Craft Brewery
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Background: A small, newly established, rapidly growing business with plans for doubling in size in the foreseeable future.
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Product: locally produced cask, keg and can beer.
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Customers: local inhabitants, tourists and national trade customers.
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The Review Report confirmed that their existing people management practices were in line with, or better than the online comparison data (from circa 200 enterprises). Opportunities for improvement included:
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* Ensuring key roles have meaning, discretion and regular feedback
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* Managing conflict (i.e. between departments) in order to encourage mutually beneficial results (win - win)
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Reason for the Review: The need to ensure the current Human Resource Strategy could cope with rapid expansion. In particular, the need to be able to recruit, motivate and retain good calibre staff.
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The Review Process:
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The Managing Director (MD) and Human Resource Director (HRD) used the pre-Review questionnaire to check that the relevant workforce and financial data were available
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A full Review was carried out by the MD and HRD. As they had few disagreements it took just over 2 hours.
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The MD commented ‘Not only is the tool simple to use, it is thought provoking and generates conversations in the room. A valuable picture and report was generated to aid understanding of where we are as a business'
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