HND Bussines

HND Business

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
P1. Explaining purpose and functions associated to human resource management....................3
P2. Explaining different approaches of organisational recruitment and selection......................5
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................6
P3. Explaining certain benefits of HRM practices......................................................................6
P4. Evaluating effectiveness of HRM practices for enhancing profit and productivity of firm..7
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................8
P5. Analysing importance in context to employee relations.......................................................8
P6. Identification of elements that are part of employment legislations.....................................9
TASK 4............................................................................................................................................9
P7. Illustrating application of various HRM practices within work context...............................9
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................12
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................13
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INTRODUCTION
In business, human resources refers to people who are considered as significant assets in
context to skills, potentials and talents. The department which manage the labour force for
making better performances is human resource management. It is the practice or approach that
considers needs of all people and business (Bastan, Ganjavi and Tavakkoli-Moghaddam, 2020).
It looks towards determining needs and aspirations related to individual employees and then draft
opportunities within the workplace. For business, Audi is taken into consideration for the report.
It is an automobile manufacturer who designs, engineers, manufacture, promotes addition to
distribute luxury across the globe. Audi operates around 115 centres in UK and its existing
portfolio extends around 53 models.
The report enlightens purpose and function related to HRM, recruitment and selection,
benefits of various categories of HRM practices and their effectiveness to improve profits and
productivity of business. Further, it analyse significance of employee relations, key elements of
legislation related to employment and application of practices in organisational workings.
TASK 1
P1. Explaining purpose and functions associated to human resource management
About the company
Audi is the brand which grew strongly in the year 2004 with outstanding 75% enhance in
new car sales within last couple of years. It is among UK’s leading premium automobile business
that manufactures vehicles on the basis of experience gained in 100 years of innovation in road,
rally phases together with race circuit. Mission of the firm focuses on customer delight,
innovation, corporate responsibility and positive experiences. The vision of Audi is to become
the premium brand by delighting customers worldwide. It have approx. 10000 employees that
performs in different functional units.
HRM
The set of business activities that are directed at attracting, selecting, developing and
retaining an effective workforce is known as human resource management (Bocken, Boons and
Baldassarre, 2019). In Audi, human resource management look towards thoughts, aspirations and
feelings of all employees and meet them timely in satisfactorily manner. It is related to all
aspects wherein the entity interacts with its human capital.
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Workforce planning
The concept that ensures that a business have contemporary and forthcoming access to
human resource that it requires for performing better and effectively. In Audi, various software
are used for gauging labour requirements and deploying candidates in most efficient way.
Resourcing
The proportion of personnel and development that emphasis towards recruitment addition
to releasing people from entities together with managing performances (Brunt, 2016). In Audi,
resourcing is done through identifying and allocating people for carrying out necessary work.
Purpose of HRM that is applicable in planning addition to resourcing of workforce
 Planning and retain people: Human resource management serves purpose of consulting
with all departments and then planning proper deployment of required resources to
complete projects. Within Audi, key purpose of HRM is to plan and retain competent
along with contended employee force that makes maximum contribution in success of
business.
 Developing relations: Relations with employee is significant for organisation and its
future. In Audi, establishing good relations with employee’s lies with HRM in wider
extent. HRM organises meetings, seminars together with certain official gatherings that
builds relations across the company.
HRM functions that are applied in planning and resourcing workforce
 Managing rewards: Rewards are key to manage employees in organisation (Budhwar
and Mellahi, 2016). Within Audi, it is function of human resource management to
analyse performances and accordingly provide rewards, compensation and other benefits.
 Performance appraisal: It is continuous review of job performance addition to overall
contribution of human resources to an organisation. In case with Audi, HRM serves
purpose of encouraging people to work as per their potentials addition to provide suitable
suggestions that brings fewer improvements within them.
 Conflict resolution: All organisations either micro, small or large, do not stay aloof from
conflicts which can arise among small teams or larger groups. It is function of Human
resource management in Audi to sort out differences systematically as well as facilitate
smooth operations.
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