Avon Products by Laura Argo
Avon Products By Laura Argo
The main domain of subject study is Strategic Human Resources Management and is mainly aimed to conceptualize the concept of Talent Management. The Talent Management refers to the process employed in order to anticipate human resources requirements to an organization at particular time and include strategy formulated in order to meet that requirements (Groysberg, 2006). The talent management process includes distributing the responsibilities and accountabilities from human resources department and personnel to all departments throughout an organization. The strategic importance of locating and retaining employees around the business world has recognized this as “War for Talent”. This field of management is also termed as the Human Capital Management.
1. Provide a brief description of the status of the company that led to its determination that a change was necessary.
The Avon Products, Inc. is one among the popular American based organizations dealing in personal care manufacturing and seller firm (Groysberg, 2006). The Avon Products, Inc. is a multinational organization operating in almost 140 countries around the globe with sales revenues from its operations more than $ 10.8 billion during last fiscal year. The Avon Products Inc. is the world’s largest firm selling its products directly and is standing at fifth spot among the firms dealing in beauty and care products (Gardner, 2003). In order to achieve subject study the Case Study of Avon Products is selected and analyzed while including brief description of firm’s status which has been led to determination of changes found necessary, identification of model for change theory, identifying and investigating the types of evaluation information collected and speculation about success of changes within five years. Finally this paper includes how the adjustments could be made in the case if the results are found less than ideal.
2. Identify the model for change theory
The main domain of subject study is Strategic Human Resources Management and is mainly aimed to conceptualize the concept of Talent Management. The Talent Management refers to the process employed in order to anticipate human resources requirements to an organization at particular time and include strategy formulated in order to meet that requirements (Groysberg, 2006). The talent management process includes distributing the responsibilities and accountabilities from human resources department and personnel to all departments throughout an organization. The strategic importance of locating and retaining employees around the business world has recognized this as “War for Talent”. This field of management is also termed as the Human Capital Management.
1. Provide a brief description of the status of the company that led to its determination that a change was necessary.
The Avon Products, Inc. is one among the popular American based organizations dealing in personal care manufacturing and seller firm (Groysberg, 2006). The Avon Products, Inc. is a multinational organization operating in almost 140 countries around the globe with sales revenues from its operations more than $ 10.8 billion during last fiscal year. The Avon Products Inc. is the world’s largest firm selling its products directly and is standing at fifth spot among the firms dealing in beauty and care products (Gardner, 2003). In order to achieve subject study the Case Study of Avon Products is selected and analyzed while including brief description of firm’s status which has been led to determination of changes found necessary, identification of model for change theory, identifying and investigating the types of evaluation information collected and speculation about success of changes within five years. Finally this paper includes how the adjustments could be made in the case if the results are found less than ideal.
2. Identify the model for change theory
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