Assignment #$1-$ Delicious Doughnuts & Cuppa Coffee

Just a few weeks ago, your company, a gourmet donut store called Delicious Doughnuts, merged with a smaller coffee company called Cuppa Coffee. Your company initiated the buyout because of the excellent customer service team at Cuppa Coffee and their brand recognition, specifically for their Cuppa Cappuccino. Delicious Doughnuts has $46$ employees and Cuppa Coffee has $12$ employees. At Delicious Doughnuts, the owner, who often was too busy doing other tasks, handled the Human Resource Management $($HRM$)$ roles. As a result, Delicious Doughnuts has no HRM strategic plan, and you are wondering if you should develop a strategic plan, given this change. Here are the things you have accomplished so far:

Asked each old and new employee fill out a skills inventory Excel document, which has been merged into a database.

Created job requirements for current and new jobs.

Reviewed pay and adjusted salaries for the sake of fairness. Communicated this to all affected employees.

You have been just hired as the new HR Manager. From this point, your goal is to fully integrate the new organization. Number your responses #$1-3$ and provide about half a page for each question. Single space your paper.

Why should you create an HRM strategic plan? Why is an HRM strategic plan important? Explain.

Which of the HR functions will you have to change given the merger? Discuss to provide insight. $($Pay special attention to Chapter $1-$ Section $2$: Functions of Human Resources Management.$)$

What additional information would you need to create an action plan for these changes? Discuss to provide insight.