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Human Resource Workforce Plan

Patricia Vela

OL-655-X3099 Talent Devel & Workforce Plan

Instructor: Dr. Lane

Forecasting is a process that involves forecasting, analysing, and planning for the organizational workforce supply and gap assessments. It analyses the demand and determines the talent management interventions, ensuring that the company entails the right manpower, incorporating the required knowledge and experiences at the right time and place. It ensures that the manpower works towards fulfilling the organizational goals and visions. This paper is an analysis of the current state of the workplace of Apple.

Competency gaps

Apple is a multinational company based in America which is mainly known for its product designs and development that have made it significantly successful through its high-quality products. Apple is one of the biggest job creators in the United States. It has about 80000 employees. The company has about 1530000 jobs attributable to the App Store ecosystem (Arocha, 2017). Through its development on the hardware and the software, the company has employed these employees to meet new development and innovation goals. The company is using various strategies to attract talent into its workforce.

Based on its goal and objectives, the main competency is the development of unique and innovative technology products. Some of its main products are Mac Computer, iPod, iPhone, among several other products. Other competencies include innovation, quality, strong customer service, and strong financial performance. Their competencies have no competency gaps in the current workforce. The company invests a lot of resources in developing new technologies in the form of software and hardware. It is realized through the kind of investments that the company places on the development of technology. It attracts top talent by providing the right resources and wages for its employees, which enable it to develop unique products for its loyal customers.

The company conducts competency skills gaps on the current work to ensure that it remains at the top through its innovative and unique products. To identify the gaps, the company adheres to a specific process where it identifies its organizational objectives. Its main objective is to develop new technologies and unique products that account for its significant revenues. From the objectives, the company identifies the skills that are needed to achieve them. The company attracts top talent after identifying the skills that the employees already have. After the collection of the data, they analyse it and compare it. Through this process, the company ensures that it closes all the gaps involved. Through filling the gap, the maintains inclined productivity and stays on the project budges more effectively.

Through this analysis, there are different data forms analysed. The skills are analysed after collecting the data on the skills needed and using the skills possessed to identify the skills gap. It also analyses where training is necessary to address the gaps. Data on the training required to address the gap is also collected to equip the company with the right information to improve the skills and the abilities of their employees.

Human resource strategy

Apple is a multinational company that is well known for its size and its revenues across the world. However, apple company human resources play a major part in ensuring that the company remains an innovation-oriented firm. Its human resource strategies emphasize investing through human capital. It emphasizes the approval or disapproval of the group members and their participation in making decisions concerning team development. The human resources use practices, processes, and techniques, which is a sure approach by the organization to evaluate the employees and ensure that they retain the creative workforce.

The recruitment to the balancing of talent management focuses on the employee candidates that are significantly hardworking, loyal, and derivers every precise detail perfectly. To ensure that it achieves top talent, the company evaluates the capabilities of its employees. The HR practices maintain their focus on achieving the best performances by its employees. Apple believes that innovation is open to anyone. It works in a dynamic environment that adopts innovative approaches, refined into selective hiring, performance rewards, and 360-degree reward evaluations.

The recruitment strategies are linked to the company's business strategy. Its business strategy is classified and product differentiations. Apple is a multinational company that distinguishes its products and services based on modest but striking designs and progressive functionality (Adel et al., 2021). The strategy has granted the company a competitive advantage. These products are developed by the top talent employees that focus on developing simple but attractive product designs. As a result, they invest in the labour resources to ensure that they keep the organizational revenue status and competitive advantage.

Strategies

Apple has developed exclusive talent development programs over the years because, within the last few years, the company has managed to develop extraordinary products and has also taken the right decisions to flourish in the industry. The tech industry is one of the most competitive industries, and it takes the top talents to be top in the industry irrespective of the completion. The company does not dictate the path of its labour force like other organizations. Instead, it has developed a liberal way of thinking where the strategy exalts the employees to look for the company's positions. It is apparent to the employees as they are motivated to work liberally. It also encourages them to attain the organizational goals as well as their individual goals. The company entails a career management plan linked to support the workers to find their abilities, provisions and prepare them for imminent prospects within and outside the organization.

The talent development plan alights with the organizational goals through conventional management and stifled innovations. The talent development plan involves helping the employees realize their skills and talents for future use. These skills are essential to achieve unique product development's organizational goals (Yusoff, & Husnina, 2018). Innovations are a critical success factor, and a competitive advantage attained through the employee’s skills and talent.

Training

The company has a career management plant that serves as a training program for the employees. The program helps the employees identify their skills, necessities. Once they are identified, they are trained and equipped for future opportunities. It exploits the approach to have the exact manpower in the right occupation. The program helps the employees through their development needs. The needs are also integrated into the organizational training programs.

The company has a library that the employees use for career development, which contains various resources from various sources. The company also offers one-hour seminars on business trends and career tendencies essential for the employee's development (Vasilaki & Tsakalidis Jr, (2019). There are assessments and counselling concerning career planning growth and career adoptions. It also grants the employees the opportunity to air their development subjects and obtain advice on the appropriate steps. Like any other company, Apple has its platform to publish current posts and analyse the requirements for the highlighted vacancies. Apples offer training to its employees through a career development approach.

References

Arocha, J. B. (2017). Getting to the Core: A Case Study on the Company Culture of Apple Inc. http://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1074&context=rptasp

Adel, A. F. S., Omar, A., & Abdulammeer, H. D. (2021). EMPLOYEES’PERFORMANCE ON APPLE COMPANY. PalArch's Journal of Archaeology of Egypt/Egyptology18(4), 1405-1413. https://archives.palarch.nl/index.php/jae/article/view/6493

Vasilaki, M., & Tsakalidis Jr, G. (2019). Apple Inc. Equity Valuation. https://repository.ihu.edu.gr/xmlui/handle/11544/29354

Yusoff, M., & Husnina, N. (2018). Determinants of Risks and Performance in Apple Inc. Available at SSRN 3181705. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3181705