Cotton On: A Job Study: Cotton On Job Analysis
1.0 Introduction
Cotton on is a private owned MNC that originated from Australia and is currently having operations in about 12 countries with more than 1000 outlets. It was founded by Nigel Austin and has been around for 24 years now. Cotton On is a clothing and apparel line for all gender, ages and sizes. Not only clothings, they also sell shoes and are well known for their reasonably priced and good quality products. They employ around 17000 employees to work for them. Thus human resource management is utmost important, to manage the wide base of workers. Originally they started off by selling only woman clothings and slowly expanded to selling men clothings, children clothing, shoes and other apparels. They have a simple motto which promises …show more content…
Cotton on can do a job analysis by interviewing its existing employees or by observing them work while taking down notes of their tasks, duties and responsibilities. Job description identifies conditions in which work is performed. A good job analysis will attract the right candidates and reduce chances of skill deficiencies.
Cotton On can use a combination of design for efficiency as a method to job design, also called industrial engineering in which they find the simplest way to maximize efficiency and design for motivation, job enlargement. They could train employees to carry out tasks around the store, for example during non peak hours when less staff are required, they could just hire 2 staff to do on floor duties like sweeping, packing, replenishing and cashiering. This way they will always have something to do when there are no customers and will avoid problems of boredom and repetitive …show more content…
This is done to ensure there are adequate staff to meet strategic goals and business objectives. Human Resource Planning compares the present state of the organization with its goals and identifies what changes must be taken to meet the goals. It’s all about planning for the future and future labor requirements of the firm by forecasting future demand and supply
There are 3 steps to human resource planning which is to predict whether there will be excess supply or demand then what the company is going to do about it and lastly implement what was planned. After all that is done, evaluate.
HRM need to get the right balance between labor demand and supply so that there are sufficient workers with the right skill at the right
Cotton on is a private owned MNC that originated from Australia and is currently having operations in about 12 countries with more than 1000 outlets. It was founded by Nigel Austin and has been around for 24 years now. Cotton On is a clothing and apparel line for all gender, ages and sizes. Not only clothings, they also sell shoes and are well known for their reasonably priced and good quality products. They employ around 17000 employees to work for them. Thus human resource management is utmost important, to manage the wide base of workers. Originally they started off by selling only woman clothings and slowly expanded to selling men clothings, children clothing, shoes and other apparels. They have a simple motto which promises …show more content…
Cotton on can do a job analysis by interviewing its existing employees or by observing them work while taking down notes of their tasks, duties and responsibilities. Job description identifies conditions in which work is performed. A good job analysis will attract the right candidates and reduce chances of skill deficiencies.
Cotton On can use a combination of design for efficiency as a method to job design, also called industrial engineering in which they find the simplest way to maximize efficiency and design for motivation, job enlargement. They could train employees to carry out tasks around the store, for example during non peak hours when less staff are required, they could just hire 2 staff to do on floor duties like sweeping, packing, replenishing and cashiering. This way they will always have something to do when there are no customers and will avoid problems of boredom and repetitive …show more content…
This is done to ensure there are adequate staff to meet strategic goals and business objectives. Human Resource Planning compares the present state of the organization with its goals and identifies what changes must be taken to meet the goals. It’s all about planning for the future and future labor requirements of the firm by forecasting future demand and supply
There are 3 steps to human resource planning which is to predict whether there will be excess supply or demand then what the company is going to do about it and lastly implement what was planned. After all that is done, evaluate.
HRM need to get the right balance between labor demand and supply so that there are sufficient workers with the right skill at the right