Approaches for Effective Employee Relations and Engagement

Human Resource
Management

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
1 Purpose of HR functions and key roles and responsibilities of HR functions.........................1
2 Evaluate approaches to workforce planning, recruitment and selection, performance
management and reward system, development and training......................................................3
3 Different methods used in HR practices. ................................................................................4
4 Approaches for effectiveness of employees relation and employee engagement....................5
5 Key aspects of employment legislation....................................................................................6
6 Evaluate how employees relation and employee legislation inform decision making............6
7 Illustrate the application of HR practices.................................................................................7
8 Evaluate the use of technology..............................................................................................10
CONCLUSION .............................................................................................................................10
REFERENCE.................................................................................................................................12

INTRODUCTION
Human resource management is a process which is responsible for making organisation
effective and efficient. It is supportive to increase and enhance the productivity of employees and
organisation as well to achieve business goals (Albrecht and et.al., 2015). This study will be
based on Britannia hotel. It is a united kingdom hotel group with 53 hotels. This study will
derive the purpose of HRM functions and key roles and responsibility. It will discuss approaches
to workforce planning, development and training, recruitment and selection, performance
management, reward system. Ii will evaluate the approaches for effectiveness of employees
relation and employee engagement. It will discuss key aspects of employees legislation. It will
discuss different methods used in HR practices. It will discuss the employees' relation and
employee legislation inform decision making. It will illustrate the application of HR practices. It
will evaluate the use of technology. This report will illustrate the application of HR practices. It
will evaluate the use of technology.
TASK 1
1 Purpose of HR functions and key roles and responsibilities of HR functions.
HR purposes are staffing, employees benefits and compensate, designing or defining
work, hiring, recruiting, firing employees, improve satisfaction and productivity of employees
provide positive work place to employees training and development of employees, maintaining
and managing inter office relationship. There are some roles and responsibilities of human
resources functions.
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Staffing Needs: human resource management has purpose to fulfil demand of staff. It
includes the hiring and recruiting of employees. They are required to hire talented and skilled
people in the organisation. For this they needed to create position announcement. Personnel
screen applicant by checking reference, interviewing applicants, administrating test. With this
they involve in terminating employees, promotion and transfer process for exiting employees
(Banfield, Kay and Royles, 2018). They are responsible for communicate with other department
in order to run process of recruitment and selection.
Compensation: it involves monetary and non monetary compensation and reward. Fair
payment is big concern for each employees. They want system to provide better compensate and
benefits. Human resource management has purpose to implement effective reward and
compensate system by rehearsing the latest trends and offer employees an acceptable pay. They
also assess the laws and policies in order to help organisation to comply with different state,
federal and local law such as fair labour standards act which includes the minimum wages with
payment for over time work.
Performance Appraisal: human resource management work with other department on
order to analyse performance of employees. Purpose of department is to create effective
performance appraisal process. In Britannia hotel this process is annually organised. This process
must be effective, simple and straight forward. Organisation uses this process in order to
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Illustration 1: HR Purpose
Source: (Human Resource Management, 2019)