Human Resource Management in Marks and Spencer: Trends, Problems, and Ethical Practices

Human resource
management

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Current HRM trends and problems an organisation face and in what manner it impact on it....1
How HRM start to plan ahead and think to long term workforce planning................................3
What HRM team considered to ensure ethical practices used in recruitment or selection
process.........................................................................................................................................4
Recommendations to solve HRM problems...............................................................................5
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES...............................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Human resource management refers to a practice of deploying, recruiting, hiring,
managing people with an organisation. It is a type of a strategic approach to effective and
efficient management of people within an organisation so that competitive advantage can be
attained by firm in business industry. This process is mainly designed to manage and handle
employees performance in a business entity to attain employee strategic objectives. This
particular report is based on the Marks and Spencer that is a UK based public limited company
but deals on international level (PEOPLE, 2021). It is a major British multinational retailer that
highly specialised in selling cloths, food products, home products, financial services etc. This
report explains the current trends and problems that Marks and Spencer face and their impact on
overall operations. Further it also elucidates the long term workforce planning along with ethical
practices used in recruitment and selection process. At last it discuss recommendations for Marks
and Spencer so that HRM problems to be resolved easily and effectively.
MAIN BODY
Current HRM trends and problems an organisation face and in what manner it impact on
it
The working style of Human resource has been changed in recent past years (Stewart and
Brown, 2019). Due to more advancement in technology working of human resource
management is to be changed within Marks and Spencer that impact positively on business
operations and profitability so that firm will sustain longer time period in competitive business
industry . Some of the recent trends of HRM in Marks and Spencer are presented below:
Current HRM Trends in Marks and Spencer
 Virtual working and appraisal- Now-a-days virtualise is very trending in organisation.
Due to COVID 19 pandemic situation government of several countries strictly imposed
locked down in cities due to this working of Marks and Spencer is suffered (Lawler and
Boudreau, 2020). At this time virtual working is come into existence where employees
are working from home and company appraise employees virtually by analysing their
performance using advanced technology. It satisfy and retain staff members for longer
time period.
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