Importance of Human Resource Management

The assignment emphasizes the significance of human resource management in an organization's growth and success. It highlights that human efforts are crucial for a firm's success, making employee motivation and branding essential parts of organizational strategy. The document references various sources to support its claims, including academic journals and books on human dimensions of wildlife management, sociality through social network sites, and corporate training strategies.

HUMAN RESOURCE
MANAGEMENT

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
P1 Purpose and Functions of HRM applicable to resourcing and workforce planning............1
P2 Weaknesses and Strengths of various approaches to recruitment and selection....................4
P3 Advantages of various HRM practices in an organisation....................................................6
P4 Effectiveness of various HRM practices in context of increasing organisational profit and
development................................................................................................................................7
TASK 2 ...........................................................................................................................................7
P5 Importance of employee relations in order to influencing HRM decision-making..............7
P6 Elements of employment legislation and affect upon HRM decision-making......................8
P7 Application of HRM practices in Work Context...................................................................9
CONCLUSION ..............................................................................................................................1
REFERENCES ..............................................................................................................................2

INTRODUCTION
Human resource management is most important factor of any company, because it
manage various types of activities of company in order to accomplish different type of works in
stipulated time period. Human resource department controls various types of activities such as
recruitment of new employees for company (Alarcon, 2011). Conduction of training and
development, giving appraisal, monitor performance of employees working in company. Human
resource contribute its efforts in order to attain gaols and objectives of company. The main
objectives of Human resource department is to maximise level of profit of company. Human
resource manager of any company is called as the representative of any company because it take
pert in different types of meeting with different client in order to explore business in different
part of nation. Virgin Atlantic International is company with concerned on to provide airways
travelling facilities in various nations. This project report deals about different types of functions
and needs and purpose of human resource management in company.
TASK 1
P1 Purpose and Functions of HRM applicable to resourcing and workforce planning
Human resource management is most important element of any company because it
manage different types of functions which are perform in company. These functions are like
hiring of new employee as per the requirement in company. Conduct training session in order to
give proper training to employee of Virgin Atlantic international, selection of skilled employee
in order to accomplish different types of task. Giving different types of appraisals to employee
on the basis of their performance. It motivate employees in order to achieve target which are
fixed by organisation. The main purpose of Human resource department is to maintain
profitability of business in a systematic manner (Decker, Riley and Siemer, 2012). There are
different nature and scope of HRM is describe below:
Nature
 It is a uninterrupted process.
 It controls different types of processes which are related to man power planning,
appraisals give to employee, selection of new employee and many other functions.
 It controls the internal environment of company.
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 It is concerned with different level of management.
Scope
 conduct training session in order to enhance skills and development of employee.
 It motivate its employee in order to accomplish different task in stipulated time period.
 Hire and selection of employee.
 Provide security and social welfare to employee.
There are five functions of HRM is mentioned below as above:
Training and development: This is deals about organising training session for employee of
Virgin Atlantic international in order to enhance skills and knowledge of employee (Ellison and
Boyd, 2013). HR manager introduce new employee to existing employee in order to maintain
proper collaboration in company.
Compensation and Benefits: The main aim of virgin Atlantic International is to attain goals and
objectives of company in effective manner. In order to attain these aims HR manager of give
some advantages to various employee. There are different organisation which is given its
employee:
 Maintain flexible duty hour.
 Paternal and maternal vacation. Extended leaves
Performance appraisal : The HR manager monitor performance of employee. This step aids to
search employee who can perform its work in effective manner.
Planning: It plays a significant role in order to set goals and objectives of organisation. Before
performing any function, the HR manager formulate a effectual plan.
There are some function which are concerned on to HRM are describe below:
 Selection and recruitment of employee.
 Formulate appropriate strategies and policies for Virgin Atlantic International
 Motivate employee.
Best fit approach vs. best practices
Best practice Best fit
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It is related with different Human Resource
plans which are related with appraisal plans of
employee.
Different practices of HRM helps to implement
effective scheme of company.
HR manager helps to motivate employee
working in organisation.
It aids to maintain competitiveness to Virgin
Atlantic International.
Soft and Hard models of HRM
Hard skills: This is concerned with performing different types of functions which are
performed by employee working in organisation. The main aim of HR manager is to
requirement and selection, workforce and controls different employee as per the needs of
company (Forman, 2014). It includes:
 Typing speed
 Degree or certificate
 Computer programming
Soft Skills: This is related with implementing plan by the upper level of management in order to
provide effective structure of organisation. The main aim of HR manager is on requirement of
employee which is based on responsibilities and enhance level of motivation.
Workforce Planning:
Types of firm Types of labour power market
Independent primary Subordinate primary
Core It is related with
control of employee,
professional salaried
and line employee
members.
The employee which
are unionised by
competition within
union of labour.
Periphery Craft Secondary
Employee who
possess high skills are
come for craft of union
Concerned with tos
employee who have
low capabilities ,
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. securities of job.
An internal employee market is the part of administration in organisation under which
proper arrangement of employee and costs is controlled by the administration policies and rules.
Internal labour market is to filled employee by giving promotion to existing employee.
P2 Weaknesses and Strengths of various approaches to recruitment and selection
Calling large number of candidates in order to fill the vacant post of Virgin Atlantic
international organisation is collectively known as recruitment. It is done by two types such as
internally and externally. It is very important factor for the company. HR manager able to find
the best choice individuals in order to accomplish different task in effective manner. The
recruitment processes concerned with requirement of job, attracting applicant for job, screening
and selecting candidates then integrating new applicant for organisation. Recruitment processes
contains different factor in order to accomplish the process (Fulton, and et. al., 2011).
Job analysis: It is related with providing details of job and necessity. The HR manager
implement this step in order to complete the research which are related to requirement of job,
maintain performance standard work processes and many others.
Job descriptions: It is related with the statements which are in written form in which
description about the job, roles and responsibilities, performance of duties and condition related
to performing work.
Personal specification: This is related with the description of skills, knowledge, qualification
and experiences of individuals which will account in order to accomplish responsibility of job.
There are two methods which are used to recruit and select the applicant internally and
externally and also recognise strength and weaknesses (Hobfoll, 2011).
Internal recruitment and selection:
Virgin Atlantic International company choose applicants within company. It is less time
consuming processes and also very cost efficient. HR manager of company do not go for hiring
new candidates from outside. It aids to motivate employee working in organisation. There are
three resources of internal recruitment and selection.
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Promotion: This resource deals to give new responsibility to existing employee by
giving them promotion tom higher post.
Transfer: This resource is related with shifting of employee from old position to new
position of organisation.
Employee referrals: resource deals with capabilities of employee to cited organisation by
giving the post to members of family in order to fill the vacant position of organisation.
Strengths:
 It is cost efficient and less time consuming.
 The HR manager of organisation already aware about the skills and knowledge of
employee because they are already working within organisation.
 There is need of promote to employees.
 Enhance level of motivation of existing employee.
Weaknesses
 There is always chance of conflict arises within employee.
 There is no chance of choosing fresh talent.
External recruitment and selection:
This is related with recruiting applicant from outside of company like hiring from
different colleges, by pool campus, by publishing advertisement and other methods (Jackson,
and Parry, 2011).
Strengths
 It creates opportunity for the new applicant. It aids to implement news and innovative idea of employment .
Weaknesses
 It is very time consuming processes and very costly.
 It is necessary to conduct training session for new employee.
Selection is procedure to select employee as per their capabilities for specific job. The
recruitment is done which is based on the skills, their capabilities of employee
After accomplishing selection process the HR manager organisation conduction program
for employees
On boarding – It is the process to integrate new employee in company. The new employee are
introduced to the employee to its department. New employee recognise its aims and objectives.
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Induction: In this methods new employee integrate to the culture of business, values, vision and
many others. It is being conducted in a week or a day. It aids the employee to integrate with the
departments, senior and other important people (Keep, 2014). There are various issues while
performing induction activities
 Skills of employee
 impact the goals and objectives
P3 Advantages of various HRM practices in an organisation
There are different HRM practices for Virgin Atlantic international which are mentioned
below;
Learning and training and development: it is responsibility of HR manager is to
provide effective training programme in order to develop skills and knowledge of employee in
organisation.
Difference between Training and Development
Training Development
It is concerned on to enhance the skills of
employee
It deals with overall development of
employee.
Its main aim is to increase the performance of
employee working in organisation.
Develop the skills of work in order to inculcate
with future challenges.
It is most important for manager in order to determine the necessity of training to
employee. There are two types of training methods which are used to give training to employee.
On the job training : this methods is used inside the organisation. It is less costly. There are
some methods of on the job training like job rotation, coaching, internship, Apprenticeship and
many other methods (Kerlinger and et. al., 2013).
Off the Job training: This methods is related with giving training to employee outside from
organisation. Virgin Atlantic International hire expert in order to give training to employee. Like
case studies, seminars, conferences and many other methods.
Reward management: it is most important way to motivate employee to accomplish different
task. There are two types rewards:
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Intrinsic reward: It is abstract reward system. It consist of achievement made by
employee determine by manager. It is concerned with attitude and behaviour of employee.
Extrinsic reward: It determine the capabilities of employee. In order to motivate
employee manager give medals, certificate and many other trophy and monetary.
Flexible working option: the HR practices is concerned with flexible working hour job location,
time scheduling and many other. So that employee could not feel stress. Organisation should fix
8-9 hour to perform work in organisation. It help both management and employee both in
effective manner (Kircher and Jain, 2013).
P4 Effectiveness of various HRM practices in context of increasing organisational profit and
development
The main objective of virgin Atlantic international is to maximise level of profit of
organisation as well as employee working in the organisation. Implementation of various HR
practices give benefit the organisation in various ways. It helps in generating large amount of
revenues, capture large large market share. By these practice it aids to give proper training to
employee, give reward on the basis of performances. These practice helps to maintain flexible
working hour in organisation. These are initiative steps in order to provide good quality of
services provided to customer.
TASK 2
P5 Importance of employee relations in order to influencing HRM decision-making
Establishing strong employee relation is beneficial for the organisation. It aids to
increase productivity of organisation. So it is essential for HR manager is to establish strong
relationship among the employee. It helps to solve various types of issues which are arises during
performing various work processes in organisation. It helps to achieve goals and objectives of
organisation in effective manner (.Madlener and Sunak, 2011). There are some ways by which
HR manager can improve employee relation:
Better Communication: In order to maintain effective relationship among employee, HR
manager have to communicate with different employee of various department of company. It is
responsibility of HR manager is to maintain effective communication channel which helps to
maintain coordination among the employee and management (Moutinho, 2011).
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Share vision: HR manager of organisation should share goals and vision of company by
organising meeting of employee. These meetings includes plan and policies of organisation. It
helps to attain goals and objective company.
P6 Elements of employment legislation and affect upon HRM decision-making
Employment legislation is a process of rules and regulations which are framed by
the government to protect the rights of both employer and employee at workplace. These
regulations have a direct impact on the workings of organization and it has a crucial impact on
employees within company as well (Nabrzyski, Schopf and Weglarz, 2012).
Various purpose of Employment Laws
 Maintaining equal opportunities for all employees.
 Protection of children from abuse
 Ensuring better working condition for employees of organization.
 Address queries of Employees regarding their work.
The various Acts of Employment can be described as follows :
Equality Act, 2010 : This Act aims at maintaining equality among its staff members
from the side of employer. It lays down rules as well as the regulations that a employer should
not discriminate between Male and female employees and are responsible to treat them Equally.
Virgin Atlantic International follows this act with all seriousness to maintain equality among
people within company.
Health and Safety Act : Under this act, The manager of the organization is responsible to
provide safe and healthy working environment within company so that employees will work
without any fear and will be able to give their best.
Data Protection : This act put responsibility on the employer Virgin Atlantic International that
the data of employees and staff members as well as customers are protected by the management
and not disclosed to anyone illegally. It ensures the safety of personal data of individuals.
All these acts are very necessary for proper functioning of an organization because
employees are the workforce of the company and they are responsible for taking company ahead
and therefore proper management of such work force should be done by the company if they
want to retain them over longer period of time. These laws ensures that there is no discrimination
among employees with regards to their complexion, Gender, working hours as well as the
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working conditions provided. The main aim of the organization is to maintain peace and good
working condition at the workplace by applying these acts professionally within company.
P7 Application of HRM practices in Work Context
Human resource Management is a very important aspect for any organization. For this
purpose there is a need to develop a job specification and to consider facts to hire right kinds of
facts and figures for the right position (Renz and Herman, 2016).
Job Specification
Job Specification
1. Job details
Title of the job : HR Manager
Department – Human Resource (HR)
2. Job Purpose
 To manage various activities related to business
 Helps in Enhancement of productivity of the organization.
 To Fill the vacant job positions.
3. Job roles and Responsibilities
 Ensure that there should be no lack of motivation among employees.
 Determination of the performance of firm.
 Monitoring and controlling of various business activities.
CV Description : Information and qualification for the post of Sales manager to increase
sales of the company (Schermerhorn and et. al., 2014.).
1. General Information
Name – Richard Nouville
Phone no. 238515658
E-mail id : [e-mail]
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2. Qualification
MBA Oxford university 57.00%
BBA Oxford university 48.00%
Higher Education Trinity business school 63.00%
Senior secondary Trinity Business school 85.00%
5. Personal Details :
Fathers Name – Hardy Nouville
Mothers name – Siara nouville
Date of Birth - 18th April 1991
Achievement – Rugby winner at national level in 10th standard
Comes 2nd in Debate competition.
In virgin Atlantic International there are various vacancies consistently for which
managers recruit and select capable persons for the purpose of hiring them on the job. To recruit
individual for the purpose of job the company adopts various techniques like use on new
technology like online source of searching candidates, various social networking sites etc. This
technology is helpful in different ways like it save cost for the company and the company is able
to reach to large people with low cost and budget. The advertisement that the company gives in a
newspaper will look like this :
VACANCY
Virgin Atlantic Is recruiting for the post of sales Manager
Post – Sales Manager
Qualification – Master in the field of Marketing, Ph. D
Experience – Minimum of 3 years of experience in marketing.
The chosen Candidate will be called for an interview
The candidate can apply for job through email or post.
Last date of application 5th June, 2018
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Address : Crawley business headquarters, crawly, London
Email : [e-mail]
Contact : 2215474145
After this advertisement there will be interest from various people for the job and the
manager then will select the capable people by asking them questions regarding job. Some of
these questions include :
Interview Question
Q1. Tell me about Yourself?
Q2. What is special about your CV?
Q3.How you deal with customers and clients?
Q4. Tell us about Your Strengths?
Q5. What is the importance of Technology in Today's Era?
Among all the candidates the HR manager will select the best candidate who will be
suitable for the job after asking various questions and judging the skills and talent of people.
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CONCLUSION
As per the above mentioned report it has been concluded that human resource
management can be considered as a most effective part of each business enterprises and plays
vast role in managing organisational resources in effective and efficient manner. In this modern
and competitive era each small as well as large business enterprises are concern on hiring well
skilled people at work place in respect to gaining high growth and success at market place.
Human resource consist to be an essential part of an organisation as the growth and success of
firm are based on human efforts, so organisations are concern on motivating their employees and
workers in respect to maintaining high brand image at market area.

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