Functions of HRM in Workforce Planning and Resourcing

This document discusses the purpose and functions of HRM in workforce planning and resourcing. It explores the strength and weakness of different approaches to recruitment and selection. It also evaluates the effectiveness of HRM practices in increasing business profit and productivity. Additionally, it analyzes the importance of employee relations in influencing HRM decision making and identifies key elements of employment legislation and their impact on HRM decision making. Finally, it illustrates the application of HRM practices using specific examples.

Human Resource
Management

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
P1 Purpose and functions of HRM applicable to workforce planning and resourcing and
organisation..................................................................................................................................1
P2 Strength and weakness of various approaches to recruitment and selection..........................2
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................3
P3 Benefits of different HRM practices within company for the both employer and employee.3
P4 Evaluate the effectiveness of various HRM practices in order to increase business profit
and productivity...........................................................................................................................3
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................4
P5 Analyse the importance of employee relation in respect to influencing human resource
management decision making......................................................................................................4
P6 Identify the key elements of employment legislation and the impact it has upon human
resource management decision making.......................................................................................5
Equality act, 1964........................................................................................................................5
TASK 4............................................................................................................................................5
P7 Illustrate the application of human resource practice in relation to work using a specific
examples......................................................................................................................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9
REFERENCE.................................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
Human resource management emphasis on recruitment, selection, training as well as
development which manage and control workers in an organisation in order to fulfil business
objectives. Human resource is important part in company to develop the work culture in
company (Armstrong and Taylor, 2020). Bentley Motors Limited is considered in this report
which is situated in Crewe, England, United kingdom. The founder of this enterprise is H.M. and
W.O. Bentley and established in year 1919. The mission statement is to attract users with a
magical combination of techniques, transformation and sustainability. The main purpose of this
is to create new ideas and innovation to attract audiences. Bentley Motors offer products and
services of automation customisation, Flying Spur, Bentayga and many more. This report covers
function and scope of human resource management in relation to resourcing a entity with skills
and experiences, effectiveness of human resource management, internal as well as external
factors that affect decision making and practices of HR related to work.
TASK 1
P1 Purpose and functions of HRM applicable to workforce planning and resourcing and
organisation.
Bentley Motors is an automotive industry which market there products such as luxury
cars and SUVs which include different models such as Flying Spur, Continental GT and
Muslanne. The purpose of HR functions is to collaboration of individuals in company to
accomplish aim, meet the needs and demands and maintain the satisfaction of workers. The
functions of human resource which are mentioned below:
Workforce planning: It refers to the process to identify and determine the preferences of
employees by satisfying the needs and wants. Bentley motors conduct the proper training and
workshop for the workers to develop the skills and knowledge in business.
Learning and development: The main aim of the organisation is to boost the ability and
talent to perform the work effectively and efficiently in workplace. In context to Bentley Motors,
human resource has innovated a new Upskilling programme to develop the knowledge in order
to achieve targeted goals (Banfield, Kay and Royles, 2018).
Performance Appraisal: This refers to the tool by which human resource measure and
monitor the performance of every staff to give them feedback based on their performance in
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workforce. This assist them to manage workforce planning to ascertain the business opportunity
as well as growth.
P2 Strength and weakness of various approaches to recruitment and selection.
Recruitment: It is defined to hire the right candidate for the specific job position.
Bentley Motors focuses on recruiting the talented and experienced applicants in workplace by
different methods to build awareness about their vacancy in company. The right candidate for the
right job is for the growth and success of organisation (Berman and et.al., 2019). There are two
methods of recruitment which is explained below:
Internal: This signifies that organisation fill their vacancy within its workforce. This help
human resource of Bentley Motors to promote or transfer the existing role of experienced
person in their workplace which lead to the opportunities in business.
Strength Weakness
This helps to reduce the time as well as money
to hire the candidates as they have to select that
conduct which is already working in their
departments.
Company does not get innovative ideas
because existing workers come from within the
workforce which lead to in operational
inefficiency.
External: This states that company fill their requirement outside the workplace in a
particular job position. Bentley Motors recruiting candidates by maximizing their searches from
E-recruitment system which helps them to take skilled and talented applicants from outside the
company in UK. The main advantage of this is better competition, generation of creative ideas
and increase the development of fresh skills which lead to increase growth in business. On the
other hand, weakness of this involves high risk and lots of time. The main disadvantages of
external recruitment is that it make conflict and dispute in the internal process as well as with the
existing workers (Chelladurai and Kerwin, 2018).
Selection: It is the process of selecting a experienced people who contribute their value
to company. Human resource of Bentley Motors use various methods to select candidates such
as psycotechnic test and technical assignment order to increase performance and profitability of
business. It is essential as selecting talent candidate fulfil the requirement of job which help them
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to maintain equal opportunity to the workers. Human resource of Bentley Motors has adapted
this selection method which is explained below:
Aptitude test: It is defines as the process by which organisation test the ability of
individual person to perform their particular activities which help them to handle the various
situations. This test is based on their scores by that human resource of Bentley Motors check the
skills and knowledge of applicants.
Strength Weakness
This improve the quality hiring process which
result to better outcome.
This test do not observe the people ability to
select the right candidate for the job.
TASK 2
P3 Benefits of different HRM practices within company for the both employer and employee.
Bentley Motors use various HRM practices to manage and control the workforce in an
appropriate manner which benefits both employer and employees in workplace which are
mentioned below:
Reward system: It is the procedure by which management manage and control the
attitude of staff at workplace. This help human resource of Bentley Motors to identify as well as
understand the performance of the employees in order to achieve the business objectives and
goals of organisation. Bentley Motors offers reward such as bonus scheme as well as health and
fitness programme to motivate them. It gives benefits to employers to increase the productivity
and performance of workforce. HRM practices benefits employees to earn more money based on
their better work performance (Huemann, Keegan and Turner, 2018).
Training and Development: This refers to the activities by which organisation build the
knowledge as well as skills of staff by providing them additional information of products and
services to perform the particular tasks. Bentley Motors develops the skill development
programme in order by rotating jobs and transfer. It benefits to employers by maximizing
productivity in business environment from their competitors whereas benefits to employees is
that to develop the knowledge so that people work productively.
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P4 Evaluate the effectiveness of various HRM practices in order to increase business profit and
productivity.
Every organisation main purpose is to maximize profit by innovating new products and
service in market place. On the other hand human resource enhance productivity by workers
engagement and manage the turnover. The various HRM practices which help them to maximize
the profitability and performance of Bentley motors which are explained as follows:
Providing security to employees: This is the HRM practices for the employment
security. This gives workers the reason to stay for the long term period which helps organisation
to retain their members. Bentley Motors provide the job security and advancement in the COVID
19 pandemic to remain and for the security of the workers in workplace (Järlström, Saru and
Vanhala, 2018).
Self managed and effective team: Effective teams helps to give new ideas and bring
innovation as well as opinion in order to achieve overall common goals. This assist them to feel
comfortable in the working environment. Human resource practices encourage to work together
for the defined target. Therefore, self managed as well as effective team helps to gain higher
profit and productivity. In context to Bentley Motors, human resource attract team members to
achieve the growth and success of business.
TASK 3
P5 Analyse the importance of employee relation in respect to influencing human resource
management decision making.
The term employee relation is defined as the efforts of company to build strong
relationship between the superior and subordinates. Human resource of Bentley Motors create
positive environment to keep employees engage to perform better work in organisation.
Mentioned below are some of the benefits of employee relation in workplace are as:
 A good relation is essential as the individuals divide their work in team members which
lead to maximize productivity of employees (Kaufman, 2019).
 Employees feel highly motivated in the Bentley motors that turn to accomplish the
targeted goals.
 Bentley Motors establish strong bonding with the workers to improve the performance in
business organisation.
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 It reduces the issues of absenteeism at the workplace as they do not take the leave for
their work.
 Workers satisfaction as well as engagement help them to boost the productivity, revenue
and profit which assess them to accomplish the goals and objectives (Macke and Genari,
2019).
P6 Identify the key elements of employment legislation and the impact it has upon human
resource management decision making.
Employee legislation is the law which tells the information of the rights along with the
duties of employers and employees in workplace. Bentley Motors has follow this laws in
organisation which is discussed below:
Equality act, 1964
This equality act defends employees against any kind of violence, discrimination,
harassment and protect their basic rights. At Bentley they treat their employees equally to reduce
the the fear of complexity among the workforce. Company accepts any kind of feedback or
suggestions for the decision making from the employees of the firm. It makes them feel as an
important part of the company and they work with more loyalty towards the company. They
provide equal and fair pay to all the employees and it ensures equality among the employees
(Rana and Sharma, 2019).
Health and safety at work act 1974
Health and safety at work act ensures the safety of the workers at the workplace. Some
industries such as construction industry, chemical industry are hazardous to work at but this act
ensures the safety of health and life of the employees. Bentley has effective policies for the
safety of all the employees in the premises. Company provides a safe working environment to
the workers. By providing proper work training to employees and providing them suitable
information about the work style and workplace company ensures the safety of the employees.
TASK 4
P7 Illustrate the application of human resource practice in relation to work using a specific
examples.
Job Specification is a written statement which include education, qualities, experiences
as well as skills which gives the responsibilities and roles of a particular job position. The
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importance of job specification is that it include all the information of the job to know the
candidates about the roles.
Job Specification
Position: Human resource manager
Department: Human resource department
Attributes Essential Desirable
Qualification The education of candidate
must have Post graduation
degree from recognized
university with the minimum
marks of 60% percentage.
Candidate who is pursuing or
completed the Post graduation
in business management.
Experience Candidate should have one
year experience of human
resource manager in
organisation.
The preferred candidate must
have more than one year
experience in medium size
organisation as well as
experience in human resource
leadership and organisational
development.
Knowledge and skills  Good skills in
understanding of
planning as well as
decision making.
 Manage and control
the situations and
conflict in the
workplace.
 They have knowledge
of different activities
such as information
technology.
 Translation of
employment policy
and procedure.
Job advertisement refers to inform about the vacancy in the company for specific job
position. It also include all the details about the application, place, dates as well as know the
information of organisation.
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Job advertisement
Manager:
Eligible candidate must completed their Post graduation from recognized university with the
skills such as communication, listening and writing.
Customer Relationship department:
They know how to handle the situations between the ultimate users and workers.
Timescale:
Starting date of applications for candidates. 21 - 25 March, 2021.
Short listing of application. 1 – 5 April, 2021.
Interview Date 10 – 15 April, 2021.
Interview questions:
Q1) Tell me about yourself?
Q2) What is the goals of human resource employee in long term?
Q3) How you resolve the conflict in workplace?
Q4) What is the best to work in human resource?
Q5) By what ways you will improve your business process to increase profitability in
company?
Job description is defined as the roles and responsibilities, purpose and summary of job
which helps individuals to know their responsibilities. It helps to identify and understand the
skills as well as ability of candidate to apply in the job position. Mentioned below is the job
description of Bentley Motors are as:
Job Description
Company: Bentley Motors
Designation: Human resource manager
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Address: Crewe, England, United Kingdom.
Job summary
The enterprise require human resource applicant for the job who understand and analyse the
working of employees in an organisation. They also able to handle all the query as well as
situation in workplace.
Role and responsibilities
 Updating and developing of human resource strategies and plans.
 This helps to develop the relationship between employer and employee.
 Manage the recruitment as well as selection process.
 Conduct training and development programme.
 Ascertain the wages and remuneration of an individual employees.
Selection criteria
 Increase team working skills to attract and retain the workers to develop the knowledge.
 Oral and written skills in the human manager.
 Personal skills to communicate with each members in the organisation.
 Time management skills in the operation management.
Job offer letter is the notice in the application which inform the applicant that they are
recruited for a particular job position (Stewart and Brown, 2019). This include date of joining,
place at which office is located as well as term of employment.
Job offer letter
21st March 2021
Smith Jones
Bentley Motors
Dear Smith Jones ,
We are happy with your skills and talent as well as experience. We offer you to join
the post of human resource manger in Bentley Motors on 22nd March 2021. Please carry hard
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copy of your resume and other official documents with you.
Best regards,
Manager.
CONCLUSION
From the above report, it is concluded that human resource management is the main
element of every business organisation as they develop and implement the work culture in
company. The main purpose of human resource of Bentley Motors is to attract and retain
employees by giving them reward and feedback of their work performance. The function of
human resource is work planning, learning and development and performance appraisal.
Recruitment signifies the process by which the enterprise fill the vacancy whereas selection
states that to shortlist applicants and give them job in entity. However, methods of recruitment
are internal as well as external. On the other hand, selection done in Bentley Motors is interview
as well as selection process. Different HRM practices adapted by selected organisation is reward
system along with training and development in order to increase productivity and performance.
Effectiveness of human resource practices of providing security to employees and self managed
and effective team. Bentley Motors follow the employee legislation which is Equality act,
1964Health and safety at work act 1974 to maintain the development.
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