Managing People at Waitrose: Recruitment, Teamwork, and Motivation

This report analyzes Waitrose's people management strategies, focusing on recruitment, selection, and induction processes. It examines factors affecting teamwork, highlighting Waitrose's efforts to improve coordination and efficiency. The report delves into motivational theories employed by the company to enhance employee effectiveness and foster a positive work environment. Additionally, it explores the evolution of Waitrose's management and leadership styles, particularly after the partnership with John Lewis, emphasizing the importance of flexible leadership and a compatible organizational culture. The study concludes by summarizing the key factors influencing Waitrose's success, emphasizing the significance of effective recruitment and its impact on productivity. The report also references relevant academic sources to support its findings.

MANAGING PEOPLE
IN ORGANIZATION

Recruitment, selection and
induction
 Recruitment is a process which enables the organization to individual the best
talent in the market so that the company can fill their vacant job placings.
 Waitrose have followed a very effective strategy of recruiting the potential
candidates and also increase the productivity of the company.
 After Waitrose have recruited the right candidates for the job the company will
now analyse all the candidates on their skills, personality, knowledge,
behaviours. This process will also have some test which will help the company
to know if the candidate is right for the job or not.

Factors affecting team work
 Waitrose have analyzed the importance of teamwork and what are the
challenges which affect the teamwork of the employees and made a better
strategy to increase the coordination and efficiency of the employees.
 Some factors which the management have analyzed which affects the
teamwork efficiency of the employees.

Motivational theories
 Waitrose have also analyzed the need of motivating their employees as the
company is having the largest employees in the retail industry in UK.
 So the company want their huge human resources to be more efficient and
effective which will help the company in achieving the objectives of the
company.
 Motivation also help in improving the healthy work environment of the company
and provide with better skill flow from employee to employee with better
efficiency

Management and leadership style
 Waitrose after the partnership with John Lewis in 2013 the company have
increase the growth rate and the management is also responsible for the growth
of the company in positive rates.
 The company after the partnership have also focused on the leadership styles
of the company which will help all the employees to be more effective in doing
their work if the leadership is more effective so that company is having a flexible
leadership style and adopts some leadership styles according to the conditions
of the company and the behavioral pattern of the employees in the company.
 Waitrose have also focused on the culture of the company and that culture is
compatible with the company's structure.

Relationship between organizational
structure and culture
 The company's culture help the employee achieve the objectives effectively and
make them more efficient if the company is having healthy work culture. The
company's culture is an environment where all the employees share some
common values and backgrounds.
 This culture also help them to achieve their personal goals and make them
more motivated toward their tasks and make the company more productive And
the company's structure help the employee to achieve those goals with making
their activities easier with better policies and systems which enables the
employee s to make better decisions and also make them the better and
effective employee

CONCLUSION
 This report has a brief study about all the factors which would influence the growth and
failure of Waitrose.
 The company had also analyzed the importance of making a better strategy of recruiting
the candidates, as that will increase potential of the employee in the company.
 That had also helped the company to increase the productivity as recruitment is the first
step of hiring any employee and after recruitment process the company goes to shortlisting
the candidates by interviewing, written test in the section process the company also
understand the value, beliefs, background, personality, nature, characteristics of the
candidate which help the company to decide according to their job description which was
designed in the recruitment process.

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