HR Planning After COVID-19

HR PLANNING AFTER
COVID-19
Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION.................................................................................................................................3
WBL Aim and Objectives.................................................................................................................3
Secondary research............................................................................................................................4
Primary Research..................................................................................................................................8
covid pandemic negative affected human resource planning at organisations...................................8
Challenges of covid pandemic for human resource department.........................................................9
REFERENCES....................................................................................................................................11
Appendic.............................................................................................................................................13
INTRODUCTION
Human resources are all about managing the different needs and requirements
associated with the human resources part of the company. The basic aim of the human

resource team is to deliver all different needs and requirements associated with the business
entity. This report is based on the case study of Marks and Spencer Company in regards to its
human resource practices. The organisation has been established in the year 1884 by the
founders Michael Marks and Thomas Spencer in regards to its human resource practices.
Company is currently associated with its business operations at a global level. The
organisation belongs to the retail sector and contains business operations at approximately
15000 locations at a global level. Headquarter of the company is located in London, United
Kingdom. The company contain a proper hierarchy that involve multiple departments
(Polonskaya, 2018). Human resource department is the one that overlook at various human
resources related issues and areas. The department provide all types of support related to
human resources such as recruitment, selection, conducting interview, promotions and many
such practices that can mitigate all different designated requirements of the business entity.
The current time is covid has been very challenging for the human resource professionals.
The time is very tough as even if the world is seeing and experiencing post covid time the
situation is still not normal at global level. This entire pandemic could completely restrict the
overall operational area of the human resource team. The rules, regulations become stricter
that could also imposed more vigilance and action to ensure the health safety of all
employees associated with the company.
WBL Aim and Objectives
The aim of the study is to analysis different issues human resources department are
facing post covid time. The aim and objectives of this study is to understand the different
issues that human resource department face in against to delivering different business
practices.
Aim
 To identify different challenges associated with the human resource department in
post covid time for recruitment and selection practices at the Marks and Spencer
Company.
Objectives
 To specifically evaluate the recruitment and selection concept.
 To identify different methods of recruitment and selection practices.
 To evaluate the challenges associated to recruitment and selection post covid time.

Question
 What does it mean by recruitment and selection?
 What are the different methods of recruitment and selection adopted by the Marks and
Spencer Company?
 What are the different challenges human resource team faced at Marks and Spencer
Company to recruit human resources at the organisation?
The covid 19 pandemic has been cruel for this entire world. The pandemic could
imposed to many challenges over business entities that could restrict the business entities in
channelizing various business operations (Turro and et.al., 2020). Human resource
management has been seen as one of the major challenge that companies faced in the pos
covid time. Since the covid pandemic has started the management of human resources at the
work place become a huge challenge for all business entites.
Secondary research
Pathak, McDermot and Savic (2017), has researched over the concept of recruitment
and selection. This is about to analysis the requirements of the organisation and hire work
force to mitigate such expected need and demand of the employees in company. Recruitment
and selection is a practice where company try to appoint different human resources required
at various designated position role in company. The practice of the recruitment and selection
has been followed by company from many years at a professional level and many companies
own a separate department call as human resource department for appointing employees over
different designated position role at work place. The aim of the recruitment and selection is to
hire work force at all different designated position role in company so that all functional areas
and responsibilities associated with the company could have been meet by the organisation.
As per the views given by Maksymowych and et.al.,(2018), human resource
management is a practice denoted as managing different needs and requirements of the
organisation in context to the employees and human resources and also to manage the needs
and requirements of the employee itself in regard to its channelizing business practices. There
are various methods that human resource department adopted in companies for recruiting and
selecting different candidates over various designated position role in company. There are
majorly two methods or approaches that companies face such as internal recruitment and
external recruitment technique. Internal recruitment technique is a process involves
promoting the existing employees of company at senior position role in the organisation. This