Company Overview:
The organization we choose for the research and our group report writing is Australia’s most popular retail industry Woolworths. We choose Woolworths supermarket on of the brand of the Woolworths Limited Australia. Woolworths limited is well known retail giant over Australia and New Zealand. Woolworths started its first business in city of Sydney by opening its first store in the basement of Imperial arcade in 1924.Current stage Woolworths operates many of the retail brands like Big W, Woolworths, Dan murphy, Cell master, BWS and many more. And it serves 2.4 million customers a week (Woolworthslimited.com.au, 2014).
We choose Woolworth’s supermarket located at North Ryde in Macquarie centre, which is known as the store of destination of Woolworths. Store is located inside the Macquarie centre. Store is very popular store because of its largest fresh department with onsite production of the mood. This retail store can be taken as the largest organization where this store operates 24hr work including while trading and while closed. Store has 287 staff including casuals and part time and 14 salaried managers. Store weekly sales are 1.7 million dollar average and daily operating hour is 8 am in the morning till 10pm.
One of our group members does works in the Woolworths supermarket store Macquarie centre. According to his experience and analysis during the working hours in that organization he was concerned and focused in the Larger number of employee has been leaving the job every month in the store. Due to this Store have to struggle to find staff to work in different time schedule during different days. There is various reasons due to why store is facing such a HR issue where store has large number of employee turnover ratio.