Human Resource Management.

Human Resource Management

Contents
INTRODUCTION.................................................................................................................................3
TASK 1.................................................................................................................................................3
P1: Purpose and functions of Human Resource Management............................................................3
P2: Strength and weaknesses of different approaches to recruitment and selection...........................4
TASK 2.................................................................................................................................................6
P3: Benefits of HRM practices within an organisation......................................................................6
P4: Effectiveness of HRM in increasing productivity and growth.....................................................7
TASK 3.................................................................................................................................................8
P5: Importance of employee relation in decision making..................................................................8
P6: Key elements of legislation act of employees..............................................................................9
TASK 4...............................................................................................................................................10
P7: Different application of HRM practices....................................................................................10
CONCLUSION...................................................................................................................................11
REFERENCES....................................................................................................................................12

INTRODUCTION
Human resource management can be defined as the business practice of recruiting and
developing human resource so that they can contribute more valuable efforts in achieving
desired goals and objectives of an organisation. Thus, it involves various activities and
practices such as training and development programs, recruitment and selection, performance
evaluation, rewards etc. Every organisation should require to have skilled and knowledgeable
HR manager who perform such HRM activities and provide company a valuable asset as
employees. Aldi, a company which deals in providing grocery products to the people of UK
and across worldwide is taken for the purpose of preparing this report. The project
summarises the purpose and functions of human resource management along with the
benefits and effectiveness of HRM practices in increasing productivity and profitability of
company. Importance of employee relation and key elements of legislation act of employees
are also discussed under this report (Cox, Arnold and Tomás, 2010).
TASK 1
P1: Purpose and functions of Human Resource Management
Human resource management is formed in an organisation with a motive of managing
and controlling the activities done by the employees working in an organisation. They are the
solely responsible to develop the skills and knowledge of employees through organising for
them suitable training and learning program on regular basis with a hope of getting maximum
contribution from them in achieving desired goals and objectives. It is always important to
take care needs and requirements of human resources through which they can motivate them
to perform well. Therefore, HR manager should required to collect feedbacks in order to find
out problems which restrict employees in giving their maximum efforts and accordingly
implement corrective measures and practices to eliminate them and maximises the
satisfaction level of employees (Daley, 2012). Thus HRM performs several functions which
are as follows:
Recruitment and selection: It is first and foremost function HR manager to perform
as through recruitment and selection process, the company can able to get skilled and
qualified employees. Recruitment is the process of inviting candidates to apply for job and
take participate in interviews sessions to get job in company. On the hands, selection is the
process of giving employability to skilled and knowledgeable candidates after passing all

interview sessions and requirements needed by company. These all activities should be done
by HR manager with a motive of getting valuable human resource to company.
Orientation: This is the process of providing an opportunity to new candidates to get
interaction with other employees and adjust in new environment where they should work. In
such orientation, all the aims, vision, mission and objectives of Aldi are defined by HR
managers to the new employees along with rules and policies of company.
Maintain good working condition: HR manager is wholly responsible to provide
healthy atmosphere to employees at workplace so that no hindrances can stop employees to
perform well. Working in healthy working condition ensures in getting maximum possible
outcomes thus HR manager of Aldi need to focus on conducting activities for the betterment
of employees (Flamholtz, 2012).
Managing employee relation: Employees are considered as a valuable asset to
company on which the growth and success of an organisation depends. Therefore it is
important for HR manager to maintaining healthy relation with them through communicating
and helping them in performing allotted activities. For this, ALDI need to organising
interaction programs and games etc. in order to maintaining good relation between managers
and employees.
Training and development: It is important part of HRM practices which is essentially
required to be conducted by HR manager of Aldi as it helps in enhancing skills and
capabilities of employees through which they can contribute more effort in increasing the
performance of an organisation. Thus, training and development programs should be by
company on continuous basis.
Finance – In order to achieve maximum returns from the market it is important that
the best mode of sourcing and investing finance is used as it determines the productivity of
business. Through marketing the different options are evaluated and hence the best suitable
variety is chosen and hence profit margins of an enterprise is raised.
Promotion – To maximise sales it is of great importance that the goods and services
are marketed using the best mode of advertisement. Officials of marketing department take
care that they choose such platforms through which maximum share of customers can be
reached.