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Human Resource Management INTRODUCTION 1 TASK 11 P1. Purpose and functions of HRM

   

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Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1P1. Purpose and functions of HRM........................................................................................1P2. Strengths and weaknesses of different approaches to recruitment and selection.............3TASK 2............................................................................................................................................5P3. Benefits of different HRM practices................................................................................5P4 Effectiveness of different HRM practices.........................................................................6TASK 3............................................................................................................................................7P5 Importance of employee relations.....................................................................................7P6 Elements of employment legislation.................................................................................7PROJECT 2......................................................................................................................................8TASK 4............................................................................................................................................8P7 Application of human resource practices..........................................................................8CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................13REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................14

INTRODUCTIONHuman resource management refers to practice of hiring, selection, deploying and alsomanaging the employees of business firm. It involves conducting the job analysis, recruitingright individuals for correct job, providing training as well as compensation and benefits. It is theresponsibility of human resource management to focus on increasing productivity or profit levelof business firm in an effective or better manner. The human resource manager works onmaintaining a positive working environment at workplace in a better manner. From this, all staffmembers will work together and achieve organisational objectives effectually. This presentassignment is based on ALDI and it is a supermarket chain with more than 10000 stores inalmost 20 countries. It is a large sized company and there are large number of people workingover there . It is essential that human resource department should hire capable staff memberswho can focus on achieving the aim and objectives of company within a given period of time(Allen and et. al., 2011). In the present report, functions and purposes of human resourcemanagement which are applicable on workforce resourcing and planning will be discussed.Weaknesses and strengths of various approaches of the selection and recruitment will also bestudies here along with many other concepts associated with HRM. TASK 1P1. Purpose and functions of HRMHuman resource management is a backbone of an organisation and this department worksfor the success of company. It is the responsibility of this department to main coordinationamong all and also develop positive working environment so that all work can be work in aproper and effective manner. It develops coordination among the people of company in contextof accomplishing particular business related objectives, maintaining satisfaction level of staffmembers and satisfying the needs of people (Armstrong and Taylor, 2014). Main purpose ofhuman resource management is to maximise the growth and profit of company. Besides this,there are some other purposes of HRMgiven as below:Employee relation- It is the major purpose of HRM to maintain better employee relationat workplace. From this, the posting environment will be created and among the employer andemployee better relationship will be maintained. Human resource manager is responsible toresolve all the conflicts at workplace.1

Internal Customer Management- There are many different purposes of HRM but it isthe main purpose and in this, growth of company directly rests with quality of staff members ofcompany. The human resource manager of ALDI works on maintaining better quality ofemployees so that they can perform well in a better manner (Boxall and Purcell, 2011). HRMexplains and executed policies and also processes which are necessary to attract, hire and sustainthe workforce quality.Laws- Government of United Kingdom develops some legal norms, laws and regulationsto protect the rights of employees in an organisation. If the manager of ALDI recruits unionlabour then in this case, there is the need to human resource management to understandnegotiation as well as labour relations. Dispute resolution, advantages and also retirement plansfall with the domain of human resource management. It is necessary that ALDI should apply alllegislations at workplace to protect the rights of workers. Functions of Human Resource ManagementOperative functionsRecruitment- For human resource manager, it is one of the difficult tasks. For therecruitment purpose, there are many different documents which are needed to be prepared byhuman resource department and these are job description, specification, job advertisement,negotiations of salary and many others (Carter and Liane Easton, 2011).Training and development- It is the main function which human resource departmentplays. In this, manager of ALDI provides training to staff members so that their skills and corecompetencies can be improved and they can focus towards the objectives of an organisation. Managerial functionsPlanning- It is a vital function to set the objectives and goals of company. Under this,ALDI prepares a better plan and policies before doing the business activities as well asoperations in a better manner.Organising- In this, there is the need to create and design organisational structure. Thereare some points which are included in this:Staff members are grouped in to the activities which they will perform.Delegate authority on the basis of responsibilities and tasks which are assigned.Allocate the various functions to various persons. 2

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