Human Resource Management Assignment: Woodhill College

HUMAN RESOUCRE
MANAGEMENT

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1 ...........................................................................................................................................1
a) Role of HR Manager and Purpose of Workforce planning.....................................................1
b) Strength and Weakness of different approaches to recruitment and selection.......................3
TASK2 ............................................................................................................................................4
P7 Application of the practices of Human Resource Management............................................4
PART 2 ...........................................................................................................................................6
TASK 3 ...........................................................................................................................................6
P3 Benefits of HRM practices for employer and employee.......................................................7
P4 Effectiveness of training and development practice .............................................................9
TASK 3 ...........................................................................................................................................9
a) Importance of good employee relation.................................................................................10
b) Key employment legislation in ITV.....................................................................................10
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................11

INTRODUCTION
Human Resource Management plays vital role in managing personnel within
organisation. It is designed in order to maximize the performance of employees. Prime objective
of this function is to recruit and manage skilled and competent individuals that are able to attain
goals and objectives of the company (Alfes and et. al., 2013). The department is concerned with
recruitment, selection, induction, orientation, compensation, performance appraisal, health &
safety, training and development of manpower etc. It is the responsibility of human resource
manager to formulate appropriate polices and regulations that assists in increasing motivation
level of employees. They design effective training programmes so that skills and knowledge of
employees can be enhanced. Its major purpose is to attain objectives of the firm in effective
manner. The present assignment is divided into 3 parts. First one is related to recruitment and
selection, second section is about employee development, performance and reward. The last part
contains the study about employment relationship. Purpose and functions of human resource
management and its application in workforce resourcing and planning is defined in the
assignment. Apart from this, benefits of various HRM practices & its effectiveness in increasing
productivity and profitability of organisation is include in the project.
TASK 1
Case Problem: Woodhill College

Introduction: This case study deals in improving the recruitment and selection process of
Woodhill College. Currently the college is experiencing high staff turnover rate which means
that college is facing several vacancies which needs to be filled in an optimum manner. For this,
college has recruit new HR Manager who provide assistance in finding and hiring best, skilled
and competent candidate. The college rely on single method of recruitment and also they are not
having clear HR strategy in order to meet present and future needs effectively.
a) Role of HR Manager and Purpose of Workforce planning
The success and growth of business enterprise depends upon how effectively and
efficiently their employees contributes towards attaining business objective. Thus, the main role
of HR Manager is to hire and recruit skilled and competent personnel (Armstrong and Taylor,
2014). It is workers who make the entire organisation and carry out all business activities in an
approbate manner. For this reason , it is advisable to consider them as assets of the company
rather than considering as cost factors. HR Manager takes strategic decision concerned with
managing people and resource in an effectual manner. As per the given case Woodhill College is
not having any clear strategy in context of managing future and present needs effectively. Thus,
the main responsibility of new HR Manager revolves around hiring and selecting competent and
skilled candidates, coordinating workers benefits and suggesting training and development
strategies that enhance the efficiency and productivity of their workers. Following are the
detailed description of various roles of HR Manager are as follows:
1. Working Together: It is important for every business concern that their employees should
work together and yield higher revenues and sales. Working together as a team enables
personnel to handle the situation with best possible alternative and with innovation and
creativity(Bloom and Van Reenen, 2011). Woodhill provides great employment
opportunities to its workers through which they can develop themselves both personally
and professionally which is good for their future career growth. For example: The HR
Manager advise supervisors and leaders deals with how to assign roles and
responsibilities to different workers, thereby assisting the company to adapt themselves in
an prominent manner as per dynamic changes.
2. Commitment Building: HR Manager also deals in formulating effective strategies that is
mainly concerned with developing future needs related with higher profitability and
revenues. They also build strategies that increase the commitment of personnel towards