Bradford Enterprises has experienced rapid expansion over the last 12 months, growing from 10 locations and 3,000 employees in one state to 22 locations and 8,000 employees in seven states.
Bradford Enterprises has decided to upgrade its HR approach and raise it to a new level to be more competitive. The company’s owner is looking to implement three specific HR tools to help the HR do its job well and manage this expansion. The tools are selection tests, a Human Resource Information System (HRIS), and succession planning tools.As an HR manager, you have been asked to sit on the committee to identify which selection tests, HRIS, and succession planning tools should be considered. Your task is to identify specific criteria for the selection process of each tool. Write a paper of no more than 1,050 words, which uses at least one peer-reviewed source, identifying which selection criteria you feel is most valuable for each tool; use references to support your choice.
You must include an analysis of the chosen criteria for the three tools and how they differ from each other.Bradford Enterprises is a company that is rapidly expanding their organization and workforce. It has recently opened twenty-two location employing eight thousand employees in seven states. Bradford Enterprises has decided to upgrade its HR approach and raise it to a new level to be more competitive. The owner of the company wants to implement three specific HR tools to help HR do its job well and manage this expansion.
The tools the owner wants to use are selections tests, HRIS, and succession planning tools.As an HR manager, I have been asked, as an HR manager of the company, to identify specific criteria to be used for the selection process, for each tool. The first tool we will analyze are selection tests. Selection tests are test the applicants ability to perform the job. It also will gauge how that employee will perform at the company. It is important to have a selection test that will allow the company to decipher what type of employee that person will be.
For example you can have an employee who can do the job and they have the same values as the company but they are just not motivated. Another possibility is that you can have an employee that is motivated and has the same values as the company but does not have the background or skills to perform the job. Lastly you could have you could have an employee that is motivated and can do the job but does not have the same values as the company.These situations can cause a company to have many issues and frustrations. It is almost better to not fill that position and let the other employees pick up the slack. When there is disharmony in a company it can cause big morale problems within the climate and culture of the company.
Selection process is very crucial to the company to keep the climate and culture of the company on stable ground. Human Resource Information System, HRIS, are tools that are automated for HR to assist them at performing their job.
