Managing People: HRM Models and Theories for Improving Productivity and Employee Relations

MANAGING PEOPLE

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3
HRM recruitment and selection models, theories and concept used by FarmBox......................3
Theories affecting the employees and company productivity.....................................................5
Assessing the appropriateness of the models used by FramBox and identifying the areas that..5
needs improvements....................................................................................................................5
Areas of the procedure that need improvements are...................................................................7
Recommendations of HRM models or theories that should be used by the FramBox for..........7
improving their operational productivity and employee relations...............................................7
The Standard Causal Model of HRM......................................................................................8
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................1

INTRODUCTION
People management is the overall directing, organizing and management of the peoples in
the organisation including recruitment, selection, training (Leroy, 2018). Managing peoples is all
about preparing their wages, compensations or appraisal policies and conducting open
communication with them for ensuring effective workplace environment for motivating and
encouraging them to work hard. FarmBox is a company of United Kingdom dealing in fresh food
products and has its operations worldwide. This company is selling its products online for more
earnings but due to covid-19 it is facing many problems in its staff management. This report will
include various theories, models, concepts relating to the study of human behaviour in the
workplace. Further, an understanding of how this models or theories affects the company
productivity and assessing its appropriateness of the HRM. Lastly, identifying and
recommending the best theories or models for the company to improve the operational
productivity and employees relations through more effective HRM talent management.
MAIN BODY
HRM recruitment and selection models, theories and concept used by FarmBox
FramBox is a supplying fresh foods to the customers online as well as in the shops but due
to Covid-19 this company is facing huge problems in collaborating the activities of its staff due
to less training and confusion (Paillé, 2019). This company FarmBox is using various models
and theories in its workplace for increasing the employees productivity and the company too.
Various theories and concept used by FarmBox are:
AMO theory
This theory used by the FarmBox for increasing the ability or motivation by creating
opportunities so that the employees can work more efficiently with full satisfaction these three
components are interconnected to each others.
 Ability: This company is increasing the ability of each employees by increasing the
knowledge and skills of the employees in doing the task with more accuracy (Mat, 2020).
The leaders and the managers of this company is helping the employees to increase their
experiences and skills by giving them proper training and knowledge.

 Motivation: Farmbox is motivating its employees by giving them proper salaries and
wages and increasing their ability will automatically increases the morale of the
employees to work with full efforts (Cheng, 2021). The leaders and the managers are
listening to their problems and communicating with them in decision making to make
them feel invlolved.
 Opportunity: With both ability and motivation this company is also providing various
opportunities to the employees to work with full efficiency to achieve their dreams. This
company is giving opportunity for promotions, appraisal for good performances etc.
Human capital theory
This theory is used by Frambox in which it described that employees can increase their
productivity and efficiency by education or various training sessions to them (Marginson, 2019).
This theory states that investing the human capital of the company on educating the employees
by various training sessions will automatically increase the productivity of the employee and
with higher productivity the outcomes will be more. Using the human capital on employees for
increasing their ability will leads to high productivity with high outcomes.
Michigan framework
This is the method of leadership used by Frambox for increasing the performances of the
employees by changing the organisational structure or framework (Reppond, 2018). The
framework and strategies of HRM is developed for selecting, appraising, rewarding, employees
for making them feel happy and do the work with full efficiency. All the employees are selected
according to their skills and knowledge and are given work according to their skills and
knowledge. All this strategies are used within the organisational framework for increasing the
performances of the employees.
5-P Model
This company is using five P’s model for increasing the productivity of the employees the
five P’s stands for :