Reference no: EM133160604

The board at Humble Beginnings is planning to open a new department in the organisation, which will head digital operations across the company to increase efficiency in workflow and to introduce new technologies that will develop operations and give the company a competitive advantage in the fiance industry. Part of your job as an HR Manager is to ensure that the company hires people who will not only align with the values that Humble Beginnings propounds, but to also ensure that the person that they will be hiring has wide experience in finance and is a qualified digital specialist. The organisation has branches around Johannesburg and its primary aim is to be the number one financial institution in the country, which offers services and fair and equal interest to people of all classes. Answer these questions to highlight you experience in Human Resources.

Note: You many answer the question based on your organisation or one with which you are familiar, but base them on or relate them to Humble Beginnings.

Question 1

Workforce planning is an important aspect of human resource management as it allows experienced talent to be recruited in advance of needs and ensures that the achievement of corporate objectives is facilitated.

Discuss 3 external and 3 internal factors of workplace planning and demonstrate how these factors will affect this process. Provide relevant examples (fictitious, but based on the provided scenario) to justify our discussion of these factors.

Question 2

Now that you have discussed the internal and external factors that may affect the workforce planning process, thereby providing you with a future focus of the organisation's requirements and goals, you will need to think about the company's recruitment, placement and its career management methods.

Discuss Humble Beginnings basis for recruitment and placement and then examine the organisations career management methods, and how these methods will ensure that you and the company select the best candidates

Note: You will have to research any 5 of the career management methods.

Question 3

As a result of you discussing the company's basis for recruitment and placement, and examining its career management methods, you need to look at its requirements for recruitment and selection.

Research recruitment and selection standards used by financial institutions in order to hire digital professionals and then carefully evaluate methods that Humble Beginnings will have to adopt in hiring employees to fill up this department.