Recommendation for Kudler Fine Food Company
Introduction
Kudler Fine Foods is known for its food stores. Kudler Fine Foods (KFF) in La Jolla is a gourmet fine food store. The company was founded by Kathy Kudler. The company is profitable, stable and successfully running the business. Heidi Wagner heads the Human resource department. The major responsibility of the HR is to align the administrative and human resource activities including employment, compensation, benefits and training and employee services. She needs to report to the president directly. It is found out that the company is not having an equitable salary compensation plan due to which the company may face difficulty in employee retention.
Job analysis
Job analysis plays a key role in designing and managing the performance appraisal system in an organization. It helps in identifying the key responsibility areas for a position and then setting the goals or objectives for the appraisal period. The Kudler Fine Food Company should conduct the job analysis in such a way that helps in the completion of all the activities related to the job. The different activities which should be performed by the Kudler Fine Food Company are:
Collection of information for the job analysis.
Determination of the job-specific competency.
Developing a job description.
Developing a job specification (Introduction to Human Resource Management, 2004).
Job positioning
The collection of tasks and duties, which will be assigned to the human resource at the Kudler Fine Food Company, should be specified by the job position. The category or the designation can be the same but the work of each and every individual must be different.
Job description
The job description describes in detail the various aspects of a job like the tasks involved, the responsibilities of the job and the deliverables. The compensation plan at Kudler Fine Food Company should be developed by following the given policies.
The job...