Recruitment and Selection at Innovative Human Resources Management Services
Assignment 1 (2013)
NB: This is a group assignment and individual assignments will not be marked. Twenty percent (25%) of the total 100% will count for class presentations. A minimum number of 5 and maximum of 7 are allowed to form groups. Each group should identify a group leader that will coordinate the progress of groups. Group leaders are encouraged to report students that are not contributing to assignment beforehand to the lecturer. Thus groups should subdivide work and assign a task to each student. Please lets uphold the principle of ethics as prospective business people.
CURRICULUM TOPICS
* Workforce planning * Recruitment * Skills * Selection
GLOSSARY
Strategy: long-term business plan of an organisation.
Market leader: the business that has the largest share of the market, measured by sales (value or volume).
Logistics: the orderly movement and storage of goods throughout the supply chain i.e. from raw materials to finished goods.
Infrastructure: the structure of an organisation – its people, systems, organisation and processes.
Human resources: the function within business responsible for an organization’s people. This function deals with workforce planning, recruitment, training and pay issues.
Business objectives: the ends which an organisation seeks to achieve by means such as budgeting tools and strategies.
Workforce planning: estimating future human resource requirements and ensuring the firm has right number of people, in the right place, with the right skills at the right time.
Introduction
Tesco is the biggest private sector employer in the UK. The company has more than 360,000 employees worldwide. In the UK, Tesco stores range from small local Tesco Express sites to large Tesco Extras and superstores. Around 86% of all sales are from the UK. Tesco also operates in 12