3 HRM. Table of Contents INTRODUCTION .................

3 HRM

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
P1 Define the Purpose & Functions of HRM which applicable to workforce planning and
organisation ................................................................................................................................3
P2 Strengths & Weaknesses of various approaches to the recruitment & Selection .................5
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................8
P3 Benefits of various HRM practices for employer & employee.............................................8
P4 Various HRM practices related to organisational profit & productivity ..............................9
TASK 3..........................................................................................................................................10
P5 Importance of Employee relations in context of HRM decision making ...........................10
P6 Key elements related to employment legislation & its impact on HRM decision making .11
TASK 4..........................................................................................................................................12
P7 Illustrate the applications of HRM practices with appropriate examples ...........................12
CONCLUSION .............................................................................................................................15
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................16

INTRODUCTION
Human Resource play a significant role for the success of the organisation. HR helps to
manage the each and every activities related to the workforce and manpower of the organisation.
In this current time, the requirement of HR taking a massive place and also very beneficial for
the organisational growth. To maintain the various activities of HR its necessary to focus on
management of HR so company now doing a practices of Human resource management. HRM is
a managerial function which mainly helpful to manage all the performance of employees. For
this project, Morrisons consider, which is 4th largest supermarket chain and headquarter is in
Bradford, England. This organisation established in the year 1899 by the William Morrison. The
main purpose of this report is to discuss the purpose and appropriate functions of HRM and also
determine the strengths and weakness related to the recruitment & selection. This report also
explains the key benefits of the HRM practices related to the employees and employer of the
organisation and Apart from this, discuss the importance of employee relation in context of
organisation.
TASK 1
P1 Define the Purpose & Functions of HRM which applicable to workforce planning and
organisation
HRM refers as an ongoing process and procedure which mainly contain the workforce
related activities such as Job design, job analysis, job evaluation, employee recruitment, selection
process, induction activity, training sessions and development programs etc. HRM also
responsible to motivate employees, performance appraisal, compensations and promotion of
employees (Abu Keir, 2016). Morrisons mainly concern with their HRM department and also
focusing on the functional activities and work efficiency of employee so that they can perform in
a specific manner.
Workforce Planning is a structural process which mainly useful to evaluating and also
forecasting the plan and procedure related to the workforce in context of demand & supply. This
is also helpful to determine the future and upcoming requirement of workforce. Through
workforce planning, Morrisons can easily analyse the gap between the present & future situation
so that organisation easily recognise the solution (Altman, Larsen and Buchanan, 2018).

HRM Functions
There are various functions of human resources which are helpful to maintain the
employees related activities and instead of this these functions are also helpful to obtain the
appropriate outcomes. The description of these functions of Morrisons are given below -
 Job design & Job analysis - This function comes under the most prominent function of
HRM in which HR manager used to design the job role and also conduct the job analysis
as per the requirement of the Morrisons. This function helpful in recruitment and
selection process of the organisation so that Morrisons easily focus on the workforce
planning (Blanco-Mazagatos et. al., 2018).
Purpose - The main purpose of the Morrisons is to analyse and also design the appropriate job
role as per the organisational need so that Morrisons can easily get right employees for the
organisation.
 Hiring & Selection of employees - In this function, HRM department of the Morrisons
conduct the recruitment process and hire those candidates who are interested for the
given job role and then take interview and select those candidates who are highly
potential and suitable for the job role.
Purpose – To hire and also select the high skilled employees so that all the employees retain for
the long time period in Morrisons organisation.
 Training & Development programs – This is also an important function of the HRM
department which mainly work to provide a basic training to the new employees so that
they can learn the about their job role tasks and Morrisons also provide some advanced
training & development sessions to the exiting employees so that they can keep update
themselves with the relevant information and policies.
Purpose - To provide proper training to the new and existing employees and also organise some
development programs which are help to maintain the performance of employees and also
improve the overall performance of Morrisons (Bromiley and Rau, 2016).
 Compensations & other benefits- HRM department of the Morrisons responsible to give
compensation to all the workforce and also offer various types of benefits to those
employees who are giving their best efforts and help the organisation to achieve their day
to day targets.