Contemporary Issues in People Management at JD Sports

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Contemporary issues that are faced by line managers when it comes to people management....1
Knowledge, skills along with behaviours required to be an effective people manager...............3
HR processes underpin addition to support management when it comes to effective
performance management............................................................................................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Human resource refers to personnels of company which contributes to help managers in
attaining business concerned objectives (Hegewisch, 2017). Similarly, People management is
said to set of activities which engrosses end to end stages associated with acquisition,
optimisation and retention of talents while providing required support for entity as well as
guidance to organisational superiors or employers. It is a practice or task related to organising
employees together with teams with the hope of optimising performances. The report is prepared
on JD Sports which is real life organisation performing operations from its headquarters situated
at Bury in United Kingdom. There are around 56,600 employees working within the organisation
to attain mission that is addressing issues concerned with employee satisfaction.
The report offers insights into contemporary issues that are faced by line management
while managing people. Further, it covers knowledge, behaviours together with skills which are
essential for an effective people manager. It also discusses about HR processes as well as support
management for effective management of people.
MAIN BODY
Contemporary issues that are faced by line managers when it comes to people management
Line management could be described to management of human resources which are
involved in manufacturing, production addition to delivery of organisational offerings
(Cockayne, 2019). It represents lower management level as well as interfaces among front line
workforce and company. For example, line management in JD Sports is responsible to oversee
together with manage people for fulfilling business objectives. Key role played by line manager
in the organisation is recruit and select talent for meeting team positions, to provide coaching
addition to performance feedback to team members and manage staff by overseeing along with
evaluating employee contribution. It is essential for line managers to provide employees with
honest workload as well as realistic with demands. In the real life company, line manager faced
various contemporary issues in multiple areas while managing human resources. Some of them
are discussed below in case with JD Sports:
Area 1: Leadership and management: (Miceski and Tashkov, 2017)Leadership and
management: Leadership is the process which includes convincing people, believe in the vision
which sets for the company, works in order to accomplish objectives etc. it is about management,
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