P1 - Business Resources - Unit 2

Production – Having a good production team can help your business stay up to the task of handling all of your demand needs. Knowing your production costs and the speed your employees can complete a task will help you to figure out how much profit can be made of an item. This can be done by taking in the time factor when working on a particular job and the parts required. The speed and quality of production plays a big factor in the company and keeping it running. Our employees in the business who are in the production department will be the engine room of the business. We would strive to keep them comfortable and provide them with enough down to make sure they are not over worked and stressed, which will give us better quality in

Recruitment is the process by which a business seeks to hire the right person for a vacancy. (BBC Bitesize).

| A trade union is an organisation that employees can join, where their rights and interests are discussed and protected. A trade

Employment agency is another option for external recruitments. Companies can simply provide job description to agencies where vacancies will be introduced to people who are looking for jobs.

According to Russell, K. (2016) internal recruitment is the process of find a suitable employees from exiting workforce of an organisation to carry out a new vacancy aroused in

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).

In this report I will compare the purposes of all different recruitment resources documents used in the selection and recruitment process for a given organisation.

This Act protects consumers from misleading descriptions which the business has said about their products and services. It would be a criminal offence if the business trader was to:

Data is the form of input, which can be produced into information. For example, 5000 could be the value of a piece of data that a business has. By adding context to this, for example if an organisation sold 1000 sandwiches in a week; this becomes information, which will influence important decisions

Everyone has either had to tell a man to put the seat down or a woman to put the seat up or even had to touch the toilet seat while cleaning. Who would ever think that something so small could cause such conflict between men and women? However, this argument has been going on for years and now there is an answer for it. In the following business plan, you will read about a product that may be the answer to the ending the arguing and the touching of the toilet seat. I aim to attract the public by using three phases: establishing a professional team that can make a great product while ending the disagreements, experimenting/doing trials of the product, and finally creating a client base worldwide. There are many different job opportunities that

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)

Advertisements are the most common form of external recruitment. They can be found in many places (local and national newspapers, notice boards, recruitment fairs).

If internal recruitment is not an option / has been unsuccessful, companies will the need to advertise to a wider audience. An employer will need to decide which method of recruitment is most suitable for the role and organisation. Common recruitment methods include advertising on the company’s own corporate website, using internet based jobsites, recruitment agencies, local or national press, job centre plus or employee referral schemes. The CIPD resourcing and talent planning survey (2013) lists the top 5 methods of recruitment as,

Internal sources come from internal company that conducts the recruitment. Recruitment using these sources is relatively quick and inexpensive. Company does not need any advertisement, head hunter or any other form of recruitment that is costly.