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Functions and Purpose of Human Resource Management (HRM)

   

Added on  2020-06-06

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HUMAN RESOURCEMANAGEMENT

Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1Task 1 ..............................................................................................................................................1P1 Functions and Purpose of HRM.............................................................................................1P2 Strengths and weaknesses of approaches of recruitment and selection.................................3Task 2 ............................................................................................................................................5P3 Benefits of HRM practices.....................................................................................................5P4 Effectiveness of HRM practices in increasing profits and productivity................................7Task 3 ..............................................................................................................................................8P5 Importance of Employee Relations to Influence Decision-making.......................................8P6 Key elements of employment legislation and its impact on HRM decision making.............9Task 4 ............................................................................................................................................10P7 HRM Practices in work related context...............................................................................10Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................11References......................................................................................................................................12

INTRODUCTIONIn an organisation, the process of maintaining and managing the staff members is statedas Human-resource-management. It is said to be the backbone of an organisation due to its natureof achieving desired goals and objectives. There are some certain activities which are involvedlike recruitment, selection, training and development of employees along with enhancingorganisational structures which are designed by the HR department. For this assignment ALDIhas been chosen as it is a German company which has two global supermarket chains. It isexpanded into 18 countries having approximately 10,000 stores. In UK along with 20,000employees they have 500 stores working. In this assessment, functions and purpose of HRM,strengths and weaknesses of different approaches of recruitment and selection, benefits of HRMpractises to increase organisation's profit and productivity, importance of employee relations, keyelements of employee legislation and applications of HRM practices in work related context willbe explained. Task 1 P1 Functions and Purpose of HRMThe most important functioning of Human-resource-management is to improve theproductivity and enhance the efficiency of employees. Several purposes of HRM are:-Relations of Employee's: Relation maintaining between employees and employers is notan easy task. There are certain chances of rising conflicts among them so it is the duty ofHR department to maintain the decorum and avoid these kind of situations withinorganisation (Alfes and et.al., 2013). Laws and Policies: Rules and regulations should be followed by all the employees andHR has duty towards ensuring that policies are followed by all the members withinorganisation in order to avoid legal issues raised in companies. Culture: To make employees feel comfortable and satisfied by workplace environment,it is very important that good culture is maintained in the company.Effective Allocation of Resources: Effective and efficient allocation of resources arehighly important due to scarcity of resources in society because without resources anorganisation is not able to stand in market and face competition (Armstrong and Taylor,2014). 1

There are various other purposes that HRM performs like staffing, Managing internally andcompensating employees etc. . There are some HRM functions performed by ALDI :-Planning: This is the first and foremost step taken by HR department. In this, allactivities which will be going to conduct within organisation including with mission andvision. ALDI should keep in mind while planning that it should be attainable in aneffective manner. Development of Employees: Programs and activities should be regularly conduct in anentity so that employees experience more knowledge and become very efficient toperform work (Arumugam and Rouhollah, 2011). Maintenance of Employees: To motivate employees certain activities should be adoptedlike promotion, bonus and praising. If employees are not staying for longer term, thensome policies must be adopted to make employees stay for longer period of time.Staffing: In this, HR department look towards the post which are vacant and try to fulfilthem by recruiting or placing internally to achieve the desired objectives. It is highlyessential as recruiting will involve highly aimed and skilled employees along with soundknowledge for effective work productivity (Bloom and Van Reenen, 2011). ALDI should be implementing these functions in its organisation for better outcomes. 2

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