Human Resource Management Assignment : Boots UK
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Boots human resource management 1BOOTS HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENTNameDepartment:School:Course:Date:
Boots human resource management 2IntroductionIn the growing and more competitive corporate world, human resource (HR) remains the essential part of many companies. The way a business manages its HR dictates its effectiveness and success. For a firm to achieve the set strategic objectives, many have come up with various corporate policies to govern their operations and ensure that strategies are aligned with the HR practices. It is vital to review procedures to ensure that they will yield positive outcomes for the organisation as well as how the outlined policies affect the business performance (Briscoe et al. 2012, pp.11).Boots UK is one of the leading retailers in Pharmaceutical products in Britain. The Boots is a small unit of the more prominent Alliance Boots. Boots was launched after a successful merger of Boots Group Plc. and Alliance Boots (Boots, n.d). The Company operates and manages about 1400 branches in the United Kingdom and Ireland. The company has grown tremendously, and it deals with approximately 8 million customers in a week (Boots, n.d). The company develops and sells branded products to its respective markets Due to increased competition as well as various legislation rules, Boots UK is striving to streamline the activities and operations to ensure that they survive in the market (Boots, n.d). In most cases, it has been made possible through company's commitment to evaluate their corporatestrategy in such a way that it is confined along its mission, values and the already set goals. For process to be successful, a company has various policies to aid its operations within and outside operating environment as well as ensuring that approaches are in line with the legislation measure put by the government. Boots policies have been developed to ensure that the organisation achieves its strategic objectives and consequently help the organisation to grow and accumulate enough wealth. A company should make enough efforts to ensure that it offers a good working environment for its employees as well as its customers for maximum output and
Boots human resource management 3the company's growth (Stahl et al. 2012, pp.34). An excellent corporate strategy should put into consideration how the company's employees relate to each other. Hence, policies found in any corporate strategy at the workplace should look at aspects such as health and safety of workers and shoppers as well as diversity and inclusivity at workplace (Bratton and Gold 2017, pp.20).Boots’ Health and Health PolicyIn an effort to streamline the activities and ensure that they get the best from itsemployees, Boots has placed the safety and health of its employees first. Work safety remains apriority in most companies' workplaces. Workplace safety remains a management responsibilityof ensuring that places of employment are safe for the workers which include health as well assafety hazards (Bluff 2017, pp.42). In the UK, there are statutory laws made by the state toprotect the rights of the employees including health and safety (Chartier 2014, pp.34). As aresult, there was the establishment of the legislative rules under the Health and Safety Act(HSWA) of 1974 which states that an employer must protect the safety of its employees. TheHWSA of 1974 dictates the rules applicable in the entire employment field under section 2(1) ofthis Act which states that: "It shall be the duty of every employer, to ensure, so far as logicallypracticable, the health Safety and welfare of all his employees” (Health and safety executive,n.d). The Act is further simplified and made more specific under section 2 of the act which statesthat "provision and maintenance of plant and system of work so that they are safe and withoutrisk to health." (DINGAYO 2015, pp. 30)Apart from above Act, there is also a company's liability under the common law ruleswhich enforces a control to ensure that employers take reasonable care of the employees' safetyin their line of duty (Budhwar and Debrah 2013, pp.53). At common law, the task of supervision
Boots human resource management 4explains that regarding a contract, the employer has an obligation of ensuring that reasonablecare is taken to ensure that the employees are safe in their workplace (Chartier 2014, pp.35). Itwas established under the House of Lords, and it ensures that within the area of work, theemployer must provide adequate safe plant and equipment, a secure system of work as well as asafe place of work.At boots, the company is striving to place value on everybody who is under their premises. To achieve that, the company has put the safety of everyone working or visiting their shops first. The company has put robust measures to ensure safety of its colleagues and customers. The company has struggled to refresh and update its health and safety policy by establishing a healthy and safety document to help everyone to be understand the company’s approach towards them. Boots Health and Safety document is aimed at protecting its employees, customers and visitors (Boots, n.d). The company is also striving to perfect its approach to healthand safety policy. Boots UK has established a Boots UK Governance Committee to steer their health and policy. To succeed in their efforts, the committee is making the issue of safety as culture in their organization. That has been achieved through the integration of safety within the company’s everyday workings. The company has also planned to make health and safety policy a long-term strategy by initiating regular communication lessons to help the employees within the organization on how to improve their safety and that of their employees (Boots, n.d).Boots UK has partnered with Primary Authority Partner to extend their safety systems and safety plan implementation to their stores through the establishment of Retail Safety SteeringGroup. Through all these ways, the company will be able to strengthen their continuous safety improvement campaign for their customers, employees and visitors. As a result, the company hasinitiated various campaigns such as:
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