Roles and Purpose of Human Resource Management

HUMAN RESOURCE
management
Contents

INTRODUCTION.....................................................................................................................................2
TASK 1.......................................................................................................................................................3
P1. Roles and purpose of human resource management..........................................................................3
P2. Strength and weakness of recruitment and selection approach:.........................................................4
TASK 2.......................................................................................................................................................6
P3. Benefits of different HRM practices for both employer and employee:............................................6
P4. Evaluate the effectiveness of different HRM practices:.....................................................................7
TASK 3.......................................................................................................................................................7
P5. Importance of employee relation:......................................................................................................7
P6. Key elements of employee legislation:..............................................................................................8
TASK 4.......................................................................................................................................................9
P7. Job description and person specification:..........................................................................................9
CONCLUSION........................................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES........................................................................................................................................11

INTRODUCTION
human resource management is a main department of an organization who enhance the
efficiency and productivity of the employees and control all the activities of organization as well
employees. Human resource management responsible for recruitment, hiring, screening,
selection of employees, their benefits, performance appraisal, health and safety. In this chosen
organization is ASDA which deals in retail sector. It was established in 1949 by Peter and Fred
Asqith Sir Noel Stockdale. Its headquarter is situated in ASDA house, England. In this report
include role and purpose of human resource management and soft and hard skill. Strength and
weakness of different recruitment and selection process(Armstrong and Taylor 2014). In this
consist benefits of different HRM practice for both employer and employee and evaluation of
different HRM practices. In this also include employee relation for increasing the organizational
profitability and productivity and different employees’ legislations. At last include person
specification and job description.
TASK 1
P1. Roles and purpose of human resource management
Human resource management is a significant feature which is liable for various activities
of business. Its main work is recruitment, selection, training and development, performance
appraisal, employee’s benefits, health and safety, compensation, business policy etc. Human
resource main purpose is maintaining employees’ relation at workplace so they can give
better performance of work.
Purpose of human resource management:
Working together: HR professionals and HR managers perform together because of
growth of the employees as well as organization. Professionals of HR give suggestion to
administrator and director that how to give various duties to their staffs in the organization.
Managers of ASDA supervise their employees to how the work for achieve the organizational
targeted goals.
Building capacity: HRM team supports an organization to improve a competitive benefit
in which includes the capability of the organization so it can offer an exclusive set of products
and services to its consumers. HR Managers of ASDA not selecting the talent but they retain
employees and support them to grow.
Function of HRM:
In this includes many different types of function which are as follows:
Employee relation: In this managers maintain effective relation between employee and
employer. They manage coordination at workplace for effective work of employees towards the
organization. Managers of ASDA maintain and manage their employee’s relationship in the
company by solving conflicts among them.
Recruitment and selection: recruitment and selection is the process of finding, hiring and
screening of candidates who are apply for a particular job. Main function of human resource
management is attracting the qualified candidates for a particular job.

The ‘Best Fit’ approach vs. ‘Best Practice’:
Best Practice Best Fit
Best practice situations that numerous HR
Policies will be containing reward strategies
It considers in reward methods which must be
associated with that of the policies of the
company.
In this exercise the HR centrals to effective
obligation of workers as well as great
motivation to the same.
Best fit outcomes in attainment of competitive
advantage for the company.
The hard and soft models of HRM:
Hard HRM:
There are the staffs get used as source for a skill where an effective relation is recognized
with that of the development of business. In this model, the HRM should mainly be
concentrating on the requirements of workforce and maintain and recruit specialists according to
the ASDA need.
Soft HRM:
In soft HRM, all the workers obtain a behavior of being one of the main resources of the ASDA and
continue a source for possession the ASDA in a competitive advantage. Infect they are preserved as
persons and afterwards all their necessities get strategic accordingly. The HRM should significantly be
concentrating on the requirements of workforce according their roles and duties with extra advantage
of inspirations and reward systems(Chelladurai and Kerwin, 2017).
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The internal labor market:
ILM, contraction of Internal Labor Market, is a managerial unit within a business where
labor and pricing distribution gets ruled by managerial rules and procedures.
Analyzing turnover:
The behaviors with which workers’ turnover can be planned as under:
 Inspection the records of HR for totaling the entire numbers.
 Employee turnover amounts get calculated with dismissed workers.
P2. Strength and weakness of recruitment and selection approach:
Internal recruitment:
Internal Recruitment in which the supply of workforce is done internally means within
the company. The applicant is choosing from among the workers who are previously in
employment with the company, i.e. current workers or from those who is in employ with the
company in the past i.e. previous workers who left the occupation willingly but they plan to
arrival. There are some approaches of internal recruitment which are as follows: