Human Resource Management Assignment - John Lewis partnership

   

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Human Resource Management
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Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1TASK 1............................................................................................................................................11 The purpose, functions of HRM and the key roles and responsibilities of the HR function1Approaches to workforce planning, recruitment, development, training, performancemanagement and reward system in John Lewis partnership are discussed below:................23 Examples to examine the different methods used in HR practices.....................................44 Effectiveness of employee relations and employee engagement........................................55 Aspects of employment legislation in the organisation.......................................................76 Employee relations and employment legislation inform decision making and meets businessobjectives................................................................................................................................8TASK 2............................................................................................................................................87 Application of HRM practices in work-related context......................................................88 Evaluation of the use of technology, digital platforms, online resources and socialnetworking on improving the recruitment and selection process ........................................11CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................12REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................13
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INTRODUCTIONHuman resource is an approach which is strategic and helps in strategic management ofpeople in an organisation. It supports business in gaining competitive advantage. John Lewispartnership is an employee owned UK based company that operates supermarkets, banking andfinancial service and other retail related activities. Headquarter of the company is in London.There are about 83,000 employees working in the organisation. This study shows techniques andtools which are used in HRM in order to maximize contribution of employees and the HRmethods to achieve competitive advantages. This report shows the importance of good employeerelations and legislation that influence and impact upon HRM decision making (Albrecht andet.al., 2015). It shows some benefits of human resource management practices within firm forboth the employer and employees. Study evaluates the use of technology, online resources,digital platform in improving the recruitment and selection process. TASK 11 The purpose, functions of HRM and the key roles and responsibilities of the HR functionHuman resource can be defined as the process of managing employees in a firm that caninvolve hiring, training, motivating employees. It includes all the functions which assist theorganisation to deal effectively with its people.Illustration 1: functions of HRMSource: (Human Resource Management, 2019)
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Recruitment: One of the most important HR function is to recruit and the higher skilledemployee's in the firm. In this process HR performs various functions like preparing jobdescription, publishing the job posting, negotiating the salary with all the employees and givingthe job offer letter. Employee relation: In this function, HR develops strategies that help in supporting JohnLewis partnership in making the relationship between employer and employee better. It focuseson identifying the workplace issues and try to resolve them. It fulfils all the needs of theemployees in order to improve and build the healthy and strong relationship with them. Thecompany provide them healthy working environment by which employees can focus on theirtask and increase productivity.Workplace safety: HR is also responsible to provide safe working conditions to theiremployee's. For this they comply various laws implemented by government. John Lewispartnership makes sure that there workers do not work in hazardous working conditions. In thisfirm needs to control any risk or injury that can arise in workplace. (ailey and et.al., 2018). Training and development- HR manager organise training programs in order to developemployees skills. By getting the proper training employees get the chance of promotion thatincreases their morale and that directly help in achieving organisational goals.Labour law compliance- Labour compliance refers a set of conditions of employees. Itincludes minimum wages act, work men's compensation act, factory act etc. HR is responsiblefor providing all the facilities and help an organisation in achieving goals by proper training,proper communication, by hiring the right people.After recruiting, training and development programmes, HR also helps organisation inachieving their determined goals by improving labour relations and motivation. Approaches to workforce planning, recruitment, development, training, performancemanagement and reward system in John Lewis partnership are discussed below:Workforce planning- It is the strategy and process to predict employee needs anddeploy workers most effectively for fulfilling the needs. The HR manager uses OPM's workforceplanning model. This model provides the way and useful starting point for understanding theelements involved in the workforce planning.
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