Opportunities and Challenges in Wwf

Opportunities and Challenges:

The move represents a number of challenges and opportunities from an HRM perspective. First, a number of WWF employees were not able to relocate to the new headquarter and had to leave the organisation. Second, there were redundancies as result of the merger of two departments. Third, the culture change is aims to reinforce the values of WWF across the whole organisation. Finally, WWF opened to the public and therefore wants to mirror its diverse London community. Its aim is to increase the diversity of its workforce and show that it is an organisation committed to diversity and inclusion.

Your task is to produce a report that sets out the steps involved in designing a recruitment and selection strategy for WWF aimed at increasing the diversity of its workforce, focusing on a specific aspect of diversity, for example Age, Gender, Ethnicity or disability.

In designing a recruitment and selection strategy you need to think of the following:

a. The organization would like to increase its diversity, so what will you need to find out about your labour market and how will you advertise jobs to attract a more diverse workforce and why?

b. You need to think about the job descriptions (called role profiles and classified in job families at WWF), how they should be designed to ensure fairness and inclusion, and also maintain cultural-fit.

c. Will recruitment be based on behavioural competencies? “Success Factors” for the recruitment of the new positions? How will these be used?

d. What are the selection techniques most appropriate for WWF’s strategy?

e. Transition – induction to new staff, how do you make sure staff are settled into the organisation and embrace the organizations’ values?