Questions
The following questions should be answered in one essay with headings and subheadings using the material and concepts from the course and additional referenced research.
Assume you are the HR director for a large grocery food chain XYZ Grocery, a low-cost grocery provider selling to retail customers. For strategic reasons you have been asked by the CEO to provide a snapshot of HR and its impact on XYZ Grocery. The CEO is asking all company directors to complete similar analysis for their departments given recent pressures on food prices: https://globalnews.ca/news/8637869/canadians-changing-food-buying-habit-survey/
A key step in completing a strategic HR analysis is environmental scanning – examining what is happening outside the organization that could impact HR planning. Examples of some major forces impacting Canadian businesses are economic, social, legal, demographic, technological and cultural. In your essay you will examine the forces impacting organizations today, identify how these forces affect HR planning and outline what XYZ Grocery can do to manage these forces to be a talent destination – a place prospective employees want to work. In writing your essay to submit to the CEO answer the following three questions:
1. Identify and explain the top five external forces in 2022 that are impacting organizations and have the potential to impact HR in the grocery industry.
2. Explain the HR implications of the forces you have identified. What are the risks or opportunities that arise from these external forces for XYZ Grocery from an HR perspective?
3. Given the forces you identified and the HR implications you have outlined, provide recommendations to manage the HR implications to make XYZ Grocery a talent destination and maintain a work force of strong and dedicated employees providing excellent customer products and services.
Paper Format
• Submit your exam in two files – in word and PDF
• Maximum paper length single-spaced 8 pages.
• Paper should be 11-point Times New Roman font with margins of 254 cm.
• The reference section, tables and appendices are not included in the 8 page limit.
• Referencing: Put a reference section at the end of the exam. Place references in alphabetical order. Use APA citation rules for all references. Be sure sources (journal, media etc.) are from qualify sources. For questions related to APA referencing look at the following link: https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/apa_style/apa_formatting_and_style_guide/general_format.html
• Use headings and subheadings in your paper
• Include an introduction and conclusion.
• Place your name and student number in a header.
