HR Management Practices in Next Plc: A Critical Evaluation

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Management

Contents
INTRODUCTION.......................................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..............................................................................................................................................3
PART 1.......................................................................................................................................................3
Company’s overview, with mission statement, purpose and corporate objectives...................................3
Description of HR functions, including key roles and responsibilities....................................................4
A critical evaluation of different organizational approach for recruitment and selection.........................4
Evaluation of HRM practices with effectiveness.....................................................................................5
Effectiveness of employee relations with application of different HRM practices..................................6
Impact of employment legislation on employment and HR decision making process.............................7
PART 2.......................................................................................................................................................8
Application of HR management practices................................................................................................8
CONCLUSION.........................................................................................................................................11
REFRENCES............................................................................................................................................12

INTRODUCTION
Human resource function concerned with the planning and organizing by using strategic
approach for effective kind of management of people in organization to gain competitive
advantage potentially. The main objective of HRM is to gain success in terms of profitability and
sustainability through the workforce in positive manner (Zubair and Khan, 2019). It is very
important for organization to select and choose one of best candidate within the organization and
it can be possible by effective kind of HRM practices. Respective report is based on the Next Plc
which is a British multinational clothing, footwear and home product retailer in the whole world.
Respective report is based on the purpose and functions of HRM by using workforce planning.
Further it includes the strength and weakness of different kinds of approaches of recruitment and
selection. it elaborates the effectiveness of differ kinds of HRM practices for enhancing
organisational profitability and sustainability. In the next section it includes the internal and
external factors that directly affect the HR decision making in order to gain desirable outcomes.
Finally it includes the HRM practices in the work related context to achieve potential results.
MAIN BODY
PART 1
Company’s overview, with mission statement, purpose and corporate objectives.
Next plc is one of most leading fashion retailer deals in clothing, footwear and other
appliances in approximately in whole world. They are very much devoted for their employees
and consumers.
Here, is the mission statement of respective organization:
Next mission is to be natural choice retailer in the UK marketplace for the people who are
fashion aware and expect style, distinction and quality clothing(Zhou, Fey and Yildiz, 2018).
In their strategies and objectives covered the following aspects:

The primary financial objective of Next PLC is to deliver long term returns to their shareholders
by collaborating sustainable growth in terms of earning per share.
Focus on consumer service and level of satisfaction for both retail stores and directory.
Description of HR functions,including key roles and responsibilities
HR department is very much important for an organization they are responsible for
managing business activities and functions in proper manner(Tregaskis and Almond, 2019). In
context of Next Plc, they are very concerning for recruiting right kind of candidate in
organization for attaining desirable outcomes. Here are the purpose of HR function and their key
responsibilities.
Recruitment and selection: Recruitment is very important HR function that helps to attract one
of most potential candidate by matching their skills and capabilities with the accurate job role.
The main purpose of respective HR function is to select most potential candidate as it most
precious assets for organization. To pursue respective function Next plc primarily prepare job
description and build specification in order to gain desirable outcomes(Liu and Meyer, 2020). By
opting one of best selection tools such as written examination and interview they gain best
candidate.
Training and development: T&D is one of most important kind of HR function that helps to
people in enhancing their skills and capabilities that required to accomplish organizational goals
and objectives. The main purpose of respective HR function is to enhance skills to provide career
growth and motivation level of employees. The major role of T&D is to schedule training and
choose employees for it in order to enhance their skills.
A critical evaluation of different organizational approach for recruitment and selection
Recruitment and selection is one of most important HR practice for the organization to
hire one of best candidate in the organization. Here are the critical evaluation of organization’s
approach of recruitment and selection:
Internal recruitment and selection: Respective approach of recruitment and selection consist
of filling vacancies in business by using their existing workforce.