HRM Report: The Role of HR Function, Recruitment Strategies, and Talent Management in Unilever plc

Human Resource
Management

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
TASK...............................................................................................................................................3
The role of the HR function within an organisational context....................................................4
Learning and development...............................................................................................................5
The effectiveness of recruitment and selection strategies to maintain organisational
performance.................................................................................................................................6
Approaches used to manage talent linked to organisational performance along with an
exploration of good practice models.........................................................................................11
Explore HR systems and procedures and how they enable the achievement of business
objectives...................................................................................................................................12
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................14

INTRODUCTION
Human resource management refers to those management of the organisation which deals
with the recruitment and selection of the employees in the organisation. The main motive of this
management in the organisation is to employees the talented employees in the workplace. Only
the recruitment and selection of the employees are not the function of human resource
management but the training and management of these employees are also covered in the
functions of the human resource management. The training of the employees are very important
because the it helps the employees to develop special skills in their personality which enables
them to working in the organisation. The human resource management is one of those
department which has to develop effective relationship with other departments of the
organisation. The main reason for the establishment of relationship with different division is to
ensure the fulfilment of workforce need of the organisation. This report is based on one of the
well known organisation of the world called Unilever plc. This report states various human
resource functions ion the organisation. The brief discussion related to the effectiveness of
recruitment and selection strategies are clearly stated in this report. It also stated the approach of
the organisation towards talented employees to the organisation. This report provides various
human resource system which helps to increase the performance of the employees.
About the company
Unilever plc is a British multinational organisation which deals in consumer goods
industry. All the decisions of the company are taken from the headquarter of the company which
is situated in London, United Kingdom. The management of the Unilever deals in multiple
product range of products such as home care products, beauty care products and many more.
TASK
The role of the HR function within an organisational context
HR refers to an widely important function for any type of organisation in this world. It consist
many function that are also important for any organisation such as recruitment, selection and
performance management, learning and development and etc (Strohmeier, 2020). In order to
understand HR function properly, it is need understand what is Human resource management.
Human resource management refers to a typical approach that helps in managing employment in
order to achieve competitive advantage by deploying highly committed, skilled and capable

workforce in the organisation. In context with Unilever, the role of HR function that are
important to them for their operation are described below:
Human resource planning
It is a first important HR function which helps to know about the future requirements of an
organisation. This will assist company to identify that what kind of people or employee are to
their organisation as well as how many. By knowing about this properly will help them to make
their Humane resource functions properly such as recruitment, selection, learning and
development, performance management, etc. This planning refers to similar with workforce
planning that are mainly focus on where is organisation is today as well as what they need in
order to become successful in the future. In respect of Unilever, this will helps them to
understanding of their requirement of the employees in the organisation that helps them to
operate their different function in effective manner (Stone, Cox and Gavin 2020).
Recruitment and selection
This functions is used to attract the highly skilled and capable candidates as well as selecting best
one in order to perform within an organisation. It refers to the HR manager responsibility to
recruit right people for the right job at the right time in the organisation in order to make their
performance better. This will make HR manager of Unilever to use effective strategy that attracts
highly skilled and experienced candidates. This makes them to apply for their job. After their
application, the HR manager apply select those candidates that can fixed to their job.
Performance management
It refers to essential function for the organisation in order to get ensure that their employees are
highly productive as well as engaged. Good leadership, open feedback as well as clear goal
setting helps HR managers to make good performance management in the organisation. Annual
performance review refers to an effective tools related to performance management in which
employees performance is reviewed by their managers (Salikov, Logunova, and Kablashova,
2019). By taking feedback from managers, peers, subordinates and even from customers helps
them to review the performance of an employee. The performance management tools refers to an
instrument which is used to closed the gap in between the workforce that have today with the one
that they want to make tomorrow. In case of Unilever, this will help them to manage their each
employees performance and make them highly productive in order to perform their work
effectively and efficiently.