How to Overcome Challenges Facing The Spice Processing Industry In Recruitment.

 
How to Overcome challenges facing the Spice Processing Industry in Recruitment.

        Recruitment is an area that poses some major challenges to the spice processing industry. In this article, I’m going to discuss methods and ways to overcome the issues concurring that I discussed earlier in the “challenges facing the Spice Processing Industry in Recruitment” article.

In my article of https://thushararathnayakemba.blogspot.com/2021/05/challenges-facing-spice-processing.html , I discussed the following problems facing recruitment.

·        Lack of awareness and skill

·        Lack of industry trends, innovation, and workplace expectation

·        Lack of time for recruitment

·        Workplace environment

·        Competition of industry

 

Lack of awareness and skill

        In an early https://thushararathnayakemba.blogspot.com/2021/05/work-design-and-hr-strategy-in-spice.html   article, I discussed staff category in the spice processing industry.  that article mentions all jobs in this industry. these mentioned jobs need awareness and skills. in this industry awareness and skills development is the main responsibility of HRM.

        In this industry Employees and employers have various ways to go about putting employee skills development into practice. The overreaching goal is to strengthen employee’s broad range of skills, whether it be flexibility, organization, creativity, communication, or leadership.

     In practically the spice processing industry use these modules to develop workers. But in https://thushararathnayakemba.blogspot.com/2021/05/why-on-job-training-most-suitable-for.html Article I mention the most suitable method was “On-the-job” training. The training contains Coaching and Mentoring, Understudy, Job Rotation, Special Projects Assignments, Committee Assignments, Self-Instructional Mode.

           The main goal of on-the-job development is to provide everything to the employee for self-study while at work. Employees learn how to use something or apply the methods as they complete the assigned tasks. This is a very popular way to develop employees in the Spice processing industry. As companies typically don’t have the time to train every single employee on every single skill especially if that skill does not require specific knowledge.

Lack of industry trends, innovation, and workplace expectation

         This topic we are going to discuss recruiting talented young people. to recruit talented people, I believe company technologies should be increased. For that, we have to do the followings,

•                 Implement new technology in production. for example, they are types of machinery and equipment, new processes and methods, etc.

•                 Now manufacturers can collect data on everything about production. at a basic level, workers can easy to operate the systems as they communicate along the supply chain.

•                 Professionals need better communication in the company. they also need strong relational awareness to bridge personal, cultural, and industrial gaps as manufacturing processes become more diverse in their scope.

        Without attempting to meet some of the changes have voiced, recruitment will remain a huge and ongoing challenge.  Employers need to move forward and create an industry that young people are attracted to. employees expressed a desire for ongoing training and development, however, it’s discussed that employers are reluctant to invest in training for fear of losing employees once they have made that investment.

 

Lack of time for recruitment

        This is a common issue in this industry. employee recruitment strategies, internships, and programs take time to develop and implement but their importance cannot be negligible.  hands-on experience is key for developing necessary skills and knowledge if they have some talent.  Another thing is we should create an employee pool in the industry. The benefit of the employee pool helps build their professional in different categories and ensures they work on interesting. if someone resigns from the company, HRM has time to recruit using this concept. practically this method can introduce for  Machine operators.

Workplace environment

       This topic is discussed in https://thushararathnayakemba.blogspot.com/2021/05/workplace-environment-how-to-affect.html Article. As population growth and production demand put increased pressure on the environment, food manufacturers need to consider how to make food processing sustainable. Food companies are forming green partnerships and developing new packaging, and exploring cross-industrial options.  workforce stay current with skills in sustainable factory design, waste reduction, and product innovation.

In the spice processing industry, we should mainly maintain the followings,

•                 Ventilation and Air quality 

•                 Temperature

•                 Noice

•                 Light and color

•                 Space and arrangement

 

        This industry generates Smoke, Dust, Bad smells (Aroma), Noice, and Temperature. it creates problems in the working environment. Light and space are other major problems. Some problems can solve upgrading types of machinery, buildings, and technologies. it is costly, for example, a technologically improved chili grinding machine costs maybe 5 times than the normal machine. some problems can’t give a technological solution. In general for the difficult area, we can do the following to keep employees satisfied.

1.            Implement short-time working hours( 2hr working and 30 min rest in continuous patten)

2.            Increase the incentive for workers in the difficult area

3.            Generate infrastructure facility in that area

4.            Implement life insurance facility

5.            The hard-working environment category offers more salaries than others.

6.            Increments and Rewards need to create continuously.

 

Competition of industry

Competition of industry generates demand for quality workers. Quality workers urn big money and hard to hire. We pay attention to critical areas to keep workers with the company.  This is difficult to handle. I propose to generate association of Spice processing company link and it can reduce the demanding of employees. Another thing is quality employee pool can reduce the worker demanding.      

      So, in this article, I mention one of the hard jobs in the world is the spice processing job. The difficulty of a job role is largely dependent on the work environment and physical pressures, also mentally challenging.

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Reference

Nicole Gallace, (2016) On the challenges facing the food industry in recruitment, [online]. Available from https://www.newfoodmagazine.com/article/23510/food-industry-recruitment/ [Accessed 15 May 2021]

Heather Brown, (2016) 7 Food Industry Skills for the 21st Century, [online]. Available from https://foodindustryexecutive.com/2016/07/food-industry-skills-21st-century/ [Accessed 15 May 2021]

Joanna Zambas (2020) , Top 30 Hardest Jobs in the World [online]. Available from https://www.careeraddict.com/5-most-difficult-jobs-in-the-world  [Accessed 15 May 2021]