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`Case Study: HR planning and Staffing (Increasing Staff to Complete the First Phase)

Case Study Problem

You are the manager of Talent Planning and Development for the Training Solutions

Division (TSD). You have been tasked with developing a workforce plan to ensure that phases 1

and 2 of this exciting contract are delivered on time and budget. To help you accomplish this,

answer the following questions based on the information you have been provided in this case

study and what you have learned in your class readings, lectures, and discussions.

1. Summarize the key elements/ guidelines of the MRG HPI policy for Assigning employees to

projects

Answer:

MRG has in its existence recruitment policies and guidelines. Notably, MRG HPI functions on

projects that are purely based on firing and hiring employees to keep the human resource

management costs within minimal levels. Below is an outline of the MRG HPI policies for

assigning the employees to their best suit projects.

 All employee's hiring processes should be based on the existing as well as the upcoming projects

that are within their budget.

 Full-time hires will only work on long-term projects and must be under the company

stakeholders' approval, including the branch chief, project manager, CFO, COO, and the Human
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Resource head. The assignment projects and the budgets should undergo verification before

permanent rolling out of the positions.

 The short-term duration projects will be assigned under part-time sub-contracted hires, which

requires approval from the manager of the contract and the branch chief and the project manager,

CFO, COO, and the Human Resource Head. After the verification is done on all the contracts,

the projects' scope and duration are done before the final hiring process is completed.

 Approvals done by the key stakeholders should only be taken in written form.

Chief Guidelines Followed:

 Each employee should be on a rigid role on a project so that all the human resources cost is

covered by the budget assigned for the project,

 All the written approvals from the stakeholders should be taken before taking steps into the

hiring process.

 The bandwidth of any of the employees should not remain unutilized.

2. What challenges do these guidelines cause?

Answer

The table below illustrates the challenges imposed by the guidelines set, the possible solutions,

and the outcomes likely to be assumed.

Challenges Solutions/ Strategies for the Proposed Results due to the

challenges given Solutions

 Lack of qualified employees: Since We are developing a stable  Minimal recruitment costs as

the majority prefer stable and work environment to increase the onetime hiring will be

permanent roles, the ones with employee productivity. carried out on minimum

 We are training the employees

qualified skills and good talents may resource pool to analyze the
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not apply for contract positions for every project provided. demand of the current and the

which are likely to be terminated This will ensure that the upcoming projects. Job

within a short time. employee's skills are up to the rotation will help fulfill the

 Finding the right talent at the right tasks, thus reducing the need to projects' demands without the

time: The well-skilled employees hire new employees. pressure of employing new

are likely not to be available in time Develop a permanent pool of within short notice.

from the beginning of a project or skilled staff and keep them  Increased employees'

due to a business's emergency. The rotating between projects. With productivity as all the

employees who are likely to be regular monitoring of the employees will be provided

hired may not be qualified for the available projects and with security and other job

projects. employees, there will be privileges as they will be

 Lack of employee engagement and maximum utilization of the aiding the company build up.

dedication: It is quite difficult to resources.  Employee skill development

keep an employee engagement and will aid in multiple training

dedication on track when it comes to which are provided concerning

a short deadline project when they the new upcoming projects.

know the date of release and have This will again lead to

no fear of being appraised for their increased employee

performance project-based salaries. satisfaction.

 Time-saving on the multiple

written approvals from all the

stakeholders will no longer be

required for every hiring done.

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Development of the basic job

profile will be carried out and

utilized for the hiring or the

training process of the existing

employees for the required

skills.

Plan

1. What are some of the key positions/ critical roles you need to fill to deliver on this project?

Why? Please break this down by phase 1 and phase 2.

Answer:

The following position will be hired for the training company.

Project Planner: Write down the project's objectives and timelines

Trainer to improve web and print tools. The set of skills should include multimedia knowledge

and PowerPoint

Marketing Officer to manage brochure and branding planning

Login planner to determine event performance features.

2. Given the current staffing, the policy restrictions that are in place, and the key positions.

Critical roles you need to fill, what would be your strategy/ approach to fill these positions?

Answer

1.The existing policy and guidelines are based on projects and are highly dependent on the

budget provided to not focus on human resource development and participation.

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The guidelines ensure that no employee is always idle and uses all of his or her capacity to

justify his or her earnings. Contract employees are not taken for short-term projects, and

although long-term projects have full-time employees, their salary is highly dependent on the

project budget.

3. The hiring strategy will be hiring and avoiding last-minute issues in the delivery of the project.

All staff will need to have basic skills in all the required areas, and further improvement can be

achieved through training to meet the project's needs.

The communication plan for the new recruitment strategies may include the following.

The recruitment for the projects that are in existence may include mapping out and the release of

the job profiles to get the required set of skills for the employee, which can manage more than

just a single type of the projects.

 Hiring will be carried out through the social networks and the websites that involve recruitment

where these profiles have been floated.

 Since it is an individual time hire, the relevant colleges of management and signing can be

visited by the Human resource executives to hire the recruits.

 There could be hiring of the external consultant or agency in providence within the duration of

the specified project and the date on which the resources are required, and when there will be a

matching profile to the job description. Then shortlisting can be done.