Internal and External Constraints Affecting Top Gear plc

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Our Lady’s Catholic High School (46637)        Business Studies         Chris Berry (7017)

                 Unit 1        

Internal and External Constraints

Affecting Top Gear plc

In this task I shall discuss the many difficulties facing Top Gear plc and the internal and external constraints that may affect the company. I will also include constraints that the Personnel Manager will have to keep in mind when he is preparing job advertisements, and, use examples to show how these constraints will affect the decision makers of Top Gear plc.

        I will discuss internal constraints first and later go on to discuss the external constraints that affect both Top Gear plc and the Personnel Manager.

When preparing a job advertisement the Personnel Manager will have to look at several internal constraints before hand. One thing the Personnel Manager may do is check there is actually a job for a new employee or that a new employee is needed. There is no point in recruiting more employees if there are already sufficient employees to do the amount of work that needs to be done. He will also have to look at the payment of new employees. The Personnel Manager will have to discuss this with the manager of the department looking to recruit new employees, or whichever department is paying for the new recruits, and see whether their budget can afford to pay for a new recruit.

Another area the Personnel Manager would have to think about is whether the company can accommodate new employees. For example if the job required an office to work from, and Top Gear plc didn’t have any offices remaining, they would be unable to accommodate a new employee. Also the company may be required to have parking spaces for each individual employee’s. Also the Personnel Manager would have to examine if there are enough resources for a new recruit to carry out the job they have been hired for. If Top Gear plc hired someone to make deliveries, and then found they did not have enough vehicles for the new recruit and existing staff, they would be paying for someone who was doing nothing. The Personnel Manager would also have to consider, if there were an inadequate amount of resources, whether it would be cost-affective to buy more of the required resources or whether it would be cheaper to not recruit any new employees.

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Another constraint may be that the company uses a specialist type of equipment or software package and the Personnel Manager would have to include this as part of the job advertisement. For example, Top Gear plc may use a certain graphics package when designing new clothes, so, new employees involved in the design department of Top Gear plc would have to be able to use that certain graphics package. If they could not use the graphics package then they would require training and this would cost more money, and, if Top Gear plc was only looking to recruit one employee ...

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