Solution Benefits of diversity Diversity at BMG means the company is open to employing employees with differences in gender, sex, religion, education, experiences and cultural backgrounds. Improved organisation reputation Diversity in talents can be foundation for BMG to improve its brand image in the minds of job seekers. An organisation that recruits talents from diverse cultural backgrounds can positively boost its employer brand and make it for candidates to relate the brand (Rz...

Solution Talent pools are collection of potential candidates who can help the organisation achieve success (Personio, 2022). An example of a talent pool within BMG could be candidates who fail to get a job because they are fit in other roles that was not described in the job posting. It could also be candidates who qualified, but were not selected as there were many for that position. There are different ways to build and support talent pools: Career fairs Career fairs are recruitment ...

Solution Talents are employees who have skills and knowledge to help organisation achieve its goals and objectives (Quilliam, 2022). Talents can be developed and retained at individual and group levels using lateral moves, appraisals and work-life balance. BMG can adopt lateral moves as a way to develop its talents at individual levels. Lateral moves involves a moving an employee from one role to another or a different job, probably without additional compensation (George, 2022). The aim ...

Solution Recruitment Advertisement Advertisement method of recruitment is about posting jobs where potential candidates can see it (Pejic-Bach et al., 2020). These include paid ads, newspapers and job boards. Its strength is the ability to provide defined roles as employer is clear on what they want and expect from candidates. Jobs ads can also improve employer brand by including organisation mission in the advert. Its weakness is that ads are only limited to active candidates. It is a...

Solution Succession planning Succession planning involves identifying and developing future leaders, managers and individuals to take up critical roles (Ritchie, 2020). George (2021) classifies approaches to succession planning as traditional and modern approach. Traditional approach focused on identifying internal successors and the training them to occupy future roles. Modern approach is about continuous development. Organisations are embracing learning methods such as lateral moves, se...

Solution The 9-Box Grid The 9-box grid is a workforce planning tool used to map out the current state of the workforce in terms of performance and potential (Widnyanadita and Syarifah, 2023). Employees are plotted in a grid showing low potential and low performance, and high performance and high potential. Its advantage is that it is easy to use when analysing workforce needs. Employer can be able understand the current state of the workforce in terms of capabilities and take measures for...

Solution Workforce planning balancing labour supply with the demand. It involves analysing the current and future workforce needs, identifying workforce gaps and taking measures to address those gaps (Tucker, 2022). As a result, effective workforce planning can ensure BMG has the right people with the right skills in the workplace. Principles of workforce planning include strategic focus – focusing on ways to achieve organisational sustainable performance, and alignment. There is a need to a...

Solution Turnover is the number of employees who leave the organisation expressed as a percentage of the total number of workforce (Maxwell, 2022). Turnover can be dysfunctional when high performing employees leave or functional when low performers leave the workplace. An example of current trend in turnover is the post-pandemic turnover. Research demonstrates that turnover ‘tsunami’ is expected to occur once the organisations have recovered from pandemic (Maurer, 2021). During the pa...

Solution Government The government supports skill development by introducing policies and reforms to improve education. In the UK, the government supports apprenticeship programmes through apprenticeship levy and funding (Crowley, 2022). Another way the government has supported learning is through the reformation of vocational and technical education under the Skills for Jobs White Paper. The introduction of Sainsbury Review of Post-16 skills has made the government to reform technica...

Solution A labour market is a market where employers look for talents and employees search for available jobs. According to Boys (2022) the labour market can be tight or loose. When the labour market is tight, unemployment is low and there are many unfilled job vacancies. The impact of tight labour market on resourcing decisions is recruitment struggles and difficulties in retaining talents. CIPD’s (2023) labour market outlook report found that the market is tight and organisations are f...