Functional Areas at J Sainsbury's:The functional areas at J Sainsbury's are:- Human resources

GCSE Business Studies

Dervis Kemal 10ET

GNVQ INTERMEDIATE BUSINESS:

How Business’ Work

Task Two:-

Human Resources: Recruitment and Retention

Business Name:

J Sainsbury’s PLC

(Sainsbury’s LTD)

GNVQ INTERMEDIATE BUSINESS:

How Business’ Work’-

Task Two- Human Resources:

Recruitment and Retention

Functional Areas at J Sainsbury’s:

The functional areas at J Sainsbury’s are:-

Human resources
Finance
Administration
Production
Marketing And Sales
Customer Service

Each functional area operates to support Sainsbury’s aims and objectives and a range of activities goes on in each one.

How the functional areas interact with one another is important. For Sainsbury’s to be efficient and effective there has to be close links within different function areas, especially when their activities are related.

Functional areas are important to Sainsbury’s as if there was no such thing, the business itself would fall apart. Here is a diagram to show how this would happen:-

Human Resources:

The first functional area of J Sainsbury I will be covering is Human resources. Human resources look after and employ the employees who work for Sainsbury’s. Human Resources regard staff as the most important resource for a successful business. If the employees are not motivated and only do the minimum work that is required, then all the products and services that’s Sainsbury’s offer would not make the business successful. If the employees are keen to do their best, are well trained and committed to the aims of Sainsbury’s, then Sainsbury’s will be successful. This is why the human resources department is so important.

The Activities Of Human Resources Function:

To fulfil its purpose, human resources staff are involved in certain activities. These include:-

Recruitment and dismissal of staff
Training and promotion of staff
Monitoring good working conditions
Health and safety
Employee organisations and trade unions

The first section I am going to explain is how the human resources department in Sainsbury’s recruit employees.

Recruiting applicants:

The first stage is to identify the vacancy that is needed, Example: - New manager, new shelf stacker etc. After human resources have chosen their job vacancy they start to draw up ...

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The Activities Of Human Resources Function:

To fulfil its purpose, human resources staff are involved in certain activities. These include:-

Recruitment and dismissal of staff
Training and promotion of staff
Monitoring good working conditions
Health and safety
Employee organisations and trade unions

The first section I am going to explain is how the human resources department in Sainsbury’s recruit employees.

Recruiting applicants:

The first stage is to identify the vacancy that is needed, Example: - New manager, new shelf stacker etc. After human resources have chosen their job vacancy they start to draw up a person specification of what is needed from the applicant e.g. essential skills, knowledge, qualities etc. Then they will make a job description, this will include:-

Job title
Pay
Brief description etc.

The next main thing to do is to advertise for potential applicants. The applicants can apply using one of these sources so they have a chance being drawn up for the shortlist to be interviewed.

Job centres

Recruitment agencies
Local/National press papers
Stores/Posters
Connexions
The Internet
Employment Agencies

After the applicants have filled out an application form and sent out their CV’s to the recruitment department they have to draw up a shortlist to see which applicants they would like to interview. The recruitment department decide this by the quality of their CV’s and application forms (sometimes the department will often ask for references off a previous employer for a background check). Now the applicants that stand out from the rest and meet the job specification are called back for an interview by a human resources interviewer. The human resources department use these ways to interview applicants:-

One-stage interviews, carried out by human resources staff.
Two stage interviews, the first carried out by human resources staff, the second carried out by the manager of the new employee.
Panel interviews

The interviewers are trained so that they know how to question applicants and what type of questions to ask. The recruitment department make the applicants take English and maths test, this mostly happens in the second part of interviewing the applicants. After all interviews for potential employees has taken place, the department picks out their favourite candidates that they think and know will do the best compared to the rest, they ask the candidates for their references off previous employers, or if they didn’t have a job they would get it off their referees e.g. (Teachers). They will often ask for two referees names and address so they can get more of a clear picture of who they would be employing but this is often for short listed candidates only.

Once the department has chosen the selected candidates who they want to work for them they write a ‘Letter of appointment’ to them, this mainly says to them that they have got the job to work at the department they are specialised in or given. This will also tell them where there nearest training location is so they van be trained up and ready for work. The recruitment department take training very seriously, if the candidate was to miss one session for a reason such as ‘being ill’ they will sack that person straight away before they have even finished training.

Here is the recruitment process from start to finish:-

Retention:

How Business’ Work- Task Two- Human Resources: Recruitment and Retention