Human Resource Management: Functions, Benefits, and Motivation at Microsoft

Human Resource
Management

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
LO 1.................................................................................................................................................3
(a) Purpose & functions of Human Resource Management........................................................3
M1 ..............................................................................................................................................4
(b) Strength along with weakness of selection method...............................................................4
M2 Assess strengths and weakness of various approaches for recruitment and selection..........5
(c) Two possible betterment that could be made by Chocola Fantastica for enhancing its
selection process..........................................................................................................................5
Task 2...............................................................................................................................................6
(a) Benefits to employees............................................................................................................6
M3 Explore various methods in HRM........................................................................................7
(b) Evaluation of benefits which is providing to both employees & Microsoft..........................7
(c) How Microsoft motivate its staff members...........................................................................8
Task 3...............................................................................................................................................9
(a) Explain employee engagement and why it is an essential part in developing effective
employee relationship within Microsoft.....................................................................................9
(b) Key approaches to engage workers.....................................................................................10
(c) Important elements of UK employment legislation.............................................................10
M4 Evaluate the key aspect of employees relations and employees legislation which effect
HRM..........................................................................................................................................11
Task 4.............................................................................................................................................11
(a) Person specification.............................................................................................................11
(b) Advantages and disadvantages of advertising jobs.............................................................12
(c) Recommendation to the job advert for the receptionist vacancy to be place and why........14
M5 Provide the rational application for the specific HRM practises........................................14
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................14

INTRODUCTION
Human resource management define as a practice of hiring, recruiting, managing and
deploying staff members of an organisation. With the help of effective human resource
management, company will be able to attain their goals and objectives in an effective manner. It
is basically done in order to develop strong foundation for achieving their objectives and build
positive brand image of the company at the market. Main intention is to create HRM practises to
raise overall productivity of company (Banfield, Kay and Royles, 2018). They focus on several
departments such as recruitment, compensation, selection and all other decisions related to
employees of company. Functions of all other departments are dependent on human resource
department of company. In this report Chocola Fantastica and Microsoft has been considered.
Report is basically divided in two sections first section Chocola Fantastica has been taken as a
base company. In second section Microsoft has been considered. It is a company which believes
in managing human resource of their company effectively in order to increase their competence
and overall productivity.
LO 1
(a) Purpose & functions of Human Resource Management
HRM is to provide improvement and guidance to existing and new employees in
company. This department is involved at all levels and impacts overall process of decision
making in company:
Purpose: HRM plays very essential role in the improvement of the company. There are
some essential functions of HRM which is essential for the attainment of goals and objectives of
the company in an effective manner. Main purpose behind human resource function is that work
should be done within stipulated time frame and produce positive outcome. Along with this,
purpose behind these functions is that each and every activity of Chocola Fantastica is conducted
in such a manner that they can produce effective outcome(Bratton and Gold, 2017).
Functions of HRM team
Selection: HR department in every institution aims to hire skilled and competent
candidates which can help company in achievement of their objectives. In Chocola Fantastica,
this department does proper analysis of their candidates so that they can hire best candidates in
their company. Main aim behind this purpose is that management team of the company can hire