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Running head: HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT STRATEGY 1
Human Resource Management Strategy
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HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT STRATEGY 2
Table of Contents
Abstract ............................................................................................................................................ 2
1.0 Organizational Overview ...................................................................................................... 4
1.1 Vixpop Operations ............................................................................................................ 6
1.1.1 Operations Department .................................................................................................... 6
1.1.2 Marketing Department .................................................................................................... 6
2.0 Employee Training and Development Strategy ......................................................................... 7
2.1 Analyzing and Identifying Areas of Potential ........................................................................ 8
2.2 Setting Training Objectives .................................................................................................... 8
2.3 Create a Training and Development Program ........................................................................ 8
2.4 Decide on Main Details and Implement the Program ............................................................ 9
2.5 Review the Success of the Program ....................................................................................... 9
3.0 Training and Development Approaches ..................................................................................... 9
3.1 Coaching ................................................................................................................................ 9
3.2 Mentoring ............................................................................................................................. 10
3.3 The 9-Box Grid .................................................................................................................... 10
3.4 Cross-Training ...................................................................................................................... 11
3.5 On Job Training (Stretch Assignments) ............................................................................... 11
3.6 Job Enlargement and Enrichment ........................................................................................ 11
3.7 Job Rotation ......................................................................................................................... 12
4.0 Challenges and Solutions ......................................................................................................... 12
4.1 Lack of Accountability ......................................................................................................... 13
4.2 Gap in Career Training and Development Capabilities ....................................................... 13
4.3 Limited Utilization of Employee and Organizational Analytics .......................................... 13
4.4 Solutions ............................................................................................................................... 14
5.0 Conclusion ............................................................................................................................... 14

HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT STRATEGY 3
Abstract
The discussion looks into the human resource department of Vixpop, a soft drink manufacturing,
bottling, and distribution company. The discussion entails the employee training and
development plan that the organization will use as an approach to motivate its employees. The
critical steps involved in developing the plan as well as the recommended training approaches
are part of the discussion. The discussion explains that there does not exist a universal employee
training and developed program and therefore, Vixpop has to customize its training and
development programs in accordance to its budget and employee skills gap. The different
approaches suggested for the plan are coaching, mentoring, cross training, 9-box grid, job
enhancement, job enrichment, and job rotation. It will be up to Vixpop to decide how it will
integrate and use these approaches in different cases. Lastly, the paper also delves into the
challenges that Vixpop should expect when implementing the program and the respective
solutions.

HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT STRATEGY 4
1.0 Organizational Overview
Founded in 2005, Vixpop is an American organization that engages in the manufacturing,
distributing, and marketing of non-alcoholic beverages. The company owns 20 brands including
energy drinks, waters, juice, organic teas, and diet drinks. The organization has had decent
growth over the years in terms of buyer loyalty, sales units, profitability, as well as growth in the
product portfolio. Vixpop uses multi-domestic approaches to nurturing its businesses. The
Vixpop approaches typically consider factors such as economic, social, cultural aspects of the
market place. Currently, the organization has 230 employees consisting of both the management
and subordinate staff. The organizational structure of Vixpop consists of the Chief Executive
Officer (CEO), production manager, marketing manager, mixology supervisor, bottling
supervisor, sales officers, salespersons, and other on-site workers. Below is a diagrammatic
representation of the organization’s structure.