Importance of Employee Relations in HRM Decision Making

3 HRM

Contents
INTRODUCTION......................................................................................................................3
Overview of an organization..................................................................................................3
Purpose of HR function..........................................................................................................3
Different approaches of recruitment and selection................................................................4
Benefits of different HRM practices for both employer and employee.................................6
Different HRM practices in term of raise organizational profit and productivity.................6
P 5. Analyzing the the importance of employee relations in relation to influencing HRM
decision making.....................................................................................................................7
P 6. Identifying the key elements associated with the employment legislation and impact it
tends to have upon HRM decision making............................................................................8
P 7. Illustrating the application related with the HRM practice within work related context.
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CONCLUSION........................................................................................................................12
REFERENCES.........................................................................................................................13

INTRODUCTION
Human resource management (HRM) is a practice which is used to manage people in
order to attain better performance. Such that to hire people into business, company has to
comply with proper procedure and this is possible through HRM. Moreover, the current study
is also based upon Marks and Spencer (M&S) who deal under retail industry and offer range
of product and services at different country. The present study will help to determine the
purpose of HR function along with key roles and responsibilities. Further it also critically
evaluate the approaches of workforce planning, recruitment and selection and examine the
importance of employee relationship by using range of practices. Moreover, study will further
determine the key element of employment relationship and illustrate the application of HRM
practices by using different examples.
Overview of an organization
Marks and Spencer is a British multinational retailer whose headquarter is in London
and specialize in selling clothing and different home product. Company deal it products at
different country and that is why, it has strong HRM who support the business to improve its
operations (Ahammad, Glaister and Gomes, 2020). Moreover, there are more than 80000
employees working at different location and that is why, there is a need to have a strong
HRM practices which assist to sustain the brand image of a company at international level.
Purpose of HR function
Purpose of HR function is to manage the employee life cycle and administrating
employee benefit and hence they are responsible for workforce planning and recruitment.
Such that by employing employees, meet the staffing needs, compensation, benefits
performance appraisal, law compliance etc, Apart from it, they also provide training and
development session to their workers with an aim to improve the performance of an
employee (10 function of H,. 2020).
The best fit is a contingency approach while best practice is a universal approach.
Also, best fit is based upon the premise which pick the most effective HR policies and then
practices are matching them in appropriate manner so that employees enjoy the positive
environment of a company. So M&S uses both strategy in order to improve the performance
of a company and meet the need of employees in order to attain its goal.
Roles and responsibilities of HR Function

 Staffing: It is all about hiring new talent by using different technologies in order to
meet the need of a company. HR of M&S hire employees full time and part time, or
contract basis that assist to improve the results.
 Training & Development: Another important function in which HR provide regular
training and development session to their employees. So that it will help to improve
the performance of a company (Kianto, Sáenz and Aramburu, 2017).
 Compensation: Salary and benefit are also within a scope of HR and it also provide
chance to improve the overall performance of employee. For example, benchmark are
set that assist to identify the standards for a given job, negotiating group health
insurance etc. Employee and labor relation: Coordinating with unions and mediating disagreement
between organization is also core of HR function and M&S also perform range of
activities in order to improve the results.
Different approaches of recruitment and selection
Approaches of recruitment: It is the process of outsourcing the employees with an aim to
recruit the best employees who support an organization to meet the define aim. There are two
types of approaches such as:
External source: It is the process through which employees are hire externally. Such
that through advertisement, print advertising, social media in which job seeker read the article
or blog that help to contact within selected organization either online or offline (Macke and
Genari, 2019). Hence, online recruitment is has also change the nature of talent search in
which CV decides whether the candidate is eligible for the selected organization’s vacant
position or not.
Internal source: It is useful for filing a vacant position through internal mode. Such
that through promotion, job transfer etc, This strategy support the efforts made by employees
in order to strengthen the succession planning. With the help of such strategy, company is
able to identify and develop existing employees for future senior vacancies (Guest, 2017).
Selection: it is the method through which HR of a company select candidate after qualifying
many test. Hence it is the process of identifying and hiring applicants in order to fill the
vacancies in a firm.