Identify how two organization of your choice plan recruitment using internal and external sources. Also explain the reasons why vacancies occur, and the factors which influence organizations to recruit.

        The Wal-Mart and MacDonald’s are the well-known organizations that have to recruit the new staff more often depending on the requirements of the organization. In every few months the vacancies of new entries occur in both organization in order to manage all of the operations of the company effectively. Here are the recruitment plan of both organization Wal-Mart and MacDonald’s.

Wal-Mart Recruitment Plan

        The human resource management of the Wal-Mart’s is deal with needs of the recruitment by using a lot of methods and sources of the recruitment suitable to different positions in Wal-Mart. The company uses industry-specific principle of the retail in its process of the recruitment. To optimize retention of the employee, strategy of human resource management in the Walmart’s comprised a repeatedly growing program of compensation, jointly with career development and relations management of the employee.  The reason vacancies in the organizations occur is to optimize the overall operations of the organization by recruiting more efficient employees. Many of the operations in the Wal-Mart related to the inventory, supply chain, logistics and operations management in the company [1].

    The internal sources of the Wal-Mart recruitment process are employee referrals and previous applicant who are capable. The external sources that Wal-Mart Company use in the process of recruitment are Advertisement, employment agencies, deputation, word of mouth and employment exchanges [2].

    For recruitment process in the organization the first step is to prepare an effective job description that contains job title, information about company, description of job, qualifications and how to apply. The process of recruitment can be done through social media, website, and advertising and online job portal. Once the applicant applies for job, there is first screening of the candidates and best of them called for interview.  In the interview the behavior and situational questions asked to candidates to know about these skills. At the end the job is offered to the best ones.

    There are many of the factors that are likely to have an influence on the process of recruitment in the Wal-Mart.  The internal factors of the organization that have an influence on the recruitment process are the HRM policies and financial conditional and budget of the company because it is obvious that the company recruitment process effect on the finance of the company. The external factors of the organization that have an influence on the recruitment process are the unemployment rate, competitors and labor laws in the market

MacDonald’s Recruitment Plan

        The MacDonald’s organization used a lot of internal and external sources in order to make the recruitment plan.  The recruitment plan of the organization depends on the needs of the staff in the MacDonald’s branch. The MacDonald’s company offers internship, temporary and permanent jobs in the market and depending on the nature of the job they are offering, overall process of recruitment plan also change. The internal sources of the MacDonald’s recruitment process are previous applicant who are capable and employee referrals. The external sources that MacDonald’s Company uses in the recruitment process are employment agencies, Advertisement, deputation, and employment exchanges.  The most likely to reason of the MacDonald’s vacancies that that either some of the employees who were permanent or internees leaves the job because of promotion, termination etc or the overall operations of the company increase because of increase in demand etc [3].

    In the process of recruitment in the MacDonald’s the primary step is to prepare an helpful job description that include job title, description of job, information about company, qualifications and how to apply. The recruitment process can be done through official website, social media, and advertising and employee’s agencies. Once the candidate applies for job, there is initial screening of the candidates and finest of them called for interview.  In the interview the behavioral and situational questions asked to applicant to know about these intrapersonal skills. At the end the job is offered to the most excellent candidates out of the applicants.

    There are many of the factors that have influences of the overall process of the recruitment in the MacDonald’s organization. The internal factors that influence the MacDonald’s recruitment are operational need, size of the firm and financial budget of the company.  On the other side the external factors which have the impact on the overall process of recruitment in the company are the unemployment rate, labor policies, demand in market and competitors.

Impact of the legal and regulatory framework on recruitment and selection activities of the chosen organization, focus on key legal and ethical requirements of the selected interviews.

    There are a lot of laws that have to be considered by both organizations Wal-Mart and MacDonald’s during the process of recruitment that comprise legislation concerning equality and discrimination and also some of the other principled issues. The employers in the organizations could risk serious punishment if they were found guilty of laws breaching while recruitment process. The Equality Act 2010 carries together numerous previous legislations related to the process of recruitment in the organization together into law. This also covers up all of the discrimination aspects in the organization place of work together with sex, age, race, orientation and religion. It is also likely to hold gender repositioning and maternity and pregnancy. The Equality Act 2010 also covers nine sheltered characteristics. In the process of recruitment there are many issues can raises regarding the legislations and law and it are also important for all of the companies to keep in mind the value of legislation while conducting the whole recruitment.

    The victimization during the recruitment process also occurs when employer unfairly treats any candidates while conducting the interview for the job because they have also brought up an Equality Act claim. The Sex discrimination act 1975-1997 affirms that the all of the employees or even the candidates appear in the interview would be secured from any discrimination because of their sexuality or gender under Equality Act 2010. The discrimination protection applies to the overall process of recruitment access to training and promotion; terms of employment; facilities, access to benefits and discharge in both organizational Wal-Mart and MacDonald’s. The discrimination of Sex takes place when an employee or candidates appear in the interview receives inequitable treatment because of the gender of sex of the person.

Legal and ethical requirements of the selected interviews

    While conducting interviews with the candidates, the employers must need to focus on the ethical and legal concern keeping in mind simple standard that is fairness. Many federal and state laws connected to recruitment, and mainly to hiring discrimination, are intended to maintaining fairness in the organizations. The employers of the Wal-Mart and MacDonald are motivated to do the fair thing to treat all candidates equally and provide them with a chance for consideration. here are some of the legal and ethical concerns that must be kept in mind by Wal-Mart and MacDonald’s company while conducting interviews [4].

Diversity Recruitment Plan

    The law and ethics need employers to look for the most excellent candidate for a particular position. Interviews of recruitment should pay no attention to race, gender, national origin, ethnicity, religion or, in agreement with particular rule, age. The Disabilities Act of Americans made it illegal to differentiate against a capable person with any sort of disability, as long as applicant can carry out the necessary job duties. Even though there is no centralized authorization regarding the sexual orientation, a number of states have law in opposition to discrimination. In other cases except for gender orientation, employers who are likely to show practices of biased recruitment are cause to undergo sanctions from the federal prosecution and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission under federal and state laws.

Standardization Recruitment Plan

    The organization must document and design their processes of recruitment to make sure and prove equality and fairness. The consistent interview and applications questions help make sure applicant receive the similar dealing and fair comparison. In addition, the interviewers have to be careful about not make remarks or stress depends on background or appearance of the candidate.

Nepotism Recruitment Plan

    The nepotism engages giving first choice for employment promotion and opportunities to members of the family. Even though occasionally owners or business leaders or family members are experienced for a job, in case of family member’s recruitment family comprises a disagreement of interest. Most significantly, it undercuts recruitment fairness. The state and federal law prohibit favoritism in Wal-Mart and MacDonald’s organization.

Background Investigations Recruitment Plan

    The Wal-Mart and MacDonald’s defend themselves and customers, by investigates the background of the potential candidates. Normally, these include employment and criminal history information, social security number, education and verification of the professional license, and also sometimes checks of the credit.  it is also very important for the companies to keep the information of the candidates confidential  and not discuss it other than the professional purpose with anyone inside or outside the organization.

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