Human Resource Management: A Comprehensive Analysis of Practices and Applications

Human Resources Management
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INDIVIDUAL ASSIGNMENT
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Table of Contents
LO1 Explain the purpose and scope of Human Resource Management in terms of
resourcing an organisation with talent and skills appropriate to fulfil business objectives3
P1 Explain the purpose and the functions of HRM, applicable to workforce planning
and resourcing an organisation.....................................................................................3
P2 Explain the strengths and weaknesses of different approaches to recruitment and
selection........................................................................................................................4
M1: Identify and explain the HR functions to fulfil business objectives.........................5
M2: Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses approaches to recruitment and selection
...................................................................................................................................... 6
D1: Critically evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of approaches to recruitment
and selection.................................................................................................................6
LO2 Evaluate the effectiveness of the key elements of Human Resource Management
in an organization.............................................................................................................8
P3 Explain the benefits of different HRM practices within an organisation for both the
employer and employee................................................................................................8
P4 Evaluate the effectiveness of different HRM practices in terms of raising
organisational profit and productivity............................................................................9
M3: Explore different methods used in HRM practices...............................................10
D2: Evaluate the HRM practices and their application................................................11
LO3 Analyse internal and external factors that affect Human Resource Management
decision making, including employment legislation........................................................12
P5 Analyse the importance of employee relations with respect to influencing HRM
decision- making.........................................................................................................12
P6 Identify the key elements of employment legislation and the impact it has on HRM
decision- making.........................................................................................................12
M4: Identify the key aspects of employee relations management and employment
legislation....................................................................................................................13
LO4 Apply Human Resource Management practices in a work related context............14
P7 Illustrate the application of HRM practices in a work related context, using specific
examples.................................................................................................................... 14
M5: Provide a rationale for the application of specific HRM........................................14
D3: Critically evaluate employee relations and the application of HRM practices that
inform and influence decision-making in an organisational context............................14
References.....................................................................................................................15
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LO1 Explain the purpose and scope of Human Resource Management
in terms of resourcing an organisation with talent and skills
appropriate to fulfil business objectives
In common language, human resources mean the human being. A human being is a
fundamental resource for developing every products and service. Human resource
management is a term used to describe a system for managing employment within an
organization. Human resource management has various important responsibilities like
staffing, employee's compensation and benefits, and designing/defining work. Actually,
the main role of human resource is to maximize the productivity of an organization by
managing the effectiveness of its employees. In simple words, HRM is a process of
making the efficient and effective use of human resources so that the set goals are
achieved (SHRM, 2018).
The scope of human resource management is vast. All the activities of employees from
entry into an organization to exit from the organization come under the preview of
human resource management. It includes various activities like human resource
planning, job analysis, job design, employee hiring, employee motivation, employee
maintenance, training and development, payroll management, rewards and recognition,
Industrial relations, grievance handling, legal procedures etc. In other words, we can
say that it’s about developing and managing harmonious relationships at the workplace
and striking a balance between organizational goals and individual goals.
P1 Explain the purpose and the functions of HRM, applicable to workforce
planning and resourcing an organisation.
Since every organization is made of people, HRM is all about to help the organization in
building a strong organization by acquiring the services of people. Its HRM's
responsibility to developing the skills of employees, motivate them to work with goal
achieving strategy. To provide a well behaved, goal-oriented workforce to the
organization, HRM work on various functions of human resource management
(Humanresourcesedu.org, 2018).
-Job analysis and Job design: In this process, a well-experienced team studies the
organizational structure and its needs.
-Recruitment and Selection: It’s the process of interviewing, screening, and selecting
well qualified and potential candidates according to the job requirement. This process is
to obtain extremely well talent for the organization.
-Orientation: orientation is a step to create a positive work culture within the
organization to help the employees. It defines create the organizations goal and
individual goal in such a way that elaborate how the employee can help to achieve the
long-term and short-term goals of the organization
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-Strong work culture: Human resource management manages to provide a good
working environment to the employees so that they can enjoy the work. And provide
some positive competition among employees.
-Employee relation management: Employee relations influence the organizational
behavior. A well-developed employee relation creates a healthy work culture for the
employee. And it is the key for the organization to be successful.
P2 Explain the strengths and weaknesses of different approaches to
recruitment and selection.
Recruitment is a well-designed process to arrange the human resource for an
organization. It includes the steps like job design, performance appraisal, and
management, career planning, promotion and transfers of employee etc. There are two
types of approaches to organizing a recruitment either Internal or external. Internal
recruitment is the process in which a vacant position is filled with the person working
inside the organization whereas External recruitment is for the people outside the
organization. If there are any strength of these methods then there are some weakness
as well.
Quick Decision making is the strength of internal recruitment. It is the process of direct
appointing some or giving promotion by the human resource management.
Internal recruitment is Cost effective as it's inside the organization; there is no need of
providing the training to the newly appointed employee.
Internal recruitment takes less to finalize the right candidates for the post. In Internal
employment we can, we can aspects a strong loyalty to the organizations.
In internal recruitment number of candidates are less, it makes easy for the HRM to
select the candidates.
There could be some weakness of internal recruitment as after appointing someone to
the higher position, his seat will be empty and there will be another process of
recruitment.
After appointing someone at a higher position, it makes upset to the coworkers who are
not get promoted for the same post.
External recruitment means getting a new blood for the organization, a new face with
new ideas, it's beneficial for the organization.
Outside the organization there is so much variety of candidates, can be hired according
to the designation.
In external recruitment, we can get a person with new some extraordinary qualities, who
can profit the organization.
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