Assignment 4
Assignment 4
20181-23585
CORPORATE STRATEGY
It is critical to understand that sustainability affects everything in the corporation. The hard dashboard
items like revenue and income growth, as well as the soft outcomes like reputation, customer
satisfaction, and stockholder value, all relate to sustainability. Remember, sustainability must be a part
of your corporate culture; it should provide the framework for how you operate. It is not a unique
event that exists separately or on top of other activities — it must be part of each and every
measurement. Long-term sustainability is the key to Searle Pharmaceutical Company’s success.
Sustainability is the proper focus of everyone in our organization, and we demonstrate commitment to
it in many ways, such as progressive business strategies, quality management, performance standards,
training and continuous improvement, resource development, and fiscal responsibility. These are the
elements that propel us forward. Moreover, attracting and retaining the best people throughout our
organization is at the core of our long-term competitive strategy. We work to provide industry leading
benefits and compensation programs. We strive to enhance technical, quality, and support training to
benefit all employees, and we embrace changing workforce demographics by establishing non-
traditional career paths and bringing better balance to work-life and home-life demands. In addition,
we foster diversity throughout the organization’s leadership and staff.
CORE FUNCTIONS
Internal Sources:
Present, Permanent employees
Present Temp/ Casual
Employee referrals
Dependents of diseased , disabled , retired and present employees
External sources:
Advertisement (Internet postings/ Newspaper)
Private Employment Agencies/ Consultancies / Professional organizations
Educational Training Institutes
Unsolicited applications
Recruitment Process of Searle pharmaceutical company
Recruitment refers to the process by which organization locate and attract right people for the
right position. Recruitment is one of the main functions of HR department. Recruitment may take
place by the recruiters of the Organization directly or sometimes it may take place by an
employment agency. To attract applicants through advertising (like- online, newspapers,
advertisements placed in windows, through a job center, through campus graduate recruitment
programs etc) is a usual part of recruiting process. Generate candidate pool by either internal or
external recruitment methods and evaluate candidates through selection process. Finally selection
of candidates and job offer to the candidates.
In Searle pharmaceutical company, recruiters try to find and attract capable applicants. Recruiters
identify job openings through HR planning or request by the manager. Once openings have been
identified the recruiters learn job requirements by reviewing the job analysis information, particularly
the job descriptions and job specifications. Recruiters also may supplement their knowledge about the
job requirements with discussion to the concern manager. Select the recruitment method
depending on the meeting with concern Department Head/ Manager. Either internal or external
recruitment; if internal recruitment (presents employees/referrals/temporary workers/contractual
employees/ internee) or external recruitment. Select candidates and job offer to them. Satisfactory
level of recruitment is ended up.
Selection
Selection: is a process starts with gathering information from a candidate’s application and ends
with selecting him/her for a particular position of an organization.
Selection Criteria at Searle pharmaceutical company
To select the appropriate candidate is very important because more attention is paid to the costs of
poor selection. The selection decision has always been important as the way for a company to
obtain the human resource that is appropriate for the job and company. Searle pharmaceutical
company created selection criteria to make the selection procedure easier.
Developing good selection criteria is a very useful technique for outlining the particular needs of
the department for a particular position. This process makes the selection procedure much easier,
specific, straight forwarder and less subjective. The three standards followed in Searle pharmaceutical
company are explained below:
Job Relatedness
Job relatedness means that every standard must be specifically connected to the work to be
performed on the job. All qualifications used to screen applicants in the hiring process are directly
related to the job being filled. If, for example, there is a requirement for a bachelor's degree, that
standard is shown directly related to the position. A candidate with a Ph.D. (in a field not directly
related to the position being filled) would not be more qualified than an applicant with a bachelor
degree in a related field. If specific knowledge of budget procedures is given as a requirement, the
position must require the application or use of that knowledge.
Measurability
Minimum qualifications and selection criteria is always measurable and demonstrable. That
means they can be measured objectively or clearly demonstrated by the applicant or the
applicant's past history. If a selection criterion called for "maturity" or "attitude," there might be
many interpretations of what those standards mean. Therefore it would be very difficult to
measure the applicant against those vague criteria. A standard such as "demonstrated ability to
work effectively with supervisors, peers, subordinates," would much more closely fit the
requirement of measurability and demonstrability. Demonstration of this agility is verified
through references, letters of recommendation, and checks with previous employers. Even a
criterion such as "good typist" is not as easily measurable as "ability to type 60 words a minute
with only three errors."
Successful Completion of Work
Criteria listed as minimum qualifications or selection criteria must be necessary to perform the
work successfully. If a bachelor's degree is given as a requirement for the job, but it cannot be
demonstrated that the actual degree is necessary for the performance of the job, then a criterion
like bachelor's degree or equivalent" is used instead. Relevance and quality of education may be
considered in the selection process but must be shown to be necessary for the particular job at
hand.
Selection Tools
Managing Director or The Chief Executive Officer has sole authority for any selection without
any competitive examination. Otherwise the following procedure is used for selection of
employees in Searle pharmaceutical company:
Written Test
Written Test is only applicable for junior management, unionized and non-managerial
contractual positions. In exceptional cases where specific knowledge and skill areas are
needed to be identified and the interview is not sufficient enough to deal with, written test
is applied as a selection tool.
IQ Test
IQ Test is applicable for all junior management and non-managerial contractual positions.
HRD is solely authorized and responsible for selecting the question patterns, venue and
time of examination.
Interview
Following is the standard interview process for junior management, managerial contractual,
unionized employees, and mid-level and senior management positions:
For junior management, non-managerial contractual and unionized employees, interview
is conducted in a single phase, but before offering employment, it requires approval from
Head of the Department and HR Manager. The interview board is consisting of a
representative from HRD and a representative from the concerned department.
For mid-level management, interview is conducted in two phases. For the first phase,
interview board consists of a minimum mid-level executive from HR and a senior
executive from the concerned department. For the final phase, the interview board
consists of the HR Manager and Concern Department Head.
Signing Authority
HR Manager has sole signing authority for any employment letter up to management
grade Additional Manager, non-management and all contractual employees. The
Managing Director is the sole authority to sign any employment letter for management
grade ÄII Manager and above.
Selection Parameters
The job constructs (dimensions) and the sub-dimensions, against which applicants are evaluated
in Searle pharmaceutical company for suitability and compatibility, are shown below.
Communication skills
Self-motivation
Interpersonal / ability to sell self and ideas
Leadership potential and skills
Decision making abilities
Judgment abilities
Knowledge / technical skills
Management abilities
Employment Checklist
The owing documents is obtained from the candidate prior to offering employment letter and
designated person from:
Application for Employment
Medical Declaration Form
Copy of last educational and where applicable, professional
One copy of passport size photograph
Curriculum Vitae
Selection Process
The following figure shows a typical recruiting process where switching between tools is a
frequent occurrence.
Searle
Pharmaceuti
cal Company
Head-office
Plant-Based Sales-Based
Based
Director Director
Technical CEO Marketing
Plant And Sales
Director
General General Director
Director Director Regulatory Business Unit
Manager Manager Director HR Global
Markeing Finance and Business Head
Production Operations Business
Development