Importance of Employee Relations in Organisational Context

Human Resource
Management

INTRODUCTION
Human resource management is a technique which is used in organisation managing the
people associated with it. HRM is a tool for employing new people and retaining potential staff
with organisation. Human resource management department of a company are responsible for
many tasks and one of the most important of them is recruiting and selecting individuals
according to the needs of the entity. In this assignment selected organisation is Intercontinental
hotels group which is also known as IHG. The hotel group was founded in 2003 and a British
multinational hospitality company. Continental hotels is headquartered in England UK and serve
in varied geographical locations around the world through its hotels and good resorts (Armstrong
and Taylor, S., 2020). The report describes functions of HRM and their purposes along with the
different approaches of recruitment and selection. Moreover benefits of different HRM practices
in relation to employee and employer evaluated along with their effectiveness in increasing
companies profit and productivity. The benefits of employee relation are also evaluated and the
and different HRM practices are applied in work related context.
TASK 1
P1 Examining the function and purposes of HRM in organisational context
Human Resource Management is a department in an entity which is responsible for finding,
screening, recruiting, selecting, training and administrating employees or workforce of the
organization. Main functions of HRM elaborated below in context of IHG.
Main functions of HRM:
The HRM of IHG has several functions out of which few are as follows.
Recruitment and Selection is the main and most important function of HRM. The human
resource management department of IHG will bring in best talents and personnel’s in the hotel
according to the needs. The department first creates a pool of appropriate candidates and
accordingly select them in the organisation (Chams and García-Blandón, 2019). Purpose: This function of HRM is to achieve and meet the human resource needs of IHG
and provide best employees in order to smooth running and functioning of the company.
Performance Management and Appraisal is another function of HRM in which human
resource manager, manage the task force and accordingly appraise them on respective basis. This
function is very important amongst all different responsibilities of HRM in unit.

 Purpose: the sole purpose function of HRM is to encourage staff and keep them
motivated in order to make the workforce work with full efficiency and correct them
when required.
P2 Explaining the strengths and weaknesses of Recruitment and selection approaches
Recruitment is a procedure of creating a pool of applicants attracting and directing them to
apply for the given job role. These candidates are suitable for the organisation and recruitment
process is undertaken for increasing the probability of IHG to hire the best personnel’s.
Approaches to recruitment
1. Internal recruitment process is used by resource department of IHG when entity is
looking for filling the vacancy by the existing staff who are already present.
Strength Weaknesses
This process of recruiting individuals helps
IHG to motivate and encourage staff to raise
their performance level for reaching to higher
level and move forward in their career.
The drawback of this function of HRM is that
the flow of fresh talents and ideas to travel in
the company.
2. External recruitment process is recruiting and attracting individuals from outside the
hotel for applying for the respective post (Peccei and Van De Voorde, 2019).
Strengths Weaknesses
The company brings in new talents and
increases the probability of IHG to acquire
most talented and appropriate candidate for
the organization.
The drawback or weakness of this recruitment
method is the cost and time involved in it. The
external recruitment procedure is very costly as
IHG human resource team has to make various
arrangements which takes a lot of time.
Selection is a process of choosing best appreciate candidate form the pool of applicant made by
recruitment activities. It is a negative procedure as individuals are asked to leave as they are no
suitable for the company.
Approaches to selection: