Function & Purpose of HRM in Planning and Employee Resources

HUMAN RESOURCE
MANAGEMENT

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
LO1..................................................................................................................................................1
P1) Function & purpose of HRM that applicable to planning and employee resources ............1
P2) Weakness & Strength of various approaches for selection and recruitment.........................2
LO2..................................................................................................................................................5
P3) Benefit of the various HRM practices in the organisation benifiting both employees as
well as employers.........................................................................................................................5
P4) effectiveness of various HRM and its practices terms of increasing firm productivity and
profit.............................................................................................................................................5
LO3..................................................................................................................................................6
P5) essential employee relations with respect to effecting HRM decision making....................6
P6) important elements of the employment legislation & impact HRM decision-making..........7
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10
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INTRODUCTION
Human resource management (HRM) is an effective management and strategic approach
in the company, such that it help the business to gain competitive merits. It design in such a
manner to maximize the workforce performance. (Berman and et.al., 2019) Arcadia company is
British MNC retailing company and headquarter are located in London, UK. This report
highlights function and purpose of the HRM and strength & weakness of large approach to
recruit and selection. Also reveals the benefit of HRM practices for both employees and
employer's and effectiveness of various HRM practices for profit & productivity. It is essential
for the workforce relation which effect the HRM decision & the main elements of employement
legislation & have impact on the HRM. In this regard present report has been prepared.
LO1
P1) Function & purpose of HRM that applicable to planning and employee resources
The main objective of the HRM to coordinate the people in the Arcadia company to
achieve the organizational goal. It purpose is to view employee as firm assets and workers &
internal customers to make the job satisfaction and improve the workforce effectiveness and
efficiency (Bratton and Gold, 2017). Also, it concentrates on the internal way for competitive
advantage. Functions of the HRM that includes. Recruitment where brings the pool of the
prospective candidate that can help the organization to achieve the goal & also allow
management to select the right person from given pool. Job design and analysis where it shows is
the nature of job such as skill, qualification, work experience that require for particular job
position, where job design that includes the outline tasks & responsibility and duties towards
single work to achieve the certain goal.
Performance appraisal is the another functions where analyzing and checking the
employee's performance. Training and development where it allows the workforce to acquire the
knowledge and skill for an effective job performance and also not bulling the employees during
the training period for better performance. Development and training also make the employee for
greater level of responsibility(Brewster, 2017). Where the salary administration of HRM also
determine the pays of various jobs that include the incentives, compensations, benefits, bonus,
etc. that relate to job functions. Employee welfare and maintenance that take care of the various
services, facilities and benefits that are given to the workforce for better well-being and try to
reduce the employee sustaining and turnover for the best performance workforce is the objective
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of the organization. Also, it makes aware of the sexual harassment among the employee and
make sure that their should not be any harassment in the work place. Labour relation is another
function where it regards to the employees that work in the trade union. Where employee in the
such domain to form a union that time it also makes sure not to create any discrimination among
the employees and treat all the people equally so to voice the decision that are effectively to
higher management. (DeCenzo, Robbins and Verhulst, 2016)
Personal research and record, research is the important part of the HRM, where it keep on
checking the workforce opinion about the promotions, wages, welfare activities' employee
satisfaction, leadership and other problems and personal recording where it record and
maintaining the employee related data that include the employment history (Hecklau and et.al.,
2016).
P2) Weakness & Strength of various approaches for selection and recruitment.
Recruitment is the crucial part for maintaining and developing an efficient and effective team.
Recruitment is of two types that is internal and external recruitment.
Source of internal recruitment- It hiring the workforce within organisation internally. Where
application that are seeking various post from the current employed within the company.
Promotions- It upgrades cadre of the workforce through evaluating the performance of the
employee in Arcadia organization (Jabbour and de Sousa Jabbour, 2016). It is the stage of where
the employees are shifting from lower to upper position by having more facilities, responsibility,
remuneration and staius. Also, while the promoting the employee Arcadia HRM practices
should not be based on discrimination of employees. It should be based on fearness and
capability of employees. Some benefits of the internal promotions are-
 It is simple, quick and easy.
 No requirement of the training, as candidate already know the norms of the company.
Weakness of the promotion are-
 It prevents the new hiring of the potential resources.
 Other employees may be unhappy as they are not promoted.
 Bulling can dissatisfy the employee and reduce performance.
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