Human Resource Management Individual Project - Marks and Spencer

Human Resource
Management

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................4
TASK...............................................................................................................................................4
A) Examining how HR strategies were changed by the firm.................................................4
B) Analysing the impact of environment factor on culture and HR plan...............................5
C) Organisation's model of employment and organisational levers used to create values.....6
D) Using Storey's 27 points of difference between HRM and personnel management as a
benchmark..............................................................................................................................7
E) Analyse the strategies related with job strategies..............................................................9
F) State hiring and firing strategies of the organisation.........................................................9
G) Use appropriate corporate examples and literature to justify your stand........................10
H) Recommendation to employers regarding HRM practices to ensure that the organisation
performance is high..............................................................................................................11
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................12
REFERNCES.................................................................................................................................13

INTRODUCTION
Humans are the backbone of any organisation. Human Resource Management is a broad
concept which focuses on the practices of hiring, recruiting, training, developing, rewarding,
deploying and managing employees within the workplace. HR managers plan, direct and
coordinate the administrative business functions. The present report is based on the Marks and
Spencer Company which is a UK based multinational organisation. It has headquartered in
London, England (Stewart and Brown, 2019). It is mainly known for its home products, clothing
and food items. The report analyses various HR strategies and related strategic concepts of
HRM. It will demonstrate the impact of environmental factors on culture. It will use the
Storey'27 points of difference between personnel management and HRM. Later, it includes the
job strategies and hiring and firing strategies. Lastly, it will provide suggestions and
recommendations to increase the organisational performance.
TASK
A) Examining how HR strategies were changed by the firm
The main function of human resource department is admiring efforts of their workforce in
such a manner efficiency of overall performance of business could be enhanced. In the same time
functions of the business could be improved by improving efficiency of employees. On the other
hand, human resource strategies are related with giving direction to the employees so that their
efforts could be aligned with objectives of the company (Ozbilgin, 2020). Strategies of HR are
quite useful because they assist in aligning goals and targets of businesses they could develop
and grow. Department of HR gives an environment to an organisation and employees which
assists workforce to increase and improve their role in evaluating needs and demands of the
market so that employees could be easily moulded for increasing job satisfaction. With the
assistance of HR strategies, workforce get motivated towards increasing their own performance
so that productiveness and creativity could be enhanced. By using strategies of HR, positive
environment could be maintained so that workforce could contribute in overall succession of the
business. In respect of Marks & Spencer, this retailer company has made and reviewed their HR
strategies with the motive of dealing with targets of business and these strategies are explained
below: