Human Resource Management: Practices and Importance

HUMAN RESOURCE
MANAGEMENT

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Human resource nature & scope for resourcing the organization with talented and skilled
employees....................................................................................................................................3
HRM practices and importance...................................................................................................6
Importance of employee's relation...............................................................................................8
Employment legislation...............................................................................................................9
HRM in work related context....................................................................................................10
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................12
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................1

INTRODUCTION
Human resource management is the process of recruitment, managing and developing
employees of the organization. It is the practise of managing the people of the company.
Burberry is the British company deals in luxury fashion and its headquarter is in London and
distribute ready wear cloths, accessories and cosmetics (Aritonang, and Widhaningrat, 2019).
This report is based on Burberry’s human resource functions, workforce planning, strength and
weakness of different approaches of recruitment. It also shows the benefits of HRM practises for
employer and employee of the Burberry and analysis of internal and external factor that affect
the company in decision-making. Burberry HR’s function and key responsibilities of the HR
function and approaches of workforce like planning, recruitment and selection, development and
training performance and the reward system for the employees will also be discussed. Lastly, it
also shows the working of an intern in the Burberry company and shows the employment law
and key legal issue of the employee and role of trade unions for the employees.
MAIN BODY
Human resource nature & scope for resourcing the organization with talented and skilled
employees
Human resource management is the function of planning, organizing and controlling in
the organization. It involves the procurement and recruiting of the employees for the
organization and help to achieve the organization target and social objectives. It involves team
work and it is a continuous process in the company. The main functions of the Human resource
management and activities done by Burberry are:
 Staffing: Recruiting new full time and part-time talented employees need by the
company, maintaining ethical hiring for the company, creating contract with employees
regards salary and benefits.
 Development: Hiring new efficient employees by Burberry and providing resources for
the development of the company to achieve its target goal and maintain the development
in the company by providing training to employees and training opportunities like
educational program, internal training to keep the employee updated in the field.

 Compensation: Humans resource management also look out on the salary and benefits
part of the employee based on their roles performed by individual with ensuring legal
compliances followed by Burberry.
 Safety and health: Employees safety and security in the organization are also looked out
by the HRM like appropriate safety measure compliance by government and also with the
unions for the employees followed by Burberry.
 Employee and labour relations: One of the core function of the employees are
employees right, connection with unions disagree with the contract between employees
and company.
Further the approach of best fit and best practise in HRM are where the best practise is a
set of best HRM practise that are best in any situation and by adopting them will give the
positive impact in the organization performance. The best practise includes security of
employees, few hiring, high compensation for the performance, training to employees. Whereas,
best fit means right person for the right job in the organization for smooth flow of work
according to the business strategies management and HRM practise and polices. Achieving Best
competitive strategies are innovative employee, quality employee, and cost leadership. Best fit
approach is way better than the best practise for the Burberry performance with HRM strategies.
The hard and soft model of HRM states that hard HRM focus is to identify and recruit
the employees to manage them. This includes in high turnover of employees, no transparency in
the work, lower wage, appraisal on the performance only. Whereas, in the soft HRM approach,
employee is essential resource for the company, it focuses on the staff need. Company is
focusing on the long term planning for the company, transparency work in the company,
handsome amount of salary to the employees (Bondarouk, Ruël, Roeleveld, 2019).
It is the core business process to comply with changing Burberry needs with employee
strategies. It is the most effective strategies for the organization as it analyses the current
workforce, preparing for the future workforce and identify the gap to complete the organizational
mission and target goal according to the strategic plan. It all about the right person for the right
jobs who have the right skills to complete the short and long term objective and make the correct
decision for the organization (Ahammad, 2017).
Sources of recruitment: