Question

The essay topic is as follows:

Choose a real organisation and review its employee value proposition. Discuss what the organisation does well, and opportunities for improvement. Your analysis should consider the following:

1. The extent to which its value proposition aligns with the organisation's business strategy and draws on its unique strengths.
2. What might be learned from similar organisations (who are competing to attract the same potential recruits) in terms of their value propositions.
3. What the academic literature says about best practice in attracting employees.

Answer 1

The organisation chosen is Proctor & Gamble. The organisation clearly communicates its values and beliefs to its target audience and market. It has well developed policies for recruiting, hiring and retention of its employees based on sharing of mutual values and treating its employees with respect and dignity. The company while hiring gives lot of importance to the candidates aspirations so that it matches with the job position and there is no discontent or dissatisfaction. For better results, the ways to motivate employees are found and implemented. The organisation can improve with use of different sources for hiring and not relying on a single source like campus hiring only.

The organisation's strategy aligns well with its employees value proposition as the organisation considers its employees and customers as important stakeholders in their business. It has open communication channels with its customers and employees. It encourages sharing of ideas, information and feedback openly so that every individual opinion is valued and heard creating a knowledge board across the organisation. Such platforms provide clear information about the company and its employees as evidence of the strategies practiced by the organisation.

It can be learned from similar organisations in terms of their value proposition is trust and transparency are important in the process. If an organisation's has created trust in dealings with its customers and stakeholders, such organisation are more likely to attract talented and genuine workforce. It is also essential the candidates and other stakeholders can assess the proposition with available evidence and feedback from the current workforce to validate the organisation's value proposition compared to other similar firms.

Academic literature says that the best practice in attracting employees are clear communication, competitive benefits , finding a match between the organisation and candidate's values so that they can work in coherence and using unbiased procedures for candidate's assessment and evaluation. Attracting employees improves the organisational performance as well as reduces the training costs when the individual are hired with proper assessment and evaluation.