Assessment Task 1 – Case Study
Blue Gum is the Australian producer of custom made clothing and
promotional products within Australia and overseas. Currently the business
is based in Victoria and has additional offices in Sydney, North Queensland
and in Ningbo, China. In Australia each store employs a store manager and
approximately ten (10) employees.
Senior management of Blue Gum have planned to increase company
profits by 10% in the current financial year. A key focus of the strategy is on
controlling costs within the business as a means of achieving their profit
targets. Up until just recently, all HR practices were managed at a local
level by each of the individual store managers but staff turnover was a
problem. As part of the company’s strategic plan and focus on controlling
costs, Blue Gum wants to better manage its HR operations.
Imagine you are the National Human Resources Manager who has been
employed to assist Blue Gum in achieving this. Your first task has been to
review the current recruitment practices used by the stores. In your review
of company documentation and the website policies at:
http://www.bluegum.com.au/cgi-bin/content.pl you have determined that
Blue Gum does not have any Recruitment, Selection or Induction policies in
place. You have also determined that the procedures and supporting
documents vary from store to store.
TASK: You need to prepare certain documents for the Blue Gum senior
management team. You need to provide them with:
1. A recruitment policy (including procedures)
2. A selection policy (including procedures)
3. An induction policy (including procedures)
4. A job application form
5. A written response to the following questions asked by Blue Gum
senior management team:
a. How will formal recruitment, selection and induction policies
assist Blue Gum in achieving its strategy of HR consistency
across all the stores?
b. Why is it important that senior management and store managers
support and endorse the new policies? How will you convince
them if they don’t support them?
(Word limit: approximately 900 words)
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