BTEC Level 3 Business

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BTEC Level 3 Business

• Unit 2- Assignment 1
• P1, P2, M2

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Human Resources

• Human resources are essential to businesses of
  all sizes.
• Human resources are managed in two ways
• The right people have to be recruited
• The right resources have to be provided to
  facilitate the employees in doing their job.

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Human Resources

• Staffing to meet changing business demands a
  business needs to employ the right people at the
  right time- the need for staff will change
  depending upon the economic climate, the life
  cycle stage the business is in, seasonal
  fluctuations.
• Monitoring of team performance- a business needs
  to monitor how well a group of employees
  performs, this can be done using target setting.
• Establishing a professional culture- this is
  determining the way employees behave in a
  business, a business sets expectations and rules
  to ensure the culture in the business is
  professional
• Outsourcing- business can outsource some of their
  departments, for example cleaning, this can be
  done to save money in training and recruitment
  costs, and machinery.

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Maintenance of Operations

• Adequate resources
• Staffing
• Equipment
• Working capital
• Facilities

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Recruitment Documents

• Begin your essay with an introduction to Human
  resources- why are they important to businesses
  and how can they be managed in a business?
• Now explain the recruitment process, including
  actual examples for a selected business.
• Job Advert- what does it include and what methods
  are used?
• Job Description- what information is included?
• Person Specification- what information is
  included?
• What methods can a potential employee use to
  apply? CV, letter, application form?
• Selection- what methods of selection are used?
  Who is responsible for this?
• Interviews- what types of interviews are used
• Contracts- what is included
• Induction training- what training is offered and
  who conducts the training.
• Conclusion how does a business decide they need
  to recruit a new member of staff? Why is it
  important to employ the right person?

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P1- Recruitment process

• 1. Choose a business and produce a flow chart to
  show their stages of the recruitment process
• 2. Explain what happens at each stage
• 3 Provide an example of each document used during
  the recruitment process
• 4 Explain the reasons as to why a business may
  need to recruit.