Aims and Duties of Human Resource Management in Sainsbury

HUMAN RESOURCE
MANAGEMENT

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
P1. Aims and duties of Human resource management in planning and resourcing workforce
with their strengths and abilities to fulfil objectives of business in an organization...................3
P2. Strengths and Weakness of different approaches to Selection &Recruitment......................4
P3. Advantages of different HRM practices in Sainsbury for employer and employee..............5
P4. HRM Practice benefits in terms of Raising Sainsbury’s Profit and Productivity.................5
P5. Significance of employee relation.........................................................................................6
P6. Key elements of employment legislation and its influence on HR decision-making............7
P7. Application of HRM practices in Sainsbury.........................................................................8
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................11
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................1

INTRODUCTION
Human resource management (HRM) refers to an administrational function of personnel in the
companies designed for maximizing performances of employees to reach its strategic objectives
and goals. More accurately, this operational department focuses on employee’s management by
highlighting systems and policies within organization. The chosen organization in this report is
Sainsbury Plc, a large standing premium retailing chain of food in United Kingdom that
launched its first grocery food in 1869. Its brand is created upon a legacy of providing fresh
quality certified food with great taste in affordable prices by overseeing their health and safety.
This report covers all the purposes and scopes of HRM, their functions and duties in maintaining
Sainsbury’s management.
P1. Aims and duties of Human resource management in planning and resourcing workforce with
their strengths and abilities to fulfil objectives of business in an organization
HRM is very essential for effective management of employees in any organization. The aim
and purpose of human resource management is to define the structure of Sainsbury that drives
productivity, to embrace the extensive social and ethical developments and overpass the gap that
is in the middle of staff performance and Sainsbury’s strategic goals. The scope of HRM is very
extensive. Key roles of HRM are to modify, reinforce the values of business and develop the
culture of Sainsbury. This department in Sainsbury perform various duties such as planning of
human resources by recruiting staffs when company suffers from employee’s shortage by
implementing new techniques as per their talent and skills. One of the popular sources of HRM
department now-a-days is to recruit individuals by publishing advertisement on social media and
hire. HRM function is to notice and regulate the particular requirements through job analysis and
design a job as per the description given in the evaluated data. Human resource management
select appropriate individuals as per the requirement in the company. Recruit, select and on-
board the candidates are the crucial duties of this department. Human resource management
provide genuine introduction of Sainsbury and its orientation. HRM also transmit proper training
program to grow skills and boost performance of employees (Manzoor and et.al, 2019). HRM
also perform duties of looking payroll and manage budgets. This department also involve
evaluation of employees by performance appraisals to validate and check their performance
which support them to decide salary increments, incentives and promotions in the future. HRM

look over the remuneration and compensation planning to facilitate benefits and convenient
compensations that are related to the aspects of taking care of employees. Their duty is to
encourage employees for their better cooperation and services. Human resource management in
Sainsbury communicate, coordinate, co-operate and maintains appropriate relationships with
their trade unions and labour to balance work efficiency effectively. This department also care
for the welfare, health and safety of Sainsbury’s employees by complying concerned labour laws
of United Kingdom. Functions of human resource management provide talent and skills by
taking out Sainsbury’s employee’s capabilities and potential critically in order to achieve
competitive advantages and long term sustainability of organization (Delery, and Roumpi, 2017).
P2. Strengths and Weakness of different approaches to Selection &Recruitment
Recruitment can be described as the process of search and obtain a pool of potential candidate
with the solicited skills, knowledge and expertise, which will allow Sainsbury to chose
appropriate candidates to apply for the job opening against described position elucidation and
specifications (Veth and et.al., 2019). Internal Recruitment where the employee working in the
company are given chance to apply for the job or company recruit internally, sometimes
Sainsbury before considering the external source chose to recruit from within. Internal
recruitment provides the existing employees chance to change their job position, as this helps
employer in taking decision fast as the already know the person as well saves lot of budget, saves
time, saves cost of training and also provide opportunity to employee if they are not happy with
their recent job which motivates them and improves their efficiency. Company through internal
recruitment also knows that these employees are loyal towards them. Sainsbury internal
recruitment process is strict and driven by HR rule and policies. But internal recruitment
sometimes do not bring new skills and innovative ideas, that may cause resentment. If the
company is not able to get the appropriate talent from within the company it advertises externally
for the entry of new and fresh talents which can bring new and fresh innovative insights.
Sainsbury adopts different sources and define its recruitment procedure clearly. But it consumes
lot of time and energy and cost (Lamba and Choudhary, 2013). Candidates may fake lie to get
the job, existing employees may also feel left out and not given opportunity. Both the situations
have pros and cons it depends on the particular job and situation of Sainsbury to decide which
source is to be selected.