Assignment 1-BSBHRM506A
Woolworths limited is a major Australian Company with extensive retail interests throughout Australia and New Zealand. Woolworths is the largest food/retail company with well-known brands including Big W, Dick Smiths electronics and Dan Murphy’s. Woolworth’s strong Market capitalisation and sales are a key point in the Company’s growth. Woolworths is also a company that makes a significant economic contribution with more than 180,000 team members across metropolitan and regional Australia. It has annual contribution to the economy estimated to be in excess of $96 billion dollars and 652,400 full time equivalent jobs, training more apprentices than any other company in Australia. Woolworths in every state has its own structure, for example State Manager, Assistant Manager and Area managers. South Australia being the smaller state has 5 Area Managers for 85 stores. New South Wales being the larger state, has 16 Area Managers for 270 stores each managing between, 12-22 stores and employs 200 staff or more in each store. Each store is based around this structure to try and give the Store Managers as much assistance to help support their employees and in turn benefits the customers. To centralize their customers and their HR Management, Woolworths will use other divisions; for example, Big W will use some of the infrastructures from Dan Murphy’s. HR departments in large companies can get enormous amounts of employee inquiries that can take up to 30% of staff time. So Woolworths decided to empower their employees to access their own leave balances, pay slips and personal contact details.
Woolworths with their, “Strong, Trust and Empowerment” strategy are committed to protecting the health, safety and welfare of their employees, customers and contractors. They have implemented a target education program called “Keeping