HRM: Purpose, Functions, Recruitment, Selection, and HRM Practices

HRM

Table of Contents
Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
P1 Explain the purpose and the functions of HRM, applicable to workforce planning and
resourcing an organisation......................................................................................................1
M1) Assess how the functions of HRM can provide talent and skills appropriate to fulfil
business...................................................................................................................................2
P2 Explain the strengths and weaknesses of different approaches to recruitment and selection
................................................................................................................................................3
M2) Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of different approaches to recruitment and
selection..................................................................................................................................3
D1) Critically evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of different approaches to recruitment
and selection, supported by specific examples.......................................................................5
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................6
P3 Explain the benefits of different HRM practices within an organisation for both employer
and employee..........................................................................................................................6
M3) Assess different methods used in HRM practices, providing specific examples to support
evaluation within an organisational context...........................................................................7
P4 Evaluate the effectiveness of different HRM practices in terms of raising organisational
profit and productivity............................................................................................................7
D2) Critically evaluate HRM practices and application within an organisational context, using
a range of specific examples...................................................................................................8
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................8
P5 Analyse the importance of employee relations in respect to influencing HRM decision
making....................................................................................................................................8
M4) Evaluate the key aspects of employee relations management and employment legislation
that affect HRM decision-making in an organisational context.............................................9

P6) Identify the key elements of employment legislation and the impact it has upon HRM
decision making......................................................................................................................9
TASK 4..........................................................................................................................................10
P7) Illustrate the application of HRM practices in a work-related context, using specific
examples...............................................................................................................................10
M5) Provide a rationale for the application of specific HRM practices in a work-related
context..................................................................................................................................14
D3) Critically evaluate employee relations and the application of HRM practices that inform
and influence decision-making in an organisational context...............................................14
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................15
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................16

INTRODUCTION
The HRM (human resource management) is the most vital function of the business and
that describe that formal system that get developed so as to manage and control the different
individual that get associated with the company. In this the human resource manager performs a
lot of responsibility as like employee compensation and benefits, staffing, designing or defining
work. The human resource management is the strategic approach of the business through which
the company get the balanced support to gain a better competitive advantage in the aggressive
market competition in addition the performance of the employee also get enhanced by which
business is able to achieve its goals and objectives within the certain period of time and with
more sufficiency (Acikgoz, 2019). In additional the recruitment is the process through which the
company attract fulfil the vacant places by providing employment to the people as per their
qualification and education. Waitrose has been taken in this report that is the British
supermarkets and provides the groceries product to the customers and was founded in 1904 by
Wallace Waite, Arthur Rose, David Taylor while managing the business with 338 locations and
providing the employment to 52590 numbers of employees with headquartered in Bracknell,
Berkshire, and Victoria, London, United Kingdom. The following report consist of the purpose
and function of HRM, approaches of recruitment and selection with its strength and weakness,
effectiveness and benefits of HRM practices, importance of employee relation and key elements
of employee legislation and its impact on the HRM decision making.
TASK 1
P1 Explain the purpose and the functions of HRM, applicable to workforce planning and
resourcing an organisation
The HRM is the process of the business from which the overall working will get managed
and control. It has the huge impact on the ability and capacity of the business through which the
working performance and productivity will get managed (Alfes, 2017).
HRM Purposes appropriate to workforce planning and resourcing:-
 The HR manager of Waitrose get ensure that the most suitable employee get placed to the
most appropriate position by which they have implies all their skills, abilities, knowledge
etc while performing certain task.
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