Importance of Employee Relations in HRM Decision Making

Human Resource
Management

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
Activity 1.........................................................................................................................................1
Discuss the aim and functions of HRM, relevant to workforce planning and resourcing......1
Discuss the strength and weaknesses of various approaches to recruitment and selection....2
Assess how functions of HRM provides talent and skills......................................................3
Evaluate strength and weakness of recruitment and selection...............................................4
Discuss the benefits of various HRM practices for both employer and employee................4
Evaluate the effectiveness of different HRM practices in increasing profit and productivity.
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Assess different methods used in HRM practice...................................................................6
Explain the importance of employee relations influencing HRM decision making..............6
Discuss the important elements of employment legislation and its impact on HRM............7
Evaluate the key aspects of employee relations management & employment legislation.....8
Activity 2.........................................................................................................................................8
Discuss the application of HRM practices in a work related context.....................................8
M.5 Rationale of adopting HRM practices within the organisation.....................................10
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11

INTRODUCTION
The human resource management is the process of systematic planning of human
resource in a company, it involves employing, training, compensating and motivating employees
in the organisation. Human resource management process ensure that there is availability of
resource in the organisation, it ensures that there is availability of skilled individual at right place
at the right time. In this report the SKVP in the suburb of London is takeaway as the base
company, it is an Indian street food take away launched by two entrepreneurs, they already have
around 6 takes away shops in London, Birmingham and Manchester within span of four years.
This report covers the strength and weakness of different approaches to recruitment and selection
also how the role of HRM provide talent and skills required to achieve business objectives by
discussing the functions of HRM required for planning and resourcing an business. In addition to
this importance of HRM for both employer and employee by evaluating different methods used
in HRM practices also importance of employees relation in context to influencing HRM decision
making and further more key element of employment legislation is also highlighted.
Activity 1
Discuss the aim and functions of HRM, relevant to workforce planning and resourcing
The workforce planning is the process of applied when the organisation is restructured or
expending. The human resource play an important role in analysing the gap between workforce
supply and workforce demand then accordingly taking required actions or strategies (Alvehus,
2018).
The purpose or aim of human resource management, applicable to workforce planning and
resourcing an organisation are as follow:
Organisational development: The purpose of human resource management is overall
development of the organisation, human resource management ensure that all the activities of
human resource are carried our effectively which automatically lead to the growth and
development of the organisation. In context to the chosen firm, human resource department
needs to ensure that proper training is provided to the employees to motivates them towards their
goals (Cristiani and Peiró, 2019).
Analysing workforce demand and supply: The another purpose of humane resource
management applicable to the work force planning is to analyse the gap between workforce
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demand and workforce supply and taking corrective action and formulating strategies to fulfil
this gap effectively. In context to the chosen firm, HR ensures that there is proper planning of
workforce demand and supply ratio in the firm.
Functions of HRM, applicable to workforce planning and resourcing an organisation are as
follow
Recruitment and selection: It is one of the important function of management, this
function involves attracting number of candidates and selecting best one out of the those.
Recruitment is the process of attracting large number of candidates to apply for the job using
various medium, after the candidates have applied comes the selection process, it the activity of
selecting best candidates (Daft, 2021). In context to the chosen firm, this function is effectively
followed as this functions helps them in having skilled and talented workforce. And also helps in
increasing g their productivity and profitability.
Training and development: The another function of human resource management is
providing proper training to the employees as per the requirement and motivates them towards
their goals, human resource also help in overall development of an individual. In context to the
SKVP, HR manager ensures that the proper training is provided to the employees as per the
requirement to increase their efficiency and productivity.
In context to the workforce planning and resourcing the various purpose and functions of human
resource management ensure that the gap between workforce demand and supply is effectively
fulfilled and workforce is getting proper training and development to increase their efficiency
and productivity and they are motivated towards achieving goals and objectives (Greenwood and
Van Buren, 2017).
Discuss the strength and weaknesses of various approaches to recruitment and selection
Recruitment and selection is the important part of management, both helps in finding
right candidate for the right job. The strength and weakness of different approaches to
recruitment and selection is as followed:
Recruitment: It is defined as the process of attracting large number candidates to apply
for the job, mainly done through campus recruitment, the main aim to attract large number of
candidates in order to find right and skilled candidates. The different approaches to recruitment
is as follow:
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