Nestle HR Issues

Nestle HR Issues



Executive Summary

Nestle UK is the leading FMSG company with operates its functions more than 86 countries and has around four hundred and fifty factories. The company was founded by Henri Nestle in the year of 1866 and is the leading wellness, health and nutrition company in today's world. Since 2010, organization face serious HR challenges that creates problems in management operation. Communication barrier, Conflicts among department and Compensation issue are some leading problems that organization employee face recently which directly linked to organization HR practices. This report will seeks what different practice Nestle UK should take to overcome this issue because employees are considered as the asset of the organization, it is essential to train them appropriately. Motivating them is also necessary to enhance the productivity.

Executive Summary1

Introduction4

Discussion4

HR Issues in Nestle4

Conflict among Department4

Communication Barrier5

Compensation Issue6

Organizational Structure6

Motivation Theories and Its Application in Nestle8

Content Theory Application (Alderfer's ERG Theory)8

Process Theory Application (Adam's Equity Theory)9

Role of Leadership10

Authenticity10

Interpersonal and team skills10

Clarity of Organization's communication10

The Nestles' Organizational Behaviour Practices11

Communication Strategies11

The Nestles' Organizational Behaviour12

The Nestles' Organizational Culture12

The Importance of Culture in Nestle13

The Dimensions of Culture at Nestle13

The Politics and Power at Nestle14

The Expert Power14

The Legitimate Power15

Conclusion15

The Issue Analysis of Nestle15

Recommendations16

Suggestion for Nestle17

Communication Strategy17

Entrepreneurship Strategy17

Effective training and Development17

Creating High-Performance Work Systems18

Reward system18

Personal Reflection18

Considerations for Future Assignments19

References20

Nestle HR Issues

Introduction

Nestle is the largest food company. The company's headquarters are located in Vevey, Switzerland, and it is Swiss multinational health-related, snack food and nutritional consumer goods company. The company operates in eighty six countries and has around four hundred and fifty factories. The company was founded by Henri Nestle in the year of 1866 and is the leading wellness, health and nutrition company in today's world. In this report, the author is going to examine the Human Resource issues that have been raised recently by the Nestle UK.

Discussion

HR Issues in Nestle

Nestle is although one of the largest FMSG organization who operates its function all over the world. However, I have identified the HR problems within the Nestle UK.

Conflicts among Department

Communication Barrier

Compensation Issue

Conflict among Department

One of the major problems that arise due to role conflict is the disagreement among department which results in the imbalance of power in the organization. Employee become discriminate that Nestle UK favour mostly to Sales department in terms of benefits (salary, bonus and allowance) as compare with Manufacturing or Marketing. Allowances, such as, mobile and fuel allowance, increment in salaries, team leader is the form on the basis of promotions, and cash bonuses are the different kinds of rewards given to only Finance employees by Nestle UK. According to Stevens et.al, (2012) Role conflict becomes even severe if the conflicting parties are in contact with each other of working in the same department or for the same cause. For example, at Nestle UK, department only work for their own department (Finance) success and not focused on Nestle vision and mission. Therefore, the conflict will continue to exist if the organization does not remove these differences, because department ...