Investigation in to employee resourcing, employee development, employee relations and employee administration.

Introduction
This assignment will compare and contrast the differences bwtween a large company and a small company in regards to the thier employee:
Resourcing
Development
Relations
Administration

Resourcing

Workforce planning
In the larger company the work force was determind by 2 main factors, the amount of sales in units sold and the budjet allocated. The budjet is allocated to the department for the department to employ a skelleton body of full-time staff and the full-time backed up by part-time workers. For the department to deal with large increases in sales e.g. Christmas, seasonal staff are employed.

In the smaller firm, the number of employees is determind by the amount of orders, and to cover a heavy work load casual staff are employed or the work is sub-contracted out. 

The 2 firms differ in the way they work out the amount of the employees to employ as the larger firm uses sales trends and get an overall veiw of the staff needed, whioch is very proactive but it means that the department could be iover staff for a couple of weeks and so it isn't as efficent, but with the more reactive way in which the smaller firm works out their staff means that the employees are only there for when they are needed, but this can only be acheived if they work out the number of staff from orders as the orders are received before the employees are needed and not, like sales, after.