Human Resource Management: Purpose, Scope, and Practices

3: HUMAN RESOURCE
MANAGEMENT

TABLE OF CONTENT
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
LO 1.................................................................................................................................................3
P 1 Purpose and scope of HRM in terms of resourcing an organization with talent and skills...3
P 2 Strengths and weaknesses of different approaches to recruitment and selection..................4
LO 2.................................................................................................................................................6
P 3 Effectiveness of key elements of HRM in organization........................................................6
P 4 Effectiveness of different HRM practices in terms of raising organizational profit and
productivity..................................................................................................................................8
LO 3.................................................................................................................................................9
P 5 Internal and external factors that affect HRM’s decision making.........................................9
P 6 Key elements of employment legislation............................................................................10
LO 4...............................................................................................................................................11
P 7 HRM practices in work-related context..............................................................................11
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................13
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................14

INTRODUCTION
HRM are the operational and functional department which is responsible to handle all the
people related functioning. HRM makes sure that the employees are contributing to the
productivity and efficiency of business. Sainsbury Plc was founded in 1869 which is 151 years
ago and is belonging to the retailing industry. There are more than 1,428 stores of the business
and the key people of the organization are Simon Roberts (CEO), Lord Sainsbury (Life
President) and other chairman’s and stakeholders. The report consists of the purpose and scope
of the HRM in organizations, key elements of this department in business, affects on decisions
making of HRM due to internal and external factors and HRM practices which are going to be
discussed in the further report.
LO 1
P 1 Purpose and scope of HRM in terms of resourcing an organization with talent and skills
Nature and scope of HRM
The process which includes selecting, inducting employees, recruitment, imparting
training and development, appraising the performance of the employees, motivating the
employees, employees safety is being insured by, relationships are being maintained are being
done by the HRM. There are laws and orders as well which have to be implemented in
businesses for the employees and customers which are ensured by the HRM of business.
The main functioning of HRM in Sainsbury is that there has to be good planning of HR
which means the employees which are going to help the organization be able to accomplish the
goals and objectives of the organization. The right employees have to be present in the
organization so that the organization will be able to have a good performance and productivity to
maintain their standards and quality in the market (Yong and et.al., 2019). There has to be good
controlling and directing as well which needs to be provided to the employees from time to time

so that the organization is going to find it easier to function smoothly. Training and development
is going to help a lot for directing the employees on time.
Best fit approaches are those which get in flexibility in business so that the changes can
come in easily in the business. The conditions of the working environment are going to be better
and business strategies are going to be affective (Zhang and et.al., 2019). Best practice
approaches are those approaches which are applied in almost all the organizations in the market
so that the performance is going to be stable in the business.
Hard skills are foreign language, machine operations, computer programming, etc which
are going to be hard for HRM to be adapting to. There are a lot of technological changes like
information technology which is being implemented in the organization so that there is going to
be effective working. Soft skills are motivation, leadership, teamwork, time management; etc
which is well maintained by the HRM of the business so that there is going to be better
functioning of the business in the market.
Sainsbury is having skilled labour so that there is going to be a well maintained
workforce and productivity in the organization so that the organization will be able to operate
effectively. Professional labour market for the management is present in Sainsbury so that they
will be able to operate effectively in the market. The turnover of employees is not present since
the managers and leaders of the organization work for retention of the employees so that the
organization will be able to operate effectively. The company will also not have to spend a lot on
the training and development so that the organization will be able to make a place for themselves
in this competitive market effectively.
P 2 Strengths and weaknesses of different approaches to recruitment and selection
Recruitment
There are two types of recruitment processes which are being followed by Sainsbury in
the organization so that there is going to be effective working in the organization. The following
report is going to discuss those factors in detail (Shen, Messersmith and Jiang, 2018).
 Internal recruitment