Human Resource Management Essay - Aldi Company
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Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1P1. Purpose and the functions of HRM in context with workforce planning and resourcing forAldi.........................................................................................................................................1P2. Strengths and weaknesses of different methods to recruitment and selection for Aldi.. .3TASK 2............................................................................................................................................4P3. Benefits of different HRM practices in Aldi for both the employer and employee.........4P4. Analysis of successfulness of different HRM practices in context to raising organisationalprofit and productivity............................................................................................................5TASK 3............................................................................................................................................6P5. Importance of employee relations in respect to influencing HRM decision-making......6P6. Key factors of employment legislation and its influence upon HRM decision-making..7Task 4...............................................................................................................................................8P7 Application of HRM practices in a work-related context.................................................8CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9
INTRODUCTIONHuman resource management has emerged as a crucial function in an organisation. It iscreated to maximize the performance of the staff through adopting various strategies. It has to dowith the management of people and the resources which are available to the company in the formof assets. It is the personnel department of a firm who deals with hiring, administration,management and training. Other activities like planning, selection, orientation, appraisal,motivation and remuneration is also carried out by this department (Hendry, 2012). This allreport will be describing about various functions and different responsibilities of HR. How theydeal with workforce planning, performance management and rewards system will be detailed inthis. It is important for HR department to maintain a good relation with employees and makingthem engage in different practices which would enhance their interests. To better understand allthe scenarios, Aldi has been taken. This company is one of the world's leading grocery retailerwith more than 7000 stores across 70 countries (Armstrong and Taylor, 2014). It has started itsoperations in UK since 1990 and currently have over 500 stores. As a newly appointed humanresource manager, its prime duty is to manage the staff for the new branch which is going toopen at Wembley central. TASK 1P1. Purpose and the functions of HRM in context with workforce planning and resourcing forAldi.In an organisation HRM is mandatory because it aligns all the activities and resources ina sequence. They have a important function of workforce planning which involves arranging thethe needs and priorities of the company with those workforce to make sure it can meet itslegislative, regulatory, service and production requirements and organisational objectives.Different people are appointed in Aldi and they are given various job according to their skills andcapabilities. HR department test them on different grounds and make sure that certain candidateposses few qualities which they want in them (Boxall and Purcell, 2011). Those qualities areconcerned with the functions of the organisation. It is observed that companies struggle withworkforce planning process as it involves sequencing talent management with business goals.For this hiring procedure should be properly followed and monitored because any wrong1
recruitment can damage its reputation in the market. Such things will stops them in gainingcompetitive advantage. Before making any strategy they should outline a document which will reflect the qualityof a ideal employee and what jobs they will going to offer. As Aldi is opening their branch inWembley central, so as a human resource manager its is primary duty to make a strategy ofworkforce planning. For new store they will need employees, so a research team should be made.This group will find out various positions and functions in the store which will be carried out. Soaccording to that what kind of employees they want (Daley, 2012). A job profile will describe apotential employee and what will be their job. For example; they need a person who will beresponsible for billing in the store. For this they need a person, who is good looking, haveknowledge of accounts and basic computer skills. Other than workforce planning they have also job of resourcing in Aldi. Employeeresourcing is a process of addressing the needs of current employees while taking care of thefuture scope. There are some activities which focuses on the tasks related to recruitment andproper deployment of the employees. They plan, recruit and deploy the people for variousfunctions. In planning procedure, it is important to posses both clear short and long term goals.HR department looks at the production, services and pre assume the coming situation. On thebasis of this they hire candidates. In recruitment task they fill the existing positions whichrequires a special skills. For example; Aldi will be going to recruit an advisor who will beguiding people that what will be better for them. So they will be looking for a person who knowsthe brand value and its benefits in the current scenario (Bratton and Gold, 2012). The sameperson will be having knowledge of the upcoming food items and their nutrition values. Employee resourcing not only deals with the recruiting and selection but in the same theyalso measure the performance. An analysis of the performance of the staff in Aldi and this can bedone through feedback. After evaluating the situation they comes with change managementprogram. This improve the performance of the employees and the area where they are laggingbehind. In a business HRM has various functions which they have to perform in order to achieveorganisational goals and objectives. They have to plan, develop and administer policies andprogrammes. They make sure that human resources are used in proper manner. It deals with theareas concerned with the employees such as hiring, training, development, compensation,2
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