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Project outline

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Institutional Affiliation

1. Recruitment Plan

a) Recruitment is the cost efficient and timely process of looking for and brings on board the best-qualified candidate to occupy a job opening.

i) There are different tools in place for utilization in finding the suitable candidates for the position of Customer Service Manager or the Chief Communication Officer at the organization (Allen, 2004).

ii) The first tool is the preparation or drafting of the job description of the position and the requirements for the post holder including the specific job tasks that the position holder will perform or head at the organization, the academic qualifications as per the job advertisement, the professional skills in customer service or communication, and the mental state of the candied, the mode of employment, the salary scales and the working duration.

iii) This tool will make it easy for the right candidates to applying in terms of their qualification and satisfaction of the working conditions (Allen, 2004).

iv) In addition, it will make it easy for the employer to zero down on the applicants since the requirements will automatically leave others pout.

v) It will go hand in hand with the interviewing process of the very successful candidates from which the best qualified is selected and employed.

vi) In the process of hiring the new employees, organization’s human resource management office will accord equal opportunity to all applicants in terms of minority groups, perspectives gender, and experiences and many more.

vii) It means setting up an affirmative action office to prevent underutilization and underrepresentation of the applicants since there will be job reviews, a recruitment plan and strategy for the process (Bermont, 2004).

viii) The recruitment plan would also involve advertising the vacant job position in an appropriate and aggressive manner in accordance with law.

ix) The advertisement requirements include the advert being wide in terms of coverage and as such, should run for a minimum of 30days before application deadline to give ample time for the recruiters to prepare (Bermont, 2004).

x) Upon receiving the application letters, the HRD should acknowledge receipt of the same by notifying all the applicants through phone calls or email before the process of evaluating the application pool is assessed.

xi) There must be screening of the application material on the basis of the advertisement minimum and preferred qualification after which interviews are scheduled.

2. Communication and leadership style assessment

b) Communication assessment

xii) For the project there are five steps that were involved in choosing a communication strategy.

xiii) The first decision is the setting objective decision where the team would specifically discuss the objectives of the project; the recruitment project had its main object of selecting the best talent in the region.

xiv) Second is the target audience of the project, given this is an upcoming company we opted for our target audience to be university students who are finishing the studies.

xv) The third communication strategy is the media decision through which we picked seminars and conferences in educational institutions. After the media decision we now have to make the message decision.

xvi) At this point we choose the best way to lure young scholars to work with us by telling them about our organization as well as the privileges that come with our associates. Finally the budget decision has to be made.

3. Leadership Style Assessment

There are a number of leadership styles that we had the chance of going through before settling for the best alternative

c) Authoritarian

xvii) It is a leadership style that keeps strict and a close control over followers through the use of close regulations policies and procedures.

xviii) These types of leaders make sure that they only have a professional relationship with their staff. It involves giving directives for actions to be undertaken.

d) Paternalistic

xix) In a paternalistic style the leader acts as father figure where they take care of their subordinates as a parent would take care of their children.

xx) They offer complete concern in exchange for complete trust and loyalty from their people.

xxi) These type of workers are expected to work long term projects with the company hence he solid relationship

e) Democratic

xxii) It consists of the leaders sharing with group members’ matters regarding decision making.

xxiii) The ideas is to promote the interests of the group members and practice social equity

xxiv) With the three types of leadership styles in mind we just had to settle for one.

xxv) Paternalistic leadership style is the best fit for the project since the project is intended to go for a longer period of time thus we needed to form a strong working relationship as well as a friendly environment with all the members involved in the project.

4. S.W.O.T Analysis

f) Strengths of the project

xxvi) It majorly focused on undergraduates and postgraduates thus it was easy picking out the best talent out of the best population size.

xxvii) It gave us the opportunity to train the use a fixed budget as there were no additional expenses expected

g) Weakness of the project

xxviii) Recruitment is a long process that involves going out and carrying out research.

xxix) If the findings do not meet the objectives it tends to be discouraging to group members

h) Opportunity

xxx) There were plenty of opportunities for the projects as there are many institutions spread all over so it was not challenging as we just had to use the school or faculty to pick a particular line of skills.

i) Threats

xxxi) The project can come under serious scrutiny from investors who think undergraduates are in experienced thus obstacles are expected to string up

Reference

Allen, J. G. (2004). The complete Q&A job interview book. Hoboken, NJ: J. Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Bermont, T. (2004). 10 insider secrets to a winning job search: Everything you need to get the job you want in 24 hours--or less! Franklin Lakes, NJ: Career Press