Coca Cola's Human Resources

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I need to produce an analytical report on how a medium-sized or large

business manages human resources. I should show the importance of the

human resources management to the business, providing a comprehensive

overview of all four of the following functions and focussing in depth

on one of the functions:

* Human resources planning

* Recruitment and selection

* Training and development

* Performance management

I am going to relate my human resource coursework to UK Coca Cola

London-Edmonton branch and explain in depth how human resource is

managed there.

A Little History about Coca Cola

Coca Cola was invented on 8th May 1886 by Dr John S Pemberton in

Atlanta, Georgia – USA. The name Coca Cola was suggested by Dr

Pemberton’s bookkeeper, Frank Robinson. He penned the name Coca Cola

in the flowing script that is famous today. Coca Cola was first sold

at the soda fountain in Jacob’s Pharmacy in Atlanta. During the first

year, sales of Coca Cola averaged nine drinks a day, adding up to

total sales for that year of £50. Today, products of the Coca Cola

Company are consumed at the rate of more than one billion drinks per

day in around 200 countries.

Human Resource management is workers within a team that contributes

towards the business's objectives. Human Resources Management

department incorporates the Personnel department functions and

develops them. The role of HRM is to enable workers to contribute to

their maximum efficiency towards the objectives of the business. Human

Resource management is needed for every business small or large and it

is so resourceful to have a human resource department in the business

which will make the employees to achieve company objectives on time

well organised.

Human Resource is mainly about how employees get managed in the

business, main parts of human resource are recruitment and selection,

performance management and finally training and development.

The business should not do mistakes in recruiting and selecting a

wrong new employee because that can result with reputation of company

going down, company’s money and time are being wasted plus stock

losses or sale level going down. For these reasons the human resource

department should choose the right person who can offer the right

skills to help the team of workers to meet the company objectives.

When setting up the busine...

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...d self-fulfilment.

Payment is usually linked with motivation where it is related with

performance. An extreme case is piece-work where there is no basic pay

and payment is totally based on output. Home-workers in the rag trade

or casual agricultural workers such as fruit-pickers are often paid in

this way and also in several poor countries managers sometime delay

wages time because of less outcome. More usually, basic pay is

supplemented by performance-related pay in the form of a bonus or

commission for excellent results.

In general it has become accepted that, although a workforce that is

not motivated will work, the quality and efficiency of work improves

with motivation. It is therefore the role of human resources

management to understand what motivates employees.

Over the years numbers of management theories have been put forward in

an attempt to explain the nature of motivation and suggest ways in

which it may be improved.

In Coca Cola factory which is in Edmonton-London pay is the main

motivator and second motivator is increasing experienced worker

responsibility so the worker learns new skills and the job becomes

more interesting for him or her.

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