The role of training and development in career progression
A Nestlé case study
Page 1: Introduction
Nestlé UK has been trading as a business since the 1860s. Today, Nestlé is the world’s leading nutrition, health and wellness company. It is a major player within the UK and Irish food industry, employing over 8,000 people across 23 sites. Nestlé produces some of Britain’s best loved brands, such as KIT KAT®, NESCAFÉ®, SMARTIES®, FELIX®, BUXTON MINERAL WATER® and SHREDDIES®.
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The food and drinks sector is the largest manufacturing sector in the UK. To ensure the industry attracts outstanding young
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The information obtained through the job analysis is used to advertise the vacancy. Vacancies are filled through internal or external recruitment. Internal recruitment involves recruiting someone who currently works within the business. The main advantage of internal recruitment is the reduced cost, as the recruitment process is shorter and so less expensive. Another benefit is that the individual is already familiar with and within the business. A problem recruiting internally is that the internal promotion leaves a vacancy to be filled. External recruitment is when a business recruits someone from outside the company. This has the potential to bring new ideas and experience into the company. It can be an expensive process as individuals recruited externally need a longer induction into the company.
When looking to recruit young talent, Nestlé adopted a radical recruitment shift to strengths based recruitment; this enabled them to more easily differentiate between candidates with limited experience by focusing on their potential instead. This means that its roles are analysed and advertised in terms of the strengths required for the job, not competencies. The differences between the two styles of interviewing are shown in the table to the right.
Page 3: Recruitment
Having completed the job analysis, two documents need writing before the job is advertised. The first is the job description.This lists the main
External recruitment is when job vacancies is filled by a non-existing employee (a person from outside of the organisation).
The recruitment phase involves identifying and hiring the best suited candidate from the labour market either within the organisation or outside the organisation as fast as possible and for the least resources. Recruitment can be both internal and external. Internal recruitment involves evaluating existing employees’ skills and determining whether their skills are appropriate for new vacancies within the organisation. External recruitment involves identifying potential candidates outside of the organisation and determining whether they have the relevant skills and/or education to fill a job post (Business Dictionary, 2015).
What are the environmental and internal forces that argue for Decentralization Vs Centralization at Nestle?
Organizations can use internal recruitment and external recruitment activities to find the best employees for a position. Describe these two approaches and provide one advantage for using each approach. (4 Marks)
Nestle, an international recognized multinational corporation is the world’s leading nutrition, Health and Wellness Company. Nestlé’s mission of “Good Food, Good Life” aims at providing customers with the finest quality of nutritional choices within a wide range of food and beverage classifications (NESTLÉ - Vassos Eliades. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.vassoseliades.com/consumer-goods/nestle.html, para. 1). The merger in 1905 between Nestle and the Anglo-Swiss Milk Company created the Nestle we know today. Nestle is one of the world’s largest suppliers of food and nutritional products operating with 461 factories in 83 countries, with 328,000 employees worldwide (Fries, Lorin, Goldberg, Ray, 2012. Nestle: Agricultural Material
With Nestle being recognized worldwide, providing a wide variety of products ultimately results in greater flexibility and leverage for organizational decisions. In addition, existing products are prone to become stronger and gain greater value through innovations and R&D. The stronger Nestlé’s brands are the more value they can create, not only for their consumers, but also for their shareholders.
Candidates will demonstrate the skills and knowledge to create suitable job descriptions, person specifications and competency frameworks by designing appropriate documentation.
While there is no definitive format for a job description, this factor is the most significant of the job analysis. This description needs to be a written statement detailing what the worker actually does, how he/she will do it, and what the jobs working conditions are. This data will then be used to for details into job specifications, which will list the knowledge, abilities, and skills required to perform the job satisfactorily.
External recruitment is the process of looking outside of the current employee group to fill open positions in an organization. The following are advantages of external
When an organization announces a vacancy or an open job position then it can be filled by either someone internally from the company already working in another position or externally by somebody who is new to the business. For this firms need to consider different methods of hiring and try to create a pool of potential candidates with relevant skill level.
Nestlé is a multinational company with headquarters in Vevey, Switzerland. This company was founded by Henri Nestlé in 1886. Nowadays, Nestlé is not only the largest food and beverage company in the world by offering more than 8,500 brands and 10,000 products, but also has grown to the global leader in nutrition, health and wellness company. It employed more than 283,000 people in more than 456 factories or operations spread over 80 countries around the world.
Nestlé is a multinational bundled sustenance organization established and headquartered in Switzerland. It came about because of a merger in 1905 between the Anglo-Swiss Milk Company for milk items set up by the Page Brothers in Cham, Switzerland, in 1866 and the Farine Henri Nestlé Company set up in 1867 by Henri Nestlé to give a baby sustenance item. Nestlé's trademark of winged animals in a home, got from Henri Nestlé's own emblem, inspires the qualities whereupon he established his Company. A few of Nestle brands are universally famous, which has made the organization a worldwide business sector pioneer in numerous product offerings, including milk, chocolate, ice cream parlor, filtered water and pet nourishment.
Nestle has a wide range of product across a number of markets. Like coffee and healthcare nutrition. But also pet food. It’s very various. Here you can see some famous brands of Nestle, including
In order to reinforce their competitive advantage in this area, Nestlé created Nestlé Nutrition as an autonomous global business unit within the organization, and charged it with the operational and profit and loss responsibility for the claim-based business of Infant Nutrition, HealthCare Nutrition, and Performance Nutrition. This unit aims to deliver superior business performance by offering consumers trusted, science based nutrition products and services.
In 1972, during Industrial Revolution in Switzerland, factory jobs were created for women. Thus, they had less time to prepare meals, and this became a wise spread problem. Julius Maggi (born on October 9, 1846; in Switzerland) took charge of his father’s mill, made a difference by creating packed food hat was quick and easy to prepare, and soon he became pioneer in industrial food production.