Human Resources Employee Induction Manual (Part 1) - Desklib

Project Title Human Resources Employee Induction Manual (Part 1)
The Job Application (Part 2)
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Table of Contents
Assessment Part 1: Employee Induction Manual
1.0 Introduction to the chosen organisation p
2.1 An explanation of the purpose of the HR function and the key
roles and responsibilities of the HR function P
2.2 The significance that HR plays in acquiring talent to meet
business objectives p
3.0 An assessment of the approach to:
3.1 Workforce planning p
3.2 Recruitment and selection p
3.3 Development and training p
3.4 Performance management and reward systems p
3.5 Inclusion of case study examples to examine the different
methods used in HR practices p
References p
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1.0 Introduction to the chosen organisation
Tesco is British retail MNC and a public limited company that majorly operate
in UK. It was founded in 1919 by Jack cohen in London, UK. The company is
headquartered in Welwyn garden, UK. It is 3rd largest grocery company in world in
context of revenue. There are total 7500 stores of company all around world. Along
with it, Tesco provide variety of products such as furniture, clothing, grocery,
financial services, etc. There are total 423, 092 employees working in firm.
Mission- “We make what matters better, together”.
Core values- It aims to enhance the loyalty of the consumers as well as its core UK
business to assist the shopping experiences of the customers. They are committed
to around 1 billion Euro to the investment programs to achieve this.
Objectives- To sale maximum products or services as compare to their competitors.
2.1 An explanation of the purpose of the HR function and
the key roles and responsibilities of the HR function
HRM is considered as main pillar of organisation because it is responsible for
carrying out various activities and tasks (De Stefano, Bagdadli and Camuffo., 2018). The
main purpose of HRM is to hire and recruit right person at right place. Also, they
provide training to them to perform activities. Along with it, HRM purpose is to
maintain effective relation between employer and employee. The main purpose of
human resource management to improve the workforce of the company to gain a
competitive advantage in the market. Moreover, HR manage performance of staff
and focus on attaining objectives as specified by organisation. In addition, there are
different roles and responsibilities of HR function which is performed by them. It is
described as below:
Training and development – It is main role of HR in which they provide training to
the old and new employees to perform job roles. Also, they examine the
performance of the employees and also identifies where they need the improvement.
In this way, they focus on overall development of staff.
Maintain relationship- this is also role of HR in which they manage the relations of
employees as they can investigate as well as resolve the issues among the
employees and also assures the safe environment such as free from harassment
and discrimination. The HR is responsible for maintaining relation between employee
and employer.
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Recruitment and selection- HR is primarily accountable for the selection and
recruiting process and also accountable for the guidance and direction to the
benefits and compensation to the employees. They hire staff on basis of job
description and needs of company. Moreover, selection of candidate is done by them
through interview.
Managing performance- this is also function of HRM as they manage and measure
performance of staff. This is done by applying various techniques. Also, performance
is measured on set of some goals and objectives formed.
HR development- in this function the HR do development of employee. They
provide them various opportunities for growth. Also, HR develop their skills in their
career development.
Employment relation- HRM function is to maintain strong and effective relation
between employee and employer. They ensure that there is no conflict or issue.
Besides they find out needs of employee and communicate to employer.
They also consult with the top level of the management. They are the one who
identify ways to maximizes the employees' performance as well as assures they are
used as efficiently. Apart from it, HR measure performance of staff and on basis of
that they provide them training. Thus, they are engaged in performance appraisal as
well of employees (Lawler., 2020).
They are also responsible for the payroll of the employees as they assures all
the aspects of the payroll are processed on time and correctly. They also prepares
the report regarding the accounting department as well as resolve the issues of
payroll. HR is responsible for maintaining culture within firm.
Recruitment and selection in HRM- This is process of finding out job needs,
requirement of job role, advertising job role and then selecting the best suitable
candidate for it. This is a long process in which HR find out who are suitable
candidate for specific job role
Recruitment
Internal source-
Transfer- The method which involve transfer of people from same position to
another place. There is no change in roles and responsibility.
Strengths
 No time is wasted as vacancy is quickly filled.
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 No cost is incurred on it
Weakness
 No new talent is hired
 It led to dissatisfaction among other staff.
Promotion- This method is referred as promotion of people from low to high job role.
Thus, there is increase in roles and responsibilities as well.
Strength
 No time is required in selection and interview
 No high training is required as person is already aware about company
Weakness
 Other employee may feel demotivated.
External source-
Advertisement – It is a method in which ads are placed to attract large number of
candidates for particular job role.
Strength
 New talent is hired and recruited.
Weakness
 A huge cost is incurred on it.
Employment exchange – Here, employees are hired with help of consultancy firm.
The job description is clearly described by company. Besides that, job seekers are in
contact of firm.
Strength
 It results in bringing new candidate
Weakness
 There is a fix fee to be paid to employment agency.
Approaches to selection
Interview- It is an approach in which face to face interview is done to analyse
candidate skills and experience. This makes it easy to select candidate.
Strength
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 this method is easy to select candidate as complete analysis is done in it.
Weakness
 it is time consuming process.
In tray test - A simulation test used to assess the aptitude of potential employees as
part of the employment selection process.
Strength
 It enables in finding out aptitude ability of candidate easily.
Weakness
 It is time consuming test.
2.2 The significance that HR plays in acquiring talent to
meet business objectives
HR department of the Tesco company plays important role in acquiring the skilful
and talent employees within the organisation. they identify the job roles that need to
be fulfilled for the company and find candidates who can be fit on the job role and
they should have the all skills and knowledge related to the job and work. They use
some of the approaches like recruitment and selection process planted by the
candidates and they also take interviews so they can identify their abilities, skills and
knowledge and best among all the candidates get selected for the job. It’s not and
here becausr HR team also provide training and development programme to those
candidates so they can understand what they need to do within the job and how they
are going to perform. This is how they help company to meet their business
objectives through skills full an effective employees who gave their best and help
company to achieve their objectives (DiRomualdo, El-Khoury, and Girimonte., 2018).
3.0 An assessment of the approach to:
3.1 Workforce planning
It refers to process in which the HR do work force planning of entire
organisation in order to find out what are current as well as future work force
requirement. This process involves forecasting, analysing, assessing gaps, etc. to
ensure that organisation is having right people with right skill at right place. It also
includes focusing on talent management to hire and recruit required talent within
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