Human Resource Management: Purpose, Functions, and Recruitment Process

HUMAN RESOURCE
MANAGEMENT

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
Activity 1 ........................................................................................................................................3
LO 1.................................................................................................................................................3
a) Purpose and functions of HRM...............................................................................................3
b) Workforce planning and resourcing in the company..............................................................4
c) Strength and weakness of approaches to recruitment and selection.......................................4
ACTIVITY 2 ...................................................................................................................................6
LO 4.................................................................................................................................................6
a) Candidate specification for personal assistance role...............................................................6
b) Review of CV's from job application.....................................................................................8
c) Six competency based questions for interview.......................................................................8
d) Rationale of the questions.......................................................................................................8
e) Short listing of Job applications..............................................................................................9
Activity 3.........................................................................................................................................9
LO 2.................................................................................................................................................9
a) Learning and development opportunities................................................................................9
b) Rewards and Benefits...........................................................................................................11
Activity 4.......................................................................................................................................11
LO 3...............................................................................................................................................11
a) Description on employee relation.........................................................................................11
b) Key Element of UK Employment Legislation......................................................................13
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................13
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................14

INTRODUCTION
Human resource management is the process of selecting, recruiting, providing orientation
and implementing development and training of the employees in the organization. They also
decline compensation and provide benefits to the employees and motivate them to achieve
companies objectives and goals effectively.
This report will analyse case study of LV company and cover four activities in this report.
This report will conduct Management development program in this company and explain
purpose of the HR functions and strength and weakness of selection or recruitment process. It
will also analyse proper resourcing process for the company and include the abilities needed to
complete this process. In the activity 3 report will analyse development opportunities of the staff
and reward benefits to produce profitability of the company. In the last activity of this report will
include team work activities to create good relationship between employees in the workplace.
Activity 1
LO 1
a) Purpose and functions of HRM
Recruitment and Selection-
Recruitment is the process of looking out for candidates who have the potential according
to work and those who are eligible for the job HR of LV works on preparing the plan of staffing
which will be effective for them and study the need of employees that the company is going to
require. HR of the company predicts the whole need and requirement according to the budget of
the company which will help them to achieve their goals and objectives (Brewster and Hegewisch,
2017).
Orientation-
HR of LV knows the value of the orientation which is the reason why they believe that
this is a necessary aspect for the employees of the company. This process will help the candidate
of LV to get familiar with the company and understand the details of work from the employer.
HR of LV includes the goals and objectives of the company and what role he or she needs to
play in the company so that they can attain their expected results. It will help the employees of
the company to have clarity in their vision which will help them to make themselves clear about
their work and understand what duties they need to perform by maintaining the code of conduct
of the company(Stewart and Brown, 2019).

Maintaining good working conditions-
HR department of LV works on mainlining the environment of the company. This is done
so that the employees of the company can work up to their potential. Apart from this department
of HR also provides them with other benefits so that they can be motivated and contribute more
of their efforts so that company can achieve their goals. HR of the company is working on the
system of employee welfare so that they can feel satisfied about their job.
b) Workforce planning and resourcing in the company
Planning of workforce helps the company to align the needs and priorities of the
company so that they can find out those people who can work according to the legislation,
requirement of production and objectives of the company. The recruitment and selection of the
company meets to the criteria of workforce planning as the HR department of LV works on
forecasting and prediction before executing the plan so that they can find out the suitable
candidates for the job. It is important for the company to work according to that so that the
employees which are selected matches the level of requirement of the company. HR of the
company does all of this under the resources and budget allocated to them so that no excess of
funds needs to be spent on the company. This will help the company to save the resources such
as money and time which can be used in other areas and get benefit from both the areas.
Orientation is considered as an important factor in the company and it relates to workforce
planning as it helps to make the role and objectives of the employees clear which will helps them
to have better vision of work and find out ways to achieve the goal. HR department of the
company maintains the relationship with their employees and tries to solve their problems so that
they can work stress free. It is important for the company to motivate them by offering them
benefits in both financial and non financial ways. The benefits which are offered to the
employees of the company must be under the aspects of planning of workforce (DeCenzo,
Robbins and Verhulst, 2016).
c) Strength and weakness of approaches to recruitment and selection
Telephonic Interview-
Strength
Wide geographic access-
Companies such as LV can gain the benefit of wide access on the basis of geographical
area with this method. Everyone is connected with these type of services with different modes