of globalization due to its
different factors. The globalization is the sum of many activities that are internal as well as
external that affects many departments of the organization's in different ways. The impact
of globalization that company Unilever will have on its process of selection and recruitment
of employees will be discussed here. The report will provide a better understanding of the
various aspects of globalization and negative & positive impact on HR functioning of
Unilever.
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LO1
PROJECT REPORT AIMS & ITS OBJECTIVES
The project aims, as well as objectives, are prepared in the organization as these help inthe
organization growth. Here in this report the objectives of the company Unilever has been
prepared strategically that will support in explaining the influence of globalization on many
different areas of the organization. The HR department in multinational companies is
responsible for providing better training to their employees, reducing discrimination among
employees, deciding to choose a suitable source for selecting members in the organisation.
Aims
The project report aims at identifying the impact that globalization has on different areas of
Unilever. Globalization is increasing in the modern world at a very faster rate and thus this
report is prepared with the purpose of identifying the external and internal factors that
affect the functioning of HR function of Unilever due to globalization.
Objectives
Objectives of the project report are:
 To assess the interrelationship of the factors of globalization and its impact on the
Unilever’s HR function
 To analyse the economic influence that globalization has on the HR department of
Unilever
 To identify the globalization’s cultural and ethical impact on the functioning of
Unilever’s HR function
 To minimize the globalization’s negative impact on Unilever
Report plan *(cost)
Defining project & importance
A project can be defined as the set of different activities that are formulated for achieving
the goals successfully. The project is important as it analyses the time as well the cost that is
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required to complete the different activities of the project. In this project, the major aim is
to identify the effect on HR function because of globalization and its related factors.
Scope
The scope of the report is wide in many ways as the globalization has many different
aspects, the report will help in analysing the improvements that company could bring on it's
functioning for better results in the HR function. The report will also support in gathering a
lot of information & data about many factors affecting the company's operations because of
globalization.
Time & cost
The report will take almost 14 weeks for completion and for achieving the organizational
goals, the cost that is decided for the different activities undertaken in the project are set
according to the project budget (Galbraith Emami and Lobstein, 2013)‐ .
ACTIVITIES COST
Development of the project £200
Stationery £400
Essential Human resource £600
Tools & equipment £500
Travelling overheads £400
Additional research overheads £300
Total £2400
Plan for communication
The communication plan for the project is being prepared by analysing the different aspects
of the project that helps in achieving goals. The execution of the activities in the project is
defined in the plan:
SHAREHOLDERS INFO TECHNIQUE FREQUENCY
TIME
SOURCE
Senior executive Using a survey
of market
Written & oral
reports and
Each day Supervisor
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mails
Project resources
The resources that are involved in the report are majorly the financial resources as well as
the human resources because the aim of the project is analysing the positive & negative
influence on the HR functioning of the organization Unilever (Cavusgil et al., 2014.). Other
resources will also be required to implement the activities involved in the planning.
Risk
The project report also involves many types of risk that could affect the functioning of the
organization Unilever in many ways (Harrison and Lock, 2017). The types of risks that are
involved are an operational risk, financial, non-financial, strategically changes in activities,
organizational structure change etc.
Quality
For maintaining the project report quality different methods will be used in the
organizational context and these methods are as follows, the quality control and the
assurance of quality. The accuracy of the project report will be analysed with the help of
quality assurance and the difficulties during the process of the project are maintained
through quality control (Heagney, 2016).
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LO2
Work break down the structure
The term work breaks down structure can be defined as the report in which the division of
different activities is explained in detail. In other words, this structure helps the team in
managing all the activities involved in the report and provides the systematic hierarchical
structure of the tasks in the report (Harrison and Lock, 2017).
Preparing the WBDS is important as all the activities involved in the project are completed
on time and every person know about the responsibility they have for task completion
within a predefined budget.
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Work break down the structure
Literature review Data collection
Primary data Secondary data collection
Designing questionnaire
Collected primary data Data analysis
Presentation
Conclusion and recommendations
Reflection

Gantt chart
The Gantt chart is used in the project for making the schedule of the activities to be
performed (Harrison and Lock, 2017). The importance of preparing the Gantt chart in the
project report is that it helps in analysing the resources required for task completion and
also provides a schedule that guides for maintaining activities.
Tasks Week
1
Week
2
Week
3
Week
4
Week
5
Week
6
Week
7
Week
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Outline ( Aims
besides
objectives)
Literature
review
Research
practice
( Scheming
Questionnaire
)
Data
gathering
Data
examination,
conclusions,
argument and
presentation
Thesis
compliance
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SMALL SCALE RESEARCH IS BEING USED FOR THE COLLECTION OF
INFORMATION AS WELL AS DATA
The primary research method is widely used by researchers because in this research the
accuracy of the information collected is high. The data is gathered by the researcher for the
first time, the researcher involves himself in the research and moves to different places and
different people for recording their responses.
The qualitative and the quantitative research, methods will be used for finding out the
information in the report about the specific topic that is chosen for the project.
QUALITATIVE RESEARCH
The qualitative research is being used for presenting and finding out the data through
various qualitative sources, in this research method the information is gathered in
descriptive form and information will consider the aspects such as opinions, views and
personal perception of the group of people.
LITERATURE REVIEW
Zheng (2017) stated thatGlobalization has been defined as the term which helps
organizations in fulfilling their requirements by meeting and connecting different people
from remote areas. Through globalization, the economies have been integrated and they
are enjoying many benefits. The small businesses that do not have any support before are
planning to expand their businesses through globalization. The sourcing issues in the
organizations, the issue of the getting resources with better quality at a reasonable price
have been improved. It has also been analysed that organizations can use the latest
technology in their business operations.
Holm and Haahr (2018) explained that the impact of globalization on the recruitment and
selection process of Unilever is both positive due to many factors and negative because of
other factors. People from remote areas are getting opportunities for employment. The
organization Unilever is also getting many skilled and talented labours from all over the
world and this is possible because of globalization.Meyer and Peng (2016) People from
remote areas can get information about the different opportunities in the market. Quinlan
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et al(2019), the competition has also increased among the employees and organizations and
also the employees in the Unilever are motivated towards improving their skills and abilities
and bring efficiency in their work.
The negative impact of the globalization on Unilever's recruitment process is that now the
company has to improve their process they need to conduct research and analyse that what
improvements could be done to select the best talentsfrom the world (Galbraith Emami,‐
and Lobstein, 2013).
In qualitative research, the interview method is being used for collecting information about
the related topic. The questions that will be asked in the interview method to a few people
and their interpretation will be used for further results.
The questions of the qualitative research are:
 Do you consider that Unilever prefers lifelong learning for their employees?
 Does the method of coaching is being preferably used by the organization Unilever?
 Does the company Unilever use the strategy of no discrimination in the organization
with the employees in their organization?
 Does the company Unilever face any challenges while providing training to their
employees?
 Do employees in the organization get opportunities to improve their competencies
in the organization?
 Does the recruitment method used by the Unilever help in recruiting the skilled and
talented employees in the organization?
QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH
On the other side, the quantitative data uses the statistical method for presenting data. In
qualitative research, the data is being collected through recording facts and figures. This is
more structured and provides information in numbers, figures and facts (Larson and Gray,
2017).
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Questionnaire
Name: XYZ
Age: 20-60
Gender: male/female
Address:
Mail id:
1. Do the references provided to the company Unilever is being checked by the
organization for recruiting employees?
Yes 16
No 24
Total 40
2. Do the HR department of Unilever can reduce the negative influence of
globalization?
Yes 22
No 18
Total 40
3. What are the sources of recruitments that are used by the HR department of
Unilever?
Internal source 14
External source 12
Both 14
Total 40
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4. Does the HR function of Unilever consider the global area for recruiting their
employees?
Yes 28
No 12
Total 40
5. Do you think the HR department of Unilever is focusing on selecting skilled labour
from the world?
Yes 25
No 15
Total 40
6. Which strategies are used for the selection of employees by Unilever?
Job simulation 7
Interview through Skype, telephone 12
Using a structured format for interview 7
All of the above 14
Total 40
7. What are the recommendations provided to Unilever for bringing improvement in
their HR practices?
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