Human Resource Management - Purpose, Functions, Recruitment, Selection, Benefits, Effectiveness, Importance of Employee Relations

Human Resource
Management

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
Main Body.......................................................................................................................................1
P1. Purpose and functions of HRM.............................................................................................1
P2. Strengths and weaknesses of different approaches of recruitment and selection.................2
P3. Benefits of HRM practices in context of Employee and Employer......................................5
P4. Effectiveness of different HRM practices in context of increasing organisational
productivity and profitability......................................................................................................6
P5. Importance of employee relations in context of influencing HRM decisions......................7
P6. Key employment legislations and its impact on HRM decision making..............................8
P7. The applications of HRM practices......................................................................................9
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................11
References......................................................................................................................................13

INTRODUCTION
The business organisations are highly depend on the three key resources in order to run
their business operations smoothly i.e. physical resources such as machine, equipments, etc.,
financial resources such as debt, capital etc. and human resource. Among all these resources
people play pivotal role in the growth of the business. In order to manage the human resource of
the organisation the organisations use strategy named as human resource management (Al-
Ajlouni, 2019). Human resource management is basic concept of managing the people of the
organisation effectively in order to provide them with job satisfaction and align them towards the
organisational goals. The present report on human resource management is based on British
Airways. The organisation is the airline organisation and is the second largest UK flag carrier
airline company based in London, UK. The report will discuss the purpose and scope of the
human resource management. In regard to this the report will cover strengths and weaknesses of
different approaches of recruitment and selection. Further benefits of HRM practices in context
of employer and employees and evaluation of these practices in regard of organisation
productivity and profitability is discussed. Moreover report will outline importance of employee
relations in respect to influencing HRM decision making. At last report will highlight the
applications of HRM practices.
Main Body
P1. Purpose and functions of HRM
Human resource management is the effective process of recruiting, deploying and
managing employees of the organisation. The aim of HRM is to hire best candidate who can
enhance productivity of company and help in achieving goals of the organisation. In British
Airways, HRM identify requirements of employees and hire best candidate which help them to
maintain competitive advantage.
Purpose of HRM
 Maintain high morale- Purpose of HR managers in British Airways is to improve
motivation level of the employees so that they can deliver better productive services to
increase profits of the company (Arunprasad, 2017). They motivate employees by
providing financial and non financial benefits which increase efficiency in performance
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and boost confidence of the employees. The suitable direction is provided by HR which
assist them and improve performance level of employees.
 Maintain manpower inventory- The main purpose of British Airways HR managers is
to recognise actual requirements of employees in the working place and recruit skilled
and knowledgeable candidate. They provide direction to the company in hiring right
candidate at right job on right time. It will help in accomplish current and future
requirement of manpower inventory so that company will execute its business operation
on time.
Functions of HRM
 Managerial function- HR of British Airways, perform managerial function like
organising, staffing, directing, controlling activities of workplace in order to achieve
organisational goal (Bastida, 2018). They plan staffing process to hire best workforce as
well as direct them to enhance productivity and then control their actions to improve
effectiveness in working environment.
 Operational function- HR managers of British Airways, execute operational function
such as procurement of employment, compensation, development, healthy relationship,
stability of employees and so on (Bello-Pintado, 2019). In this HR pay attention to the
development programmes for workforce to improve its current skills and knowledge. HR
of British Airways provides healthy working conditions and compensation to retain their
best staff.
P2. Strengths and weaknesses of different approaches of recruitment and selection
Recruitment
The recruitment is the well known approach of the human resource management in which
organisations influence and inspire the probable candidates to apply for the job opening. It is the
process of attracting talented applicants. British airways use two ways of recruitment in order to
pinpoint talented applicants for an organisation. The two approaches of recruitment used by
British Airways are:
Internal Recruitment
The elementary process of recruitment in which British Airways approach the workers and
employees from the inside of the organisation. For internal recruitment the two approaches used
by the British Airways are:
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